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PUBLIC LAW 514-MAY 9, 1956

46 Stat. 471; 52 Stat. 1087.

CHAPTER 243 AN ACT

May 9, 1956 [H. R. 9078]

To pr<ivide that the authorized strength of the Metropolitan Police force of the District of Columbia shall be not less than two thousand five hundred oflScers and members.

D. C. P o l i c e Department. Increase to 2,500 members. 31 Stat. 819.

39 Stat. 720.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That paragraph 3 of the first section of the Act entitled "An Act relating to the Metropolitan Police of the District of Columbia", approved February 28, 1901 (D. C. Code, sec. 4-106), is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new sentence: "The Metropolitan Police force shall consist of not less than two thousand five hundred officers and members, in addition to the persons appointed as surgeons for the Metropolitan Police force, appointed as police matrons, or appointed as special privates pursuant to sections 378 and 379 of the Revised Statutes of the United States relating to the District of Columbia, approved June 22, 1874 (D. C. Code, sec. 4-133), and in addition to any retired officer or member of the Metropolitan Police force called back into service pursuant to section 12 of the Act entitled 'An Act making appropriations to provide for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for other purposes', approved September 1, 1916 ( D. C. Code, sec. 4-514)." Approved May 9, 1956.

Public Law 515

CHAPTER 247 AN Act

May 10. 1956 [H. R. 4118]

To amend section 606(5) of the Merchant Marine Act, 1036, relating to the computation of the 10-year recapture period.

Merchant Marine Act, amendment. 49 StaU 2004.

46 USC 1177.

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regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury. Receipts from such reimbursement shall be deposited as refunds to the appropriation from which paid, in the manner provided for in section 524 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (19 U.S.C. 1524). Approved May 9, 1956.

Public Law 514

Recaptur period.

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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That subdivision (5) of section 606 of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, as amended (46 U.S.C. 1176), is amended to read as follows: "(5) that when at the end of any ten-year period during which an operating-differential subsidy has been paid under a contract or consecutive contracts (such period to be computed from the end of the operator's last completed recapture period regardless of its duration, or from the beginning of subsidized operations if the operator has not previously comx^leted a recapture period), or when prior to the end of such ten-year period subsidized operations shall be finally terminated, if the net profit of the contractor on his subsidized vessels and services incident thereto during such period or time (without regard to capital gains and capital losses), after deduction of depreciation charges based upon a life expectancy of the subsidized A'essels determined as provided in section 607(b), has averaged more than 10 per centum per annum upon the contractor's capital investment necessarily employed in

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