Proviso. 32 Stat. 114; 35 Stat. the same, for the transmission of mail in the city of Boston, Massachusetts, $24,000: Provided, That the provisions not inconsistent herewith of the Acts of April 21, 1902 (39 U. S. C. 423), and May 27, 1908 412. (39 U. S. C. 423), relating to the transmission of mail by pneumatic tubes or other similar devices shall be applicable hereto. Vehicle service: For vehicle service; the hire of vehicles; the rental of garage facilities; the purchase, exchange, maintenance, and repair of motor vehicles, including the repair of vehicles owned by, or under the control of, units of the National Guard and departments and agencies of the Federal Government where repairs are made necessary because of utilization of such vehicles in the Postal Service; accident prevention; the hire of supervisors, clerical assistance, mechanics, drivers, garagemen, and such other employees as may be necessary in providing vehicles and vehicle service for use in the collection, transportation, delivery, and supervision of the mail, and United States official mail and messenger service, $15,900,000: Provided, That the Postmaster General may, in his disbursement of this appropriation, apply a part thereof to the leasing of quarters for the housing of Government-owned motor vehicles at a reasonable annual rental for a term not exceeding ten years: Provided further, That the Postmaster General, during the fiscal year 1942 may purchase and maintain from the appropriation "Vehicle service" such tractors and trailer trucks as may be required in the operation of the vehicle service: Provided further, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for maintenance or repair of motor-propelled passengercarrying vehicles for use in connection with the administrative work of the Post Office Department in the District of Columbia. Transportation of equipment and supplies: For the transportation and delivery of equipment, materials, and supplies for the Post Office Department and Postal Service by freight, express, or motor transportation, and other incidental expenses, $350,000. PUBLIC BUILDINGS, MAINTENANCE AND OPERATION Operating force: For personal services in connection with the operation of public buildings, including the Washington Post Office and the Customhouse Building in the District of Columbia, operated by the Post Office Department, together with the grounds thereof and the equipment and furnishings therein, including telephone operators for the operation of telephone switchboards or equivalent telephone switchboard equipment in such buildings jointly serving in each case two or more governmental activities, $23,500,000: Provided, That in no case shall the rates of compensation for the mechanical labor force be in excess of the rates current at the time and in the place where such services are employed. Provisos. Tractors and trailer trucks. Maintenance, etc., restriction. Post, p. 834. Proviso. Pay rates. Operating supplies, public buildings: For fuel, steam, gas, and electric current for lighting, heating, and power purposes, water, ice, lighting supplies, removal of ashes and rubbish, snow and ice, cutting grass and weeds, washing towels, telephone service for custodial forces, and for miscellaneous services and supplies, accident prevention, vacuum cleaners, tools and appliances and repairs thereto, for the operation of completed and occupied public buildings and grounds, including mechanical and electrical equipment, but not the repair thereof, operated by the Post Office Department, including the Washington Post Office and the Customhouse Building in the District of Columbia, and for the transportation of articles and supplies authorized herein, $5,500,000: Provided, That the foregoing appropriation shall not be available for personal services except for work done by limitation. Provisos. contract, or for temporary job labor under exigency not exceeding at one time the sum of $100 at any one building: Provided further, Telephone service. That the Postmaster General is authorized to contract for telephone service in public buildings under his administration by means of telephone switchboards or equivalent telephone switching equipment jointly serving in each case two or more governmental activities, where he determines that joint service is economical and in the interest of the Government, and to secure reimbursement for the cost of such joint service from available appropriations for telephone expenses of the bureaus and offices receiving the same. Provisos. restriction. Furniture, carpets, and safes, public buildings: For the procurement, including transportation, of furniture, carpets, safes, safe and vault protective devices, and repairs of same, for use in public buildings which are now, or may hereafter be, operated by the Post Office Personal services, Department, $637,500: Provided, That, excepting expenditures for labor for or incidental to the moving of equipment from or into public buildings, the foregoing appropriation shall not be used for personal services except for work done under contract or for temporary job labor under exigency and not exceeding at one time the sum of $100 Use of present fur- at any one building: Provided further, That all furniture now owned by the United States in other public buildings or in buildings rented by the United States shall be used, so far as practicable, whether or not it corresponds with the present regulation plan of furniture. niture. Transfer of funds to Bureau of Standards. Deficiency