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[70 Stat. 439]
PUBLIC LAW 000—MMMM. DD, 1956
[70 Stat. 439]

70

STAT.]

PUBLIC LAW 637-JUNE 29, 1956

Public Law 637

CHAPTER 479

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, 1957, and for other purposes.

June 29, 1956 [H.R. 10003]

FEDERAL P A Y M E N T TO DISTRICT OF C O L U M B I A Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representative.^ of the United States of America in Conqress assembled. That there are appropriated lor the District oi Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1957, 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 of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated (to be advanced July 1, 1956, 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. ( \ Code, title 43, ch. 15), and $1,813,950, which is hereby appropriated for the purpose out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated (to be advanced July 1, 1956), (4) the sanitary sewage works fund (when designated as payable there from), established by law (Public I ^ w 364, 83d Congress), and $744, 700, which is hereby appropriated for the purpose out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated (to be advanced July 1, 1956), and (5) the motor vehicle parking fund (when designated as payable therefrom), established by law (D, C. Code, title 40, ch. 8), sums as shown herein; and there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $10,700,000, which, together with balances of previous appropriations for this purpose, shall remain available until expended, for loans authorized by the Act of May 18, 1954 (68 Stat. 101), to be advanced upon request of the Commissioners to the following funds: highway fund, $5,400,000, and water fund, $5,300,000. OPERATING EXPENSES For expenses necessary for the ofKces 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, Board of Elections, and Board of Appeals and Review; ceremony expenses; carrying out a comprehensive program for urban

, °t.?*"'i* '^L,^^' uon Act, 1957.

68 Stat. 104. D. C. Code 43-

1602.

56 Stat. 93.

68 Stat. 103. D. C. Code 43»

1546.