Operating Expenses

Operating Expenses department of general administration For an additional amount for “Department of General Administration”, $180,000. personal services, wage-scale employees For pay increases for wage-scale employees, to be transferred by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to the appropriations and funds of said District for the fiscal year 1957 from which said employees are properly payable, $415,000, of which $54,700 shall be payable from the highway fund, $86,500 from the water fund, and $20,300 from the sanitary sewage works fund; said increases in compensation to be effective on the first day of the first pay period beginning after February 1, 1957: Provided, That no retroactive compensation or salary shall be payable in the case of any individual not in the service of the municipal government of the District of Columbia71 Stat. 187on the date of approval of this Act, except that such retroactive compensation or salary shall be paid in the case of a deceased officer or employee, or of a retired officer or employee, for services rendered after the effective date of the increase: Provided further, That for the purpose of determining the amount of insurance for which an individual is eligible under the Federal Employees’ Group Life Insurance Act of 1954, all changes in rates of compensation or salary which result as provided herein shall be held and considered to be effective as of the first day of the first pay period which begins on or after the date of enactment of this Act.