An Act making appropriations for the government of the District of Columbia and other activities chargeable in whole or in part against the revenues of said District for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1961, and for other purposes
PL 86-412 (H.R.10233), enacted 04/08/1960

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PUBLIC LAW 86-412-APR. 8, 1960 
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Public Law 86-412 
AN ACT 
Making appropriations for the government of the District of Columbia and 
other activities chargeable in whole or in part against the revenues of said 
District for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1961, and for other purposes. 
^ r i l 8, I960 
[H. R. 10233] 
68 Stat. 104. 
D. C. Code 43-
1602. 
FEDERxiL PAYMENT TO DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatwes 
of the 
United States of America 
in Congress assembled, That there are iuSbla'^App/o^i^ 
appropriated for the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending tion Act, i96i. 
June 30,1961, out of (1) the general fund of the District of Columbia 
(unless otherwise herein specifically provided), hereinafter known 
as the general fund, such fund being composed of the revenues of the 
District of Columbia other than those applied by law to special funds, 
and $25,000,000, which is hereby appropriated for the purpose out 
of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated (to be 
advanced July 1,.1960), (2) the highway fund (when d(isignated as 
payable therefrom), established by law (D.C. Code, title 47, ch. 19), 
(3) the water fund (when designated as payable therefrom), estab-
lished by law (D.C. Code, title 43, ch. 15), and $1,661,000, which is 
hereby appropriated for the purpose out of any money in the Treasury 
not otherwise appropriated (to be advanced July 1, 1960), (4) the 
sanitary sewage works fund (when designated as payable therefrom), 
established by law (Public Law 364, 83d Congress), and $872,000, 
which is hereby appropriated for the purpose out of any money in 
the Treasury not otherwise appropriated (to be advanced July 1, 
1980), and (5) the motor vehicle parking fund (when designated as 
payable therefrom), established by law (D.C. Code, title 40, ch. 8), 
sums as shown herein; and there is hereby appropriated, out of any 
money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $20,100,000, which, 
together with balances of previous appropriations for this purpose, 
shall remain available until expended, for loans authorized by the 
Act of May 18, 1954 (68 Stat. 101), and the Act of June 6, 1958 (72 
Stat. 183), to be advanced upon request of the Commissioners to the 
following funds: general fund, $15,900,000, highw-ay fund, $3,500,000, 
and sanitary sew^age works fund, $700,000. 
OPERATING E X P E N S E S 
For expenses necessary for the offices and agencies named under 
this general head: 
EXECUTIVE OFFICE 
Executive office, plus so much as may be necessary to compensate 
the Engineer Commissioner at a rate equal to each civilian member 
of the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia, hereafter 
in this Act referred to as the Commissioners; compensation and ex-
penses of members of the Apprenticeship Council and the Redevelop-
ment Land Agency; aid in support of the National Conference of 
Commissioners on Uniform State Laws; general advertising in news-
papers (including the District of Columbia Register) and legal 
periodicals in the District of Columbia but not elsewhere, unless the 
need for advertising outside the District of Columbia shall have been 
specifically approved by the Commissioners, including notices ojf pub-
lic hearings, publication of orders and reflations, tax and school 
notices, and notices of changes in regulations; expenses of Youth 
Council, Board of Elections, Washington Metropolitan Regional Con-
ference, Council on Human Relations, and expenses and honorariums 
D. C. 
15401; D, 
9-220. 
Code 43-
C. Code 
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for the Board of Appeals and Review; ceremony expenses; carrying 
out a comprehensive program for urban renewal and slum clearance, 
by contract or otherwise, as may be determined by the Commissioners; 
and expenses in case of emergency, such as riot, pestilence, public in-
sanitary conditions, flood, fire, or storm, and for expenses of investi-
gations ; $599,260: Provided^ That the certificate of the Commissioners 
shall be sufficient voucher for the expenditure of $12,500 of this ap-
propriation for such purposes, exclusive of ceremony expenses, as 
they may deem necessary. 
DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL ADMINISTRATION 
Department of General Administration, including District govern-
ment employees' compensation which shall be available for the advance 
payment of costs for enforcement of recoveries in third party cases; 
administrative expenses, workmen's compensation, to be transferred 
to the Bureau of Employees' Compensation for administration of the 
law providing compensation for disability or death resulting from 
injury to employees in certain employments in the District of Colum-
bia ; unemployment compensation for District government employees; 
rental of postage meters; and affiliation with the National Safety 
Council, Incorporated; $5,719,500, of which $230,000 shall be available 
for District of Columbia employees' disability compensation and 
$83,000 shall be payable from the highway fund, $17,000 from the 
water fund, $3,000 from the sanitaiy sewage works fund, and $45,000 
from the motor vehicle parking fund: Provided^ That this appro-
priation shall be available for advertising, for not more than once a 
week, for two weeks in the regular issue of one newspaper published 
in the District of Columbia, the list of all taxes on real property, water 
charges, sanitary sewer service charges, and all special assessments, 
together with penalties and costs, in arrears, the cost of such adver-
tising to be reimbursed to the general fund by a charge to be fixed 
annually by the Commissioners for each lot or piece of property 
advertised: Provided further^ That, for the purpose of assessing and 
reassessing real property in the District of Columbia, $5,000 of this 
appropriation shall be available for services as authorized by section 
60 Stat. 810. 
15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U.S.C. 55a), but at rates for 
individuals not in excess of $100 per diem. 
