Waterworks, etc., Panama and Colon. 57 Stat. 74. Canal Zone. ment. Employment of Panamanian citizens. 48 U. S. O. § 1307 note. Limitation. Treasury of the United States, and to remain available until expended, all moneys received by the Panama Canal during the fiscal year 1946 and prior fiscal years (exclusive of net profits for such prior fiscal years) from services rendered or materials and supplies furnished to the United States, the Panama Railroad Company, the Canal Zone government, or to their employees, respectively, or to the Panama Government, from hotel and hospital supplies and services; from rentals, wharfage, and like service; from labor, materials, and supplies and other services furnished to vessels other than those passing through the Canal, and to others unable to obtain the same elsewhere; from the sale of scrap and other byproducts of manufacturing and shop operations; from the sale of obsolete and unserviceable materials, supplies, and equipment purchased or acquired for the operation, maintenance, protection, sanitation, and government of the Canal and Canal Zone; and any net profits accruing from such business to the Panama Canal shall annually be covered into the Treasury of the United States. There is also appropriated for the fiscal year 1946 for the operation, maintenance, and extension of waterworks, sewers, and pavements in the cities of Panama and Colon, to remain available until expended, the necessary portions of such sums as shall be paid during that fiscal year as water rentals or directly by the Government of Panama for such expenses; and notwithstanding the transfer of the waterworks and sewer systems pursuant to the joint resolution approved May 3, 1943 (Public Law 48), any unexpended balances of the sums appropriated by this paragraph, together with the unexpended balances of sums appropriated for the same purpose in prior fiscal years, shall be immediately available and shall remain available until expended for the purposes for which appropriated. SEO. 2. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall Citizenship require be used directly or indirectly, except for temporary employment in case of emergency, for the payment of any civilian for services rendered by him on the Canal Zone while occupying a skilled, technical, clerical, administrative, executive, or supervisory position unless such person is a citizen of the United States of America or of the Republic of Panama: Provided, however, (1) That, notwithstanding the provision in the Act approved August 11, 1939 (53 Stat. 1409), limiting employment in the above-mentioned positions to citizens of the United States from and after the date of the approval of said Act, citizens of Panama may be employed in such positions; (2) that at no time shall the number of Panamanian citizens employed in the above-mentioned positions exceed the number of citizens of the United States so employed, if United States citizens are available in conEmployees with 15 tinental United States or on the Canal Zone; (3) that nothing in this Act shall prohibit the continued employment of any person who shall have rendered fifteen or more years of faithful and honorable Selection of person- service on the Canal Zone; (4) that in the selection of personnel for skilled, technical, administrative, clerical, supervisory, or executive positions, the controlling factors in filling these positions shall be Hours of employ efficency, experience, training, and education; (5) that all citizens of Panama and the United States rendering skilled, technical, clerical, administrative, executive, or supervisory service on the Canal Zone under the terms of this Act (a) shall normally be employed not more than forty hours per week, (b) may receive as compensation equal rates of pay based upon rates paid for similar employment in continental United States plus 25 per centum; (6) this entire section shall apply only to persons employed in skilled, technical, clerical, administrative, executive, or supervisory positions on the Canal Zone directly or indirectly by any branch of the United States Govern years of service. nel. ment; pay rates. Applicability. ment or by any corporation or company whose stock is owned wholly or in part by the United States Government: Provided further, That the President may suspend from time to time in whole or in part compliance with this section in time of war or national emergency if he should deem such course to be in the public interest. Wartime or emer gency suspension. Persons advocating overthrow of U. S. Affidavit. Penalty. SEC. 3. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall be used to pay the salary or wages of any person who advocates, or Government. who is a member of an organization that advocates, the overthrow of the Government of the United States by force or violence: Provided, That for the purposes hereof an affidavit shall be considered prima facie evidence that the person making the affidavit does not advocate, and is not a member of an organization that advocates, the overthrow of the Government of the United States by force or violence: Provided further, That any person who advocates, or who is a member of an organization that advocates, the overthrow of the Government of the United States by force or violence and accepts employment the salary or wages for which are paid from any appropriation in this Act shall be guilty of a felony and, upon conviction, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both: Provided further, That the above penalty clause shall be in addition to, and not in substitution for, any other provisions of existing law. SEC. 4. The Governor of the Panama Canal is hereby authorized to employ by contract or otherwise without regard to section 3709, Revised Statutes, and at such rates (not to exceed $50 per day for individuals exclusive of necessary travel expenses) as he may determine, the services of architects, engineers, and other technical and professional personnel, or firms or corporations thereof, as may be necessary. Technical and professional personnel. 