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68 Stat. 378 Public Law 468 chapter 449 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, 1955, and for other purposes.July 1, 1954[[H. R. 9517](/us/bill/83/hr/9517)] FEDERAL PAYMENT TO DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1955. That there are appropriated for the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1955, 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 $20,000,000, which is hereby appropriated for the purpose out or any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated (to be advanced July 1, 1954, and of which $7,000,000 shall be available for capital outlay only),
(2)the highway fund (when designated as payable therefrom), established by law (D. C. Code, title 47, ch. 19),
(3)the water fund (when designated as payable therefrom), established by law (D. C. Code, title 43, ch. 15), and $1,298,000, which is hereby appropriated for the purpose out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated (to be advanced July 1, 1954),
(4)the sanitary sewage works fund (when designated as payable therefrom), *Ante*, p. 104.established by law (Public Law 364, 83d Congress), and $592,000, which is hereby appropriated for the purpose out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated (to be advanced July 1, 1954), and
(5)the motor vehicle parking fund (when designated as payable therefrom), established by law (D. C. Code, title 40, ch. 8), sums as follows: OPERATING EXPENSES 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 expenses of members of the Apprenticeship Council and the Redevelopment Land Agency; aid in support of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws; general advertising in newspapers (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 of Public hearings, publication of orders and regulations, tax and school notices, and notices of changes in regulations; expenses of Youth Council; ceremony expenses; development of a comprehensive program for slum clearance, by contract or otherwise, as may be determined by the Commissioners; and expenses in case of emergency, such as riot, pestilence, public insanitary conditions, flood, fire, or storm, and for expenses of investigations; $307,565, of which $25,000 shall be available for expenditure by the American Legion 1954 Convention Corporation in connection with the 1954 National Convention of the American Legion, subject to reimbursement from the American Legion if receipts exceed expenses: *Provided*, That the certificate of the Com-68 Stat. 379missioners shall be sufficient voucher for the expenditure of $1,500 of this appropriation for such purposes, exclusive of ceremony expenses, as they may deem necessary. department of general administration Department of General Administration, including the rental of postage meters and affiliation with the National Safety Council, Incorporated, $2,945,522, of which $60,000 shall be payable from the highway fund, $15,000 from the water fund, and $800 from the motor vehicle parking fund: *Provided*, That this appropriation 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 and all special assessments, together with penalties and costs, in arrears, the cost of such advertising 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 this appropriation shall be available for refunding, wholly or in part, school tuition, lost library books, building permits, and other payments which have been erroneously made during the present and past three years. office of 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 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[D. C. Code 1–902](/us/dcc/1/902). 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; $428,585, of which $12,000 shall be payable from the highway fund. compensation and retirement fund expenses Compensation and retirement fund expenses, including District government employees’ compensation; administrative expenses, workmen’s compensation, to be transferred to the Bureau or 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 Columbia; financing the liability of the government of the District of Columbia to the “Civil service retirement and disability fund” and the “Teachers’ retirement and annuity fund”; and relief and other allowances as authorized by law for policemen and firemen; $10,207,000, of which $2,532,000 shall be placed to the credit of the “Civil service retirement and disability fund”. regulatory agencies Regulatory agencies, including juror fees, repairs to the morgue, and uniforms and caps for guards, $918,204. department of occupations and professions Department of Occupations and Professions, including compensation at rates to be fixed by the Commissioners of three members of the Board of Accountancy, five members of the Board of Examiners and Registrars of Architects, two members of the Board of Barber Examiners, three members of the Board of Cosmetology, five mem-68 Stat. 380bers of the Board of Dental Examiners, five members of the Board of Examiners in the Basic Sciences, five members of the Board of Examiners in Medicine and Osteopathy, five members of the Board of Registration of Professional Engineers, five members of the Nurses’ Examining Board, five members of the Board of Optometry, five members of the Board of Pharmacy, three members of the Board of Podiatry Examiners, two members of the Real Estate Commission, five members of the Board of Examiners of Veterinary Medicine, two members of the District Boxing Commission, four members of the Electrical Examining Board, two members of the Plumbing Board, two members of the Board of Examiners of Steam and Other Operating Engineers, one member of the Motion Picture Operators’ Examining Board, and five members of the Undertakers’ Examining Committee, $264,000. public schools Public schools, for the administration of and supervision and instruction in the public school system of the District of Columbia, including the education of foreigners of all ages in the Americanization schools; not to exceed $65,000 for the purchase, cleaning, and repair of athletic apparel and accessories; subsistence supplies for pupils enrolled in classes for crippled children; maintenance and instruction of deaf, dumb 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 physically handicapped pupils; for carrying out the provisions of [10 USC 914a note](/us/usc/t10/s914a).the Act of December 16, 1944 (58 Stat. 811); distribution of surplus commodities and relief milk to public and charitable institutions, and for the carrying out, under regulations to be prescribed by the Board of Education, of a “penny milk” program for the schoolchildren of the District, including the purchase and distribution of milk under agreement with the United States Department of Agriculture; $300,950 for development of vocational education in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Act of June 8, 1936, as amended; operation, repair, maintenance and improvement of public school buildings, grounds and equipment; purchase of equipment including not to the exceed $25,000 for the purchase and repair of musical instruments and related equipment and supplies; and purchase, operation, repair, maintenance and insurance of passenger-carrying motor vehicles, including District-owned or borrowed passenger motor vehicles; $27,626,570, of which $3,000 shall be available for the services of experts and consultants as authorized by section 15 of the Act of [60 Stat. 810.](/us/stat/60/810)August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a), but at rates 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: *Provided further*, That collections from the milk program shall be paid to the Collector of Taxes, District of Columbia, for deposit in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the District. Section 6 of the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial appropriationDouble salaries. Act, approved May 10, 1916, as amended, shall not apply[39 Stat. 120.](/us/stat/39/120)[5 USC 58, 59](/us/usc/t5/s58/59). from July 1 to August 28, 1954, to teachers of the public schools of the District of Columbia when employed by any of the executive departments or independent establishments of the United States Government. 68 Stat. 381 public library Public Library, including extra services on Sundays and holidays; music records, sound recordings, and educational films; alterations, repairs; fitting up buildings; care of grounds; and rent of suitable quarters for branch libraries in Anacostia and Woodridge without reference to section 6 of the District of Columbia Appropriation Act,[58 Stat. 532.](/us/stat/58/532)[D. C. Code 1–243](/us/dcc/1/243). 1945, $1,611,000. recreation department Recreation Department, for operation and maintenance of recreation facilities in and for the District of Columbia, $1,641,000. metropolitan police Metropolitan Police, including pay and allowances; the inspector in charge of the traffic division with the rank and pay of deputy chief; one captain who shall be assigned to the traffic division with the rank and pay of inspector; one inspector who shall be property clerk; the lieutenants in command of the homicide squad, robbery squad, general assignment squad, special investigation squad, with the rank and pay of captain while so assigned; the detective sergeants in command of the automobile and bicycle squad, and the check and fraud squad with the rank and pay of lieutenant while so assigned; the detective sergeant assigned as administrative assistant to the chief of detectives with the rank and pay of lieutenant while so assigned; the present acting sergeant in charge of police automobiles with the rank and pay of sergeant; the present sergeant in charge of the police radio station with the rank and pay of lieutenant; the present sergeant in charge of purchasing and accounts with the rank and pay of lieutenant; the lieutenant in charge of the Metropolitan Police “Boys’ Club with the rank and pay of captain; the lieutenant assigned as harbor master 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 and hours of employment to be fixed by the Commissioners; compensation of civilian trial board members at rates to be fixed by the Commissioners; allowances for privately owned automobiles used by deputy chiefs and inspectors in the performance of official duties at $480 per annum for each automobile; meals for prisoners; rewards for fugitives; medals of award; photographs, rental, purchase, and maintenance of radio and teletype systems; travel expenses incurred in prevention and detection of crime; expenses of attendance, without loss of pay or time, at specialized police training classes and pistol matches, including tuition and entrance fees; expenses of the police training school, including travel expenses of visiting lecturers or experts in criminology; expenses of traffic school; police equipment and repairs to same; insignia of office, uniforms, and other official equipment, including cleaning, alteration, and repair of articles transferred from one individual to another, or damaged in the performance of duty; purchase of passenger motor vehicles; expenses of harbor patrol; 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 pending final investigation or examination, or otherwise; $12,757,520, of which amount $1,675,000 shall be payable from the highway fund and $49,440 from the motor vehicle parking 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 certificate shall be 68 Stat. 382deemed a sufficient voucher for the sum therein expressed to have been expended. Metropolitan Police (additional municipal services, AmericanAmerican Legion Convention.Overtime, etc. Legion Convention), to enable the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to provide additional municipal services in said District from August 25 to September 7, 1954, both inclusive, including the employment of personal services, payment of allowances, payment at basic salary rates for services performed by members of the uniformed force in excess of eight hours per day (but not to exceed a total of twelve hours overtime pay to any individual member performing service within such period), traveling expenses, hire of means of transportation, cost of removing and relocating streetcar-loading platforms; and for the construction, rent, maintenance, and expenses incident to the operation of temporary public comfort stations, first-aid stations, and information booths, during the period aforesaid, and other incidental expenses in the discretion of the Commissioners; $80,000. fire department Fire Department, including pay and allowances; compensation of civilian trial board members at rates to be fixed by the Commissioners; uniforms and other 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 passenger motor vehicles; repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds; $6,266,641: *Provided*, That the Commissioners in their discretion may authorize the construction, in whole or in part, of firefighting apparatus in the Fire Department repair shop. veterans’ services Veterans’ services, $93,000. office of civil defense Office of Civil Defense, including personal services without reference to the civil service laws as related to recruitment, purchase of passenger motor vehicles, and a shelter survey by contract or otherwise, as may be determined by the Commissioners, $150,000: *Provided*, That not to exceed $50,000 of any funds from appropriations available to the District of Columbia may be used to match financial contributions from the Federal Civil Defense Administration to the District of Columbia Office of Civil Defense for the purchase of civil defense equipment and supplies approved by the Federal Civil Defense Administration, when authorized by the Commissioners. courts Courts, including the Juvenile Court, the Municipal Court, the Municipal Court of Appeals, and the District of Columbia Tax Court, 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; meals for prisoners: and reimbursement to the United States for services rendered to the District of Columbia by the Judiciary, General Services Administration, and the Department of Justice; $3,163,410, of which $20,000 shall be available for payment to the United States Public Health Service for furnishing psychiatric service to the Juvenile Court, including the detail of necessary medical and other personnel, and $230,000 shall be available for advances on reimbursement to the General Services Administration 68 Stat. 383for 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*, That deposits made on demands for jury[D. C. Code 11–105](/us/dcc/11/105). 