OFFICE or 
CORPORATION COUNSEL 
Office of the Corporation Counsel, including extra compensation 
for the corporation counsel as general counsel of the Public Utilities 
Commission; $10,000 for the settlement of claims not in excess of $250 
D.c. Code 1-902. each in accordance with the Act of February 11,1929 (45 Stat. 1160), 
as amended by the Act of June 5, 1930 (46 Stat. 500); and judicial 
expenses, including witness fees and expert services, in District of 
Columbia cases before the courts of the United States and of the 
District of Columbia; $798,500, of which $44,000 shall be payable 
from the highway fund. 
REGULATORY AGENCIES 
Regulatory agencies, including juror fees, $1,629,000. 
DEPARTMENT OF OCCUPATIONS AND PROFESSIONS 
Department of Occupations and Professions, $342,000. 
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PUBLIC SCHOOLS 
Public schools, including the education of foreigners of all ages 
in the Americanization schools; subsistence supplies for pui^ils enrolled 
in classes for crippled children; maintenance and instruction of deaf, 
mute, and blind children of the District of Columbia by contract 
entered into by the Commissioners upon recommendation by the Board 
of Education of the District of Columbia; transportation of children 
attending schools or classes established for severely handicapped 
pupils; distribution of surplus commodities and relief milk to public 
and charitable institutions, school lunch program for needy children 
attending elementary schools under rules and regulations to be deter-
mined by the Commissioners, and for the carrying out, under regula-
tions to be prescribed by the Board of Education of a milk program 
for the schoolchildren of the District, including the purchase and dis-
tribution of milk under agreement with the United States Department 
of Agriculture; $524,900 for development of vocational education 
in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Act of June 8,1936, 
^g ^|^- ^^l^^oie. 
as amended; for development of national defense education programs 
and for matching Federal grants under the National Defense Edu-
cation Act of September 2,1958 (72 Stat. 1580); financing the liability 
20 use 4o 1 note. 
of the government of the District of Columbia to the "Teachers' 
retirement and annuity fund"; operation, repair, maintenance, and 
improvement of public school buildings, grounds, and equipment; 
purchase (one) and operation, repair, maintenance, and insurance of 
passenger-cari-ying motor vehicles; $49,232,700, of which $6,000 shall 
be available for the services of experts and consultants as authorized 
by section 15 of the Act of August 2,1946 (5 U.S.C. 55a), but at rates 
6° stat. SJO. 
not exceeding $50 per diem plus travel expenses for such individuals: 
Provided, That the compensation for summer school personnel may 
be charged to the appropriation for the fiscal year in which the pay 
periods end. 
Section 6 of the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation 
°°"^ie salaries. 
Act, approved May 10,1916, as amended, shall not apply from July 1 l^f/^^ \^^-
to August 27,1960, to teachers of the public schools of the District of note. 
Columbia when employed by any of the branches of the United States 
Government. 
PUBLIC LIBRARY 
Public Library, including recordings and educational films; repairs 
to buildings; and care of grounds; $2,688,000. 
KECREATION DEPARTMENT 
Recreation Department, for operation and maintenance of recrea-
tion facilities in and for the District of Columbia, $2,855,600. 
METROPOLITAN POLICE 
Metropolitan Police, including the inspector in charge of the traffic 
division with the rank and pay of deputv chief; one captain who shall 
be assigned to the traffic division with the rank and pay of inspector; 
the lieutenants in command of the homicide squad, robbery squad, 
general assignment squad, special investigation squad, automobile 
squad, and check and fraud squad, with the rank and pay of captain 
wnile so assigned; the present acting sergeant in charge of police auto-
mobiles with the rank and pay of sergeant; the present lieutenant in 
charge of purchasing and accounts with the rank and pay of captain; 
not to exceed one detective in the salary grade of captain; civilian 
crossing guards including uniforms and equipment, at rates of pay 
5 u s e 58, 59 
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[74 STAT. 
and hours of employment to be fixed by the Commissioners; com-
pensation of civilian trial board members at rates to be fixed by the 
Commissioners; allowances for privately owned automobiles used bj 
deputy chiefs and inspectors in the performance of official duties a1 
$480 per annum for each automobile; relief and other allowances, a: 
authorized by law, for policemen; rewards for fugitives; photographs 
rental, purchase, and maintenance of radio and teletype systems; ex-
penses of attendance, without loss of pay or time, at pistol matches, 
including entrance fees; expenses of the police training school, in-
cluding travel expenses of visiting lecturers or experts in criminology; 
expenses of traffic school; official equipment, including cleaning, al-
teration and repair of articles transferred from one individual to 
another, or damaged in the performance of duty; purchase of forty-
one passenger motor vehicles including forty for replacement only 
for police-type use without regard to the general purchase price limi-
tation for the current fiscal year (but not in excess of $100 per vehicle 
above such limitation), and the maintenance of a suitable place for 
the reception and detention of girls and women over seventeen years 
of age, arrested by the police on charge of offense against any laws in 
force in the District of Columbia, or held as witnesses or held pend-
ing final investigation or examination, or otherwise; $23,517,000, of 
which amount $104,000 shall be payable from the motor vehicle park-
ing fund, and $35,000 shall be exclusively available for expenditure 
by the Chief of Police for prevention and detection of crime under 
his certificate approved by the Commissioners, and every such certifi-
cate shall be deemed a sufficient voucher for the sum therein expressed 
to have been expended. 
ADDITIONAL MUNICIPAL 
SERVICES, INAUGURAL CEREMONIES 
Metropolitan Police (additional municipal services, inaugural 
ceremonies), including payment at basic salary rates for services 
performed by officers and members of the police and fire departments 
in excess of the regular tours of duty (but not to exceed a total of 
sixteen hours overtime pay to any individual officer or member per-
forming service within such period) with such overtime earned by 
firemen chargeable to the appropriation for operating expenses of the 
Fire Department, $200,000. 
