Post Office Department-Postal Service (out of the Postal Revenues): For contract air mail, $3,792.36. For city delivery carriers, $37.50. For clerks, first- and second-class post offices, $158.70. For compensation to postmasters, $109.71. For indemnities, domestic mail, $60.12. For miscellaneous items, first- and second-class post offices, $16. For operating force for public buildings, Post Office Department, $5. For operating supplies for public buildings, Post Office Department, $87.38. For payment of rewards, $25. For post-office stationery, equipment, and supplies, $7.50. For Railway Mail Service, salaries, $414.01. For railroad transportation and mail messenger service, $32.19. For rent, light, fuel, and water, $147. For Rural Delivery Service, $325.14. For transportation of equipment and supplies, $4.82. For Vehicle Service, $55.90. For Village Delivery Service, $4.50. Total, audited claims, section 204 (a), $257,527.56, together with such additional sum due to increases in rates of exchange as may be necessary to pay claims in the foreign currency and interest as specified in certain of the settlements of the General Accounting Office. (b) For the payment of the following claims, certified to be due by the General Accounting Office under appropriations the balances of which have been carried to the surplus fund where the provisions of section 5 of the Act of June 20, 1874 (31 U. S. C. 713), and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year 1938 and prior years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under section 2 of the Act of July 7, 1884 (5 U. S. C. 266), as fully set forth in Senate Document Numbered 78, Seventy-seventh Congress, there is appropriated as follows: Independent Offices: For operations under Mineral Act of For wage records, Social Security Board, 11 cents. For retirement of cotton pool participation trust certificates, For exportation and domestic consumption of agricultural commodities, Department of Agriculture (transfer to Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation, Act June 28, 1937), $74.42. For salaries and expenses, Soil Conservation Service, 53 cents. For elimination of diseased cattle, Department of Agriculture, $600. For exportation and domestic consumption of agricultural commodities, Department of Agriculture, $4.58. For acquisition of lands for protection of watersheds of navigable streams, $352.02. Department of the Interior: For National Park Service, $3.92. For Indian school support, $44.01. For general expenses, Indian Service, $94.55. For conservation of health among Indians, $76.89. Total. Additional claims. 18 Stat. 110. 23 Stat. 254. 40 Stat. 1009. 50 Stat. 323. 15 U. S. C. § 713c. 49 Stat. 1601. 50 Stat. 10. 48 Stat. 22. 48 Stat. 1055. For Indian boarding schools, 49 cents. For support of Indians and administration of Indian property, 59 cents. For irrigation, Indian reservations (reimbursable), $2.26. Navy Department: For ordnance and ordnance stores, Bureau of For pay, subsistence, and transportation, Navy, $929.62. For payment to officers and employees of the United States in foreign countries due to appreciation of foreign currencies (Navy), $57.14. For engineering, Bureau of Engineering, $32,642.55. For aviation, Navy, $1,780.20. For maintenance, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, 32 cents. $505. For foreign-service pay adjustment, appreciation of Foreign currencies (State), $19.33. For transportation of Foreign Service officers, $63.04. Treasury Department: For collecting the internal revenue, $1.59. War Department: For Organized Reserves, 15 cents. For Army transportation, $85.90. For pay, etc., of the Army, $286.19. For pay of the Army, $39.11. For general appropriations, Quartermaster Corps, $2.38. For clothing and equipage, $62.10. For Air Corps, Army, $27.36. For travel of the Army, $1.20. For working fund, War, Chemical Warfare Service (Navy, construction repair), $984.98. For Reserve Officers' Training Corps, $22.22. For Civilian Conservation Corps, $322.33. For emergency conservation work (transfer to War, Act June 22, 1936), $64.70. For emergency conservation work (transfer to War, Act February 9, 1937), $72.50. For emergency conservation fund (transfer to War, Act March 31, 1933), $171.93. For emergency conservation fund (transfer to War, Act June 19, 1934), $28.55. Emergency relief: For emergency relief, emergency conservation work, War, Civilian Conservation Corps, $436.17. For emergency relief, Works Progress Administration, administrative expenses, general, $55.70. For emergency relief, Works Progress Administration, Federal projects approved prior to June 30, 1937, $241.83. For emergency relief, Resettlement Administration, sanitation, prevention of soil erosion, and so forth (transfer to Agriculture), $3,229. For emergency relief, Works Progress Administration, National Youth Administration (Federal projects), $68.97. For emergency relief, Works Progress Administration, grants to States, and so forth, $86.46. For emergency relief, Works Progress Administration, assistance for educational, professional, and clerical persons, $7.50. For emergency relief, Resettlement Administration, rural rehabilitation (transfer to Agriculture), $63.50. For emergency relief, Agriculture, Farm Security Administration, public buildings, parks, utilities, flood control, and so forth, $19.58. Post Office Department-Postal Service (Out of the Postal Revenues): For clerks, first- and second-class post offices, $303.74. For payment of rewards, $25. Total, audited claims, section 204 (b), $96,630.37, together with such additional sum due to increases in rates of exchange as may be necessary to pay claims in the foreign currency and interest as specified in certain of the settlements of the General Accounting Office. Total. Volunteers, with Spain. SEC. 205. For the payment of claims allowed by the General Accounting Office pursuant to the Act entitled "An Act for the relief of officers and soldiers of the volunteer service of the United States mustered into service for the War with Spain, and who were held in service in the Philippine Islands after the ratification of the treaty of peace, April 11, 1899", approved May 2, 1940 (Public Act Numbered 505, Seventy-sixth Congress), which have been certified to Congress under section 2 of the