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PUBLIC LAW 5 0 2 - J U L Y 10, 1952

in January 1953. All stands or platforms that may be erected on public space shall be under the supervision of the inaugural committee. No stand shall be built on the sidewalks, streets, parks, and public grounds of the District of Columbia, other than the area on the south side of Pennsylvania Avenue directly in front of the White House, except with the approval of the inaugural committee, the director of inspection of the District of Columbia, and the Administrator of General Services. The reservations or public spaces occupied by the stands or other structures shall, after the inauguration, be promptly restored to their previous condition. The inaugural committee shall indemnify the appropriate agency of the Government for any damage to such reservations or spaces. SEC. 2. The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized to permit the inaugural committee to stretch suitable overhead conductors, with sufficient supports, for illumination and other purposes. If it shall be necessary to erect wires for illuminating or other purposes over any park or reservation in the District of Columbia, the work of erection and removal shall be under the supervision of the official in charge of said park or reservation. Such conductors with their supports shall be removed on or before January 31, 1953. The Commissioners of the District of Columbia, or such other officials as may have jurisdiction in the premises, shall enforce the provisions of this joint resolution, take needful precautions for the protection of the public, and insure that the pavement of any street, avenue, or alley disturbed is replaced in its previous condition. No expense or damage from the stretching, operation, or removal of the temporary overhead conductors shall be incurred by the United States or the District of Columbia. SEC. 3. The Secretary of Defense is authorized to lend to the Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies such hospital tents, smaller tents, camp appliances, hospital furniture, ensigns, flags, ambulances, drivers, stretchers, and Red Cross flags and poles (except battle flags), as may, in their judgment, be spared without detriment to the public service. Such loans shall be returned by the 26th day of January 1953. The committee shall indemnify the Government for any loss or damage to such flags not necessarily incident to such use. SEC. 4, The Commissioners of the District of Columbia, the Administrator of General Services, and the inaugural committee are authorized to permit telegraph, telephone, radio-broadcasting, and television companies to extend overhead wires to such points alon^ the line of parade as shall be deemed convenient for use in connection with the parade and other inaugural purposes. Such wires shall be removed within ten days after the conclusion of the ceremonies. Approved July 10, 1952.

Public Law 502

D. C. Commissioners.

Secretary of Defense.

Overhead wires.

CHAPTER 658

JOINT RESOLUTION To authorize the quartering in public buildings in the District of Columbia of troops participating in inaugural ceremonies.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the fourth paragraph under the heading "State, War, and Navy Department Building" in the first section of the Act entitled "An Act making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three, and for other purposes", approved April 28, 1902

July 10, 1952 [H. J. R e s. 394]

Inaugural cer«!monies. Qu a r t e r i n g of troopis.

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