FIRE DEPARTMENT 
Fire Department, including compensation of civilian trial board 
members at rates to be fixed by the Commissioners; relief and other 
allowances, as authorized by law, for firemen; official equipment, 
including cleaning, alteration, and repair of articles transferred from 
one individual to another or damaged in the performance of duty; 
purchase and maintenance of radio equipment; purchase of four 
passenger motor vehicles for replacement only; and repairs and 
improvements to buildings and grounds; $10,940,000. 
DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS 
w Department of Veterans Affairs, $109,500. 
OFFICE OF CIVIL DEFENSE 
Office of Civil Defense, $90,000: Provided, That not to exceed $50,000 
of any funds from appropriations available to the District of Colum-
bia may be used to match financial contributions from the Office of 
Civil and Defense Mobilization to the District of Columbia Office of 
D. C. Code 11-
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Civil Defense for the purchase of civil defense equipment and supplies 
approved by the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization, when 
authorized by the Commissioners. 
DEPARTMENT OF VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION 
Department of Vocational Rehabilitation, $300,000. 
COURTS 
Courts, including pay of retired judges; lodging and meals for 
jurors, bailiffs and deputy United States marshals while in attendance 
upon jurors, when ordered by the courts; employment of consulting 
physicians at rates to be fixed by the Commissioners; meals for prison-
ers ; and reimbursement to the United States for services rendered to 
the District of Columbia by the Judiciary, General Services Admin-
istration, and the Department of Justice; $5,633,600: Provided^ That 
this appropriation shall be available for advances on reimbursement 
to the General Services Administration for one-half of the cost of 
operation, maintenance, and repair of the Federal Courts Building, as 
provided in the Act of May 14,1948 (62 Stat. 235) : Provided further, 
104! 
That deposits made on demands for jury trials in accordance with 
rules prescribed by the Municipal Court under authority granted in 
section 11 of the Act approved March 3, 1921 (41 Stat. 1312), shall j^^\ ^' ^°'^^ ^^• 
be earned unless, prior to three days before the time set for such trials, 
including Sundays and legal holidays, a new date for trial be set by 
the court, cases be discontinued or settled, or demands for jury trials 
be waived. 
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH 
Department of Public Health, including fees to physicians under 
contracts to be made by the Director of Public Health and approved 
by the Commissioners, care of alcoholics, manufacture of serum in 
indigent cases, allowances for privately owned automobiles used for 
the performance of official duties by dairy-farm inspectors at the rate 
of 8 cents per mile but not more than $1,250 per annum for each auto-
mobile, subsistence in lieu of salary for the full-time employment 
of persons for the purpose of securing training and experience in 
their future vocations; travel expenses and fees for visiting lecturers 
or experts in public health and related fields; compensation of con-
sulting physicians and dentists at rates to be fixed by the Commis-
sioners, compensation of convalescent patients to be employed in 
essential work and as an aid to their rehabilitation at rates and under 
conditions to be determined by the Commissioners (but nothing in 
this paragraph shall be construed as conferring employee status on 
patients whose services are so utilized), not to exceed $1,000 for finan-
cial assistance for needy patients as determined by the Superintendent 
of Glenn Dale Hospital at rates established by the Commissioners, 
not to exceed $1,200 for fire prevention and protective services ren-
dered to Glenn Dale Hospital under conditions to be determined 
by the Commissioners, training school for nurses, repairs and improve-
ments to buildings and grounds; reimbursement to the United States 
for services rendered to the District of Columbia by Freedmen's Hos-
pital ; and for care and treatment of indigent patients in institutions, 
including those under sectarian control, under contracts to be made 
by the Director of Public Health; $36,910,473: Provided, 
That the 
inpatient rate under such contracts and for services rendered by 
Freedmen's Hospital shall not exceed $25 per diem and the outpatient 
rate shall not exceed $4 per visit: Provided further, 
That amounts 
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to be determined by the Commissioners may be expended for special 
services in detecting adulteration of dru^s and foods, including candy 
and milk and other products and services subject to inspection by 
the Department of Public Health: Provided further, That employees 
using privately owned automobiles for the deportation of nonresident 
insane may be reimbursed as authorized by the Act of June 9, 1949 
(63 Stat. 166), but not to exceed $900 for any one individual. 
5 use 835 note. 
DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS 
Department of Corrections, including subsistence of interns; com-
pensation of consulting physicians, dentists, and other specialists at 
rates to be fixed by the Commissioners; attendance of guards at pistol 
and rifle matches; repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds; 
support, maintenance, and transportation of prisoners transferred 
from the District of Columbia; interment or transporting the remains 
of deceased prisoners to their relatives or friends in the United States; 
electrocutions; identifying, pursuing, recapturing (including rewards 
therefor), and returning to institutions, escaped inmates and parole 
and conditional-release violators; and returning released prisoners to 
their residences, or to such other place within the United States as 
may be authorized by the Director; and the furnishing of suitable 
clothing and, in the discretion of the Director, an amount of money 
not to exceed $30, regardless of length of sentence; $7,000,000. 
