An Act making appropriations for civil functions administered by the Department of the Army for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1953, and for other purposes
PL 82-504 (H.R.7268), enacted 07/11/1952

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PUBLIC LAW 504-JULY 11, 1952 
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Public Law 504 
CHAPTER 669 
AN ACT 
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Making appropriations for civil functions administered by the Department of 
[H. R. 7208] 
the Army for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1953, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatwes 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following 
sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not other-
wise appropriated, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1953, for civil 
functions administered by the Department of the Army and for other 
purposes, namely: 
Civil 
Functions 
A p p r o p r i a t ions 
Act, 1953. 
CIVIL FUNCTIONS, DEPARTMENT OF T H E ARMY 
CEMETERIAL EXPENSES 
Cemeterial expenses: For necessary expenses of maintaining and 
improving national cemeteries, including fuel for superintendents; 
purchase of land, as authorized by law; purchase of one passenger 
motor vehicle for replacement only; maintenance of the Arlington 
Memorial Amphitheater, chapel, and grounds in the Arlington 
National Cemetery, and that portion of Congressional Cemetery to 
which the United States has title and the graves of those buried therein, 
including Confederate graves, and the burial site of Pushmataha, a 
Choctaw Indian chief; repair to roadways but not to more than a 
single approach road to any national cemetery; for headstones or 
markers for unmarked graves under the Act of July 1, 1948 (24 
U. S. C. 279a, b ) ; for maintenance of monuments, tablets, roads, 
fences, and so forth, made and constructed by the United States in 
Cuba and China to mark the places where American soldiers fell; 
maintenance of the Confederate Mound in Oakwood Cemetery at 
Chicago, the Confederate Stockade Cemetery at Johnstons Island, 
the Confederate burial plats owned by the United States in Confed-
erate Cemetery at North Alton, the Confederate Cemetery, Camp 
Chase at Columbus, the Confederate Cemetery at Point Lookout, and 
the Confederate Cemetery at Rock Island; and for maintenance of 
graves used by the Army for burials in commercial cemeteries; 
$4,160,000: Provided, That no railroad shall be permitted upon any 
right-of-way which may have been acquired by the United States lead-
ing to a national cemetery, or to encroach upon any roads or walks 
constructed thereon and maintained by the United States: Provided 
further, That no part of this appropriation shall be used for repairing 
any roadway not owned by the United States within the corporate 
limits of any city, town, or village: Provided further, That this appro-
{)riation shall not be obligated for construction of a superintendent's 
odge or family quarters at a cost per unit in excess of $14,000, but 
such limitation may be increased by such additional amounts as may 
be required to provide office space, public comfort rooms, or space for 
the storage of Government property within the same structure. 
Headstones. 
62 Stat. 1215. 
24 u s e 
2 7 9a-
279c. 
Confederate cem-
eteries. 
Commercial cem-
eteries. 
Encroachment by 
railroad. 
Roadway repairs. 
Family quarters, 
office space, etc. 
CORPS OF ENGINEERS 
RIVERS AND HARBORS AND FLOOD CONTROL 
The following appropriations for rivers and harbors and flood 
control shall be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the 
Army and the supervision of the Chief of Engineers, and shall remain 
available until expended: Provided, That the various appropriations 
for rivers and harbors and flood control may be used for examina-
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Lake 
Ark. 
Lake G r e e s o n , 
Ark. 
Access roads. 
Garrison Dam and 
Reservoir. 