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 be earned unless, prior to three days[D. C. Code 11–722](/us/dcc/11/722). 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 services for tuberculosis, venereal disease, hygiene and sanitation work in schools, dental health, maternal and child health, housekeeping assistance in cases of authentic indigent sick, handicapped and crippled children, cancer control, control of heart disease, public health engineering, nursing, psychiatry, ambulances, laboratories, outpatient relief of the poor, medical and surgical supplies, artificial limbs and appliances, eyeglasses, fees to physicians under contracts to be made by the Director of Public Health and approved by the Commissioners, contract investigational service, uniforms, rent, 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 7 cents per mile but not more than $840 per annum for each automobile, subsistence in lieu of salary for the full-time employment of persons for the purpose of securing training and experience in their future vocations; not to exceed $1,000 for attendance without loss of pay or time at specialized medical or public health training courses or institutes, tuition and entrance fees, and travel expenses and fees for visiting lecturers or experts in public health and related fields; operation of hospitals, compensation of consulting physicians and dentists at rates to be fixed by the Commissioners, 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), classroom supplies, uniforms for guards, training school for nurses, repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, support of indigent insane, deportation of nonresident insane persons (including persons held in the psychopathic ward of the District of Columbia General Hospital), reimbursement to the United States for services rendered to the District of Columbia by Freedmen’s Hospital, and for care and treatment of indigent patients under contracts to be made by the Director of Public Health of the District of Columbia and approved by the Commissioners with Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital, Children’s Hospital, Eastern Dispensary and Casualty Hospital, Episcopal Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital, Garfield Memorial Hospital, George Washington University Hospital, Georgetown University Hospital, Providence Hospital, Washington Home for Incurables, and Children’s Convalescent Home, $22,636,000: *Provided*, That the inpatient rate under such contracts and for services rendered by Freedmen’s Hospital shall not exceed $14 per diem and the outpatient rate shall not exceed $2.40 per visit: *Provided further*, That amounts to be determined by the Commissioners may be expended for special services in detecting adulteration of drugs 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 68 Stat. 384reimbursed as authorized by the Act of June 9, 1949 (63 Stat. 166),[5 USC 835 note](/us/usc/t5/s835). but not to exceed $900 for any one individual. department of corrections Department of Corrections, including subsistence of interns; compensation of consulting physicians, dentists, and other specialists at rates to be fixed by the Commissioners; attendance of guards at pistol and rifle matches; uniforms and other distinctive wearing apparel necessary for employees in the performance of their official duties; rental of motion picture films; repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds; purchase of motorbusses; 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; $4,374,674. public welfare Department of Public Welfare, including the general administration of public welfare in the District of Columbia, contract investigational services, certification of persons eligible for any public benefits which are or may become available under rules and regulations prescribed by the Commissioners, or their designated agent, relief and rehabilitation for purposes of employment of indigent residents of the District of Columbia (to be expended under rules and regulations prescribed by the Commissioners or their designated agent or agency), vocational rehabilitation of disabled residents, aid to dependent children, assistance against old-age want, aid for needy blind persons, services for children in their own homes, maintenance pending transportation, and transportation of indigent persons (including veterans and their families), burial of indigent residents of the District of Columbia, placing and visiting children, board and care of children committed to the guardianship of the Department of Public Welfare by the courts of the District and children accepted by said Department of Public Welfare for care as authorized by law, temporary care of children pending investigation or while being transferred from place to place, with authority to pay for the care of children in institutions under sectarian control, continuous maintenance of foster homes for temporary or emergency board and care of nondelinquent children, care and maintenance of women and children under contracts to be made by the Commissioners or their duly authorized agent with the Florence Crittenton Home, Saint Ann’s Infant Asylum and Maternity Hospital, the House of Mercy, and other institutions caring for unmarried mothers, burial of children dying while beneficiaries under this appropriation, operation of protective institutions, repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, purchase of passenger, truck and bus motor vehicles, maintenance of a suitable place in a building entirely separate and apart from the house of detention for the reception and detention of children under eighteen 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 guardianship 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 68 Stat. 385over shall be held at the District of Columbia General Hospital, subsistence in lieu of salary for full-time employment of persons for the purpose of securing training and experience in their future vocations, supervision of students performing voluntary services for the purpose of obtaining training and experience in their future vocations, compensation of consulting physicians and veterinarians at rates to be fixed by the Commissioners, securing suitable homes for paroled or discharged children, and care and maintenance 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 Commissioners or their designated agent with the Attorney General at a rate of not to exceed the actual cost for each boy committed, $8,885,061: *Provided*, That when specifically authorized by the Commissioners 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, and the Department of Public Welfare shall have power to discharge from guardianship any child committed to its care: *Provided further*, That employees using privately owned automobiles for the transportation of indigent persons or the placing of children may be reimbursed as authorized by the Act of June 9, 1949 (63 Stat. 166), but not to exceed $900 for any one[5 USC 835 note](/us/usc/t5/s835).Consolidation of schools. individual: *Provided further*, That hereafter the Industrial Home School for Colored Girls shall be combined with and become a part of the Industrial Home School for Colored Children. department of buildings and grounds Department of Buildings and Grounds, including uniforms and caps for guards and elevator operators and maintenance of public convenience stations, and $5,000 exclusively for test borings and soil investigations, $1,675,642, of which $8,900 shall be payable from the highway fund. All apportionments of appropriations for the use of the Department of Buildings and Grounds in payment of personal services employed on construction work provided for by said appropriations shall be based on an amount not exceeding 4 per centum of a total of not more than $2,000,000 of appropriations made for such construction projects and not exceeding 33/4 per centum of a total of the appropriations in excess of $2,000,000, 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 reimbursements may be made to this fund from appropriations contained in this Act for services rendered other activities of the District government, without reference to fiscal-year limitations on such appropriations: *Provided further*, That this fund shall be available for advance planning subject to subsequent reimbursement from funds loaned by the Administrator of General Services under the provisions of the Act of October 13, 1949 (63 Stat. 841).[40 USC 451–458](/us/usc/t40/s451/458). office of surveyor Office of the Surveyor, $149,200. 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; compensation at rates to be fixed by the Commissioners of members of the unsafe structure and excavation board; maintenance and repairs to 68 Stat. 386markets; purchase of commodities and for personal services in connection with investigation and detection of sales of short weight and measure; purchase of one passenger motor vehicle for replacement only; $1,378,000. department of highways Department of Highways, including operation, minor construction, maintenance, and repair of bridges; repairs to streets, avenues, roads, sidewalks, and alleys; reconditioning existing gravel streets and roads; purchase, installation, modification, operation of electric traffic lights, signals, controls, markers, signs, and directional signs; installation and maintenance of parking meters; operation and maintenance of the District’s communication systems, including rental, purchase, installation, and maintenance of telephone, telegraph, and radio services; street lighting, including the installation and maintenance of public lamps, lampposts, street designations, lanterns, and fixtures of all kinds on streets, avenues, roads, alleys, and public spaces, to be expended in accordance with the provisions of sections 7 and 8 of the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1912 (36 [D. C. Code 7–701 to 7–705](/us/dcc/7/701/7/705).Stat. 1008), and with the provisions of the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1913 (37 Stat. 181), and other laws applicable thereto; purchase, propagation, maintenance and planting of trees and shrubs, and maintenance of landscaping of public space along streets; refunding collections erroneously covered into the Treasury to the credit of the highway fund during the present and past three fiscal years; such expenses to include purchase of passenger motor vehicles; $5,768,600, of which $3,761,612 shall be payable from the highway fund: *Provided*, That the Commissioners are hereby authorized to purchase and install a municipal asphalt plant including all auxiliary plant equipment to be paid for from this appropriation at a cost not to exceed $150,000: *Provided further*, That this appropriation shall not be available for refunds authorized [43 Stat. 108.](/us/stat/43/108)[D. C. Code 47–1910](/us/dcc/47/1910).by section 10 of the Act of April 23, 1924. department of vehicles and traffic Department of Vehicles and Traffic (payable from highway fund), including purchase, installation, and modification of electric traffic signals and controls; purchase of motor-vehicle identification number plates; $25,000 for traffic safety education without reference to any other law; $200 for membership in the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators; purchase of not to exceed two passenger motor vehicles; expenses of the Motor-Vehicle Parking Agency; and uniforms for motor vehicle inspectors and permit examiners; $1,238,365, of which $235,406 shall be payable from the motor-vehicle parking fund and $9,000 payable from the general fund: *Provided*, That no part of this or any other appropriation contained in this Act shall be expended for building, installing, and maintaining streetcar loading platforms and lights of any description employed to distinguish same, except that a permanent type of platform may be constructed from appropriations contained in this Act for street improvements when plans and locations thereof are approved by the Public Utilities Commission and the Director of Vehicles and Traffic and the street-railway company shall after construction maintain, mark, and light the same at its expense: *Provided further*, 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 purpose: *Provided further*, That the Commissioners are authorized and directed to designate, reserve, and properly 68 Stat. 387mark appropriate and sufficient parking spaces on the streets adjacent to all public buildings in the District for the use of Members of Congress engaged on public business: *Provided further*, That the incumbent on July 1, 1944, of the authorized position of Registrar of Titles and Tags, whose duties shall be as prescribed in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1945, shall hereafter be continued for compensation[58 Stat. 527.](/us/stat/58/527)[D. C. Code 40–603a](/us/dcc/40/603a).