DEPARTMENT or PUBLIC WELFARE 
Department of Public Welfare, including relief and rehabilitation 
of indigent residents, maintenance pending transportation of indi-
gent persons, burial of indigent residents of the District of Columbia, 
temporary care of children while being transferred from place to place, 
care of women and children in institutions, including those under 
sectarian control, burial of children dying while beneficiaries under this 
appropriation, repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, 
maintenance of a suitable place of detention for children under eight-
een years of age arrested by the police on charge of offense against any 
laws in force in the District of Columbia or committed to the guard-
ianship of the Department of Public Welfare, or held as witnesses or 
held temporarily, or pending hearing, or otherwise, and male witnesses 
eighteen years of age or over shall be held at the District of Columbia 
General Hospital, subsistence in lieu of salary for employment of 
persons for the purpose of securing training and experience in their 
future vocations, supervision of students performing voluntary serv-
ices for the purpose of obtaining training and experience in their 
future vocations, compensation of consulting physicians and veteri-
narians at rates to be fixed by the Commissioners, and care of boys 
committed to the National Training School for Boys by the courts 
of the District of Columbia under a contract to be made by the Com-
missioners or their designated agent with the Attorney General at a 
rate of not to exceed the actual cost for each boy committed, 
$19,145,000: Provided, That employees using privately owned auto-
mobiles for the transportation of indigent persons or the placing of 
children may be reimbursed as authorized by the Act of June 9, 
5 use 835 note. ^949 (53 g^at. 166), but uot to cxcced $900 for any one individual: 
Provided further, That when specifically authorized by the Commis-
sioners this appropriation may be used for visiting any ward of the 
Department of Public Welfare placed outside of the District of 
Columbia and the States of Virginia and Maryland. 
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DEPARTMENT OF BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS 
Department of Buildings and Grounds, including maintenance of 
public convenience stations, and $5,000 exclusively for test borings 
and soil investigations, $2,638,000, of which $30,000 shall be payable 
from the highway fund. 
CONSTRUCTION SERVICES, DEPARTMENT or BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS 
All apportionments of appropriations for the use of the Depart-
ment of Buildings and Grounds in payment of j)ersonal services, re-
tirement costs of persons employed on construction work, and other 
expenses provided for by said appropriations shall be based on an 
amount not exceeding 6 per centum of appropriations for such con-
struction projects, and appropriations specifically made in this Act 
for the preparation of plans and specifications shall be deducted from 
any allowances authorized under this paragraph: Provided^ That re-
imbursements may be made to this fund from appropriations con-
tained in this Act for services rendered other activities of the District 
government, without reference to fiscal-year limitations on such appro-
priations: Provided further, That this fund shall be available for 
advance planning subject to subsequent reimbursement from funds 
loaned by the Housing and Home Finance Agency under the pro-
visions of the Act of October 13, 1949 (63 Stat. 841). 
^^^o^ use 451 and 
OFFICE OF SURVEYOR 
Office of Surveyor, $205,000. 
DEPARTMENT OF LICENSES AND INSPECTIONS 
Department of Licenses and Inspections, including the enforcement 
of the Act requiring the erection of fire escapes on certain buildings 
and the removal of dangerous or unsafe or insanitary buildings; com-
pensation at rates to be fixed by the Commissioners of members of 
boards to survey unsafe structures and excavations; administration 
and enforcement of zoning regulations; purchase of one passenger 
motor vehicle for replacement only; maintenance and repairs to 
markets; purchase of commodities and for personal services in con-
nection with investigation and detection of sales of short weight and 
measure; and to obtain evidence necessary for prosecution in connec-
tion with the business of pawnbrokers, mediums, secondhand dealers, 
and other businesses requiring a license; $2,465,000. 
DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS AND TRAFFIC 
Department of Highways and Traffic, including minor construction 
of bridges; rental, purchase, installation, and maintenance of radio 
services; purchase of thirteen passenger motor vehicles including ten 
for replacement only; purchase of four driver-training vehicles, 
including two for replacement only; and purchase of ten driver-
training vehicles from proceeds of sale of twelve similar ve-
hicles; $8,441,000, of which $5,168,000 shall be payable from the 
highway fund: Provided^ That the Commissioners are authorized and 
empowered to pay the purchase price and the cost of installation of 
new parking meters or devices from fees collected from such new 
meters or devices, which fees are hereby appropriated for such 
purposes. 
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DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES 
Department of Motor Vehicles (payable from highway fund), in-
cluding $61,000 for traffic safety education without reference to any 
other law, and $200 for membership in the American Association of 
Motor Vehicle Administrators, $1,291,600. 
MOTOR VEHICLE PARKING AGENCY 
Motor Vehicle Parking Agency (payable from motor vehicle park-
ing fund), including installation and maintenance of parking meters, 
$187,000. 
DEPARTMENT or SANITARY ENGINEERING 
Department of Sanitary Engineering, including installing and 
repairing water meters on services to private residences and business 
places as may not be required to install meters under existing regula-
tions (said meters to remain the property of the District of Columbia), 
iustalling and repairing water meters on services and connections 
from the District water supply system for the direct use of any fed-
erally owned property used and occupied by any department or agency 
of the Government of the United States situated in the District of 
Columbia, purchase of four passenger motor vehicles for replacement 
only, purchase of radio equipment when approved by the Director of 
Highways, contribution of the District of Columbia to the expenses 
of the Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin, repair and 
maintenance of plants, buildings, and grounds, and fencing of public 
and private property designated by the Commissioners as public 
dumps; $15,860,000, of which $150,000 shall be payable from the 
highway fund for cleaning snow and ice from streets, sidewalks, cross-
walks, and gutters, in the discretion of the Commissioners, $3,720,000 
shall be payable from the water fund, and $3,291,000 shall be payable 
from the sanitary sewage works fund: Provided^ That this appropria-
tion shall not be available for collecting ashes or miscellaneous refuse 
from hotels and places of business or from apartment houses of four 
or more apartments having a central heating system, or from any 
building or connected group of buildings operated as a rooming, 
boarding, or lodging house having a total of more than twenty-five 
rooms. 
WASHINGTON AQUEDUCT 
Washington Aqueduct (payable from the water fund), for the 
operation, maintenance, repair, and protection of Washington water 
supply facilities and their accessories and maintenance of MacArthur 
Boulevard; purchase of three passenger motor vehicles for replace-
ment only; and fluoridation of water; $2,616,000: Provided^ That 
transfer of appropriations for operating expenses and capital outlay 
may be made between the Department of Sanitary Engineering of 
the District of Columbia and the Washington Aqueduct upon mutual 
agreement of the Commissioners and the Secretary of the Army. 
