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 PUBLIC LAW 376-JUNE 5, 1952 POST OFFICE

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DEPARTMENT

(Out of the postal revenues)

"General Administration", $16,750; "Postal operations", $2,414,790; DEPARTMENT OF STATE

"Salaries and expenses", $250,000; "International information and educational activities", $175,000; "Government in occupied areas", $70,000; TREASURY DEPARTMENT

Bureau of the Public Debt: "Administering the public debt", (transfer) ($75,000); Bureau of Narcotics: "Salaries and expenses", (transfer) ($13,000); Secret Service Division: "Salaries and expenses. White House Police", (transfer) ($5,000). ^«^bnc^ity or SEC. 1304. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall be used for publicity or propaganda purposes not heretofore authorized by the Congress. Short title. This Act may be cited as the "Third Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1952". Approved June 5, 1952. Public Law 376 June 5, 1952 [S. 2736]

R e c o r dation of instruments, D.C.

Index.

V o i d instruments.

CHAPTER 370

AN ACT To amend the Code of Law of the District of Columbia in respect to the recording, in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds, of bills of sale, mortgages, deeds of trust, and conditional sales of personal property, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) the first paragraph of section 546, subchapter 3 of chapter 16 of the Act entitled "An Act to establish a Code of Law for the District of Columbia", approved March 3, 1901, as amended, revised, and reenacted by the Act approved March 3, 1925 (43 Stat. 1103, ch. 417; title 42, sec. 101, D. C. Code, 1940), is hereby renumbered as section 546-A; and (b) section 547 of such subchapter (title 42, sec. 103, D. C. Code, 1940) is hereby amended by striking therefrom the last two sentences and by renumbering such section as section 546-B. SEC. 2. The second paragraph of section 546 of such subchapter (title 42, sec. 102, D. C. Code, 1940) is hereby renumbered and amended to read as follows: "SEC. 546-C. I t shall not be necessary for the Recorder of Deeds to spread upon the records of his office the instruments filed pursuant to section 546-A or section 546-B of this subchapter, but the same shall be indexed and, except as hereinafter provided, shall be kept on file and shall be open to inspection by the public, and shall have the same force and legal effect as if they were actually recorded in the books of said office." SEC. 3. Subchapter 3 of chapter 16 of such Act is further amended by adding thereto the following new sections: " SEC. 5 4 6 - D. Every instrument filed with the Recorder of Deeds pursuant to section 546-A or section 546-B of this subchapter, and instruments filed with said Recorder or presented for recording pur-

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