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 56 STAT.] 77TH CONG. , 2D SESS.-CHS. 825, 826-DEC. 24, 1942 SEC. 3. The Act entitled "An Act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1909, and for other purposes", approved May 27, 1908 (35 Stat. 317), as amended, is hereby amended by amending the fourth paragraph of the section entitled "JUDICIAL, United States Courts" (35 Stat. 375, U. S. C., title 28, sec. 592), to read as follows: "The necessary expenses for transportation and subsistence, in accordance with the Standardized Government Travel Regulations, of the United States district attorneys and their assistants, while absent from their respective official residences and necessarily em- ployed in going to, returning from, and attending before any United States court, commissioner, or other committing magistrate, and while otherwise necessarily absent from their respective official resi- dences on official business shall be allowed and paid in the following manner: That the accounts of the United States attorneys and assist- ant United States attorneys for expenses herein provided shall be made out monthly in accordance with rules and regulations pre- scribed by the Attorney General. And when said expense accounts are made out, as hereinbefore provided, and verified on oath before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths, they may be allowed and, upon certificate of the United States attorney, paid by the United States marshal for said district, and the amount of such pay- ments shall be included in said marshal's accounts with the United States, and audited and allowed as provided by law." Approved, December 24, 1942. [CHAPTER 826] AN ACT To define the real property exempt from taxation in the District of Columbia. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the real prop- erty exempt from taxation in the District of Columbia shall be the following and none other: SECTION 1. (a) Property belonging to the United States of Amer- ica. (b) Property belonging to the District of Columbia. (c) Property belonging to foreign governments and used for legation purposes. (d) Property belonging to the Commonwealth of the Philippines and used for Government purposes. (e) Property heretofore specifically exempted from taxation by any special Act of Congress, in force at the time of approval of this Act, so long as such property is used for the purposes for which such exemption is granted. The Commissioners of the District of Colum- bia shall report annually to the Congress the use being made of such specifically exempted property, and of any changes in such use, with recommendations. (f) Art gallery buildings belonging to and operated by organ- izations which are not organized or operated for private gain, and are open to the public generally, and for admission to which no charge is made on more than two days each week. (g) Library buildings belonging to and operated by organizations which are not organized or operated for private gain and are open to the public generally. (h) Buildings belonging to and operated by institutions which are not organized or operated for private gain, which are used for pur- poses of public charity principally in the District of Columbia 65714°-43 -PT. I- - -89 1089 U. S. attorneys and assistants. Expenses during ab- sence from official resi- dences. Accounts. December 24, 1942 [H. R. 7781] [Public Law 846] District of Colum- bia. Classes of real prop- erty exempt from tax- ation. Report to Congress.

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