Nothing herein shall be construed as affecting the superintendence 
and control of the Secretary of the Army over the Washington Aque-
duct, its rights, appurtenances, and fixtures connected with the same, 
and over appropriations and expenditures therefor as now provided 
by law. 
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NATIONAL GUARD 
National Guard of the District of Columbia, including compensa-
tion to the commanding general at not to exceed $13,300 per annum; 
attendance at meetings of associations pertaining to the National 
Guard; expenses of camps, and for the payment of commutation of 
subsistence for enlisted men who may be detailed to guard or move 
the United States property at home stations on days inmiediately 
preceding and immediately following the annual encampment; reim-
bursement to the United States for loss of property for which the 
District of Columbia may be held responsible; cleaning and repair-
ing uniforms, arms, and equipment; instruction, purchase, and main-
tenance of athletic, gymnastic, and recreational equipment at armory 
or field encampments; practice marches, drills, and parades; rents 
of armories, drill halls, and storehouses; advertising incident to 
recruiting; care and repair of armories, offices, storehouses, and 
machinery; alterations and additions to present structures; and con-
struction of buildings for storage and other purposes; $172,700. 
NATIONAL CAPITAL PARKS 
National Capital Parks, including maintenance, care, and improve-
ment of public parks, grounds, fountains, and reservations, propagat-
ing gardens and greenhouses, and the tourists' camp on its present 
site in East Potomac Park under the jurisdiction of the National 
Park Service; placing and maintaining portions of the parks in condi-
tion for outdoor sports, erection of stands, furnishing and placing 
of chairs, and services incident thereto in connection with national 
patriotic, civic, and recreational functions held in the parks, including 
the President's Cup Regatta, and expenses incident to the conducting 
of band concerts in the parks; such expenses to include pay and 
allowances of the United States Park Police force; per diem employees 
at rates of pay approved by the Secretary of the Interior, not exceed-
ing current rates of pay for similar employment in the District of 
Columbia; uniforming and equipping the United States Park Police 
force; the purchase, issue, operation, maintenance, repair, exchange, 
and storage of revolvers, uniforms, ammunition, and radio equipment 
and the rental of teletype service; the purchase of bicycles, motor-
cycles, and self-propelled machinery; the hire of draft animals, with 
or without drivers at local rates approved by the Secretary of the 
Interior; and the purchase and maintenance of draft animals, harness, 
and wagons; $3,260,000, of which $25,000 shall be payable from the 
highway fund: Provided^ That not to exceed $15,000 of the amount 
herein appropriated may be expended for the erection of minor auxil-
iary structures: Provided further^ That funds appropriated under or 
transferred to this head for services rendered by the National Park 
Service shall be advanced to said Service and shall be credited as a 
repayment and maintained in a special account. 
The amounts so 
advanced will be available for the objects specified herein or in the 
appropriation from which such funds are transferred, any unexpended 
balance to be returned to the appropriation concerned not later than 
two full fiscal years after the close of the current fiscal year. 
NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PARK 
National Zoological Park, including erecting and repairing build-
ings ; care and improvement of grounds; travel, including travel for 
the procurement of live specimens; purchase, care, and transportation 
of specimens; revolvers and ammunition; and purchase of uniforms 
and equipment for police, and uniforms for keepers and assistant 
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[74 STAT. 
keepers; $1,250,000: Provided^ That funds appropriated under this 
head shall be advanced to the National Zoological Park and shall be 
credited as a repayment and maintained in a special account. 
The 
amounts so advanced will be available for the objects herein specified, 
any unexpended balance to be returned to this appropriation not later 
than two full fiscal years after the close of the current fiscal year, 
CAPITAL OUTLAY 
DISTRICT DEBT SERVICE 
For reimbursement to the United States of funds loaned in com-
^^D^c.code 8-106 pHance with section 4 of the Act of May 29, 1930 (46 Stat. 482), as 
amended, the Act of August 7, 1946 (60 Stat. 896), as amended, the 
10^: ^* ^°^^ ^^' Act of May 14, 1948 (62 Stat. 235), and section 108 of the Act of 
1540 ^' '^°^^ ^^' ^ a y 18, 1954 (68 Stat. 103), including interest as required thereby, 
$1,577,000, of which $711,000 shall be payable from the water fund. 
CAPITAL OUTLAY, PUBLIC BUILDING CONSTRUCTION 
For construction projects as authorized by the Act of June 6, 1958 
D.c. Code 9-220. (|72 Stat. 183), including preparation of plans and specifications for 
