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PUBLIC LAW 208—OCT. 25, 1951

(c) I n the exercise of the authority granted by section 81 of title 2 of the Canal Zone Code, as amended, the Governor of the Canal Zone is authorized and directed to grant additional compensation to policemen, firemen, and school teachers employed by the Canal Zone Government, whenever additional compensation is granted to employees of the District of Columbia employed in similar or comparable positions. The additional compensation for such Canal Zone employees shall be effective as of the date any additional compensation is granted to similar or comparable employees of the District of Columbia. SEC. 2. Authority is hereby granted to the Commissioners and to other wage-fixing authorities of the municipal government of the District of Columbia, the Secretary of the Interior and the President of the United States, in their discretion, to grant additional compensation at rates not to exceed those prevailing without regard to the provisions of section 3679 of the Revised Statutes, as amended (31 U.S.C. 665), additional compensation at rates not to exceed those prevailing in the District of Columbia for similar or comparable employment to each employee in or under the municipal government of the District of Columbia, National Capital Parks and the Executive Mansion Grounds, whose compensation is fixed and adjusted from time to time by a wage board, or whose compensation is fixed without reference to the Classification Act of 1949, as amended, or whose compensation is limited or fixed specifically by the provisions of the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1952. SEC. 3. (a) Public Law 159, Eighty-second Congress, is hereby amended by striking out section 3 thereof. (b) This section shall be effective October 8, 1951. SEC. 4. (a) This Act shall become effective as of the first day of the first pay period which began after June 30, 1951. (b) No retroactive compensation or salary shall be payable by reason of the enactment of this Act in the case of any individual not in the service of the United States (including service in the Armed Forces of the United States) or of the municipal government of the District of Columbia on the date of enactment of this Act, except that such retroactive compensation or salary shall be paid a retired officer or employee for services rendered during the period beginning with the first day of the first pay period which began after June 30, 1951, and ending with the date of his retirement. Approved October 25, 1951.

Public Law 208

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Governor of Canal Zone. Authority.

Wage-flxing authorIties.

63 Stat. 954. 6 U.S.C. § 1071 note. Ante, p. 155. Ante, p. 368. Effective date.

Retroactive pensation.

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AN ACT To provide for conveyance of certain land to the city of New Orleans. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America i/n Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Air Force is authorized and directed to convey to the city of New Orleans, without consideration, all of the right, title, and interest of the United States in and to all land acquired by the United States, with funds made available by the city of New Orleans, for the purposes of expansion of and removal of flight hazards at Moisant International Airport, consisting of three hundred seventy-six and three one-hundredths acres, more or less. Approved October 25, 1951,

October 25, 1961 [3. 1912]

New Orleans. Conveyance.

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