[63 Stat. 954.](/us/stat/63/954)[5 USC 1071 note](/us/usc/t5/s1071). purposes in grade 9 of the general schedule under the Classification Act of 1949, as amended. department of sanitary engineering Department of Sanitary Engineering, including operation and maintenance of the District of Columbia water distribution system, installing and repairing water meters on services to private residences and business places as may not be required to install meters under existing regulations (said meters to remain the property of the District of Columbia), replacement of old watermains, service pipes, and divide valves, water waste and leakage survey, repair of reservoirs, purchase of passenger motor vehicles, purchase and replacement of uniforms for water meter inspectors, refunding of water rents and other water and sewer service charges erroneously paid in the District of Columbia (to be refunded in the manner prescribed by law for the refunding of erroneously paid taxes and to be available for such refunds of payments made within the present and past three fiscal years), cleaning and repairing sewers and basins, operation and maintenance of the sewage pumping service and sewage-treatment plant, repairs to equipment, machinery, and structures, control and prevention of the spread of mosquitoes in the District of Columbia, contribution of the District of Columbia to the expenses of the Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin, collection and disposal of refuse and street cleaning, repair and maintenance of plants, buildings, and grounds, and fencing of public and private property designated by the Commissioners as public dumps, $9,732,740, of which $99,000 shall be payable from the highway fund for cleaning snow and ice from streets, sidewalks, crosswalks, and gutters, in the discretion of the Commissioners, $2,578,303 shall be payable from the water fund, and $1,250,686 shall be payable from the sanitary sewage works fund: *Provided*, That this appropriation 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; including replacement and maintenance of water meters on Federal services; purchase of two passenger motor vehicles; and fluoridation of water, $2,127,000: *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 Aqueduct, its rights, appurtenances, and fixtures connected with the 68 Stat. 388same, and over appropriations and expenditures therefor as now provided by law. national guard National Guard of the District of Columbia, including 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 immediately preceding and immediately following the annual encampments; reimbursement to the United States for loss of property for which the District of Columbia may be held responsible; cleaning and repairing uniforms, arms, and equipment; instruction, purchase, and maintenance or 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, machinery, and dock, including dredging alongside of dock; alterations and additions to present structures; construction of buildings for storage and other purposes; $114,800. national capital parks National Capital Parks, including maintenance, care, and improvement of public parks, grounds, fountains, and reservations, propagating 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 condition 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 exceeding 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; and the purchase of passenger motor vehicles, bicycles, motorcycles, and self-propelled machinery; the hire of draft animals with or without drivers at local rates approved by the Secretary of the Interior; the purchase and maintenance of draft animals, harness, and wagons; $2,344,000, 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 auxiliary structures: *Provided further*, That funds appropriated under or transferred to this head for services rendered by the National Park Service shall be expended by expenditure warrant as an advance 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 buildings; care and improvement of grounds; travel, including travel for the procurement of live specimens; purchase, care, and transportation 68 Stat. 389of specimens; purchase of motorcycles and passenger motor vehicles; revolvers and ammunition; purchase of uniforms and equipment for police, and uniforms for keepers and assistant keepers; $645,000: *Provided*, That funds appropriated under this head shall be expended by expenditure warrant as an advance 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 compliance with section 4 of the Act of May 29, 1930 (46 Stat. 482), as[46 Stat. 485.](/us/stat/46/485)[D. C. Code 8–106 note](/us/dcc/8/106). amended, $250,000. public building construction Capital Outlay, Public Building Construction: For acquisition of public school sites; preparation of plans and specifications for the following buildings: replacement of the Amidon-Greenleaf Elementary School, elementary school in the vicinity of Sixth Street and Riggs Road Northeast, elementary school in the vicinity of Thirteenth and S Streets Northwest, branch library building in Woodridge, operating suite addition at the District of Columbia General Hospital, and new Metropolitan Police Women’s Bureau Building; erection of the following structures, including building improvement and alteration and the treatment of grounds: Patterson Elementary School addition, Draper Elementary School addition. Junior High School in the vicinity of Fourth Street and Mississippi Avenue Southeast, Junior High School in the vicinity of Minnesota Avenue and Foote Street Northeast, Shepherd Elementary School addition, Van Ness Elementary School replacement, Calvin Coolidge Senior High School Stadium, branch library building in Anacostia, addition to Cleveland Park branch library, new tuberculosis and psychiatric buildings at the District of Columbia General Hospital (including equipment), buildings for employees at the Children’s Center, Receiving Home addition, and two infirmary ward buildings at the District Training School; $400,000 for purchase of equipment for new school buildings; and permanent improvement of buildings and grounds (including purchase of furnishings and equipment, elimination of fire hazards, and road construction) of schools, firehouses, hospitals, welfare institutions, and other District of Columbia buildings; to remain available until expended, $15,712,000, of which $8,000,000 shall not become available for expenditure until July 1, 1955, and $631,400 shall be available for construction services by the Director of Buildings and Grounds or by contract with architectural engineering firms, as may be determined 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 the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $343,500 for the Cleveland Park branch library, contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act of 1952,[65 Stat. 159.](/us/stat/65/159) shall be available toward construction of the addition provided for herein. The appropriations for “Capital outlay, protective institutions,” contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Acts, 1951 and 1952, shall be available for constructing such additional water [64 Stat. 359](/us/stat/64/359); [65 Stat. 163.](/us/stat/65/163)68 Stat. 390purification and transmission facilities at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland, as may be necessary to provide for a supply of water to the District Training School and the Children’s Center under agreements to be entered into by the Commissioners and the Secretary of the Army, and the said appropriations shall be available for advance payment to the United States for work to be performed, subject to subsequent adjustment. capital outlay, miscellaneous Capital outlay, miscellaneous: For improvement of various recreation units including preparation of architectural plans and erection of recreation structures without regard to the Act of August 24, 1912 [37 Stat. 444.](/us/stat/37/444)(40 U. S. C. 68); improvements and alterations to heating plant at Reformatory; construction and equipping of dormitory at Workhouse; preparation of plans and specifications for Youth Correctional Center; construction of public restroom building at National Zoological Park, including office and storage space for police and maintenance forces; to remain available until expended, $966,000, of which $275,280 shall be available for construction services by the Director of buildings and Grounds or by contract with architectural engineering firms, as may be determined 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 in the construction work hereby authorized and to be done by the Department of Corrections, brick used shall be furnished without charge by the Working Capital Fund, Workhouse and Reformatory. department of highways Capital outlay, Department of Highways: For expenses necessary for the grading, surfacing, paving, repaving, 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 [52 Stat. 633.](/us/stat/52/633)[23 USC 41b](/us/usc/t23/s41b).section 1
(b)of the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1938, and highway structure projects financed wholly from the highway fund upon the approval of plans for such structures 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 68 Stat. 391expended, $11,810,000, of which $11,410,000 shall be payable from the highway fund; and, when requested by the Commissioners, $3,357,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary (which is hereby appropriated for that purpose from any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated), shall be advanced by the Secretary of the Treasury to the highway fund of the District of Columbia for highway construction pursuant to the provisions of Public Law 364, 83d Congress:*Ante*, p. 110. *Provided*, That in connection with the purchase and installation of a municipal asphalt plant on District-owned property the Commissioners are authorized to make expenditures from this appropriation in an amount not exceeding $150,000 for the preparation of the site, including the construction of seawalls, dock facilities, and a railroad siding: *Provided further*, That in connection with the highway-planning survey, involving surveys, plans, engineering, and economic investigations of projects for future construction in the District of Columbia, as provided for under section 10 of the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1938, and in connection with the construction of Federal-aid highway[52 Stat. 636](/us/stat/52/636); [53 Stat. 1066.](/us/stat/53/1066)[23 USC 9a–1](/us/usc/t23/s9a/1).[52 Stat. 633.](/us/stat/52/633)[23 USC 41b](/us/usc/t23/s41b). projects under section 1
(b)of said Act, and highway-structure projects financed wholly from the highway fund, this appropriation and the appropriation “Operating expenses, Department of Highways” 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 classification[41 USC 5](/us/usc/t41/s5). laws, and section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a), and for engineering and incidental expenses: *Provided further*,[60 Stat. 810.](/us/stat/60/810) That this appropriation and the appropriation “Operating expenses. Department of Highways” 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[D. C. Code 7–604 note](/us/dcc/7/604). amount thus 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[20 Stat. 106.](/us/stat/20/106)[D. C. Code 7–604](/us/dcc/7/604). to the credit of the appropriation for the fiscal year in which it is collected: *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, the Commissioners[58 Stat. 838.](/us/stat/58/838)[23 USC 60–63](/us/usc/t23/s60/63). are authorized to enter into contract or contracts for those projects in such amounts as shall be approved by the Bureau of Public Roads. Department of Commerce: *Provided further*, That the Commissioners are hereby authorized to construct grade-crossing elimination and other wholly District construction projects or those authorized under section 8 of the Act of June 16, 1936 (49 Stat. 1521),[23 USC 24a](/us/usc/t23/s24a).[23 USC 41b](/us/usc/t23/s41b). and section 1