the following buildings: junior high school in the vicinity of South 
Dakota Avenue and Hamilton Street Northeast, elementary school 
in the vicinity of Fourth and W Streets Northwest, Benning Branch 
Library, replacement of dormitories and laundry addition at the Dis-
trict of Columbia Village, children's cottages at the Junior Village, 
and a chapel at the Cedar Knoll School; erection of the following 
structures, including building improvement and alteration and the 
treatment of grounds: Barnard Elementary School addition, ele-
mentary school in the vicinity of Twelfth and E Streets Southeast, 
elementary school in the vicinity of Fourth and W Streets North-
west, Benning branch library, and infirmary and admissions building 
at the Junior Village; equipment for new buildings; improvement of 
various recreation units, preparation of architectural plans, and erec-
tion of recreation structures without regard to the Act of August 24, 
37 Stat. 444. 
1912 (40 U.S.C. 68) ; $200,000 for purchase of equipment for new 
school buildings; and permanent improvement of buildings and 
grounds (including purchase and installation of furnishings and 
equipment, and elimination of fire hazards) of schools, firehouses, 
hospitals, welfare institutions, and other District of Columbia and 
National Zoological Park buildings; to remain available until 
expended, $5,773,000, of which $1,400,000, shall not .become available 
for expenditure until July 1, 1961, and $625,000 shall be available 
for construction services by the Director of Buildings and Grounds 
or by contract for architectural engineering services, as may be deter-
mined by the Commissioners, and the funds for the use of the Director 
of Buildings and Grounds shall be advanced to the appropriation 
account, "Construction services. Department of Buildings and 
Grounds": Provided^ That not to exceed $523,000 of funds heretofore 
appropriated under the heading "Capital Outlay, Public Building 
stlt° fsf.' ^^^' '^ Construction," in the Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1957, shall 
be available for the preparation of plans and specifications and erec-
tion of a structure to replace the dormitory for resident physicians and 
interns at the District of Columbia General Hospital: Provided 
fur-
ther^ That not to exceed $825,000 of funds heretofore appropriated 
under the heading "Capital Outlay, Public Building Construction, 
1956," shall be available for the preparation of plans and specifica-
tions for the consolidation and expansion of structures at the District 
of Columbia General Hospital. 
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27 
CAPITAL OUTLAY, DEPABTMENT OF HIGHWAYS AND TEArnc 
D. C.Code 7-132. 
D. C. Code 9-220. 
For construction projects as authorized by the Act of May 18,1954 
(68 Stat. 110), and the Act of June 6, 1958 (72 Stat. 183), including 
expenses necessary for the grading, surfacing, paving, repaying, 
widening, altering, purchase and installation of traffic lights, and 
otherwise improving streets, avenues, roads, and alleys, including 
curbing and gutters, directional and pedestrian islands at various 
intersections to permit proper traffic light control and channelization 
of traffic, drainage structures, culverts, suitable connections to storm 
water sewer system, retaining walls, replacement and relocation of 
sewers, water mains, fire hydrants, traffic lights, street lights, fire-
alarm boxes, police-patrol boxes, and curb-line trees, when necessary. 
Federal-aid highway projects under section 1(b) of the Federal Aid g^72Stat.885,888, 
Highway Act of 1938, and highway structure projects financed wholly 
23 use loi(a), 
from the highway fund upon the approval of plans for such structures ^°3(b). 
by the Commissioners; for carrying out the provisions of existing 
laws which authorize the Commissioners to open, extend, straighten, 
or widen streets, avenues, roads, or highways in accordance with the 
plan of the permanent system of highways for the District of 
Columbia, and alleys and minor streets, and for the establishment of 
building lines in the District of Columbia, including the procurement 
of chains of title; and for assessment and permit work, paving of 
roadways under the permit system, and construction of sidewalks 
and curbs around public reservations and municipal and United States 
buildings, including purchase or condemnation of streets, roads, and 
alleys, and of areas less than two hundred and fifty feet square at the 
intersection of streets, avenues, or roads in the District of Columbia, 
to be selected by the Commissioners; placing underground, relocating, 
and extending the telephone, police-patrol and fire-alarm cable and 
circuit distribution systems; installing and extending radio systems; 
and purchase of lampposts, street designations, and fixtures of all 
kinds; to remain available until expended, $13,100,000, of which 
$12,493,000 shall be payable from the highway fund: Provided^ That 
the Commissioners are hereby authorized to purchase and install a 
municipal asphalt plant on District-owned property including all 
auxiliary plant equipment and preparation of site, construction of 
seawalls, dock facilities, and a railroad siding to be paid for from this 
appropriation: Provided 
further, 
That this appropriation and the 
appropriation "Operating expenses. Department of Highways and 
Traffic" shall be available for the employment of engineering or other 
professional services by contract or otherwise, and without regard to 
section 3709 of the Revised Statutes and the civil-service and classifi- 
^^ '^^^ ^• 
cation laws, and section 15 of the Act of August 2,1946 (5 U.S.C. 55a), 
^o stat. s 10. 
and for engineering and incidental expenses: Provided further, That 
appropriations for the Department of Highways and Traffic of the 
District of Columbia shall be available for the construction and repair 
of pavements of street railways, in accordance with the provisions of 
the Merger Act (47 Stat. 752), and the proportion of the amount thus no?e.*^'^"'^'' ^'^°'* 
expended which under the terms of the said Act is required to be paid 
by the street-railway company shall be collected, upon the neglect 
or the refusal of such street-railway company to make such payment, 
from the said street-railway company in the manner provided by 
section 5 of the Act of June 11, 1878, and shall be deposited to the 
20 stat. 105. 
credit of the highway fund: Provided further, That in connection with 
projects to be undertaken as Federal-aid projects under the provisions 
of the Federal Aid Highway Act of December 20, 1944, as amended, 
72 stat. 919. 
the Commissioners are authorized to enter into contract or contracts 
for those projects in such amounts as shall be approved by the Bureau 
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[74 STAT. 
of Public Eoads, Department of Commerce: Provided further^ That 
the Commissioners are hereby authorized to construct grade-crossing 
elimination and other wholly District construction projects or those 
23 use fo^9(e). 
authorizcd under section 8 of the Act of June 16,1936 (49 Stat. 1521), 
72 Stat. 885,888, aud scctiou 1 (b) of the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1938, as amended, 
^^23 use 101(a), in accordance with the provisions of said Acts, and this appropriation 
103(b). 
