Public Law 83–59

CHAPTER I DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Fiscal Service salaries and expenses For an additional amount for “Salaries and expenses, Fiscal Service”, $100,000.

Compensation and Retirement Fund Expenses district government employees’ compensation For an additional amount for “District government employees’ compensation”, $41,500.

Regulatory Agencies salaries and expenses, office of administrator of rent control For an additional amount for “Salaries and expenses, Office of Administrator of Rent Control”, $17,000, and the limitation of $27,000 for payment of terminal leave only, in the appropriation of $125,000 for necessary expenses for “Office of Administrator of Rent Control”, contained in the Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1953, is reduced to $5,850.

Public Schools operating expenses General Administration, Supervision and Instruction For an additional amount for “General administration, supervision and instruction”, $60,000.

Veterans’ Services For an additional amount for “Veterans’ services”, $4,500.

Office of Civil Defense salaries and expenses For an additional amount for “Salaries and expenses, Office of Civil Defense”, $60,000.

Courts united states courts For an additional amount, fiscal year 1951, for “United States courts”, $4,764.

Public Welfare saint elizabeths hospital For an additional amount for “Saint Elizabeths Hospital”, $824,243.

Settlement of Claims and Suits For the payment of claims in excess of $250, approved by the Commissioners in accordance with the provisions of the Act of February 11, 1929, as amended (45 Stat. 1160; 46 Stat. 500; 65 Stat. 131), $45,014.

Judgments For the payment of final judgments rendered against the District of Columbia, as set forth in House Document Numbered 106 (Eighty-third Congress), together with such further sums as may be necessary to pay the interest at not exceeding 4 per centum per annum on such judgments, as provided by law, from the date the same became due until the date of payment, $527.

Audited Claims For an additional amount for the payment of claims, certified to be due by the accounting officers of the District of Columbia, under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or credited to the general fund of the District of Columbia as provided by law (D. C. Code, Title 47, sec. 130a), being for the service of the fiscal year 1950 and prior fiscal years, as set forth in House Document Numbered 106 (Eighty-third Congress), $175,600.

Division of Expenses The sums appropriated in this Act for the District of Columbia shall, unless otherwise specifically provided for, be paid out of the general fund of the District of Columbia, as defined in the District of Columbia Appropriation Acts for the fiscal years involved.

CHAPTER II LEGISLATIVE BRANCH

Senate contingent expenses of the senate Folding documents: The appropriation for folding documents contained in the Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1953, is hereby amended to read “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 $1.53 per hour per person”. Motor vehicles: For an additional amount 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, $9,331.26, to be derived by transfer from the appropriation for “Folding Documents”, fiscal year 1953. Miscellaneous items: For an additional amount for “Miscellaneous items”, exclusive of labor, $55,000. Postage stamps: For an additional amount for postage stamps for the Office of the Sergeant at Arms of the Senate, $175.

House of Representatives For the payment to Mabel H. Withers, widow of Garrett L. Withers, late a Representative from the State of Kentucky, $12,500.

Architect of the Capitol capitol buildings and grounds Rotunda frieze, Capitol Building: For cleaning and restoring the sections of the Rotunda frieze decorated in fresco by Constantino Brumidi and Filippo Costaggini, $15,000, to be expended by the Architect of the Capitol under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library for personal and other services and all other necessary incidental items, without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes, as amended, and to remain available until June 30, 1954. Senate Office Building: For an additional amount for “Senate Office Building”, $9,200, to remain available until June 30, 1954.

THE JUDICIARY Other Courts and Services fees of jurors For an additional amount for “Fees of jurors”, $350,000.

CHAPTER III DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE

Office of Education salaries and expenses For an additional amount for “Salaries and expenses”, $32,000, to be derived by transfer from the appropriation “Promotion and further development of vocational education”, fiscal year 1953.

CHAPTER IV DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Production and Marketing Administration agricultural production programs For an additional amount for formulating acreage-allotment and marketing-quota programs on wheat and cotton, to be derived by transfer from any other appropriations available to the Department of Agriculture, $3,150,000, of which not more than $600,000 shall be transferred to the account “Administrative expenses, section 392, Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938”.

Forest Service forest roads and trails For an additional amount for construction of timber access roads to permit removal of insect-infested and insect-killed trees in Montana and Idaho, $5,000,000, to remain available until expended.

Rural Electrification Administration loan authorizations For an additional amount for rural telephone loans in accordance with the Rural Electrification Act of 1936, as amended (7 U. S. C. 901–924), and for carrying out the provisions of section 7 thereof, to be borrowed from the Secretary of the Treasury in accordance with the provisions of section 3 (a) of said Act, $7,500,000.

CHAPTER V INDEPENDENT OFFICES

Economic Stabilization Agency salaries and expenses The amount made available under this head in the Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1953, for the Office of Rent Stabilization is hereby increased from “$11,000,000” to “$11,385,000”: Provided, That said increase of $385,000 shall be available only for terminal leave and shall not be used for such payment unless the Administrator shall personally certify the payment of such leave.

Veterans’ Administration servicemen’s indemnities For an additional amount for “Servicemen’s indemnities”, $650,000, to be derived by transfer from the appropriation “Compensation and pensions”, and to remain available until expended.

CHAPTER VI GENERAL PROVISIONS