(b)of the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1938, as amended, in accordance with the provisions of said Acts, and this appropriation may 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: *Provided 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 contained in this Act: *Provided, further*, That no appropriation in this Act 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 in 68 Stat. 392paving materials as well as in price: *Provided further*, That in addition to the provision of existing law requiring contractors to keep new pavements in repair for a period of one year from the date of the completion of the work, the Commissioners shall further require that where repairs are necessary during the four years following the said one-year period, due to inferior work or defective materials, such repairs shall be made at the expense of the contractor, and the bond furnished by the contractor shall be liable for such expense: *Provided further*, That this appropriation and the appropriation “Operating expenses, Department of Highways” shall be available for advance payments to Federal agencies for work to be performed, when ordered by the Commissioners, subject to subsequent adjustment. department of sanitary engineering Capital outlay, Department of Sanitary Engineering: For construction of sewers and extension of the District of Columbia water-distribution system; assessment and permit work; purchase or condemnation of rights-of-way for construction, maintenance, and repair of public sewers; continuing construction on aeration plant and secondary sedimentation tanks and restoration of superintendent’s residence at the Sewage Treatment Plant; laying water mains in advance of paving and installing fire and public hydrants; constructing trunk water mains and low service reservoir in Brentwood Park; to remain available until expended, $7,491,000, of which $1,365,000 shall be payable from the water fund, and $2,790,000 shall be payable from the sanitary sewage works fund; and, when requested by the Commissioners, $2,050,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary (which is hereby appropriated for that purpose from any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated), shall be advanced by the Secretary of the Treasury to the sanitary sewage works fund of the District of Columbia for sanitary sewage works construction pursuant to the provisions *Ante*, p. 104.of Public Law 364, 83d Congress: *Provided*, That this appropriation 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 engineering and incidental expenses. The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to sell United States securities now held for and on account of the water fund of the District of Columbia in such amounts as may be certified by the Commissioners as necessary and credit the proceeds of such sale to said water fund. Capital outlay, Department of Sanitary Engineering (liquidation of contract authorization): For liquidation of obligations incurred pursuant to authority heretofore granted to enter into contracts for construction of incinerator numbered 3, $270,000. washington aqueduct Capital outlay, Washington Aqueduct (payable from water fund): For continuing construction of Little Falls pumping station, dam and rising tunnel; construction of Dalecarlia filter and chemical buildings; miscellaneous betterments, replacements, and engineering planning of water supply facilities, including continuing raw-water conduit rehabilitation, utility relocations, and plant system rearrangements and interconnections; reimbursable fund for advance planning of future capital outlay projects; purchase and installation of Federal meters; 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 68 Stat. 393expenses incident thereto; including services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a), but at rates for[60 Stat. 810.](/us/stat/60/810) individual consultants not in excess of $150 per diem; to remain available until expended, $3,900,000; and, when requested by the Commissioners, $2,550,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary (which is hereby appropriated for that purpose from any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated), shall be advanced by the Secretary of the Treasury to the water fund of the District of Columbia for waterworks construction pursuant to the provisions of the Act of June 2,[64 Stat. 195](/us/stat/64/195); *ante*, p. 103.[D. C. Code 43–1539, 43–1540](/us/dcc/43/1539/43/1540). 1950 (Public Law 533, 81st Congress). GENERAL PROVISIONS Sec. 2. Except as otherwise provided herein, all vouchers coveringVouchers. expenditures of appropriations contained in this Act shall be audited before payment by or under the jurisdiction only of the accounting officer for the District of Columbia and the vouchers as approved shall be paid by checks issued by the Disbursing Officer without countersignature. Sec. 3. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall beStrikes or over throw of Government. used to pay the salary or wages of any person who engages in a strike against the Government of the United States or the government of the District of Columbia, or who is a member of an organization of Government employees that asserts the right to strike against the Government of the United States or the government of the District of Columbia, or who advocates, or is a member of an organization that advocates, the overthrow of the Government of the United States by force or violence: *Provided*, That for the purposes hereof an affidavit shall beAffidavit. considered prima facie evidence that the person making the affidavit has not contrary to the provisions of this section engaged in a strike against the Government of the United States or the government of the District of Columbia, is not a member of an organization of Government employees that asserts the right to strike against the Government of the United States or the government of the District of Columbia, 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 anyPenalty. person who engages in a strike against the Government of the United States or the government of the District of Columbia or who is a member of an organization of Government employees that asserts the right to strike against the Government of the United States or the government of the District of Columbia, or who advocates, or who is a member of an organization 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 contained 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. 4. Whenever in this Act an amount is specified within an appropriationMaximum amount. 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. 5. Hereafter work performed for repairs and improvementsRepairs and improvements. may be by contract or otherwise, as determined by the Commissioners; and the Commissioners are authorized to establish a working fund for such purposes without fiscal year limitation, said fund to be reim-68 Stat. 394bursed 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 Director of Buildings and Grounds, subject to subsequent adjustment, from funds Automobile allowance.available for repairs and improvements, and such working fund shall be available for necessary expenses including allowances for privately owned automobiles. Sec. 6. Appropriations in this Act shall be available, when authorized or approved by the Commissioners, for allowances for privately owned automobiles used for the performance of official duties at 7 cents per mile but not to exceed $22 a month for each automobile, unless otherwise therein specifically provided, except that forty such allowances at not more than $360 each per annum may be authorized or approved by the Commissioners: *Provided*, That the total expenditures for this purpose shall not exceed $75,040, excluding the automobile allowances for the deportation of nonresident insane by the Department of Public Health and the transportation of indigent persons and the placing of children by the Department of Public Welfare. Sec. 7. Appropriations in this Act shall be available for the paymentAttendance at meetings. of dues and expenses of attendance at meetings 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 $25,000. Sec. 8. The Commissioners are hereby authorized in their discretionInvestment in U. S. securities. to invest and reinvest at any time in United States Government securities, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, any part of the general, special, or trust funds, of the District of Columbia, not needed to meet current expenses, to deposit the interest accruing from such investments to the credit of the fund from which the investment was made, and the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to sell or exchange such securities for other Government securities, and deposit the proceeds to the credit of the appropriate fund. Sec. 9. Appropriations in this Act shall be available, when authorizedServices. by the Commissioners, for services as authorized by section 15 of the Act [60 Stat. 810.](/us/stat/60/810)Advances of money.of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a). Sec. 10. The disbursing officer of the District of Columbia is authorized to advance to officials upon requisitions previously approved by the accounting officer of the District of Columbia, not to exceed at any one time sums of money as follows: Director of Licenses and Inspections, $400, to be used exclusively in connection with investigation of short weights and measures; Librarian of the Public Library, $50 at the first of each month, for the purchase of certain books, pamphlets, periodicals, newspapers, or other printed materials; Superintendent of recreation, $4,000, to be used for the expense of conducting activities of the Recreation Board under the trust [D. C. Code 8–211](/us/dcc/8/211).fund created by the Act of April 29, 1942 (56 Stat. 261); Chief of Police, $5,000, to be used in the prevention and detection of crime; Chief probation officer of the juvenile court, $50, upon requisition previously approved by the judge of the juvenile court, to be expended for travel expenses to secure the return of absconding probationers; Director, Department of Corrections, $1,000, to be used only in returning escaped prisoners, conditional releasees, parolees, and for the payment of cash gratuities to prisoners on release; 68 Stat. 395 Director of Public Health, $900, to be used for deportation of nonresident insane; Director of Public Welfare, $1,100, to be used for placing and visiting children, returning parolees and wards of the Department of Public Welfare, and deportation of nonresident indigent persons including maintenance pending transportation; Superintendent of Schools, $1,000, which shall be used in connection with the central food services. Sec. 11. Appropriations in this Act shall not be used for or inRestrictions. connection with the preparation, issuance, publication, or enforcement of any regulation or order of the Public Utilities Commission requiring 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. 12. Appropriations in this Act shall not be available for theElectric street lighting. payment of rates for electric street lighting in excess of those authorized to be paid in the fiscal year 1927, and payment for electric current for new forms of street lighting shall not exceed 2 cents per kilowatt-hour for current consumed. Sec. 13. All motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles (including Passenger vehicles.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[60 Stat. 810.](/us/stat/60/810) of the Commissioners, who may from time to time alter or change the assignment for use thereof, or direct the alteration or 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 transportation necessary, but only as to such latter cases when the same is approved by the Commissioners. No motor vehicles shall be transferredRestriction. from the police or fire departments to any other branch of the government of the District of Columbia. Sec. 14. Appropriations contained in this Act for the DepartmentSnow removal. of Highways and the Department of Sanitary Engineering shall be available for snow and ice control work when ordered by the Commissioners in writing. Sec. 15. The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to consolidateUnexpended balances. under appropriate current account titles the unexpended balances of such unexpired District of Columbia appropriations of prior years as may be requested by the Commissioners. Sec. 16. The Commissioners are authorized to construct on landEducational surplus property storehouse. owned by the District of Columbia at the District of Columbia Village a storehouse building for educational surplus property at a cost of not to exceed $30,000, to be paid from the permanent revolving fund created by the Act of August 16, 1950 (64 Stat. 450). Sec. 17. The Commissioners are authorized to establish a working[D. C. Code 31–1302](/us/dcc/31/1302).Printing, photographing, etc. fund without fiscal-year limitation for the purpose of printing, duplicating, and photographing; and the unexpended balances in the miscellaneous trust fund accounts Operating Account, Printing” and “Operating Account, Blueprinting” shall be deposited to said working fund; and the fund shall be reimbursed for all services performed thereunder. 68 Stat. 396 Sec. 18. The Commissioners are authorized to establish a permanentVehicle maintenance, etc. working fund, which shall be available without fiscal-year limitation, for necessary expenses of maintenance and repair of vehicles of the Government of the District of Columbia; and said fund shall be reimbursed, or credited in advance if required by the Director, Department of Highways, for the costs of all work performed thereunder. Sec. 19. This Act may be cited as the “District of Columbia appropriationShort title. Act, 1955.” Approved July 1, 1954. Public Law 469: To authorize the Secretary of Commerce to further extend certain charters of vessels to citizens of the Philippines, and for other purposes. Public Law 469 Public Law 469 68 Stat. 396 1954-07-01 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-01-12 83 2 public Public Law 469 chapter 454 JOINT RESOLUTION To authorize the Secretary of Commerce to further extend certain charters of vessels to citizens of the Philippines, and for other purposes.July 1, 1954[[S. J. Res. 72](/us/bill/56/sjres/72)] *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Philippines.Charters of vessels. That, notwithstanding any other provisions of existing law, the Secretary of Commerce is authorized to extend and continue the present charters of vessels to citizens of the Republic of the Philippines, which charters were made and entered into under the terms of section 306