jjiay be used for payment to contractors and other expenses in 
connection with the expenses of surveys, design, construction, and 
inspection pending reimbursement to the District of Columbia by the 
Bureau of Public Roads, Department of Commerce, or other parties 
participating in such projects, reimbursement to be credited to the 
appropriation from which payment was made: Promded 
further^ 
That the Commissioners are authorized to fix or alter the respective 
widths of sidewalks and roadways (including tree spaces and parking) 
of all highways that may be improved under appropriations for the 
District of Columbia: Promded further^ That no appropriation in 
this Act for the District of Columbia shall be available for repairing, 
resurfacing, or paving any street, avenue, or roadway by private 
contract unless the specifications for such work shall be so prepared 
as to permit of fair and open competition: Provided further^ That 
appropriations for the Department of Highways and Traffic of the 
District of Columbia shall be available for advance payments to 
Federal agencies for work to be performed, when ordered by the 
Commissioners, subject to subsequent adjustment: Provided 
further^ 
That no part of any appropriation for the District of Columbia shall 
be expended for building, installing, and maintaining streetcar loading 
platforms and lights of any description employed to distinguish same, 
except that a permanent tj^pe of platform may be constructed from 
appropriations for street improvements when plans and locations 
thereof are approved by the Public Utilities Commission and the 
Department of Highways and Traffic and the street-railway company 
shall after construction maintain, mark, and light the same at its 
expense. 
CAPITAL OUTLAY, DEPARTMENT OF SANITARY ENGINEERING 
For construction projects as authorized by the Act of April 22, 
D. c. code 43- 1904 (33 Stat. 244), the Act of May 18, 1954 (68 Stat. 105), and the 
•DIC. Cod; 9-226. -S^\ of June 6,1958 (72 Stat. 183), including remodeling of "O" Street 
incinerator, including treatment of grounds; construction of sewers 
and extension of the District of Columbia water-distribution system ; 
assessment and permit work; purchase or condemnation of lands and 
rights-of-way for construction, maintenance, and repair of sewers 
and water mains; continuing construction on aeration plant and sec-
ondary sedimentation tanks, reconstruction, enlargement, rehabilita-
tion, major repair and replacement of grit removal, sludge digestion, 
heating and other existing equipment and facilities; rehabilitation 
and replacement of screening and flow control facilities at the main 
sewerage pumping station; laying water mains and sewers in advance 
of paving and installing fire and public hydrants; constructing trunk 
water mains; to remain available until expended, $12,900,000, of which 
$1,200,000 shall not become available for expenditure until July 1, 
1961, and $4,720,000, shall be payable during the current fiscal year, 
ajid $2,100,000 shall bs payable after July 1, 1961, from the sanitary 
sewage works fund, and $1,171,000 shall be payable during the current 
fiscal year from the water fund: Provided^ That $21,000 shall be avail-
able for the director of buildings and grounds and shall be advanced 
to the appropriation account "Construction services. Department of 
Buildings and Grounds": Provided further, That this appropriation 
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29 
and the appropriation "Operating expenses, Department of Sanitary 
Engineering" shall be available for the employment of engineering 
or other professional services by contract or otherwise, and for engi-
neering and incidental expenses. 
CAPITAL OUTLAY, WASHINGTON AQUEDUCT 
For miscellaneous betterments, replacements, and engineering plan-
ning of water supply facilities, including continuing raw-water con-
duit rehabilitation, utility relocations, and plant system rearrange-
ments and interconnections; acquisition by gift, exchange, purchase^ 
or condemnation of supplementary land; and for developing increased 
water supply for the District of Columbia and environs in accordance 
with House Document 480, Seventy-ninth Congress, second session; 
and necessary expenses incident thereto; including services as author-
ized by section 15 of the Act of August 2,1946 (5 U.S.C. 55a), but at 
rates for individual consultants not in excess of $75 per diem; to 
remain available until expended, $50,000 (payable from water fund). 
CAPITAL OUTLAY, MOTOR VEHICLE PARKING AGENCY 
For construction projects as authorized by the Act of February 16, 
1942 (56 Stat. 91), and the Act of August 20, 1958 (72 Stat. 686), 
including the acquisition of sites, grading, surfacing, and erection of 
structures incident to the construction of off-street parking facilities; 
widening and channelizing streets in the vicinity of oif-street park-
ing facilities and to relieve traffic congestion caused by a lack of park-
ing facilities; and surveys of parking conditions by contract or other-
wise as may be determined by the Commissioners; to remain available 
until expended, $74,000 (payable from motor vehicle parking fund). 
GENERAL PEOVISIONS 
SEC. 2. Except as otherwise provided herein, all vouchers covering 
expenditures of appropriations contained in this Act shall be audited 
before payment by the designated certifying official and the vouchers 
as approved shall be paid by checks issued by the designated disburs-
ing oiRcial without countersignature. 
SEC. 3. Whenever in this Act an amount is specified within an appro-
priation for particular purposes or object of expenditure, such amount, 
unless otherwise specified, shall be considered as the maximum amount 
which may be expended for said purpose or object rather than an 
amount set apart exclusively therefor. 
SEC. 4. Appropriations in this Act shall be available, when author-
ized or approved by the Commissioners, for allowances for privately 
owned automobiles used for the performance of official duties at 8 
cents per mile but not to exceed $25 a month for each automobile, 
unless otherwise therein specifically provided, except that fifty-two 
such allowances at not more than $410 each per annum may be author-
ized or approved by the Commissioners. 
SEC. 5. Appropriations in this Act shall be available for expenses 
of travel and for the payment of dues of organizations concerned with 
the work of the District of Columbia government, when authorized by 
the Commissioners: Provided, That the total expenditures for this 
purpose shall not exceed $40,000. 
SEC. 6. Appropriations in this Act shall be available for services 
as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U.S.C. 
55a). 
60 Stat. 810. 
D. 
805. 
C. Code 40-
Vouchers. 
Maximum amount. 
Automobile al-
lowances. 
Dues. 
