Chapter 642 - 1st Session

H. R. 5745

AN ACT

To permit the Federal National Mortgage Association to make commitments to purchase certain mortgages.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the

United States of America in Congress assembled, That notwithstand- National Housing ing the provisions of subparagraph (G) of section 301 (a) (1) of the Aot, amendments. National Housing Act, as amended, the Federal National Mortgage 64 Stat. 57. Association is authorized to enter into advance commitment contracts 12 U.S.C. § 1716. which do not exceed $30,000,000 outstanding at any one time, if such

commitments relate to mortgages with respect to which the Federal 65 Stat. 699. Housing Commissioner has issued, prior to June 29, 1951, pursuant 65 Stat. 700. to section 213 of the National Housing Act, as amended, either a 64 Stat. 54. commitment to insure or a statement of eligibility: And provided 12 U.S.6. § 1715e further, That not to exceed $3,500,000 of said authorization shall be available for such commitments in any one State. Approved October 30, 1951.

To permit the Federal National Mortgage Association to make commitments

to purchase certain mortgages.

National

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Housing Act, States of America in Congress assembled, That subparagraph (G) amendment. of section 301 (a) (1) of the National Housing Act, as amended, is 64 Stat. 57; hereby amended by striking out of the proviso: "commitments made 65 Stat. 315. by the association on or after the effective date of this proviso and 12 U.S.C. prior to December 31, 1951, which do not exceed $200,000,000 outstand8 1716. ing at any one time, if such commitments" and inserting in lieu 66 Stat. 51. thereof: "(i) commitments made pursuant to Public Law 243, Eighty- 66 Stat. 52. second Congress, or (ii) commitments made by the association on or 65 Stat. 699. after September 1, 1951, which do not exceed $252,000,000 outstanding 12 U S.C. at any one time, if applications for such commitments were received by the association prior to December 28, 1951, or, in the case of title VIII mortgages, if the Federal Housing Commissioner issued his 63 Stat. 570. commitment to insure prior to December 31, 1951, but subsequent to 12 U.S.C. December 27, 1951, and if such commitments of the association". Approved April 9, 1952.

1716-1.

S$ 1748-1748h.

2d Session

To make additional funds available to the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs for direct home and farmhouse loans to eligible veterans, under title III of the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, as amended.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 513 of Servicemen's of the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 is amended by adding Readjustment the following subsection (d):

"(d) For the purposes of further augmenting the revolving fund established in subsection (a) hereof the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed between the effective date of this subsection and July 1, 1952, to make available to the Administrator such additional sums not in excess of $25,000,000 as the Administrator may request, and is authorized and directed to advance from time to time thereafter until June 30, 1953, such additional sums as the Administrator may request, provided that the aggregate so advanced in any one quarter annual period shall not exceed the sum of $25,000,000 less that amount which had been returned to the revolving fund during the preceding quarter annual period from the sale of loans pursuant to section 512 (d) of this title. Except for the limitation on the sums authorized in subsection (a) hereof, this subsection shall be subject to the other provisions of this section and of this title." Approved April 18, 1952.

Act of 1944,

amendment.

64 Stat. 76. 38 U.S.C.

694m.

All 66 Stat. 98.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 106 (c)

of the Housing Act of 1949 is hereby amended by striking out the 63 Stat. 418. word "and" at the end of paragraph (6); by striking out the period 42 U.S.c. at the end of paragraph (7) and inserting in lieu thereof a semicolon 8 1456.

and the word "and"; and by adding the following new paragraph:

"(8) make advance or progress payments on account of any capital grant contracted to be made pursuant to this title, notwithstanding the provisions of section 3648 of the Revised 31 U.S.C. Statutes, as amended, or any other provisions of this title." Approved June 3, 1952.

$529.

Making appropriations for the Executive Office and sundry independent executive bureaus, boards, commissions, corporations, agencies, and offices, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1953, and for other purposes.

HOUSING AND HOME FINANCE AGENCY

OFFICE OF THE ADMINISTRATOR

Salaries and expenses: For necessary expenses of the Office of the Administrator, including rent in the District of Columbia; services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a); not to exceed $237,500 for expenses of travel; expenses of 60 Stat. 810. attendance at meetings of organizations concerned with the work of the agency; and transportation expenses and not to exceed $25 per diem in lieu of subsistence, as authorized by section 5 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 73b-2), for persons serving without compensation as members of any advisory committee established pursuant to title VI of the Housing Act of 1949; $4,606,000: Provided, That 63 Stat. 439. necessary expenses of inspections and of providing representatives at 12 U.S.C. the site of projects being undertaken by local public agencies pursuant

60 Stat. 903.

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1701h.

SS 1451-1460.