(a)of the Act of April 30, 1946 [60 Stat. 137.](/us/stat/60/137)(Public Law 370, Seventy-ninth Congress), and which charters were extended by the Secretary of Commerce under the terms of a joint [67 Stat. 110.](/us/stat/67/110)[50 USC app. 1786 note](/us/usc/t50/s1786).resolution, approved June 30, 1953 (Public Law 87, Eighty-third Congress). Such charters may be further extended for such periods of time and under such terms and conditions as the Secretary may, from time to time, determine to be required in the interest of the economy of the Philippines, but any such charter shall contain a provision requiring that the vessel shall be operated only in the inter-island commerce in the Philippines. No such vessel shall be continued under charter, as authorized herein, beyond the completion of the first voyage terminating after June 30, 1955. Approved July 1, 1954. Public Law 470: Making appropriations for the Legislative Branch and the Judiciary Branch for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1955, and for other purposes. Public Law 470 Public Law 470 68 Stat. 396 1954-07-02 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-01-12 83 2 public Public Law 470 chapter 455 AN ACT Making appropriations for the Legislative Branch and the Judiciary Branch for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1955, and for other purposes.July 2, 1954[[H. R. 9203](/us/bill/83/hr/9203)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Legislative-Judiciary appropriation Act, 1955. That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Legislative Branch and the Judiciary Branch for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1955, namely: TITLE I—LEGISLATIVE BRANCH SENATE salaries and expense allowance of senators, mileage of the president of the senate and of senators, and salary and expense allowance of the vice president For compensation of Senators, $1,200,000. For expense allowance of Senators, $240,000. For mileage of the President of the Senate and of Senators, $51,000. 68 Stat. 397 For the compensation of the Vice President of the United States, $30,000. For expense allowance of the Vice President, $10,000. salaries, officers and employees For compensation of officers, employees, clerks to Senators, and others as authorized by law, as follows: office of the vice president For clerical assistance to the Vice President, at rates of compensation to be fixed by him in multiples of $5 per month, $55,410. chaplain Chaplain of the Senate, $2,946. office of the secretary For office of the Secretary, $444,020: *Provided*, That the basic compensation of the Assistant Parliamentarian shall be increased from $5,940 to $7,000, so long as the position is held by the present incumbent. committee employees For professional and clerical assistance to standing committees, and the Select Committee on Small Business, $1,767,045. conference committees For clerical assistance to the Conference of the Majority, at rates of compensation to be fixed by the chairman of said committee, $33,310. For clerical assistance to the Conference of the Minority, at rates of compensation to be fixed by the chairman of said committee, $33,310. administrative and clerical assistants to senators For administrative and clerical assistants and messenger service for Senators, $6,207,625. office of sergeant at arms and doorkeeper For office of Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper, $1,276,875, including seven additional pages at the basic annual rate of compensation of $1,800 each, as authorized by Public Law 357, Eighty-third Congress;*Ante*, p. 83. one foreman of skilled laborers at $2,100 basic and four skilled laborers at $1,920 basic each in lieu of five skilled laborers at $1,920 basic each; assistant postmaster at $4,560 basic in lieu of assistant postmaster at $4,140 basic; superintendent, service department, at $4,380 basic in lieu of foreman in folding room at $3,600 basic; assistant superintendent, service department, at $2,460 basic in lieu of clerk in folding room at $2,460 basic; clerk in service department at $1,980 basic in lieu of clerk in folding room at $1,980 basic; chief machine operator at $2,460 basic in lieu of chief folder at $2,460 basic; and thirteen machine operators at $1,740 basic each in lieu of thirteen folders at $1,740 basic each: *Provided*, That hereafter the SenateSenate Service Department. Folding Room shall be known as the Senate Service Department. 68 Stat. 398 offices of the secretaries fob the majority and the minority For the offices of the secretary for the majority and the secretary for the minority, $62,165. contingent expenses of the senate Legislative reorganization: For salaries and expenses, legislative reorganization, including the objects specified in Public Law 663, [60 Stat. 911.](/us/stat/60/911)[2 USC 60a](/us/usc/t2/s60a).Seventy-ninth Congress, $100,000. Senate policy committees: For salaries and expenses of the Majority Policy Committee and the Minority Policy Committee, $74,670 for each such committee; in all, $149,340. Joint Committee on the Economic Report: For salaries and expenses of the Joint Committee on the Economic Report, $120,775, including compensation for stenographic assistance at such rates and in accordance with such regulations as may be prescribed by the Committee on Rules and Administration notwithstanding the provisions of Public [60 Stat. 23.](/us/stat/60/23)[15 USC 1021 note](/us/usc/t15/s1021).Law 304, Seventy-ninth Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy: For salaries and expenses of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, including the objects specified [61 Stat. 16.](/us/stat/61/16)in Public Law 20, Eightieth Congress, $188,060, and including compensation for stenographic assistance at such rates and in accordance with such regulations as may be prescribed by the Committee on Rules and Administration notwithstanding the provisions of Public Law [60 Stat. 755.](/us/stat/60/755)[42 USC 1801 note](/us/usc/t42/s1801).585, Seventy-ninth Congress. Joint Committee on Printing: For salaries for the Joint Committee on Printing at rates to be fixed by the committee, $39,585; for expenses of compiling, preparing, and indexing the Congressional Directory, $1,600; for compiling, preparing, and indexing material for the biographical directory, $1,900, said sum, or any part thereof, in the discretion of the chairman or vice chairman of the Joint Committee on Printing, may be paid as additional compensation to any employee of the United States; and for travel and subsistence expenses at rates provided by law for Senate committees, $4,500; in all, $47,585. Vice President’s automobile: For purchase, exchange, driving, maintenance, and operation of an automobile for the Vice President. $5,835. Automobile for the President pro tempore: For purchase, exchange, driving, maintenance, and operation of an automobile for the President pro tempore of the Senate, $5,835. Automobiles for majority and minority leaders: For purchase, exchange, driving, maintenance, and operation of two automobiles, one for the majority leader of the Senate, and one for the minority leader of the Senate, $11,670. Reporting Senate proceedings: For reporting the debates and proceedings of the Senate, payable in equal monthly installments, $135,785. Furniture: For services in cleaning, repairing, and varnishing furniture, $3,190. Furniture: For materials for furniture and repairs of same, and for the purchase of furniture, $19,000: *Provided*, That the furniture is not available from other agencies of the Government. Inquiries and investigations: For expenses of inquiries and investigations ordered by the Senate or conducted pursuant to section 134 [60 Stat. 831.](/us/stat/60/831)(a) of Public Law 601, Seventy-ninth Congress, including compensations for stenographic assistance of committees at such rates and in accordance with such regulations as may be prescribed by the Committee on Rules and Administration notwithstanding the provisions of section 134
(a)of Public Law 601, Seventy-ninth Congress; and 68 Stat. 399including $400,000 for the Committee on Appropriations, to be available also for the purposes mentioned in Senate Resolution Numbered 193, agreed to October 14, 1943, and Public Law 20, Eightieth Congress,[61 Stat. 15.](/us/stat/61/15) $1,224,120: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for per diem and subsistence expenses (as defined in the Travel Expense Act of 1949) at rates in excess of $9 per day except[63 Stat. 166.](/us/stat/63/166)[5 USC 835 note](/us/usc/t5/s835). that higher rates may be established by the Committee on Rules and Administration in the case of travel beyond the limits of the continental United States. Folding documents: For the employment of personnel for folding speeches and pamphlets at a gross rate of not exceeding $1.50 per hour per person, $27,000. Materials for folding: For materials for folding, $1,500. Fuel and so forth: For fuel, oil, cotton waste, and advertising, exclusive of labor, $2,000. Senate restaurants: For repairs, improvements, equipment, and supplies for Senate kitchens and restaurants, Capitol Building and Senate Office Building, including personal and other services, to be expended under the supervision of the Committee on Rules and Administration, United States Senate, $55,000. Motor vehicles: For maintaining, exchanging, and equipping motor vehicles for carrying the mails and for official use of the offices of the Secretary and Sergeant at Arms, $9,560. Miscellaneous items: For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, $981,087. Packing boxes: For packing boxes, $3,000. Postage stamps: For office of Secretary, $500; office of Sergeant at Arms, $225; offices of the secretaries for the majority and the minority, $100; in all. $825. Airmail and special-delivery stamps: For airmail and special-delivery stamps for Senators and the President of the Senate, as authorized by law, $19,400, and the maximum allowance per capita of $132.07 is increased to $200 for the fiscal year 1955 and thereafter. Stationery: For stationery for Senators and for the President of the Senate, including $10,000 for stationery for committees and officers of the Senate, $126,400. Communications: For an amount for communications which may be expended interchangeably for payment, in accordance with such limitations and restrictions as may be prescribed by the Committee on Rules and Administration, of charges on official telegrams and long-distance telephone calls made by or on behalf of Senators or the President of the Senate, such telephone calls to be in addition to those authorized by the provisions of the Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1947 (60 Stat. 392; 2 U. S. C. 46c, 46d, 46e), the First Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1949 (63 Stat. 77; 2 U. S. C. 46d–l), Second Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1952, Public Law 254, Eighty-second[65 Stat. 760.](/us/stat/65/760) Congress, and Public Law 178, Eighty-third Congress, $14,550.[67 Stat. 321.](/us/stat/67/321)[2 USC 46c, 46d and notes](/us/usc/t2/s46c/46d). The Sergeant at Arms is authorized and directed to secure suitable office space in post office or other Federal buildings in the State of each Senator for the use of such Senator and in the city to be designated by him: *Provided*, That in the event suitable space is not available in such buildings and a Senator leases or rents office space elsewhere, the sergeant at Arms is authorized to approve for payment, from the contingent fund of the Senate, vouchers covering bona fide statements of rentals due in an amount not exceeding $900 per annum for each Senator. The Sergeant at Arms of the Senate is authorized and directed to approve for payment from the contingent fund of the Senate to each Senator an amount not to exceed $150 quarterly, upon certification of each such Senator, for official office expenses incurred in his State. 68 Stat. 400 Effective July 1, 1954, the paragraph relating to payment of toll charges on official long-distance telephone calls originating and terminating outside of Washington, District of Columbia, under the [60 Stat. 392.](/us/stat/60/392)heading “Contingent Expenses of the Senate” in Public Law 479, Seventy-ninth Congress, as amended, is amended to read as follows: " “There shall be paid from the contingent fund of the Senate, in accordance with rules and regulations prescribed by the Committee on Rules and Administration of the Senate
(1)the toll charges on strictly official long-distance telephone calls originating and terminating outside of Washington, District of Columbia, and