Payments. 
tion of estimates of appropriations in the field; purchase not to exceed 
two hundred passenger motor vehicles for replacement only in the 
current fiscal year and hire of passenger motor vehicles and purchase 
of one motorboat (to be acquired from surplus stock where prac-
ticable) and the maintenance, repair, and operation of aircraft: Pro-
ouachita, vided further^ That the reservoir formed by the Blakely Mountain 
Dam, Arkansas, shall hereafter be designated as "Lake Ouachita", and 
the reservoir formed by the Narrows Dam, Arkansas, shall hereafter 
D^° oh/o!"''*"^ b^ designated as "Lake Greeson": Provided fiirther^ That the project 
known as "Burr Oak Dam, Ohio", shall hereafter be designated as 
the "Tom Jenkins Dam, Ohio": Promded further, That $125,000 of 
the funds appropriated herein may be used for providing a suitable 
access road and bridge from the town of Blum, Texas, to the Gulf, 
Colorado and Santa Fe Railroad station, relocated in connection with 
the construction of the Whitney Dam and Reservoir project: Pro-
mded further, That not to exceed $250,000 of the funds appropriated 
herein may be expended for providing a suitable access road from 
United States Highway 70 north to the bridge built upon and across 
the Center Hill Dam in DaKalb County, Tennessee: Provided 
further, 
That not more than $40,000 of the amount herein appropriated shall 
be available for expenditure, in addition to funds heretofore made 
available for the Garrison Dam and Reservoir project on the Mis-
souri River, to pay to lawful occupants of properties within the towns 
of Elbowoods, Sanish and Van Hook, North Dakota, for their 
improvements which wall be rendered useless by the construction of 
the project, but for which compensation may not be made under exist-
ing law because of the occupants' limited right of occupancy: Pro-
vided further, That payment in each case shall be limited to the fair 
value of the improvements, or the cost of moving such improvements 
to the sit« of the new combined town, whichever is less, as deter-
mined by the Secretary of the Army: Provided 
further. 
That 
funds appropriated shall not be expended for the payment of busi-
ness losses or other losses incident to the acquisition of lands for this 
project. 
RIVERS AND HAEBORS 
Maintenance and improvement of existing river and harbor works: 
For expenses necessary for the preservation and maintenance of exist-
ing river and harbor works, and for the prosecution of such projects 
heretofore authorized as may be most desirable in the interest of com-
merce and navigation; for surveys of northern and northwestern lakes 
and other boundary and connecting waters as heretofore authorized, 
including the preparation, correction, printing, and issuing of charts 
and bulletins, and the investigation of lake levels; for prevention of 
obstructive and injurious deposits within the harbor and adjacent 
waters of New York City; for expenses of the California Debris Com-
mission in carrying on the work authorized by the Act approved March 
1, 1893, as amended (33 U. S. C. 661, 678, and 683); for removing 
sunken vessels or craft obstructing or endangering navigation as 
authorized by law; for operating and maintaining, keeping in repair, 
and continuing in use without interruption any lock, canal (except 
the Panama Canal), canalized river, or other public w^orks for the 
use and benefit of navigation belonging to the United States; for 
examinations, surveys, and contingencies of rivers and harbors; for 
the execution of detailed investigations and the preparation of plans 
and specifications for projects heretofore authorized; for printing, 
either during a recess or session of Congress, of surveys authorized by 
law, and such surveys as may be printed during a recess of Congress 
shall be printed, with illustrations, as documents of the next succeed-
C a l i f omia De-
bris Commission. 
27 Stat. 507. 
Printing of sur-
veys. 
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ing session of Congress; $236,788,800, of which amount $75,000 shall 
be available only for cooperative beach erosion studies as authorized 
in Public Law Numbered 520, Seventy-first Congress, approved July 
3,1930, as amended and supplemented: Provided^ That no part of this 
appropriation shall be expended for any preliminary examination, 
survey, project, or estimate not authorized by law: Provided 
further^ 
That not to exceed $5,000 of the amount herein appropriated shall be 
available for the support and maintenance of the Permanent Inter-
national Commission of the Congresses of Navigation and for the 
payment of the expenses of the properly accredited delega^tes of the 
United States to the meeting of the Congresses and of the Commission: 
Provided further^ That from this appropriation not to exceed $3,584,-
100 shall be available for transfer to the Secretary of the Interior for 
expenditure for the purposes of and in accordance with the provisions 
of the Act of August 8, 1946 (16 U. S. C. 756), and the Act of August 
14, 1946 (16 U. S. C. 661-666; 33 U. S. C. 1, 5, 414-415, 441, 451, 540, 
541; Civil Functions Appropriation Act, 1952). 
