Public schools. Proviso. 48 Stat. 1227. 31 U. S. C. § 725c. Provisos. Payments to Sani Portland, Oreg. For the establishment and maintenance of public schools, Territory of Alaska, $50,000: Provided, That expenditures hereunder shall not exceed the aggregate receipts covered into the Treasury in accordance with section 4 of the Permanent Appropriation Repeal Act, 1934. Insane of Alaska: For care and custody of persons legally adjudged insane in Alaska, including compensation and travel expenses of medical supervisor, transportation, burial, and other expenses, $209,080: Provided, That authority is granted to the Secretary of tarium Company, the Interior to pay from this appropriation to the Sanitarium Čompany, of Portland, Oregon, or to other contracting institution or institutions, not to exceed $648 per capita per annum for the care and maintenance of Alaskan insane patients during the fiscal year 1942: Provided further, That so much of this sum as may be required shall be available for all necessary expenses in ascertaining the residence of inmates and in returning those who are not legal residents of Alaska to their legal residence or to their friends, and the Secretary of the Interior shall, as soon as practicable, return to their places of residence or to their friends all inmates not residents of Alaska at the time they became insane, and the commitment papers for any person hereafter adjudged insane shall include a statement by the committing authority as to the legal residence of such person. Return of inmates not residents of Alaska. Construction of roads, bridges, etc. Post, p. 833. 47 Stat. 446. Wharf at Juneau. Proviso. 48 Stat. 1227. 31 U. S. C. § 725c. Payment of expenses from receipts. boats. For the construction, repair, and maintenance of roads, tramways, ferries, bridges, and trails, Territory of Alaska, to be expended under the provisions of the Act approved June 30, 1932 (48 U. S. C. 321a321c), $684,500, including not to exceed $26,000 for repair and maintenance of Government wharf at Juneau, Alaska, to be immediately available. For the construction, repair, and maintenance of roads, tramways, bridges, and trails, Territory of Alaska, $150,000, to be available until expended: Provided, That expenditures hereunder shall not exceed the aggregate receipts covered into the Treasury in accordance with section 4 of the Permanent Appropriation Repeal Act, 1934. The Alaska Railroad: All amounts received by the Alaska Railroad during the fiscal year 1942 shall be available, and continue available until expended, for every expenditure requisite for and incident to the authorized work of the Alaska Railroad, including mainteOperation, etc., of nance, operation, and improvements of railroads in Alaska; maintenance and operation of river steamers and other boats on the Yukon River and its tributaries in Alaska; operation and maintenance of ocean-going or coastwise vessels by ownership, charter, or arrangement with other branches of the Government service, for the purpose of providing additional facilities for the transportation of freight, passengers, or mail, when deemed necessary, for the benefit and development of industries and travel affecting territory tributary to the Mount McKinley Alaska Railroad; maintenance and operation of lodges, camps, and National Park. 16 U. S. C. § 353a. Damage claims. 39 Stat. 750. transportation facilities for the accommodation of visitors to Mount McKinley National Park, including the purchase, exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles as authorized by the Act of March 29, 1940 (54 Stat. 80); stores for resale; payment of claims for losses and damages arising from operations, including claims of employees of the railroad for loss and damage resulting from wreck or accident on the railroad, not due to negligence of the claimant, limited to clothing and other necessary personal effects used in connection with his duties and not exceeding $100 in value; payment of amounts due connecting lines; payment of compensation and expenses as authorized by section 42 of the Injury Compensation Act approved September 7, 1916 (5 Provisos. Personal services; Printing and binding. U.S. C. 793), to be reimbursed as therein provided: Provided, That TERRITORY OF HAWAII Salaries of the Governor and of the secretary, $15,800. For contingent expenses, to be expended by the Governor for stationery, postage, and incidentals, and for traveling expenses of the Governor while absent from the capital on official business, $2,000; private secretary to the Governor, $3,100; temporary clerk hire, $750; in all, $5,850. GOVERNMENT OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS For salaries of the Governor and employees incident to the execution of the Acts of March 3, 1917 (48 U. S. C. 1391), and June 22, 1936 (48 U. S. C. 1405v), traveling expenses of officers and employees, necessary janitor service, care of Federal grounds, repair and preservation of Federal buildings and furniture, purchase of equipment, stationery, lights, water, and other necessary miscellaneous expenses, including not to exceed $5,000 for purchase, including exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passengercarrying vehicles, and not to exceed $4,000 for personal services, household equipment and furnishings, fuel, ice, and electricity necessary in the operation of Government House at Saint Thomas and Government House at Saint Croix, $150,075. For salaries and expenses of the agricultural experiment station and the vocational school in the Virgin Islands, including technical personnel, clerks, and other