60 Stat. 310. 
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[74 S 
TAT, 
Advances, 
Restrictions. 
Street lighting. 
P a s s e ng er ve-
hicles. 
60 Stat. 810. 
Snow removal. 
Rental of 
quar-
ters. 
58 Stat. 532. 
Uniforms. 
D. C. Code 47-
1910. 
Restriction. 
70 Stat. 78. 
D. C. Code 47-
1586J, 
68 Stat. 393. 
D.C. Code 9-501. 
SEC. 7. The disbursing officials designated by the Commissioners 
are authorized to advance to such officials as may be approved by the 
Commissioners such amounts and for such purposes as the Commis-
sioners may determine. 
SEC. 8. Appropriations in this Act shall not be used for or in con-
nection with the preparation, issuance, publication, or enforcement of 
any regulation or order of the Public Utilities Commission requir-
ing the installation of meters in taxicabs, or for or in connection with 
the licensing of any vehicle to be operated as a taxicab except for 
operation in accordance with such system of uniform zones and rates 
and regulations applicable thereto as shall have been prescribed by 
the Public Utilities Commission. 
SEC. 9. Appropriations in this Act shall not be available for the 
payment of rates for electric current for street lighting in excess of 
2 cents per kilowatt-hour for current consumed. 
SEC. 10. All motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles (includ-
ing watercraft) owned by the District of Columbia shall be operated 
and utilized in conformity with section 16 of the Act of August 2, 
1946 (5 U.S.C. 77, 78), and shall be under the direction and control 
of the Commissioners, who may from time to time alter or change the 
assignment for use thereof, or direct the alteration of interchangeable 
use of any of the same by officers and employees of the District, except 
as otherwise provided in this Act. "Official purposes" shall not apply 
to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia or in cases of officers 
and employees the character of whose duties makes such transporta-
tion necessary, but only as to such latter cases when the same is 
approved by the Commissioners. No motor vehicles shall be trans-
ferred from the Police or Fire Departments to any other branch 
of the government of the District of Columbia. 
SEC. 11. Appropriations contained in this Act for the Department 
of Highways and Traffic and the Department of Sanitary Engineering 
shall be available for snow and ice control work when ordered by the 
Commissioners in writing. 
SEC. 12. Appropriations in this Act shall be available when author-
ized by the Commissioners, for the rental of quarters without refer-
ence to section 6 of the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1945. 
SEC. 13. Appropriations in this Act shall be available for the fur-
nishing of uniforms when authorized by the Commissioners. 
SEC. 14. There are hereby appropriated from the applicable funds 
of the District of Columbia such sums as may be necessary for making 
refunds and for the payment of judgments which have been entered 
against the government of the District of Columbia, including refunds 
authorized by section 10 of the Act approved April 23, 1924 (43 Stat. 
108) : Provided^ That nothing contained in this section shall be con-
strued as modifying or affecting the provisions of paragraph 3, sub-
section (c) of section 11 of title X I I of the District of Columbia 
Income and Franchise Tax Act of 1947, as amended. 
SEC. 15. Section 5 of the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 
] 955, is amended to read as follows: "Hereafter work performed for 
repairs and improvements may be by contract or otherwise, except 
for amounts exceeding $5,000 which shall be determined by the Com-
missioners; and the Commissioners are authorized to establish a 
working fund for such purposes without fiscal year limitation, said 
fund to be reimbursed for repairs and improvements performed under 
that fund from funds available for these purposes, and payments are 
authorized to be made to said fund in advance if required by the 
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31 
Director of Buildings and Grounds, subject to subsequent adjust-
ments, from funds available for necessary expenses, including allow-
ances for privately owned automobiles." 
This Act may be cited as the "District of Columbia Appropriation 
short title. 
Act, 1961". 
Approved April 8, 1960. 
Public Law 86-413 
AN ACT 
To ameiul section 4021 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954. 
[H. R. 4586] 
68A Stat. 476. 
26 u s e 402 I. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and Houfse of Reprei^entatives of the 
United States of America in Gongreas asHemhled, That section 4021 
of the Internal Revenue Code of 1054 is hereby amended by striking 
out "Aromatic cachous.". 
SEC. 2. The amendment made by the first section of this Act shall 
apply only with respect to articles sold on or after the first day of the 
first month which begins more than 10 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act. 
Approved April 8, 1960. 
Public Law 86-414 
AN ACT 
y^prii 8
^ 1950 
To provide for tlie relief of certain members and former members of the 
[H. R. 8106] 
Department of the Navy for the expen.ses of temix)rary storage of household 
effects. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and Houne of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in (Jo'nqress assembled. That (a) notwith- 
^avy. 
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standnig any law, all payments made tor services rendered beiore fects, storage pay-
April 17, 1954, for the temporary storage of the household effects of '"«"*s-
members of the Navy, which were temporarily stored in commercial 
facilities after April 20,1949, under the provisions of Executive Ordei-
10053 or of the Joint Travel Regulations of the uniformed services, 
3 CFR. 1949-
whether paid directly or as reimbursement to the member, are vali-
dated to the extent that they were paid. 
(b) Any member or former member of the Navy or his legal 
representative, who, directly or by set-off, has repaid the United States 
for an amount paid by it for services rendered after April 20, 1949, 
but before April 17, 1954, for the temporary storage of his household 
effects in commercial facilities, is entitled to be paid the amount 
involved, if otherwise proper, from the account to w'hich the repay-
ment was credited, or if that account is not available, from appropria-
tions available for the refund of any amounts erroneously collected. 
SEC. 2. In the audit and settlement of accounts of disbursing and 
certifying officers, full credit shall be given for amounts for which 
liability is relieved under this Act. 
Approved April 8, 1960. 
1953Comp,,p.242.