4 6 Stat. 918. 
33 u s e 4 26. 
Permanent Inter-
national Commis-
sion of the Con-
gresses of N a v i -
gation. 
T r a n s f e r 
of 
funds. 
60 S t a t . 93 2, 
1080. 
65 Stat. 616. 
FLOOD CONTROL 
Flood control, general: For expenses necessary for the construction 
and maintenance of certain public works on rivers and harbors for 
flood control, and for other purposes, in accordance with the provisions 
of the Flood Control Act, approved June 22, 1936, as amended and 
supplemented, including preliminary examinations, surveys, and con-
tingencies in connection with flood control, $255,742,800: Provided^ 
That funds appropriated herein may be used for flood-control work on 
the Salmon River, Alaska, as authorized by law: Provided 
further^ 
That funds appropriated herein may be used to execute detailed sur-
veys and prepare plans and specifications, necessary for the construc-
tion of flood-control projects heretofore or hereafter authorized or 
for flood-control projects considered for selection in accordance with 
the provisions of section 4 of the Flood Control Act approved June 
28, 1938, and section 3 of the Flood Control Act approved August 18, 
1941 (55 Stat. 638) : Provided further^ That the expenditure of funds 
for completing the necessary surveys shall not be construed as a com-
mitment of the Government to the construction of any project. 
Flood control, general, emergencies: For rescue work and for repair, 
i-estoration, or maintenance of any flood-control work threatened or 
destroyed by flood in accordance with section 210 of the Flood Control 
Act of 1950 (Public Law 516, approved May 17,1950,33 U. S. C. 701n), 
$8,000,000, to remain available until expended. 
Flood control, Mississippi River and tributaries: For expenses nec-
essary for prosecuting work of flood control in accordance with the 
provisions of the Flood Control Act, approved May 15, 1928, as 
amended (33 U. S. C. 702a), $60,020,000. 
Flood control on tributaries of Mississippi River, emergencies: For 
rescue work and for repair or maintenance of any flood-control work 
on any tributaries of the Mississippi River threatened or destroyed 
by flood, in accordance with section 9 of the Flood Control Act, ap-
proved June 15,1936 (33 U. S. C. 702g-i), $250,000. 
Flood control, Sacramento River, California: For prosecuting work 
of flood control, Sacramento River, California, in accordance with 
the provisions of the Act approved March 1, 1917, as amended (33 
U. S. C. 703, 704; 50 Stat. 849; 55 Stat. 638-651), $1,000,000. 
49 Stat. 1570. 
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7 0 la-
70 If, 70 Ih. 
S a l m o n River, 
Alaska. 
52 Stat. 1216. 
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70 Ij, 
70 2a-1-3/4, 
702a-
12. 
64 Stat. 183. 
45 Stat. 534. 
49 Stat. 1511. 
33USC702g-l. 
39 Stat. 949. 
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NIAGARA REDEVELOPMENT REMEDIAL WORKS INVESTIGATION 
For engineering and economic investigations and surveys, pending 
authorization for construction, of projects for development and utiliza-
tion of the waters of the Niagara River, $100,000. 
UNITED STATES SOLDIERS' HOME 
For maintenance and operation of the United States Soldiers' Home, 
including construction of quarters, $3,452,000, to be paid from the 
Soldiers' Home permanent fund: Provided, That this appropriation 
shall not be available for the payment of hospitalization of members 
of the Home in United States Army hospitals at rates in excess of those 
prescribed by the Secretary of the Army, upon the recommendation 
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of the Board of Commissioners of the Home and the Surgeon General 
of the Army. 
