of total average military personnel provided for in this Act during such fiscal year 1953 of the Army, Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps, respectively, set forth in this section as follows: pur SEC. 635. No funds contained in this Act shall be used for the pose of entering into contracts containing article 15 of the Standard Government Contract until and unless said article is revised and amended to provide an appeal by the contractor to the Court of Claims within ninety days of the date of decision by the Department concerned, authority for which appeal is hereby granted. SEC. 636. None of the funds provided in this Act shall be available for training in any legal profession nor for the payment of tuition for training in such profession in excess of twenty persons per year, exclusive of students in ROTC units: Provided, That nothing contained in this Act shall prohibit persons now attending law courses from completing same. SEC. 637. Funds provided in this Act for public information and public relations shall not exceed $5,554,851. SEC. 638. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law and for the purpose of achieving an efficient, economical and practical operation of an integrated supply system designed to meet the needs of the military departments without duplicating or overlapping of either operations or functions, no officer or agency in or under the Department of Defense, after the effective date of this section, shall obligate any funds for procurement, production, warehousing, distribution of supplies or equipment or related supply management functions, except in accordance with regulations issued by the Secretary of Defense. (b) This section shall be effective sixty days after the approval of this Act. SEC. 639. No part of the funds appropriated in this Act for procurement which are limited for obligation during fiscal year 1953 shall be obligated during the last two months of the fiscal year at a monthly rate more than 125 per centum of the average monthly rate of obligation during the first ten months of the year. SEC. 640. The Secretary of Defense is hereby directed to submit. revised tables of organization and tables of equipment of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps to the Congress, together with recommendations for decreasing the number of personnel positions, clerical positions, supply positions, and other administrative positions so that the combat effectiveness of our Armed Forces may be improved. TITLE VII COMBAT DUTY PAY SEC. 701. This title may be cited as the "Combat Duty Pay Act of 1952". SEC. 702. As used in this title (a) The terms "uniformed services", "member", "officer", and "secretary" (except as hereinafter specifically provided) shall have the meaning prescribed for such terms by section 102 of the Career Compensation Act of 1949, and the terms "incentive pay" and "special pay" shall mean the pay authorized by section 203, 204, or 205 of such Act. (b) The term "member", when used in relation to any combat unit, means any member of the uniformed services serving and present with, or on board, such unit under competent orders. (c) The term "combat unit" means (1) any military unit, not larger than a regiment, while such unit is engaged in actual combat on land; or (2) any element of, or detail of personnel from, any military unit not larger than a regiment, while such element or detail is subjected to hostile ground fire in the course of rendering aid or assistance (A) directly to a military unit, not larger than a battalion, which is engaged in actual combat on land, or (B) by fire to any military unit engaged in actual combat on land; or (3) any military unit (not larger than a regiment) engaged in any amphibious or airborne operation, while subjected to hostile ground fire in the course of rendering aid or assistance, to a military unit which is engaged in actual combat on land, by the performance of duties which require its employment at or near a beach or airhead; or (4) any vessel while subjected to hostile fire or explosion in the course of any operation; or (5) any aircraft while subjected to hostile fire in the course (at any operactual combat on land" means direct contact with Opposition to a hostile force by any military unit while such unit is subjected to hostile ground fire. (e) the term "military unit" means any unit of any of the uniformed services other than a vessel or aircraft. (f) the term "Korea" shall mean the geographical area specified for income-tax-exemption purposes by Executive Order 10195, approved December 20, 1950. SEC. 703. Each member and former member of the uniformed services shall be entitled to receive combat pay in the amount of $45 per month for each month beginning after May 31, 1950, for which such member was entitled to receive basic pay and during which he was a member of a combat unit in Korea on (a) not less than six days of such month; or (b) one or more days of such month included within a period of not less than six consecutive days on which he was a member of a combat unit in Korea, if such period began in the next preceding month and he is not entitled to receive combat pay under this title for such preceding month. SEC. 704. Each member and former member of the uniformed services shall be entitled to receive combat pay in the amount of $45 per month for each month beginning after May 31, 1950, for which he was entitled to receive basic pay and in which (a) he was killed in action, injured in action, or wounded in action while serving as a member of a combat unit in Korea, and for not more than three months thereafter during which he was hospitalized for the treatment of an injury or wound received in action while so serving; or (b) he was captured or entered a missing-in-action status while serving as a member of a combat unit in Korea, and for not more than three months thereafter during which he occupied such status. SEC. 705. No person shall be entitled to receive for any month— (a) more than one combat pay authorized by this title; or (b) combat pay under this title in addition to any incentive or special pay. SEC. 706. (a) The Secretaries of the services concerned are authorized and directed to promulgate regulations for the administration of this title, which regulations shall be as uniform as practicable, and in the case of the military departments shall be subject to the approval of the Secretary of Defense. (b) Such regulations may include appropriate provisions for the withholding of combat pay under section 703 of this title from any member or former member of the uniformed services (or any class of such persons) for any period during which such person or class of persons was not placed in substantial peril by the action of any hostile force, as determined in conformity with such regulations. SEC. 707. (a) The Secretary of the Service concerned, or such subordinate as he may specify, may make such determination of fact as may be required for the administration of this Act, and any such determination shall be final. (b) Appropriations currently available for pay and allowances of members of the uniformed services shall be available for the payment. of combat pay under this title for any month prior to the date of enactment of this title. This Act may be cited as the "Department of Defense Appropriation Act, 1953". Total, Department of Defense Appropriation Act, 1953------ $46, 610, 938, 912 NOTE. In addition to the appropriations for the fiscal year 1953 carried in the foregoing regular annual appropriation act, the following additional amounts are available for the Department of the Air Force and the Department of the Army and the Department of the Navy for such fiscal year: Permanents and indefinites (general and special accounts): Army, Department of (pp. 514, 515). Navy, Department of (pp. 515, 516). Air Force, Department of (p. 514). Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1953: Office of the Secretary of Defense (p. 240) Navy, Department of (p. 241). Air Force, Department of (p. 241) Urgent Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1952: Public Law 480: Army, Department of (p. 261). $11, 200, 000 17, 200, 000 7, 268, 500 140, 000, 000 586, 910, 000 1, 200, 000, 000 618, 000, 000 4,592 2,943, 867, 932 Grand total, Department of Defense, exclusive of trust funds under permanent appropriations___ For trust funds, see pp. 514-516. G - 49, 554, 806, 844 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA APPROPRIATION ACT, 1953 [PUBLIC LAW 453-82D CONGRESS] [CHAPTER 576-2D SESSION] [H. R. 7216] By the Act making appropriations for the government of the District of Columbia and other activities chargeable in whole or in part against the revenues of such District for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1953, and for other purposes, approved July 5, 1952. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there are appropriated for the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1953, out of (1) the general fund of the District of Columbia, hereinafter known as the general fund, such fund being composed of the revenues of the District of Columbia other than those applied by law to special funds, and $10,000,000, which is hereby appropriated for the purpose out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated (to be advanced July 1, 1952), (2) highway funds, established by law (D. C. Code, title 47, ch. 19), (3) the water fund, established by law (D. C. Code, title 43, ch. 15), and $1,000,000, which is hereby appropriated for the purpose out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated (to be advanced July 1, 1952), and (4) the motor vehicle parking fund, established by law (D. C. Code, title 40, ch. 8), sums as follows: [Total, Federal contribution, $11,000,000.] From the general fund: All sums appropriated under the following heads unless otherwise specifically provided: General administration, fiscal service, compensation and retirement fund expenses, District debt service, regulatory agencies, public schools, Public Library, Recreation Department, Metropolitan Police, Fire Department, Veterans' Services, courts, Health Department, Department of Corrections, public welfare, public works, National Guard, National Capital Parks, National Capital Park and Planning Commission, and National Zoological Park; From the highway fund: All sums appropriated under public works designated as payable from the highway fund; From the water fund: All sums appropriated under public works and Washington aqueduct, designated as payable from the water fund; and From the motor vehicle parking fund: All sums appropriated under public works designated as payable from the motor vehicle parking fund; namely: GENERAL ADMINISTRATION For expenses necessary for the offices named under this general head : Executive office, plus so much as may be necessary to compensate the Engineer Commissioner at a rate equal to each civilian member of the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia, hereafter in this Act referred to as the Commissioners; compensation of members of the Apprenticeship Council and the Redevelopment Land Agency; aid in support of the National Conference of Commissioners on 95 $10, 000, 000 1,000,000 Uniform State Laws; general advertising in newspapers and legal periodicals in the District of Columbia but not elsewhere, unless the need for advertising outside the District of Columbia shall have been specifically approved by the Commissioners, including notices of public hearings, publication of orders and regulations, tax and school notices, and notices of changes in regulations; and expenses in case of emergency, such as riot, pestilence, public insanitary conditions, flood, fire, or storm, and for expenses of investigations; $321,800 and indefinite Provided, That the certificate of the Commissioners shall be sufficient voucher for the expenditure of $1,500 of this appropriation for such purposes as they may deem necessary. For ceremony expenses $7,500_-. Office of the corporation counsel, including extra compensation for the corporation counsel as general counsel of the Public Utilities Commission; $10,000 for the settlement of claims not in excess of $250 each, approved by the Commissioners in accordance with the Act of February 11, 1929 (45 Stat. 1160), as amended by the Act of June 5, 1930 (46 Stat. 500); and judicial expenses, including witness fees and expert services, in District of Columbia cases before the courts of the United States and of the District of Columbia; $348,000, of which $9,350 shall be payable from the highway fund. Purchasing Division, $135,400, of which $4,525 shall be payable from the highway fund. Board of Tax Appeals, $23,300_. [Total, General Administration, $836,000.] FISCAL SERVICE Salaries and expenses, Fiscal Service: For expenses necessary for the Assessor's Office, the Collector's Office, and the Auditor's Office, $1,992,000, of which $28,150 shall be payable from the highway fund: Provided, That this appropriation shall be available for advertising, for not more than once a week for two weeks in the regular issue of one newspaper published in the District of Columbia, the list of all taxes on real property and all special assessments, together with penalties and costs, in arrears, the cost of such advertising to be reimbursed to the general fund by a charge to be fixed annually by the Commissioners for each lot or piece of property advertised: Provided further, That this appropriation shall be available for refunding, wholly or in part, school tuition, lost library books, building permits, and other payments which have been erroneously made during the present and past three years. COMPENSATION AND RETIREMENT FUND EXPENSES For compensation and retirement fund expenses, as follows: District government employees' compensation, $167,000. Workmen's compensation, administrative expenses: For transfer to the Bureau of Employees' Compensation for administration of the law providing compensation for disability or death resulting from injury to employees in certain employments in the District of Columbia, $175,000-- District government retirement and relief funds: For financing the liability of the government of the District of Columbia to the "Civil service retirement and disability fund" and the "Teachers' retirement and annuity fund", and to provide relief and other allowances as authorized by law for policemen and firemen, $8,262,000, of which $2,418,000 shall be placed to the credit of the "Civil service retirement and disability fund": Provided, That the Treasury Depart $321,800 7,500 348,000 135,400 23,300 1,992,000 167,000 175,000 8, 262,000 |