41 U. S. C. § 5. War Department and Army damage SEC. 5. Appropriations for the Military Establishment and for civil functions administered by the War Department for the fiscal claims. year 1946 may be used for carrying into effect the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the settlement of claims for damage to or loss or destruction of property or personal injury or death caused by military personnel or civilian employees, or otherwise incident to activities, IV. $223, 223c. of the War Department or of the Army", approved July 3, 1943. SEC. 6. This Act may be cited as the "War Department Civil Appropriation Act, 1946". To amend section 8 of the Act entitled "An Act to establish standard weights and measures for the District of Columbia; to define the duties of the Superintendent of Weights, Measures, and Markets of the District of Columbia; and for other purposes", approved March 3, 1921. 57 Stat. 372. Short title. March 31, 1945 [H. R. 2745] [Public Law 25] District of Columbia. 41 Stat. 1219. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 8 of the Act entitled "An Act to establish standard weights and measures for the District of Columbia; to define the duties of the Superin- 108. tendent of Weights, Measures, and Markets of the District of Columbia; and for other purposes", approved March 3, 1921, be, and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: "SEC. 8. When any commodity is sold by weight it shall be net weight. When any commodity is sold by the ton, it shall be understood to mean two thousand pounds avoirdupois." SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect on April 1, 1945. Approved March 31, 1945. Commodity sold by weight. March 31, 1945 [H. J. Res. 141] [Public Law 26] Supplemental propriations, 1945. ap Substitutions for items in First De- 58 Stat. 343. 58 Stat. 382. 58 Stat. 382. 58 Stat. 440. 58 Stat. 210. 58 Stat. 211. 58 Stat. 212. [CHAPTER 47] JOINT RESOLUTION Making supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1945, in lieu of certain appropriations contained in H. R. 2374, Seventy-ninth Congress, first session, and for other purposes. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums and paragraphs are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, in lieu of the corresponding sums and paragraphs contained in the bill (H. R. 2374) making appropriations to supply deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1945, and for prior fiscal years, to provide supplemental appropriations for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1945, and June 30, 1946, and for other purposes, as passed by the House of Representatives on March 2, 1945, and as reported to the Senate on March 24, 1945, namely: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES CLERK HIRE, MEMBERS AND DELEGATES Clerk hire, Members and Delegates: For an additional amount for clerk hire for Representatives and Delegates and Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico, as authorized by law, fiscal year 1945, $657,000; and this amount shall be consolidated with the previous appropriation for such clerk hire for such fiscal year and the consolidated sum shall be available for such clerk hire as authorized by law. VETERANS' ADMINISTRATION Printing and binding: For an additional amount for printing and binding, fiscal year 1945, $200,000. Pensions: For an additional amount for pensions, fiscal year 1945, $233,000,000. AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH ADMINISTRATION Control of incipient and emergency outbreaks of insect pests and plant diseases: For an additional amount for control of incipient and emergency outbreaks of insect pests and plant diseases, fiscal year 1945, including the objects specified under this head in the Department of Agriculture Appropriation Act, 1945, $1,080,050. OFFICE OF THE FIRST ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GENERAL (Out of the postal revenues) Miscellaneous items, first- and second-class post offices: For an additional amount, fiscal year 1945, for "Miscellaneous items, first- and second-class post offices", $1,855,000. OFFICE OF THE FOURTH ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GENERAL Post-office stationery, equipment, and supplies: For an additional amount for post-office stationery, equipment, and supplies, including the objects specified under this head in the Post Office Department Appropriation Act, 1945, fiscal year 1945, $600,500: Provided, That the limitation on the amount available for the pay of employees in the District of Columbia, in connection with the shipment of supplies, is increased from $75,500 to $82,000, and the limitation on the amount available for salaries of the thirteen traveling mechanicians is increased from $38,900 to $42,000. Approved March 31, 1945. [CHAPTER 48] AN ACT Apr. 3, 1945 To amend the National Housing Act, as amended, and for other purposes. March 31, 1945 [S. 681] [Public Law 27] National Housing Act, amendments. 648. 12 U.S. C., Supp. 57 Stat. 571. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 603 (a) of the National Housing Act, as amended, is hereby amended by (1) striking out "$1,700,000,000" and inserting in lieu thereof "$1,800,000,000"; and (2) striking out of the third proviso "1945" IV, 1738 (a). in each place where it appears and inserting in lieu thereof "1946". SEC. 2. Section 608 (g) of such Act, as amended, is amended by adding before the period at the end thereof a comma and the follow- IV, § 1743(g)." ing: "and to insure under this title any mortgage executed in connection with the sale by him of any property acquired under this title without regard to any limit as to time or aggregate amount contained in this title". Approved March 31, 1945. [CHAPTER 51] AN ACT To increase the debt limit of the United States, and for other purposes. SEO. 2. Section 21 of the Second Liberty Bond Act, as amended, is further amended to read as follows: "SEC. 21. The face amount of obligations issued under authority of this Act, and the face amount of obligations guaranteed as to principal and interest by the United States (except such guaranteed obligations as may be held by the Secretary of the Treasury), shall not exceed in the aggregate $300,000,000,000 outstanding at any one time." 56 Stat. 305. 57 Stat. 63. 