CANAL ZONE GOVERNMENT 
For expenses necessary for the Canal Zone Government, including 
net losses from operation of the Postal Service of the Canal Zone; 
construction of additional facilities; purchase (not to exceed four in 
the current fiscal year, for replacement only) and hire of passenger 
motor vehicles; acquisition of land and land under water, as author-
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^2®^ i'^ the Panama Canal Act; expenses incident to conducting hear-
ings and examining estimates for appropriations on the Isthmus; 
not to exceed $10,000 for expenses of attendance at meetings, when 
authorized by the Governor, of organizations concerned with activities 
Travel expenses, pertaining to the Canal Zone Government; not to exceed $2,000 for 
travel and subsistence expenses of employees of the Canal Zone Gov-
ernment incident to their special training as authorized by law (63 
Stat. 600); contingencies of the Governor, including not to exceed 
$3,000 for entertainment, to be expended in his discretion; medical 
aid and support of the insane and of lepers and aid and support of 
indigent persons legally within the Canal Zone, including expenses 
of their deportation when practicable; and payments of not to exceed 
$50 in any one case to persons within the Government service who 
shall furnish blood for transfusions; $18,000,000, of which $4,900,000 
for construction and major equipment shall remain available until 
expended: Provided, That all expenses of the Canal Zone Govern-
ment shall be reimbursable to the United States Treasury, pursuant 
to law (48 U. S. C. 1361 b (e)): Provided further, That the appro-
65 Stat. 620. 
priatiou made available under this head in the Civil Functions Appro-
priation Act, 1952, shall not be available for obligation after June 30, 
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1952, except as specified thereunder with respect to (a) the amount 
provided for construction, and (b) any remaining balances of amounts 
transferred thereto from appropriations for "Maintenance and opera-
tion of the Panama Canal", "Sanitation", and "Civil government". 
PANAMA CANAL COMPANY 
The following corporation is hereby authorized to make such 
expenditures, within the limits of funds and borrowing authority 
available to it and in accord with law, and to make such contracts and 
commitments without regard to fiscal year limitations as provided by 
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section 104 of the Government Corporation Control Act, as may be 
necessary in carrying out the programs set forth in the Budget for 
the fiscal year 1953 for such corporation, except as hereinafter 
provided: 
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Not to exceed $3,301,800 of the funds available to the Panama Canal expe^n^i"/^*'^*"''* 
Company shall be available during the current fiscal year for general 
and administrative expenses of the Company, which shall be computed 
on an accrual basis: Provided^ That as used herein, the term "general 
and administrative expenses" shall not be construed to include expenses 
otherwise classified in the preceding fiscal year. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
SEC. 102. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act, or 
of the funds made available for expenditure by any corporation in-
cluded in this Act, shall be used to pay the salary or wages of any 
person who engages in a strike against the Government of the United 
States or who is a member of an organization of Government em-
ployees that asserts the right to strike against the Government of 
the United States, or who advocates, or who is a member of an organi-
zation that advocates, the overthrow of the Government of the United 
States by force or violence: Provided^ That for the purposes hereof 
an affidavit shall be considered prima facie evidence that the per-
son making the affidavit has not contrary to the provisions of this 
section engaged in a strike against the Government of the United 
States, is not a member of an organization of Government employees 
that asserts the right to strike against the Government of the United 
States or that such person does not advocate, and is not a member of an 
organization that advocates, the overthrow of the Government of the 
United States by force or violence: Provided further^ That any per-
son who engages in a strike against the Government of the United 
States or who is a member of an organization of Government em-
ployees that asserts the right to strike against the Government of 
the United States, or who advocates, or who is a member of an or-
ganization that advocates, the overthrow of the Government of the 
United States by force or violence and accepts employment the salary 
or wages for which are paid from any appropriation or fund con-
tained in this Act shall be guilty of a felony and, upon conviction, 
shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned for not more than 
one year, or both: Provided further.. That the above penalty clause 
shall be in addition to, and not in substitution for, any other provisions 
of existing law. 
