Volume 50 · 211
Public Law 75–273
To repeal a proviso relating to teaching or advocating communism in the public schools of the District of Columbia, and appearing in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1936.
Approved May 28, 1937
Statutory text
AN ACT
To repeal a proviso relating to teaching or advocating communism in the public schools of the District of Columbia, and appearing in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1936.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the proviso
District of Columbia public schools.
Proviso in existing law relating to teaching, etc., communism repealed.
appearing in the fourteenth paragraph under the subheading “Miscellaneous” under the heading “Public Schools” in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1936, approved June 14, 1935 (49 Stat 356), and reading as follows: “ Provided, That hereafter no part of any appropriation for the public schools shall be available for the payment of the salary of any person teaching or advocating communism”, is hereby repealed: Provided, however, That nothing herein shall be construed as permitting
Proviso.
Permission to advocate not given.
the advocating of communism.
Approved, May 28, 1937.