persons; scientific investigations of plants and plant industries, and diseases of animals; demonstrations in practical farming; official traveling expenses; fixtures, apparatus, and supplies; clearing and fencing of land; and other necessary expenses, including not to exceed $2,000 for purchase, including exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, $45,650. Mount McKinley portation Co., purchase of property. Tourist and Trans 16 U. S. C. § 353a. Deficits of munici For defraying the deficits in the treasuries of the municipal gov- pal governments. ernments because of the excess of current expenses over current revenues for the fiscal year 1942, municipality of Saint Thomas and Saint John, $15,000, and municipality of Saint Croix, $105,000; in all, $120,000, to be paid to the said treasuries in monthly installments. PUERTO RICAN HURRICANE RELIEF To enable the Division of Territories and Island Possessions to continue collection and administration of moneys due the United States on account of loans made under the joint resolutions approved December 21, 1928 (45 Stat. 1067), and January 22, 1930 (46 Stat. 57), and to make compositions and adjustments in any loan here Administrative ex penses. Loan adjustments. Administrative ex penses. 525. tofore made, as authorized by Public Resolutions Numbered 59 (49 Stat. 926) and 60 (49 Stat. 928), Seventy-fourth Congress, approved August 27, 1935, not to exceed $20,000 of any unobligated balances of appropriations made by authority of those joint resolutions, including repayment of principal and payments of interest on such loans, is hereby made available for administrative expenses during the fiscal year 1942. EQUATORIAL AND SOUTH SEA ISLANDS For administrative expenses of the Division of Territories and Island Possessions, in carrying out the provisions of Executive 1 F. R. 405; 3 F. R. Orders Numbered 7368 and 7828, approved May 13, 1936, and March 3, 1938, respectively, relating to certain islands of the United States situate in the Pacific Ocean, including personal services outside the District of Columbia (such employment to be by contract, if deemed necessary, without regard to the provisions of section 3709 of the Revised Statutes), rent, traveling expenses, purchase of necessary books, documents, newspapers and periodicals, stationery, hire of automobiles, purchase of equipment, supplies and provisions, and all other necessary expenses, $26,700. 41 U. S. C. § 5. Survey, etc., of Autarctic regions. 42 Stat. 1488. 5 U. S. C. §§ 661–674. Post, p. 613. 41 U. S. C. § 5. 54 Stat. 643. Hire of work animals, etc. Pick-up trucks, etc. Citizenship require ments. Transfer of household effects. 54 Stat. 1105. 5 U. S. C. § 73c-1. Attendance at meetings, etc. For expenses of the Division of Territories and Island Possessions in the investigation and survey of natural resources of the land and sea areas of the Antarctic regions, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere without regard to the civilservice laws or the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, or by contract, if deemed necessary, without regard to the provisions of section 3709 of the Revised Statutes, rent, traveling expenses, purchase of necessary books, documents, newspapers and periodicals, stationery, hire of automobiles, purchase of equipment, supplies and provisions, and all other necessary expenses, $19,610, together with the unexpended balance of the 1941 appropriations. SEC. 2. Appropriations herein made for field work shall be available for the hire, with or without personal services, of work animals and animal-drawn and motor-propelled vehicles and equipment. SEC. 3. Appropriations herein made shall be available for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of vehicles generally known as quarter-ton or half-ton pick-up trucks and as station wagons without such vehicles being considered as passenger-carrying vehicles and without the cost of purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair being included in the limitation in the various appropriation items for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles. SEC. 4. 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 person 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 had theretofore filed a declaration of intention to become a citizen or who owes allegiance to the United States. SEC. 5. Appropriations under the Department of the Interior available for travel, shall be available for expenses of the transfer of household goods and effects as provided by the Act of October 10, 1940 (Public, Numbered 839), and regulations promulgated thereunder. SEC. 6. Appropriations herein made for the following bureaus and offices shall be available for expenses of attendance of officers and employees at meetings or conventions of members of societies or associations concerned with their work in not to exceed the amounts indicated: Office of the Secretary, $1,000; Grazing Service, $1,000; Petroleum Conservation Division, $1,000; General Land Office, $1,000; Bureau of Indian Affairs, $7,000; Bureau of Reclamation, $6,000; Geological Survey, $3,000; Bureau of Mines, $5,000; National Park Service, $5,000; Fish and Wildlife Service, $5,750; and Soil and Moisture Conservation Operations (all bureaus), $4,000. SEC. 7. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall be used to pay the salary or wages of 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: 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. 