SEC. 103. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall 
be used directly or indirectly, except for temporary employment in 
case of emergency, for the payment of any civilian for services ren-
dered by him on the Canal Zone while occupying a skilled, technical, 
clerical, administrative, executive, or supervisory position unless such 
person is a citizen of the United States of America or of the Republic 
of Panama: Provided.^ hoioever^ (1) That, notwithstanding the pro-
vision in the Act approved August 11, 1939 (53 Stat. 1409) limiting 
employment in the above-mentioned positions to citizens of the United 
States from and after the date of approval of said Act, citizens of 
Panama may be employed in such positions; (2) that at no time shall 
the number of Panamanian citizens employed in the above-mentioned 
positions exceed the number of citizens of the United States so 
employed, if United States citizens are available in continental United 
States or on the Canal Zone; (3) that nothing in this Act shall prohibit 
the continued employment of any person who shall have rendered 
fifteen or more years of faithful and honorable service on the Canal 
Zone; (4) that in the selection of personnel for skilled, technical, 
administrative, clerical, supervisory, or executive positions, the con-
trolling factors in filling these positions shall be efficiency, experience, 
training, and education; (5) that all citizens of Panama and the 
Strikes or over-
throw of Govern-
ment. 
Affidavit. 
Penalty. 
Canal Zone. 
C i tizenship re-
quirements. 
Panamanian cit-
izens. 
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130 7 
note. 
Employees with 
15 years service. 
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H o u r s 
of en>-
ployment. 
Pay rates. 
Applicability. 
S u s p e nsion of 
compliance. 
60 Stat. 810. 
Short title. 
United States rendering skilled, technical, clerical, administrative, 
executive, or supervisory service on the Canal Zone under the terms 
of this Act (a) shall normally be employed not more than forty hours 
per week, (b) may receive as compensation equal rates of pay based 
upon rates paid for similar employment in continental United States 
plus 25 per centum; (6) this entire section shall applj only to persons 
employed in skilled, technical, clerical, administrative, executive, or 
supervisory positions on the Canal Zone directly or indirectly by any 
branch of the United States Government or by any corporation or 
company whose stock is owned wholly or in part by the United States 
Government: Provided 
further^ That the President may suspend 
from time to time in whole or in part compliance with this section 
if he should deem such course to be in the public interest. 
SEC. 104. The Governor of the Canal Zone is authorized to employ 
services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 
U. S. C. 55a), in an amount not exceeding $15,000: Provided, That the 
rates for individuals shall not exceed $100 per diem. 
SEC. 105. This Act may be cited as the "Civil Functions Appropria-
tions Act, 1953". 
Approved July 11, 1952. 
July 11, 1952 
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Public Law 505 
CHAPTER 670 
AN ACT 
To authorize the transfer of certain property by the Administrator of 
General Services Administration to the Secretary of the Interior. 
the 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Admin-
istrator of the General Services Administration is hereby authorized 
and directed to transfer to the Secretary of the Interior, without reim-
bursement, a wood-frame building located in the city of Everett, 
Washington, on land leased from the city of Everett, formerly occu-
pied by the Civil Aeronautics Administration, Department of Com-
merce, and now excess to the requirements of tne Departmeilt of 
Commerce. 
Approved July 11, 1952. 
July 11, 1952 
[H. R. 8272] 
Public Law 506 
CHAPTER 671 
AN ACT 
To provide for the conveyance by the United States to Fulton County, a political 
subdivision of Georgia, of certain land in said county. 
Fulton Coun t y , 
Ga. 
Conveyance. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of Ainerica in Congress assembled. That the Secretary 
of Commerce is authorized and directed to convey to Fulton County, 
a political subdivision of the State of Georgia, upon such terms and 
conditions with respect to relocation or reconstruction of existing 
buildings and facilities on and near the premises and with respect to 
such other matters as he may deem desirable, all the right, title, and 
interest of the United States in and to a parcel of land bounded and 
described as follows: 
All that tract or parcel of land lying and being in the city of 
Atlanta in land lots 85 and 108 of the fourteenth district of originally 
Henry, now Fulton County, Georgia, and more particularly described 
as follows: