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sation 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.

SEC. 503. No part of any appropriation contained in 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 has voted not to approve of the nomination of said person.

Senate disapproval of nomination, effect.

Persons advocating overthrow of U. S.

Provisos.
Affidavit.

Penalty.

SEC. 504. 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 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. 505. No part of the funds appropriated by titles III and IV for salaries of judges, the Attorney General, Assistant Attorneys General, Solicitor General, district attorneys, marshals, and clerks of court shall be used for any other purpose whatsoever, but such salaries shall be allotted out of appropriations herein made for such salaries and retained by the Department or the Administrative Office of the United States Courts and paid to such officials severally, as and when such salaries fall due and without delay.

Approved, June 28, 1941.

[CHAPTER 259]

AN ACT

Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1942, 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 following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1942, namely:

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY

SALARIES

Salaries: For the Secretary of the Interior, Under Secretary, First Assistant Secretary, Assistant Secretary, and other personal services in the District of Columbia, including a special assistant to the Secretary of the Interior to be appointed without reference to civilservice requirements, at a salary of not to exceed $5,000, $924,570:

Use of designated funds.

June 28, 1941 [H. R. 4590] [Public Law 136]

Interior Depart. ment Appropriation Act, 1942.

Post, pp. 552, 832.

Provisos.

Salary restriction.

42 Stat. 1488.

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Provided, That in expending appropriations or portions of appropriations, contained in this Act, for the payment for personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act 5 U.S. C. 661-674. of 1923, as amended, with the exception of the First Assistant Secretary and the Assistant Secretary, the average of the salaries of the total number of persons under any grade in any bureau, office, or other appropriation unit shall not at any time exceed the average of the compensation rates specified for the grade by such Act, as amended, and in grades in which only one position is allocated the salary of such position shall not exceed the average of the compensation rates for the grade, except that in unusually meritorious cases of one position in a grade advances may be made to rates higher than the average of the compensation rates of the grade but not more often than once in any fiscal year and then only to the next plicable in designated higher rate: Provided, That this restriction shall not apply (1) to grades 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the clerical-mechanical service, or (2) to require the reduction in salary of any person whose compensation was fixed, as of July 1, 1924, in accordance with the rules of section 6 of such Act, (3) to require the reduction in salary of any person who is transferred from one position to another position in the same or different grade in the same or a different bureau, office, or other appropriation unit, (4) to prevent the payment of a salary under any grade at a rate higher than the maximum rate of the grade when such higher rate is permitted by the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, and is specifically authorized by other law, or (5) to reduce the compensation of any person in a grade in which only one position is allocated: Provided, That no part of the appropriation made available to the office of the Secretary by this section shall be used for the broadcast of radio programs designed for or calculated to influence the passage or defeat of any legislation pending before the Congress.

42 Stat. 1490.

5 U. S. C. § 666.

Radio broadcasts.
Restriction on use of

funds.

etc.

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OFFICE OF SOLICITOR

For personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $313,640.

DIVISION OF TERRITORIES AND ISLAND POSSESSIONS

For personal services in the District of Columbia, $122,880.

DIVISION OF INVESTIGATIONS

For investigating official matters under the control of the DepartTimber protection, ment of the Interior; for protecting timber on the public lands, and for the more efficient execution of the law and rules relating to the cutting thereof; for protecting public lands from illegal and fraudulent entry or appropriation; for adjusting claims for swamplands and indemnity for swamplands; and for traveling and other expenses of persons employed hereunder, $469,100, including not exceeding $43,500 for personal services in the District of Columbia; not exceeding $52,500 for the purchase, exchange, operation, and maintenance of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles and motorboats for the use of agents and others employed in the field ex service. The Secretary of the Interior shall include in his annual report a full statement of all expenditures made under authority of this paragraph.

Personal services.

Statement of penditures.

GRAZING SERVICE

For carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to stop injury to the public grazing lands by preventing overgrazing and soil deterioration, to provide for their orderly use, improve

43 U. S. C. §§ 3153150-1.

Classification of lands, etc.

ment, and development, to stabilize the livestock industry dependent
upon the public range, and for other purposes", approved June 28,
1934 (48 Stat. 1269), and as amended by the Acts of June 26, 1936
(49 Stat. 1976), and July 14, 1939 (53 Stat. 1002), including exami-
nation and classification of lands with respect to grazing or agri-
cultural utility, preparation of land classification maps and reports,
traveling and other necessary expenses, not to exceed $25,000 for
the detection, prevention, and suppression of fires on lands within
grazing districts, not to exceed $120,500 for personal services in the
District of Columbia, and not to exceed $30,000 for the purchase,
exchange, operation, and maintenance of motor-propelled passenger-
carrying vehicles, $740,000; for payment of a salary of $5 per diem
while actually employed and for the payment of necessary travel men.
expenses, exclusive of subsistence, of members of advisory committees
of local stockmen, $60,000; in all, $800,000.

For construction, purchase, and maintenance of range improvements within grazing districts, pursuant to the provisions of sections 10 and 11 of the Act of June 28, 1934 (48 Stat. 1269), and as amended by the Acts of June 26, 1936 (49 Stat. 1976), and July 14, 1939 (53 Stat. 1002), and not including contributions under section 9 of the Act of June 28, 1934, $250,000: Provided, That expenditures hereunder shall not exceed 25 per centum of all moneys received from grazing districts under the provisions of said Act of June 28, 1934, as amended, during the fiscal years 1941 and 1942.

Leasing of grazing lands: For leasing State, county, or privately owned lands in accordance with the provisions of the Act of June 23, 1938 (52 Stat. 1033), $75,000: Provided, That expenditures hereunder shall not exceed the aggregate receipts covered into the Treasury in accordance with section 4 of said Act.

PETROLEUM CONSERVATION DIVISION

For

Salaries and expenses, oil regulation and enforcement: administering and enforcing the provisions of the Act approved February 22, 1935 (49 Stat. 30), entitled "An Act to regulate interstate and foreign commerce in petroleum and its products by prohibiting the shipment in such commerce of petroleum and its products produced in violation of State law, and for other purposes", as amended, and to include necessary personal services in the District of Columbia (not to exceed $44,500), traveling expenses, contract stenographic reporting services, rent, stationery, and office supplies, not to exceed $3,100 for printing and binding, not to exceed $600 for books, newspapers, and periodicals, and not to exceed $14,000 for the purchase, exchange, hire, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-propelled passengercarrying vehicles, $247,500.

BITUMINOUS COAL DIVISION

Salaries and expenses: For all necessary expenditures of the Bituminous Coal Division in carrying out the purposes of the Bituminous Coal Act of 1937, approved April 26, 1937 (50 Stat. 72), as amended by the Act of April 11, 1941 (Public, Numbered 34), including personal services and rent in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; traveling expenses, including expenses of attendance at meetings which, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, are necessary for the efficient discharge of the responsibilities of the Division; contract stenographic reporting services; stationery and office supplies; purchase, rental, exchange, operation, maintenance, and repair of reproducing, photographing, and other such equipment, typewriters, calculating machines, mechanical tabulating equipment, and other office appliances and labor-saving devices; printing and binding;

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Personal services.

Advisory committees of local stock

Range improve

ments.

43 U. S. C. §§ 3151, 315j, 3150-1.

43 U. S. C. § 315h. Proviso.

43 U. S. C. §315m-1. Proviso.

43 U. S. C. § 315m-4.

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50 Stat. 86.

15 U. S. C. § 838.

witness fees and fees and mileage in accordance with section 8 of the Bituminous Coal Act of 1937; not to exceed $3,250 for purchase, exchange, hire, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, including one for use in the District of Columbia; garage rentals; miscellaneous items, including those for public instruction and information deemed necessary; and not to exceed $1,800 for purchase and exchange of newspapers, lawbooks, reference books, and periodicals, $3,200,000.

SOIL AND MOISTURE CONSERVATION OPERATIONS

For all necessary expenses of administering and carrying out directly and in cooperation with other agencies a soil and moisture conservation program on lands under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the protection of land resources against soil erosion", approved April 27, 1935 (16 U. S. C. 590a-590f), and 5 U. S. C. § 133t note. Reorganization Plan No. IV, including such special measures as may be

49 Stat. 163.

54 Stat. 1235.

Personal services.

Provisos.

Cost limitation.

necessary to prevent floods and siltation of reservoirs; the improvement of irrigation and land drainage; the procurement of nursery stock and the establishment and operation of erosion nurseries; the making of conservation plans and surveys; the dissemination of information; and the purchase, erection, or improvement of permanent buildings; and including personal services in the District of Columbia (not to exceed $125,000), and elsewhere; traveling expenses; furniture, furnishings, office equipment and supplies; not to exceed $2,000 for the purchase of books and periodicals; operation, maintenance, and repair of motor-propelled and horse-drawn passengercarrying vehicles, including not to exceed $12,500 for the purchase of such vehicles, $2,178,700: Provided, That the cost of any building purchased, erected, or as improved, exclusive of the cost of constructing a water supply or sanitary system and connecting the same with any such building, shall not exceed $2,500, and all such improvements shall be on Government-owned or Indian lands: Provided further, Warehouse main That this appropriation shall be available for meeting expenses of warehouse maintenance and the procurement, care, and handling of supplies, materials, and equipment stored therein for distribution to projects under the supervision of the Department of the Interior, and for sale and distribution to other Government activities, the cost of such supplies and materials or the value of such equipment (including the cost of transportation and handling), to be reimbursed to the appropriation for soil and moisture conservation operations current at Reproduction of the time such reimbursement is received: Provided further, That repro

tenance, etc.

aerial photographs,

etc.

ductions of such aerial or other photographs, mosaics, and maps as shall be required in connection with the authorized soil and moisture conservation operations of the Department of the Interior may be furnished to cooperating persons or agencies and to Government agencies at the estimated cost of furnishing such reproductions, and to other persons or agencies at such prices (not less than estimated cost of furnishing such reproductions) as the Secretary may determine, the money received from such sales to be deposited in the Treasury to Nursery-stock the credit of this appropriation: Provided further, That any part of this appropriation allocated for the production or procurement of nursery stock shall remain available for expenditure for not more than three fiscal years.

funds.

CONTINGENT EXPENSES, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

For the contingent expenses of the office of the Secretary and the bureaus and offices of the Department (except soil and moisture conservation operations, production of alumina from low grade bauxite,

aluminum clays and alunite, and manganese beneficiation pilot plants and research); furniture, carpets, ice, lumber, hardware, dry goods, advertising, teletype rentals and service, telegraphing, telephone service, including personal services of temporary or emergency telephone operators; streetcar fares not exceeding $150; expressage, diagrams, awnings, filing devices, typewriters, adding and addressing machines, and other labor-saving devices, including the repair, exchange, and maintenance thereof; constructing model and other cases and furniture; postage stamps to prepay postage on foreign mail and for special-delivery and air-mail stamps for use in the United States; traveling expenses, including necessary expenses of inspectors and attorneys; fuel and light; examination of estimates for appropriations in the field for any bureau, office, or service of the Department; not exceeding $500 for the payment of damages caused to private property by Department motor vehicles; not to exceed $1,800 for the purchase of an automobile for the official use of the Secretary of the Interior; purchase and exchange of motortrucks, motorcycles, and bicycles; maintenance, repair, and operation of three motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles and motortrucks, motorcycles, and bicycles to be used only for official purposes; expense of taking testimony and preparing the same in connection with disbarment proceedings instituted against persons charged with improper practices before the Department, its bureaus and offices; expense of translations, and not exceeding $1,000 for contract stenographic reporting services; not exceeding $700 for newspapers; stationery, including tags, labels, index cards, cloth-lined wrappers, and specimen bags, printed in the course of manufacture, and such printed envelopes as are not supplied under contracts made by the Postmaster General, for the Department and its several bureaus and offices, and other absolutely necessary expenses not hereinafter provided for, $160,000, of which not exceeding $3,600 shall be immediately available; and, in addition thereto, sums amounting to $56,600 for stationery supplies shall be deducted from other appropriations made for the fiscal year 1942 as follows: General Land Office, $3,500; Geological Survey, $12,700; National Park Service, $12,500; Bureau of Reclamation, $8,400, any unexpended portion of which shall revert and be credited to the reclamation fund; Division of Investigations, $2,000; Bureau of Mines, $12,500; Grazing Service, $5,000; and said sums so deducted shall be credited to and constitute, together with the first-named sum of $160,000, the total appropriation for contingent expenses for the Department and its several bureaus and offices (except soil and moisture conservation operations, production of alumina from low grade bauxite, aluminum clays and alunite, and manganese beneficiation pilot plants and research) for the fiscal year 1942: Provided, That not to exceed $3,000 of this appropriation shall be available for contract services for radio broadcasting.

Stationery supplies.
Additional sums

from specified appro-
priations.

etc.

Proviso.
Radio broadcasting.

Purchase of books,

Additional sums from specified appro

For the purchase or exchange of professional and scientific books, law and medical books, and books to complete broken sets, periodicals, directories, and other books of reference relating to the business of the Department, $800, and in addition there is hereby made available from any appropriations made for any of the following bureaus or offices priations. of the Department not to exceed the following respective sums: Grazing Service, $250; Indian Service, $500; Bureau of Reclamation, $10,000; Geological Survey, $6,000; National Park Service, $2,200; General Land Office, $500; Bureau of Mines, $4,000.

PRINTING AND BINDING

For printing and binding for the Department of the Interior, $319,735, of which $107,000 shall be for the National Park Service,

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