(2)the toll charges on strictly official long-distance telephone calls to or from Washington, District of Columbia, in excess of those authorized to be paid under the preceding paragraph, not to exceed $1,200 per year, for each Senator.” " The Secretary of the Senate and the Sergeant at Arms are authorized and directed to protect the funds of their respective offices by purchasing insurance in an amount necessary to protect said funds against loss. Premiums on such insurance shall be paid out of the contingent fund of the Senate, upon vouchers approved by the chairman of the Committee on Rules and Administration. Salaries or wages paid out of the foregoing items under “Contingent expenses of the Senate” shall be computed at basic rates, plus increased and additional compensation, as authorized and provided by law. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Salaries, Mileage, and Expenses of Members For compensation of Members (wherever used herein the term “Member” shall include Members of the House of Representatives, Delegates from Territories, and the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico), $5,492,500. For mileage and expense allowance of Members, as authorized by Fiscal year.law, $1,273,500: *Provided*, That hereafter the fiscal year for the adjustment of the accounts of the Sergeant at Arms of the House of Representatives for compensation and mileage of Members shall extend from July 1 to June 30. Salaries, Officers and Employees For compensation of officers and employees, as authorized by law, as follows: office of the speaker For Office of the Speaker, $47,285. office of the parliamentarian For the Office of the Parliamentarian, including $2,000 for preparing Digest of the Rules, $43,885. office of the chaplain For the Office of the Chaplain, $4,200. office of the clerk For the Office of the Clerk, including $25,000 for additional administrative personnel, $17,000 for additional clerical assistants and readjustment of salaries in the disbursing office, and $597 additional for increased longevity pay for telephone operators; $737,530. 68 Stat. 401 committee employees For committee employees, including not to exceed $330,000 for the Committee on Appropriations; $1,820,000. office of the sergeant at arms For Office of the Sergeant at Arms, $384,045. office of the doorkeeper For the Office of the Doorkeeper, $657,915. special and minority employees For six minority employees, $54,685. For office of the majority floor leader, including $2,000 for official expenses of the majority leader, $45,985. For the office of the minority floor leader, $36,000. For the office of majority whip, $20,310. For the office of minority whip, $20,725. For two printing clerks, one for the majority caucus room and one for the minority caucus room, to be appointed by the majority and minority leaders, respectively, $7,485. For a technical assistant in the office of the attending physician, to be appointed by the attending physician, subject to the approval of the Speaker, $6,295. office of the postmaster For the Office of the Postmaster, including $1,710 additional for the employment of substitute messengers, and extra services of regular employees when required at the basic salary rate of not to exceed $1,940 per annum each, $189,880. official reporters of debates For official reporters of debates, $124,435. official reporters to committees For official reporters to committees, including compensation for the employment of expert transcribers, $133,855. appropriations committee For salaries and expenses, studies and examinations of executive agencies, by the Committee on Appropriations, and temporary personal services for such committee, to be expended in accordance with section 202
(b)of the Legislative Reorganization Act, 1946, and to[60 Stat. 834.](/us/stat/60/834)[2 USC 72a](/us/usc/t2/s72a). be available for reimbursement to agencies for services performed, $450,000. members’ clerk hire For clerk hire, necessarily employed by each Member in the discharge of his official and representative duties, which shall be at the basic rate of $15,000 per annum; *Provided*, That no salary shall be fixed hereunder at a basic rate in excess of $6,000 per annum; $11,500,000. 68 Stat. 402 Contingent Expenses of the House Furniture: For furniture and materials for repairs of the same, including labor, tools, and machinery for furniture repair shops, and for the purchase of packing boxes, $220,500. Miscellaneous items: For miscellaneous items, exclusive of salaries unless specifically ordered by the House of Representatives, including the sum of $12,500 for payment to the Architect of the Capitol in accordance with section 208 of the Act approved October 9, 1940 [54 Stat. 1056.](/us/stat/54/1056)[40 USC 174k](/us/usc/t40/s174k).(Public Law 812); the exchange, operation, maintenance, and repair of the Clerk’s motor vehicles; the exchange, operation, maintenance, and repair of the folding room motortruck; the exchange, maintenance, operation, and repair of the post-office motor vehicles for carrying the mails; the sum of $600 for hire of automobile for the Sergeant at Arms; materials for folding; and for stationery for the use of committees, departments, and officers of the House; $898,800. Reporting hearings: For stenographic reports of hearings of Committees other than special and select committees, $125,000. Special and select committees: For salaries and expenses of special and select committees authorized by the House, $1,250,000. Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation: For the payment of the salaries and other expenses of the Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation, $200,000. Joint Committee on Immigration and Nationality Policy: For salaries and expenses of the Joint Committee on Immigration and Nationality Policy, $20,000. Office of the Coordinator of Information: For salaries and other expenses of the Office of the Coordinator of Information, $73,750. Telegraph and telephone: For telegraph and telephone service, exclusive of personal services, $800,000: *Provided*, That effective July 1, 1954, the number of minutes of official long distance telephone calls allowed each Member shall not exceed 2,700 per annum. Stationery (revolving fund): For a stationery allowance for each Member, (which hereafter shall be $1,200 per regular session) for the first session of the Eighty-fourth Congress, $525,600, to remain available until expended. Attending physician’s office: For medical supplies, equipment, and contingent expenses of the emergency room and for the attending physician and his assistants, including an allowance of $1,500 to be paid to the attending physician in equal monthly installments as authorized by the Act approved June 27, 1940 (54 Stat. 629), and including an allowance of not to exceed $30 per month each to four assistants as provided by the House resolutions adopted July 1, 1930, January 20, 1932, and November 18, 1940, $8,985. Postage stamps: Postmaster, $320; Clerk, $640; Sergeant at Arms, $480; Doorkeeper, $400. After June 30, 1954, the amount allowed to Members for United States airmail and special-delivery postage stamps for each fiscal year shall be $200 each; to the Speaker, the majority and minority leaders, the majority and minority whips, $360 each; and to each standing committee, $80. In all, $94,050. Folding documents: For folding speeches and pamphlets, at a gross rate not exceeding $2 per thousand or for the employment of personnel at a gross rate not exceeding $1.50 per hour per person, $125,000. Revision of laws: For preparation and editing of the laws as [45 Stat. 1008.](/us/stat/45/1008)authorized by the Act approved May 29, 1928 (1 U. S. C. 59), $13,700, to be expended under the direction of the Committee on the Judiciary. Speaker’s automobile: For purchase, exchange, driving, maintenance, repair, and operation of an automobile for the Speaker, $7,200. 68 Stat. 403 Automobile for the majority leader: For purchase, exchange, driving, maintenance, repair, and operation of an automobile for the majority leader of the House, $5,835. Automobile for the minority leader: For purchase, exchange, driving, maintenance, repair, and operation of an automobile for the minority leader of the House, $5,835. Salaries or wages paid out of the items herein for the House of Representatives shall hereafter be computed at basic rates, plus increased and additional compensation, as authorized and provided by law. The Sergeant at Arms is hereafter authorized and directed to secureDistrict office space. suitable office space in post offices or other Federal buildings in each district represented by a Member of the House of representatives for the use of such Member and at a place in such district which such Member may designate: *Provided*, That in the event suitable office space is not available in such buildings and a Member leases or rents office space elsewhere, the Sergeant at Arms is authorized to approve for payment, from the contingent fund of the House of representatives, vouchers covering bona fide statements of rentals due in an amount not exceeding $900 per annum for each such Member. For the purposes of this paragraph the term “district” includes Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and, in the case of a Representative-at-large, a State. The Clerk of the House is authorized and directed to reimburse each Member from the contingent fund in an amount not to exceed $150 quarterly. upon certification of the Member, for official office expenses incurred in his Congressional district. No part of any appropriation for the contingent expenses of theFuneral attendance, restriction. House of Representatives shall be used to defray the expenses of any committee consisting of more than six persons (not more than four from the House and not more than two from the Senate), nor to defray the expenses of any other person except the Sergeant at Arms of the House or a representative of his office, and except the widow or minor children, or both, of the deceased, to attend the funeral rites and burial of any Member. The Clerk of the House is hereafter authorized to pay, from theWidow’s gratuity, etc. contingent fund of the House, a gratuity to the widow, widower, or heirs-at-law, of each deceased employee of the House an amount equal to one month’s salary for each year or part of year of the first six years’ service of such employee plus one-half of one month’s salary for each year or part of year of such service in excess of six years to and including the eighteenth year of such service. Service computed hereunder shall include all Federal civilian employment, and military service where such service interrupted Federal civilian employment. CAPITOL POLICE General expenses: For purchasing and supplying uniforms; the purchase, maintenance, and repair of police motor vehicles, including two-way police radio equipment: contingent expenses, including $25 per month for extra services performed for the Capitol Police Board by such member of the staff of the Sergeant at Arms of the Senate or the House, as may be designated by the chairman of the Board; $17,900. Capitol Police Board: To enable the Capitol Police Board to provide additional protection for the Capitol Buildings and Grounds, including the Senate and House Office Buildings and the Capitol Power Plant, $22,345. Such sum shall only be expended for payment for salaries and other expenses of personnel detailed from the Metro-68 Stat. 404politan Police of the District of Columbia, and the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized and directed to make such details upon the request of the Board. Personnel so detailed shall, during the period of such detail, serve under the direction and instructions of the Board and is authorized to exercise the same authority as members of such Metropolitan Police and members of the Capitol Police and to perform such other duties as may be assigned by the Board. Reimbursement for salaries and other expenses of such detail personnel shall be made to the government of the District of Columbia, and any sums so reimbursed shall be credited to the appropriation or appropriations from which such salaries and expenses are payable and be available for all the purposes thereof: *Provided*, That any person detailed under the authority of this paragraph or under similar authority in the Legislative Branch [55 Stat. 456.](/us/stat/55/456)[54 Stat. 629.](/us/stat/54/629)appropriation Act, 1942, and the Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1940, from the Metropolitan Police of the District of Columbia shall be deemed a member of such Metropolitan Police during the period or periods of any such detail for all purposes of rank, pay, allowances, privileges, and benefits to the same extent as though such detail had not been made, and at the termination thereof any such person who was a member of such police on July 1, 1940, shall have a status with respect to rank, pay, allowances, privileges, and benefits which is not less than the status of such person in such police at the end of such detail: *Provided further*, That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are directed to pay the lieutenants detailed under the authority of this paragraph the same salary as that paid in fiscal year 1954 plus such increases in basic compensation as may be subsequently provided by law so long as these positions are held by the present incumbents. The foregoing amounts under “Capitol Police” shall be disbursedDisbursement. by the Clerk of the House. OFFICE OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL For salaries and expenses of maintenance of the Office of the Legislative Counsel, as authorized by law, including increased and additional compensation as provided by law $259,000, of which $132,000 shall be disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate and $127,000 by the Clerk of the House of Representatives. JOINT COMMITTEE ON REDUCTION OF NONESSENTIAL FEDERAL EXPENDITURES For an amount to enable the Joint Committee on Reduction of Nonessential Federal Expenditures to carry out the duties imposed[26 USC note prec. 3600](/us/usc/t26/s3600). upon it by section 601 of the Revenue Act of 1941 (55 Stat. 726), to remain available during the existence of the committee, $20,000, to be disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate. EDUCATION OF SENATE AND HOUSE PAGES For education of congressional pages and pages of the Supreme Court, pursuant to section 243 of the Legislative Reorganization Act, [60 Stat. 839.](/us/stat/60/839)[2 USC 88a](/us/usc/t2/s88a).1946, $47,280, which amount shall be advanced and credited to the applicable appropriation of the District of Columbia, and the Board of Education of the District of Columbia is hereby authorized to employ such personnel for the education of pages as may be required and to pay compensation for such services in accordance with such rates of compensation as the Board of Education may prescribe. 68 Stat. 405 PENALTY MAIL COSTS For expenses necessary under section 2 of Public Law 286, Eighty-third Congress, $1,169,700, to be available immediately.[67 Stat. 614.](/us/stat/67/614)[39 USC 3210](/us/usc/t39/s3210). STATEMENT OF APPROPRIATIONS For the preparation, under the direction of the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and House of Representatives, of the statements for the second session of the Eighty-third Congress, showing appropriations made, indefinite appropriations, and contracts authorized, together with a chronological history of the regular appropriation bills as required by law, $6,000, to be paid to the persons designated by the chairmen of such committees to supervise the work. ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL Office of the Architect of the Capitol Salaries: For the Architect of the Capitol, Assistant Architect of the Capitol, Chief Architectural and Engineering Assistant, and other personal services at rates of pay provided by law; and the Assistant Architect of the Capitol shall act as Architect of the Capitol during the absence or disability of that official or whenever there is no Architect, and, in case of the absence: or disability of the Assistant Architect, the Chief Architectural and Engineering Assistant shall so act; $138,000. Appropriations under the control of the Architect of the Capitol shall be available for expenses of travel on official business not to exceed in the aggregate under all funds the sum of $3,000. Capitol Buildings and Grounds Capitol Buildings: For necessary expenditures for the Capitol Building and electrical substations of the Senate and House Office Buildings, under the jurisdiction of the Architect of the Capitol, including minor improvements, maintenance, repair, equipment, supplies, material, fuel, oil, waste, and appurtenances; furnishings and office equipment; special and protective clothing for workmen; personal and other services; cleaning and repairing works of art without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes, as amended; purchase[41 USC 5](/us/usc/t41/s5). or exchange, maintenance and operation of passenger motor vehicle; not to exceed $300 for the purchase of necessary reference books and periodicals; not to exceed $150 for expenses of attendance, when specifically authorized by the Architect of the Capitol, at meetings or conventions in connection with subjects related to work under the Architect of the Capitol; $630,000. Capitol Grounds: For care and improvement of grounds surrounding the Capitol, Senate and House Office Buildings; Capitol Power Plant; personal and other services; care of trees; planting; fertilizers; repairs to pavements, walks, and roadways; waterproof wearing apparel; maintenance of signal lights; and for snow removal by hire of men and equipment or under contract without compliance with section 3709 of the Revised Statutes, as amended; $342,500.[41 USC 5](/us/usc/t41/s5). Legislative garage: For maintenance, repairs, alterations, personal and other services, and all other necessary expenses, $34,200. Subway transportation, Capitol and Senate Office Buildings: For maintenance, repairs, and rebuilding of the subway transportation system connecting the Senate Office Building with the Capitol, including personal and other services, $3,500. 68 Stat. 406 Senate Office Building: For maintenance, miscellaneous items and supplies, including furniture, furnishings, and equipment, and for labor and material incident thereto, and repairs thereof; for purchase of waterproof wearing apparel and for personal and other services; including five female attendants in charge of ladies’ retiring rooms at $1,800 each, for the care and operation of the Senate Office Building; to be expended under the control and supervision of the Architect of the Capitol; in all, $796,400. House Office Buildings: For maintenance, including equipment, waterproof wearing apparel, miscellaneous items, and for all necessary services, $984,200: *Provided*, That $70,000 of the amount made available under this head for the fiscal year 1952, continued available by the [66 Stat. 473.](/us/stat/66/473)Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1953, until June 30, 1953, is hereby continued available until June 30, 1955. Capitol Power Plant: For lighting, heating, and power (including the purchase of electrical energy), for the Capitol, Senate and House Office Buildings, Supreme Court Building, Congressional Library Buildings, and the grounds about the same, Botanic Garden, legislative garage, and for air-conditioning refrigeration not supplied from plants in any of such buildings; for heating the Government Printing Office and Washington City Post Office, reimbursement for which shall be made and covered into the Treasury; personal and other services, fuel, oil, materials, waterproof wearing apparel, and all other necessary expenses in connection with the maintenance and operation of the plant. $1,237,000. Changes and improvements, Capitol Power Plant: Toward carrying out the changes and improvements authorized by the Act of [63 Stat. 933.](/us/stat/63/933)October 26, 1949 (Public Law 413, Eighty-first Congress), $1,500,000, to be expended by the Architect of the Capitol under the direction of the House Office Building Commission. Library Buildings and Grounds Structural and mechanical care: For the necessary expenditures for mechanical and structural maintenance, including minor improvements, equipment, supplies, waterproof wearing apparel, and personal and other services, $400,000. Furniture and furnishings: For furniture, partitions, screens, shelving, and electrical work pertaining thereto and repairs thereof, office and library equipment, apparatus, and laborsaving devices, $50,000. BOTANIC GARDEN Salaries and expenses: For all necessary expenses incident to maintaining, operating, repairing, and improving the Botanic Garden and the nurseries, buildings, grounds, collections, and equipment pertaining thereto, including personal services (including not to exceed $3,000 for temporary labor without regard to the Classification Act [63 Stat. 954.](/us/stat/63/954)[5 USC 1071 note](/us/usc/t5/s1071).of 1949); waterproof wearing apparel; not to exceed $25 for emergency medical supplies; traveling expenses including streetcar fares, not to exceed $275; the prevention and eradication of insect and other pests and plant diseases by purchase of materials and procurement of personal services by contract without regard to the provisions of any other Act; purchase and exchange of motor trucks; purchase and exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of a passenger motor vehicle; purchase of botanical books, periodicals, and books of reference, not to exceed $100; repairs and improvements to Director’s residence; all under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Restriction.Library; $223,100: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be used for the distribution, by congressional allotment, of trees, plants, shrubs, or other nursery stock. 68 Stat. 407 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Salaries and expenses: For necessary expenses of the Library of Congress not otherwise provided for, including compensation of the Librarian Emeritus, as authorized by law; development and maintenance of the Union Catalogs; custody, care, and maintenance of the Library buildings: special clothing; and expenses of the Library of Congress Trust Fund Board not properly chargeable to the income of any trust fund held by the Board; $4,717,636. copyright office Salaries and expenses: For necessary expenses of the Copyright Office, including publication of the decisions of the United States courts involving copyrights, $1,100,000. legislative reference service Salaries and expenses: For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of section 203 of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (2 U. S. C. 166), $875,000: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation[60 Stat. 836.](/us/stat/60/836)[2 USC 166 and note](/us/usc/t2/s166). may be used to pay any salary or expense in connection with any publication, or preparation of material therefor (except the Digest of Public General Bills), to be issued by the Library of Congress unless such publication has obtained prior approval of either the Committee on House Administration or the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration. distribution of catalog cards Salaries and expenses: For expenses necessary for the preparation and distribution of catalog cards and other publications of the Library, $1,332,000. increase of the library of congress General increase of the Library: For expenses (except personal services) necessary for acquisition of books, periodicals and newspapers, and all other material for the increase of the Library, $260,000, to continue available during the next succeeding fiscal year. Increase of the law library: For expenses (except personal services) necessary for acquisition of books, legal periodicals, and all other material for the increase of the law library, $90,000, to continue available during the next succeeding fiscal year. Books for the Supreme Court: For the purchase of books and periodicals for the Supreme Court, to be a part of the Library of Congress, and purchased by the Librarian of the Supreme Court, under the direction of the Chief Justice, $25,000. books for the blind For salaries and other expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide books for the blind”, approved March 3, 1931 (2 U. S. C. 135a), as amended, $1,000,000.[46 Stat. 1487.](/us/stat/46/1487) administrative provisions Appropriations in this Act available to the Library of Congress for salaries shall be available for expenses of investigating the loyalty of Library employees; special and temporary services (including 68 Stat. 408employees engaged by the day or hour or in piecework); and services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a).[60 Stat. 810.](/us/stat/60/810) Not to exceed ten positions in the Library of Congress may be exempt from the provisions of appropriation Acts concerning the employment of aliens during the current fiscal year, but the Librarian shall not make any appointment to any such position until he has ascertained that he cannot secure for such appointments a person in any of the three categories specified in such provisions who possesses the special qualifications for the particular position and also otherwise meets the general requirements for employment in the Library of Congress. Appropriations in this Act available to the Library of Congress shall be available, in an amount not to exceed $10,000, when specifically authorized by the Librarian, for expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the function or activity for which the appropriation is made. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE printing and binding For authorized printing and binding for the Congress; not to exceed $5,000 for printing and binding for the Architect of the Capitol; expenses necessary for preparing the semimonthly and session index [28 Stat. 603.](/us/stat/28/603)to the Congressional Record, as authorized by law (44 U. S. C. 182); printing, binding, and distribution of the Federal Register (including the Code of Federal Regulations), as authorized by Law (44 U. S. C. [49 Stat. 502](/us/stat/49/502); [63 Stat. 381](/us/stat/63/381); [56 Stat. 1045.](/us/stat/56/1045)309, 311, 311a); and printing and binding of Government publications authorized by law to be distributed without charge to the recipients; $8,500,000: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall not be available for printing and binding part 2 of the annual report of the Secretary of Agriculture (known as the Yearbook of Agriculture). office of superintendent of documents Salaries and expenses: For necessary expenses of the Office of Superintendent of Documents, including personal services in [63 Stat. 954.](/us/stat/63/954)[5 USC 1071 note](/us/usc/t5/s1071).accordance with the Classification Act of 1949, as amended, and compensation of employees who shall be subject to the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate and fix rates of pay for employees and officers of the Government Printing Office”, approved June 7, 1924 [43 Stat. 658.](/us/stat/43/658)(44 U. S. C. 40); traveling expenses (not to exceed $1,500); price lists and bibliographies; repairs to buildings, elevators, and machinery; and supplying books to depository libraries; $2,825,000: *Provided*, That no part of this sum shall be used to supply to depository libraries any documents, books, or other printed matter not requested by such libraries, and the requests therefor shall be subject to approval by the Superintendent of Documents. General Provisions Sec. 102. No part of the funds appropriated in this Act shall bePrivate vehicles. used for the maintenance or care of private vehicles. Sec. 103. Whenever any office or position not specifically establishedRate of compensation, etc.[46 Stat. 32.](/us/stat/46/32)[2 USC 60a](/us/usc/t2/s60a). by the Legislative Pay Act of 1929 is appropriated for herein or wherever the rate of compensation or designation of any position appropriated for herein is different from that specifically established for such position by such Act, the rate of compensation and the designation of the position, or either, appropriated for or provided herein, shall be the permanent law with respect thereto: *Provided*, That the provisions herein for the various items of official expenses of Members, 68 Stat. 409Officers, and Committees of the House, and Clerk Hire for Members shall be the permanent law with respect thereto: *Provided further*, That the provisions relating to positions and salaries thereof carried in H. Res. 118, 221, 254, 355, 364, 392, 401, 427, 428, 474, 486, and 554 of the Eighty-third Congress shall be the permanent law with respect thereto. Sec. 104. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall beCapitol Police. paid as compensation to any person appointed after June 30, 1935, as an officer or member of the Capitol Police who does not meet the standards to be prescribed for such appointees by the Capitol Police Board: *Provided*, That the Capitol Police Board is hereby authorized to detail police from the House Office, Senate Office, and Capitol Buildings for police duty on the Capitol Grounds. Sec. 105. After June 30, 1954, when any person who has beenDeceased Congressman’s salary. elected a Representative in Congress dies after the commencement of the Congress to which he has been elected, the Sergeant at Arms of the House of Representatives shall pay to the widow, or widower, of such person, or if there is no widow, or widower, to the next of kin or heirs-at-law of such person, any unpaid balance of salary or other sums due such person at the time of his death. Sec. 106. This title may be cited as the “Legislative AppropriationCitation of title. Act, 1955”. TITLE II—THE JUDICIARY Supreme Court of the United States salaries For the Chief Justice and eight Associate Justices, and all other officers and employees, whose compensation shall be fixed by the Court, except as otherwise provided by law, and who may be employed and assigned by the Chief Justice to any office or work of the Court, $1,016,000. printing and binding supreme court reports For printing and binding the advance opinions, preliminary prints, and bound reports of the Court, $91,200. preparation of rules for civil procedure For expenses of the Supreme Court incident to proposed amendments or additions to the rules of civil procedure for the United States District Courts pursuant to title 28, United States Code, section 2072,[62 Stat. 961](/us/stat/62/961); [63 Stat. 104.](/us/stat/63/104) to be expended as the Chief Justice in his discretion may approve, including personal services in the District of Columbia, printing and binding, and per diem allowances in lieu of actual expenses for subsistence at rates to be fixed by him not to exceed $15 per day, $4,300, which, together with the unexpended balance of funds appropriated under this head in the Second Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1953, shall remain available until June 30, 1955.[67 Stat. 10.](/us/stat/67/10) miscellaneous expenses For miscellaneous expenses to be expended as the Chief Justice may approve, $52,650. care of the buildings and grounds For such expenditures as may be necessary to enable the Architect of the Capitol to carry out the duties imposed upon him by the Act 68 Stat. 410approved May 7, 1934 (40 U. S. C. 13a–13d), including improvements,[48 Stat. 668.](/us/stat/48/668) maintenance, repairs, equipment, supplies, materials, and appurtenances; special clothing for workmen; and personal and other services (including temporary labor without reference to the Classification and Retirement Acts, as amended), and for snow removal by hire of men and equipment or under contract without compliance with sections 3709, as amended, and 3744 of the Revised Statutes (41 U. S. C. 5, 16); $3,300. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals salaries and expenses For salaries of the chief judge, four associate judges, and all other officers and employees of the court, and necessary expenses of the court, including exchange of books, and traveling expenses, as may be approved by the chief judge, $210,160. Customs Court salaries and expenses For salaries of the chief judge, eight judges, and all other officers and employees of the court, and necessary expenses of the court, including exchange of books, and traveling expenses, as may be approved by the chief judge, $495,630: *Provided*, That traveling expenses of judges of the Customs Court shall be paid upon the written certificate of the judge. Court of Claims salaries and expenses For salaries of the chief judge, four associate judges, seven regular and six additional commissioners, and all other officers and employees of the Court, and for other necessary expenses, including stenographic and other fees and charges necessary in the taking of testimony, and travel, $618,000. repairs and improvements For necessary repairs and improvements to the Court of Claims buildings, to be expended under the supervision of the Architect of the Capitol, $8,000. Courts of Appeals, District Courts, and Other Judicial Services salaries of judges For salaries of circuit judges; district judges (including judges of the district courts of Alaska, the Virgin Islands, the Panama Canal Zone, and Guam); justices and judges of the Supreme Court and circuit courts of the Territory of Hawaii; and justices and judges retired or resigned under title 28, United States Code, sections 371, [62 Stat. 903.](/us/stat/62/903)372, and 373; $5,472,500. Salaries of Supporting Personnel For salaries of all officials and employees of the Federal Judiciary, not otherwise specifically provided for, $12,850,000: *Provided*, That the compensation of secretaries and law clerks of circuit and district judges shall be fixed by the Director of the Administrative Office [63 Stat. 954.](/us/stat/63/954)[5 USC 1071 note](/us/usc/t5/s1071).without regard to the Classification Act of 1949, as amended, except 68 Stat. 411that the salary of a secretary shall conform with that of the General Schedule grades
(GS)4, 5, 6, 7, or 8, as the appointing judge shall determine, and the salary of a law clerk shall conform with that of the General Schedule grades
(GS)5, 7, 9, 11, or 12, as the appointing judge shall determine, subject to review by the judicial council of the circuit if requested by the Director, such determination by the judge otherwise to be final: *Provided further*, That (exclusive of step-increases corresponding with those provided for by title VII of the Classification Act of 1949, as amended, and of compensation[5 USC 1121–1125](/us/usc/t5/s1121/1125). paid for temporary assistance needed because of an emergency) the aggregate salaries paid to secretaries and law clerks appointed by one judge shall not exceed $10,560 per annum, except in the case of the chief judge of each circuit and the chief judge of each district court having five or more district judges, in which case the aggregate salaries shall not exceed $14,355 per annum. fees of jurors and commissioners For fees, expenses, and costs of jurors (including meals and lodging for jurors in Alaska, as provided by section 193, title II, of the Act of June 6, 1900, 31 Stat. 362); compensation of jury commissioners; and fees of United States commissioners and other committing magistrates acting under title 18, United States Code, section 3041;[62 Stat. 815.](/us/stat/62/815) $3,950,000. travel and miscellaneous expenses For necessary travel and miscellaneous expenses, not otherwise provided for, incurred by the Judiciary, including the purchase of firearms and ammunition, the cost of contract statistical services for the office of Register of Wills of the District of Columbia and not to exceed $1,000 for the payment of fees to attorneys appointed in accordance with the Act of June 8, 1938 (52 Stat. 625), not exceeding $25 in any[D. C. Code 21–308](/us/dcc/21/308). one case, $1,800,000: *Provided*, That this sum shall be available, in an amount not to exceed $8,500 for expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the work of Federal Probation when incurred on the written authorization of the Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts. administrative office of the united states courts For necessary expenses of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts, including travel, advertising, and rent in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $595,000. salaries of referees For salaries of referees as authorized by the Act of June 28, 1946, as amended (11 U. S. C. 68). not to exceed $1,083,700, to be derived[60 Stat. 326.](/us/stat/60/326) from the referees’ salary fund established in pursuance of said Act. expenses of referees For miscellaneous expenses of referees, United States courts, including the salaries of their clerical assistants, travel, purchase of envelopes without regard to the Act of June 26, 1906 (34 Stat. 476), not[39 USC 355](/us/usc/t39/s355). to exceed $1,443,550, to be derived from the referees’ expense fund established in pursuance of the Act of June 28, 1946, as amended (11 U.S.C. 68
(c)(4)).[60 Stat. 327.](/us/stat/60/327) 68 Stat. 412 General Provisions Sec. 202. Sixty per centum of the expenditures for the District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia from all appropriations under this title and 30 per centum of the expenditures for the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia from all appropriations under this title shall be reimbursed to the United States from any funds in the Treasury to the credit of the District of Columbia. Sec. 203. The reports of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia shall not be sold for a price exceeding that approved by the court and for not more than $6.50 per volume. Sec. 204. This title may be cited as the “Judiciary AppropriationCitation of title. Act, 1955”. TITLE III—GENERAL PROVISIONS Sec. 301. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shallStrikes or overthrow of Government. 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 employees that asserts the right to strike against the Government of the United States, or who advocates, or is a member of an organization that advocates, the overthrow of the Government of the United States by force or violence:Affidavit. *Provided*, That for the purposes hereof an affidavit shall be considered prima facie evidence that the person 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:Penalty. *Provided further*, That any person who engages in a strike against the Government of the United States or who is a member of an organization of Government employees that asserts the right to strike against the Government of the United States, or who advocates, or who is a member of an organization 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 contained 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. 302. The appropriations, authorizations, and authority withAvailability. respect thereto in this Act or any regular annual appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1955 which has not been enacted into law prior to July 1, 1954, shall be available from and including such date for the purposes respectively provided in such appropriations, authorizations, and authority. All obligations incurred during the period between June 30, 1954, and the date of enactment of this Act or the applicable Act in anticipation of such appropriations, authorizations, and authority are hereby ratified and confirmed if in accordance with the respective terms thereof. Sec. 303. This Act may be cited as the “Legislative-JudiciaryShort title. Appropriation Act, 1955”. Approved July 2, 1954. Public Law 471: Making appropriations for the Departments of State, Justice, and Commerce, and the United States Information Agency, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1955, and for other purposes. Public Law 471 Public Law 471 68 Stat. 413 1954-07-02 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-01-12 83 2 public
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