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PUBLIC LAW 564-AUG. 3, 1954

"That the Recorder of Deeds is authorized to appoint a second deputy recorder" is amended to read: "The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized to appoint a second deputy recorder of deeds". (b) The third sentence of such Act approved March 3, 1925, as amended by such Act approved June 9, 1952, is amended to read: "The Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall appoint all employees in the office of the Recorder of Deeds, except the Recorder, in accordance with civil-service laws and fix the compensation of all employees in such office in accordance with the Classification Act of 1949, as amended, and the said Commissioners may delegate to any officer subordinate to them the function of appointing any of the employees in such office other than the Recorder." SEC. 5. Clause (p) of section 2 of the District of Columbia Business Corporation Act (68 Stat. 180) is amended by adding thereto the following sentence: " I t shall be the duty of the Recorder of Deeds and of any other officer or agency of the Government of the District of Columbia to perform any function delegated to such officer or agency by the Commissioners pursuant to this Act." Approved August 3, 1954. Public Law 564

S e c o n d deputy recorder of deeds.

O f f i c e employees.

6 3 Stat. 954. 5 USC 1071 note. Commissioners. D e l e g a t i o n of functions.

CHAPTER 654

AN ACT To amend the Act entitled "An Act to provide an immediate revision and equalization of real-estate values in the District of Columbia; also to provide an assessment of real estate in said District in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-six and every third year thereafter, and for other purposes", approved August 14, 1894, as amended.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) the first sentence of section 2 of the Act entitled "An Act to provide an immediate revi^on and equalization of real-estate values in the District of Columbia; also to provide an assessment of real estate in said District in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-six and every third year thereafter, and for other purposes", approved August 14, 1894 (28 Stat. 282, as amended; sec. 47-604, D. C. Code, 1951 edition) is amended to read as follows: "The Commissioners of the District of Columb,ia shall appoint as a permanent board of assistant assessors such persons as are conversant with real estate values in the District of Columbia and who have been bona fide residents of the District for a period of at least five years, except that two of such appointees may be persons who have been bona fide residents of the District of Columbia Metropolitan Area for a period of at least five years." (b) Section 2 of such Act of August 14, 1894, as amended, is further amended by adding at the end thereof the following new sentence: " For the purposes of this Act, the term 'District of Columbia Metropolitan Area' means the District of Columbia, the cities of Alexandria and Falls Church, and the counties of Arlington and Fairfax in Virginia, and the counties of Montgomery and Prince Georges in Maryland." SEC. 2. Where any provision of this Act, or any amendment made by this Act, refers to an office or agency abolished by Reorganization Plan Numbered 5 of 1952, such reference shall be deemed to be to the office, agency, or officer designated by the Commissioners to perform the functions of the office or agency so abolished. Approved August 3, 1954.

August 3, 1954 [H. R. 7128]

D. C. a s s i s t a n t assessors. Appointment.

" D. C. m e t r o politan area".

66 Stat. 824. D.C. Code1-app.

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