64 Stat. 77. 12 U.S.C.

to title I of the Housing Act of 1949 and of projects financed through 63 Stat. 414. loans to educational institutions authorized by title IV of the Housing 42 U.S.C. Act of 1950, shall be compensated by such agencies or institutions by the payment of fixed fees which in the aggregate will cover the costs of rendering such services, and expenses for such purpose shall be 1749-1749c. considered nonadministrative; and for the purpose of providing such inspections, the Administrator may utilize any agency and such agency may accept reimbursement or payment for such services from such institutions or the Administrator, and shall credit such amounts to the appropriations or funds against which such charges have been made, but such nonadministrative expenses shall not exceed $455,000. Defense Community Facilities and Services: During the current fiscal year not to exceed $112,500 of the appropriation granted under this head in the Second Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1952, shall 65 Stat. 760. be available for administrative expenses in connection with the construction of facilities under such appropriation.

PUBLIC HOUSING ADMINISTRATION

Annual contributions: For the payment of annual contributions to public housing agencies in accordance with section 10 of the United

States Housing Act of 1937, as amended (42 U. S. C. 1410), $29,880,000: 50 Stat. 891. Provided, That except for payments required on contracts entered Citizenship into prior to April 18, 1940, no part of this appropriation shall be of tenant. available for payment to any public housing agency for expenditure

66 Stat. 402. 66 Stat. 403.

Audit and settlement.

42 Stat. 20.

31 U.S.C. 1. 50 Stat. 891.

42 U.S.C. 1430.

50 Stat. 888.

42 U.S.C. 1430.

Short title.

in connection with any low-rent housing project, unless the public housing agency shall have adopted regulations prohibiting as a tenant of any such project by rental or occupancy any person other than a citizen of the United States, but such prohibition shall not be applicable in the case of a family of any serviceman or the family of any veteran who has been discharged (other than dishonorably) from, or the family of any serviceman who died in, the Armed Forces of the United States within four years prior to the date of application for admission to such housing: Provided further, That all expenditures of this appropriation shall be subject to audit and final settlement by the Comptroller General of the United States under the provisions of the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921, as amended: Provided further, That notwithstanding the provisions of the United States Housing Act of 1937, as amended, the Public Housing Administration shall not, with respect to projects initiated after March 1, 1949, (1) authorize during the fiscal year 1953 the commencement of construction of in excess of thirty-five thousand dwelling units, or (2) after the date of approval of this Act, enter into any agreement, contract, or other arrangement which will bind the Public Housing Administration with respect to loans, annual contributions, or authorizations for commencement of construction, for dwelling units aggregating in excess of thirty-five thousand to be authorized for commencement of construction during any one fiscal year subsequent to the fiscal year 1953, unless a greater number of units is hereafter authorized by the Congress: Provided further, That the Public Housing Administration shall not, after the date of approval of this Act, authorize the construction of any projects initiated before or after March 1, 1949, in any locality in which such projects have been or may hereafter be rejected by the governing body of the locality or by public vote, unless such projects have been subsequently approved by the same procedure through which such rejection was expressed: Provided further, That no housing unit constructed under the United States Housing Act of 1937, as amended, shall be occupied by a person who is a member of an organization designated as subversive by the Attorney General: Provided further, That the foregoing prohíbition shall be enforced by the local housing authority, and that such prohibition shall not impair or affect the powers or obligations of the Public Housing Administration with respect to the making of loans and annual contributions under the United States Housing Act of 1937, as amended.

Administrative expenses: For administrative expenses of the Public Housing Administration, $8,000,000, to be merged with and expended under the authorization for such expenses contained in title III of this Act.

SEC. 407. This Act may be cited as the "Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1953".

Approved July 5, 1952.

To provide for the transfer of the Jeremiah Curtin home and underlying land to the Milwaukee County Historical Society by the Public Housing Administration.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Public Jeremiah Housing Administration of the Housing and Home Finance Agency Curtin is hereby authorized to transfer the Jeremiah Curtin home and under- home. lying land, located on the south side of West Grange Avenue, between Transfer. South Eighty-fourth Street and South Ninety-second Street, in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, known as rural property numbered 77, under the jurisdiction of the Public Housing Administration, containing approximately two hundred and fifty-five one-thousandths acre, to the Milwaukee County Historical Society, for restoration and maintenance by the said society.

SEC. 2. The home and underlying land authorized to be transferred by the first section of this Act shall be used by the Milwaukee County Historical Society for restoration and maintenance by said society for historical purposes, and the transfer of such home and land shall contain the express condition that if the society shall fail or cease to use such home and land for such purposes, or shall alienate or attempt to alienate such property, title thereto shall, at the option of the United States, revert to the United States.

Approved July 11, 1952.