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58 Stat. 532. UnifomiB. Short title.

PUBLIC LAW 638-JULY 2, 1966

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. 13. Appropriations contained in this Act for the Department of Highways and the Department of Sanitary Engineering shall be available for snow and ice control work when ordered by the Commissioners in writing. SEC. 14. All funds (including existing unexpended balances and income from investments) derived from the action of any board, commission, or committee for which appropriations are provided herein, shall be deposited to the general revenues of the District of Columbia. SEC. 15. Appropriations in this Act shall be available, when authorized by the Commissioners, for the rental of quarters without reference to section 6 of the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1945. SEC. 16. Appropriations in this Act shall be available for the furnishing of uniforms when authorized by the Commissioners. SEC. 17. This Act may be cited as the '"District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1957." Approved June 29, 1956,

Public Law 638 July 2, 1956 [S. 2771]

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CHAPTER 487

AN ACT To authorize the Secretary of Defense to lend certain Army, Navy, and Air Force equipment and provide certain services to the Boy Scouts of America for use at the Fourth National Jamboree of the Boy Scouts of America, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the A^ericl.''*'"*' °^ United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) the SecreArme'd Forces tary of Defense is hereby authorized, under such regulations as he equipment. ^ ^ ^ prescribe, to lend to the Boy Scouts of America, a corporation created under the Act of June 15, 1916, for the use and accommodation of the approximately fifty thousand Scouts and officials who are to attend the Fourth National Jamboree of the Boy Scouts of America to be held as a part of the national program "Onward for God and My Country" during the period beginning in June 1957, and ending in July 1957, at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, such tents, cots, blankets, commissary equipment, flags, refrigerators, and other equipment and services as may be necessary or useful to the extent that items are in stock and available and their issue will not jeopardize the national defense program. (b) Such equipment is authorized to be delivered at such time prior to the holding of such jamboree, and to be returned at such time after the close of such jamboree, as may be agreed upon by the Secretary of Defense and the National Council, Boy Scouts of America. No expense shall be incurred by the United States Government for the delivery, return, rehabilitation, or replacement of such equipment. Bond. (c) The Secretary of Defense, before delivering such property, shall take from the Boy Scouts of America a good and sufficient bond for the safe return of such property in good order and condition, and the whole without expense to the United States. Approved July 2, 1956.

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