8. This Act may be cited as the "Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1942”. Approved, June 28, 1941. [CHAPTER 260] AN ACT To provide for the acquisition and equipment of public works made necessary by the defense program. Persons advocating overthrow of U. S. Government. Provisos. Penalty. Short title. June 28, 1941 [H. R. 4545] [Public Law 137] National public works. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act entitled "An Act to expedite the provision of housing in connection with national defense, and for other purposes", approved October 14, 1940, as amended, is amended by inserting before section 1 the following note. title heading: "TITLE I defense, 54 Stat. 1125. 54 Stat. 1126. SEC. 2. Section 1 (b) and section 3 of such Act are amended by striking out "this Act" wherever occurring therein and inserting in note. lieu thereof "this title". SEC. 3. Such Act is amended by inserting after section 3 the following: "TITLE II "DEFENSE PUBLIC WORKS Policy with respect to defense public "Public work" defined. "SEC. 201. It is hereby declared to be the policy of this title to provide means by which public works may be acquired, maintained, works. and operated in the areas described in section 202. As used in this title, the term 'public work' means any facility necessary for carrying on community life substantially expanded by the national-defense program, but the activities authorized under this title shall be devoted primarily to schools, waterworks, sewers, sewage, garbage and refuse disposal facilities, public sanitary facilities, works for the treatment Areas where certain acute shortages exist. and purification of water, hospitals and other places for the care of the sick, recreational facilities, and streets and access roads. "SEC. 202. Whenever the President finds that in any area or locality an acute shortage of public works or equipment for public works necessary to the health, safety, or welfare of persons engaged in national-defense activities exists or impends which would impede national-defense activities, and that such public works or equipment cannot otherwise be provided when needed, or could not be provided without the imposition of an increased excessive tax burden or an unusual or excessive increase in the debt limit of the taxing or Authority conferred. borrowing authority in which such shortage exists, the Federal Works Administrator is authorized, with the approval of the President, in order to relieve such shortage etc. Acquisition of lands, Waiver of statutory 10. S. . § 1339; requirements. U. C. 41 U. S. C. § 5. 40 U. S. C. § 40a. "(a) To acquire, prior to the approval of title by the Attorney General if necessary (without regard to sections 1136, as amended, and 3709 of the Revised Statutes), improved or unimproved lands or interests in lands by purchase, donation, exchange, lease (without regard to section 322 of the Act of June 30, 1932 (47 Stat. 412), as amended, the Act of March 3, 1877 (19 Stat. 370), or any time limit on the availability of funds for the payment of rent), or condemna40 U. S. C. §§ 257- tion (including proceedings under the Acts of August 1, 1888 (25 Stat. 357), March 1, 1929 (45 Stat. 1415), and February 26, 1931 (46 Stat. 1421)), for such public works. 40 U. S. C. § 34. 258 e, 361-386. Planning and construction. Waiver of statutory 10 U. 8. C. § 1339; requirements. 41 U. S. C. § 5. Loans or grants for public works, etc. "Private defined. "(b) By contract or otherwise (without regard to sections 1136, as amended, and 3709 of the Revised Statutes, section 322 of the Act of June 30, 1932 (47 Stat. 412), or any Federal, State, or municipal laws, ordinances, rules, or regulations relating to plans and specifications or forms of contract, the approval thereof or the submission of estimates therefor), prior to the approval of title by the Attorney General if necessary, to plan, design, construct, remodel, extend, repair, or lease public works, and to demolish structures, buildings, and improvements, on lands or interests in lands acquired under the provisions of subsection (a) hereof or on other lands of the United States which may be available (transfers of which for this purpose by the Federal agency having jurisdiction thereof are hereby authorized notwithstanding any other provisions of law), provide proper approaches thereto, utilities, and transportation facilities, and procure necessary materials, supplies, articles, equipment, and machinery, and do all things in connection therewith to carry out the purposes of this title. "(c) To make loans or grants, or both, to public and private agencies for public works and equipment therefor, and to make contributions to public or private agencies for the maintenance and operation of public works, upon such terms and in such amounts as agency" the Administrator may consider to be in the public interest. As used in this paragraph, the term 'private agency' means any private agency no part of the net earnings of which inures to the benefit of any private shareholder or individual. "SEC. 203. (a) In carrying out this title "(1) no contract on a cost plus a percentage of cost basis shall be made, but contracts may be made on a cost plus a fixed fee basis: Provided, That the fixed fee does not exceed 6 per centum of the estimated cost; "(2) wherever practicable, utilization shall be made of existing private and public facilities or such facilities shall be extended, enlarged, or equipped in lieu of constructing new facilities; "(3) public works shall be maintained and operated by officers and employees of the United States only if and to the extent that local public and private agencies are, in the opinion of the |