appropriation. Citation of title. Travel expenses on change of station. Proviso. Government motor vehicles, restrictions. Scientific investigations: In the disbursement of appropriations contained in this title for the field service of the Post Office Department the Postmaster General may transfer to the Bureau of Standards not to exceed $20,000 for scientific investigations in connection with the purchase of materials, equipment, and supplies necessary in the maintenance and operation of the Postal Service. Deficiency in postal revenues: If the revenues of the Post Office Department shall be insufficient to meet the appropriations made under title II of this Act, a sum equal to such deficiency in the revenues of such Department is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply such deficiency in the revenues of the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1942, and the sum needed may be advanced to the Post Office Department upon requisition of the Postmaster General. This title may be cited as the "Post Office Department Appropriation Act, 1942". TITLE III-GENERAL PROVISIONS SEC. 301. Appropriations for the fiscal year 1942 available for expenses of travel of civilian officers and employees of the executive departments and establishments shall be available also for expenses of travel performed by them on transfer from one official station to another when authorized by the head of the department or establishment concerned in the order directing such transfer: Provided, That such expenses shall not be allowed for any transfer effected for the convenience of any officer or employee. SEC. 302. No appropriation available for the executive departments and independent establishments of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1942, whether contained in this Act or any other Act, shall be expended (a) To purchase any motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle (exclusive of busses, ambulances, and station wagons), at a cost, completely equipped for operation, and including the value of any vehicle exchanged, in excess of $750, unless otherwise specifically provided for in the appropriation. (b) For the maintenance, operation, and repair of any Governmentowned motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle not used exclusively for official purposes; and "official purposes" shall not include the transportation of officers and employees between their domiciles and places of employment, except in cases of medical officers on out-patient medical services and except in cases of officers and employees engaged in field work the character of whose duties makes such transportation necessary and then only as to such latter cases when the same is approved by the head of the department or establishment concerned. The limitations of this subsection (b) shall not apply to any motor vehicles for official use of the President, the heads of the executive departments, Ambassadors, Ministers, and chargés d'affaires. (c) For the maintenance, upkeep, and repair (exclusive of garage rent, pay of operators, tires, fuel, and lubricants) on any one motorpropelled passenger-carrying vehicle, except busses and ambulances, in excess of one-third of the market price of a new vehicle of the same make and class and in no case in excess of $400. SEC. 303. No part of the money appropriated under this Act shall be paid to any person for the filling of any position for which he or she has been nominated after the Senate upon vote has failed to confirm the nomination of such person. SEC. 304. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act or authorized hereby to be expended shall be used to pay the compensation of any officer or employee of the Government of the United States, or of any agency the majority of the stock of which is owned by the Government of the United States, whose post of duty is in continental United States, unless such officer or employee is a citizen of the United States or a person in the service of the United States on the date of the approval of this Act who, being eligible for citizenship, has filed a declaration of intention to become a citizen or who owes allegiance to the United States: Provided, That this section shall not apply to enlisted men of the United States Coast Guard who are on active duty in that service on the effective date of this Act, until the expiration of the period required for such enlisted men to complete their naturalization, nor shall it apply to personnel of the Coast Guard on the retired list, and enlisted men on active duty with over twelve years' honorable service who are ineligible for United States citizenship. Post, p. 811. Senate confirmation of nomination. Citizenship, etc., provisions. Proviso. Persons advocating overthrow of U. S. Provisos. SEC. 305. 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 overthow 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 contained 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. 306. This Act may be cited as the "Treasury and Post Office Departments Appropriation Act, 1942”. Approved, May 31, 1941. Penalty clause. Short title. May 31, 1941 [H. R. 4534] [Public Law 89] National defense. 54 Stat. 676. To amend the Act approved June 28, 1940, entitled "An Act to expedite the national defense, and for other purposes", in order to extend the power to establish priorities and allocate material. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 2 of 41 U. 8. O., prec. §1 the Act approved June 28, 1940 (Public, Numbered 671, Seventy-sixth Congress), as amended, is amended by inserting "(1)" after "SEO. 2. (a)" and by adding at the end of subsection (a) thereof the following: note. Priorities on defense contracts. Ante, p. 31. "(2) Deliveries of material to which priority may be assigned pursuant to paragraph (1) shall include, in addition to deliveries of material under contracts or orders of the Army or Navy, deliveries of material under "(A) contracts or orders for the Government of any country whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the United States under the terms of the Act of March 11, 1941, entitled 'An Act to promote the defense of the United States'; "(B) contracts or orders which the President shall deem necessary or appropriate to promote the defense of the United States; and "(C) subcontracts or suborders which the President shall deem necessary or appropriate to the fulfillment of any contract or order as specified in this section. Deliveries under any contract or order specified in this section may be assigned priority over deliveries under any other contract or order. Allocation of mate- Whenever the President is satisfied that the fulfillment of requirements rial. information. for the defense of the United States will result in a shortage in the supply of any material for defense or for private account or for export, the President may allocate such material in such manner and to such extent as he shall deem necessary or appropriate in the public Authority to obtain interest and to promote the national defense. The President shall be entitled to obtain such information from, require such reports by, and make such inspection of the premises of, any person, firm, or corporation as may be necessary or appropriate, in his discretion, to the enforcement or administration of the provisions of this section. No person, firm, or corporation shall be held liable for damages or penalties for any default under any contract or order which shall result directly or indirectly from his compliance with any rule, Delegation of power, regulation, or order issued under this section. The President may Nonllability for damages. etc. May 31, 1941 [H. R. 4632] [Public Law 90] iron ore. exercise any power, authority, or discretion conferred on him by this section, through such department, agency, or officer of the Government as he may direct and in conformity with any rules and regulations which he may prescribe." Approved, May 31, 1941. [CHAPTER 158] AN ACT Authorizing vessels of Canadian registry to transport iron ore on the Great Lakes during 1941. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Transportation of United States of America in Congress assembled, That by reason of emergency conditions in transportation on the Great Lakes, notwithstanding the provisions of section 27 of the Act of Congress approved June 5, 1920 (41 Stat. 999), as amended by Act of Congress approved April 11, 1935 (49 Stat. 154), and by Act of Congress approved July June 3, 1941 2, 1935 (49 Stat. 442), or the provisions of any other Act of Congress To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain property to Washington County, Utah, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior, in his discretion, is hereby authorized to convey, by quitclaim deed, to Washington County, Utah, or the authorized agents or representatives of said county, certain land and the improvements thereon, said land being described as follows: SALT LAKE MERIDIAN A part of lot 1 in block 9, and a part of lot 2 in block 3 of Rockville Townsite Survey, described as follows: Beginning at the southeast corner of said lot 2 in block 3, which point is approximately north six hundred and thirty-nine feet and west nine hundred and twentythree feet from the southeast corner of section 1, township 42 south, range 11 west, and running thence north thirty feet, thence west eighty feet, thence south three hundred and twenty-five feet, thence east eighty feet, thence north two hundred and ninety-five feet to the place of beginning, containing twenty-six thousand square feet, more or less. Approved, June 3, 1941. [CHAPTER 160] AN ACT To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Susquehanna River at or near the city of Millersburg, Pennsylvania, and to authorize its construction by the Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, Authority. 46 U. S. C. 883. June 3, 1941 [H. R. 1771] [Public Law 91] Washington County, Utah. Conveyance to. Description. June 3, 1941 [H. R. 2828] [Public Law 92] Susquehanna River. burg, Pa. 54 Stat. 170. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the bridging, at MillersSusquehanna River at or near the city of Millersburg, Pennsylvania, authorized to be built by the General State Authority, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and/or the Pennsylvania Bridge and Tunnel Commission, by an Act of Congress approved April 30, 1940, are hereby extended one and three years respectively from May 1, 1941. Section 1 of such Act is amended by striking out "the General State Authority, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and/or the Pennsylvania Bridge and Tunnel Commission" and inserting in lieu thereof "the General State Authority, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, The Pennsylvania Bridge and Tunnel Commission, or the Dauphin County (Pennsylvania) Authority, or any two or all such bodies". SEC. 2. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved. Approved, June 3, 1941. Amendment. |