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 PUBLIC LAW 1 7 4 - J U L Y 31, 1953

Restriction.

Snow removal.

66 Stat. 826.

Balances. C onsolidation.

Recission.

Department of S a n i t a r y Engineering. Operating expense s.

Short title.

Armed Forces. Disbursing o f ' fleers.

STA T.

of the Commissioners, who may from time to time alter or change the assignment for use thereof, or direct the alteration or interchangeable use of any of the same by officers and employees of the District, except as otherwise provided in this Act. "Official purposes" shall not apply to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia or in cases of officers and employees the character of whose duties makes such transportation necessary, but only as to such latter cases when the same is approved by the Commissioners. No motor vehicles shall be transferred from the police or fire departments to any other branch of the government of the District of Columbia. SEC. 15. Appropriations contained in this Act for highways, sewers, Division of Sanitation, and the Water Division shall be available for snow removal when ordered by the Commissioners in writing. SEC. 16. The authority of the Commissioners to establish agencies and offices in the government of the District of Columbia pursuant to section 4 of Reorganization Plan No. 5 of 1952, and to effect transfers of unexpended balances of appropriations, allocations, and other funds pursuant to section 5 of said Plan, shall not extend beyond June 30, 1954. SEC. 17. The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to consolidate under appropriate current account titles the unexpended balances of such unexpired District of Columbia capital outlay appropriations of prior years as may be requested by the Commissioners. SEC. 18. The balances of all general-fund and water-fund contract authorizations heretofore granted to the Commissioners which remain unobligated on June 30, 1954, are rescinded. SEC. 19. Operating expenses of the Department of Sanitary Engineering properly chargeable to two or more appropriations available to that Department may De charged initially to an appropriate fiscal year account which is hereby authorized to be established. Advances shall be made to this account in such amounts as determined necessary by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia from appropriations available to the Department of Sanitary Engineering. AH charges to this account shall be distributed at least monthly to the applicable appropriations. SEC. 20. This Act may be cited as the "District of Colupibia Appropriation Act, 1954." Approved July 31, 1953. Public Law 174

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CHAPTER 300

AN ACT To provide for the orderly transaction of the public business in the event of the death, incapacity, or separation from office of a disbursing officer of the military department.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in case of the death, incapacity, or separation from office of a disbursing officer of any of the military departments the accounts of such disbursing officer may be continued and payments made in his name by his deputy disbursing officer for a period of time not to extend beyond the last day of the second month following the month in which such death, incapacity or separation shall occur. Such accounts and payments shall be allowed, audited, and settled in the manner prescribed by law; and the checks signed in the name of the former disbursing officer

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