31 U. S. C., Supp. SEC. 3. Subsections (h) and (i) of section 22 of the Second Liberty Bond Act, as amended, as added by the Public Debt Act of 1943, are IV, § 757c (h), (i). hereby amended to read as follows: Redemption of savings bonds. Qualifications "(h) The Secretary of the Treasury, under such regulations as he may prescribe, may authorize or permit payments in connection with the redemption of savings bonds to be made by commercial banks, trust companies, savings banks, savings and loan associations, building and loan associations (including cooperative banks), credit unions, cash depositories, industrial banks, and similar financial institutions. No bank or other finanical institution shall act as a paying paying agents. agent until duly qualified as such under the regulations prescribed by the Secretary, nor unless (1) it is incorporated under Federal law or under the laws of a State, Territory, possession, the District of Columbia, or the Commonwealth of the Philippine Islands; (2) in the usual course of business it accepts, subject to withdrawal, funds for deposit or the purchase of shares; (3) it is under the supervision of the banking department or equivalent authority of the jurisdiction in which it is incorporated; and (4) it maintains a regular office for the transaction of its business. "(i) Any losses resulting from payments made in connection with the redemption of savings bonds shall be replaced out of the fund established by the Government Losses in Shipment Act, as amended, under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury. The Treasurer of the United States, any Federal Reserve bank, or any qualified paying agent authorized or permitted to make payments in connection with the redemption of such bonds, shall be relieved from liability to the United States for such losses, upon a es. of Replacement of loss 50 Stat. 479. 5 U. S. C. § 134g. Post, pp. 574, 592. Release from liability. 50 Stat. 479. 5 U. S. C. § 134b. Crediting of recov eries and repayments. Annual statement. 40 Stat. 288. Ante, p. 47, post, I p. 59. Proof of death to support credit allow. ance. 56 Stat. 145. IV, app. 1005. determination by the Secretary of the Treasury that such losses resulted from no fault or negligence on the part of the Treasurer, the Federal Reserve bank, or the qualified paying agent. The Post Office Department or the Postal Service shall be relieved from such liability upon a joint determination by the Postmaster General and the Secretary of the Treasury that such losses resulted from no fault or negligence on the part of the Post Office Department or the Postal Service. The provisions of section 3 of the Government Losses in Shipment Act, as amended, with respect to the finality of decisions by the Secretary of the Treasury shall apply to the determinations made pursuant to this subsection. All recoveries and repayments on account of such losses, as to which replacement shall have been made out of the fund, shall be credited to it and shall be available for the purposes thereof. The Secretary of the Treasury shall include in his annual report to the Congress a statement of all payments made from the fund pursuant to this subsection." SEC. 4. The Second Liberty Bond Act, as amended, is further amended by adding at the end thereof the following sections: "SEC. 23. A finding of death made by any official or agency of the United States authorized by section 5 of the Act of March 7, 1942, 50 U. S. C., Supp. as amended (U. S. C., Supp. III, title 50, Appendix, sec. 1005), or by any other law to make such a finding, or by the Secretary of War or the Secretary of the Navy, shall be a sufficient proof of death to support the allowance of credit in the accounts of any Federal Reserve bank or accountable officer of the Treasury Department in any case involving the transfer, exchange, reissue, redemption, or payment of bonds and other obligations of the United States, including those obligations guaranteed by the United States for which the Treasury Department acts as transfer agent. Gift, bequest, or other transfer to U. S. gation. "SEC. 24. Whenever any direct obligation of the United States, Redemption of obli- bearing interest or sold on a discount basis, is donated to the United States, is bequeathed by will to the United States, become the property of the United States under the terms of a trust, or is by its terms. payable upon the death of the owner to the United States or any officer thereof in his official capacity, the Treasurer of the United States upon receipt of such obligation shall effect redemption thereof. If under applicable law such gift, bequest, or other transfer to the United States is subject to a gift or inheritance tax, the Treasurer shall pay such tax out of the proceeds of redemption and shall deposit the balance in the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts or as otherwise authorized by law. If no tax is payable the entire proceeds shall be so deposited." Payment of tax. 40 U. S. C. §§ 301, 302. Disposition of securities acquired by U.S. Limitation. SEC. 5. (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 3749 of the Revised Statutes, as amended, the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to sell, exchange, or otherwise dispose of any bonds, notes, or other securities, acquired by him on behalf of the United States under judicial process or otherwise, or delivered to him by an executive department or agency of the United States for disposal, or to enter into arrangements for the extension of the maturity thereof, in such manner, in such amounts, at such prices, for cash, securities, or other property, or any combination thereof, and upon such terms and conditions as he may deem advisable and in the public interest. No such bonds, notes, or other securities of any single issuer having at the date of disposal an aggregate face or par value, or in the case of no-par stock an aggregate stated or book value, in excess of $1,000,000, which may be held by the Secretary of the Treasury at any one time, shall be sold or otherwise disposed of under the authority of this section. (b) Nothing contained in this section shall be construed to super |