Act of July 7, 1884 (U. S. C., 866e. title 5, sec. 266), under the War Department in Senate Document Numbered 79, and House Document Numbered 266 of the Seventyseventh Congress, $285,456.79. SEC. 206. For payment of the claim allowed by the General Accounting Office for payment of bounty for destruction of enemy's vessels, provided in section 4635 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended by the Permanent Appropriation Repeal Act, 1934 (31 U. S. C., 725b), which has been certified to Congress in House Document Numbered 265 of the Seventy-seventh Congress, $28.57. SEC. 207. For payment of the claims allowed by the General Accounting Office for extra pay to volunteers, War with Spain, and certified to Congress as provided by law, under the War Department, in House Document Numbered 268, Seventy-seventh Congress, $26. SEC. 208. For payment of the claim allowed by the General Accounting Office for the payment of prize money to captors, Spanish War, as provided under sections 3689, 4613, and 4652 of the Revised Statutes, as amended by the Permanent Appropriation Repeal Act, 1934 (31 U. S. C., 725f), certified to Congress in House Document Numbered 276, Seventy-seventh Congress, $1.93. TITLE III-GENERAL PROVISIONS War 54 Stat.176. 23 Stat. 254. Payment of bounty. 48 Stat. 1226. Volunteers, with Spain. War Prize money to captors, Spanish War. 48 Stat. 1228. Interpreters, Immi Ante, p. 302. SEO. 301. Section 502 of the Act entitled "An Act making appro- gration and Naturalipriations for the Department of State, the Department of Com-zation Service. merce, the Department of Justice, and the Federal Judiciary, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1942, and for other purposes", is hereby amended, effective July 1, 1941, by inserting at the end thereof before the period the following: ": Provided, That this section shall not apply to the employment of interpreters in the ship requirement. Immigration and Naturalization Service (not to exceed ten permanent employees and such temporary employees as are required from time to time) where competent citizen interpreters are not available". Proviso. Waiver of citizen Within-grade salary tion. SEC. 302. No appropriation or part of any appropriation available for obligation during the fiscal year 1942, including funds of Gov- advancement, restric ernment-owned or controlled corporations, shall be used for granting within-grade salary advancements to any officer or employee of the Government of the United States, the District of Columbia, or of any such corporation, who is compensated on a per annum basis and who occupies a position the compensation of which is fixed (1) according to the schedules prescribed by the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, or (2) by Executive Order Numbered 6746, or 42 Stat. 1491. 5 U. S. C. § 673. Post, p. 614. Proviso. Persons advocating overthrow of U. S. Government. Provisos. Administration oaths. Penalty. (3) administratively according to schedules patterned after such Classification Act: Provided, That this section shall cease to be operative whenever a uniform, within-grade, salary-advancement plan for positions compensated according to such Classification Act, as amended, shall take effect, pursuant to law. SEC. 303. 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 of States by force or violence: Provided further, That such administrative or supervisory employees of the various executive departments and other governmental agencies as may be designated for the purpose by the heads of the various executive departments and other governmental agencies are hereby authorized to administer the oaths to persons making affidavits referred to in this section and similar sections in other appropriation Acts, and they shall charge no fee for so doing: 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 Citizenship require ments. Availability of designated appropriations. 446, 396. law. SEC. 304. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act or authorized hereby to be expended (except as otherwise provided for herein) shall be used to pay the compensation of any officer or employee of the Government of the United States, whose post of duty is in Continental United States unless such person is a cítizen 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. 305. The appropriations and authority with respect to appropriations contained herein for the fiscal year 1942 and the appropriations and authority with respect to appropriations contained in Ante, pp. 408, 466, the Department of Agriculture Appropriation Act, 1942, the LaborFederal Security Appropriation Act, 1942, the Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1942, and the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1942, shall be available from and including July 1, 1941, for the purposes respectively provided in such appropriations Ratification of in- and authority. All obligations incurred during the period between curred obligations. Short title. June 30, 1941, and the respective dates of enactment of this Act and such other appropriation Acts in anticipation of such respective appropriations and authority are hereby ratified and confirmed if in accordance with the terms thereof. SEC. 306. This Act may be cited as the "Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1941". Approved, July 3, 1941. (CHAPTER 274] July 3, 1941 [Š. 178] [Public Law 151] Niobrara County, Wyo. Issuance of oil and Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of American in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to issue leases under the provisions of section 19 of the Act of February 25, 1920 gas leases. (41 Stat. 437), as amended, except as otherwise provided in this Act, covering lands within the area in Niobrara County, Wyoming, described as follows: Southwest quarter section 25; south half section 26; southeast quarter, southeast quarter northwest quarter, and east half southwest quarter section 27; east half section 34; north half and southeast quarter section 35, all the foregoing in township 36 north, range 65 west, of the sixth principal meridian, and west half northeast quarter section 28, township 36 north, range 64 west, of the sixth principal meridian. Such leases shall be issued to the respective oil and gas operators in possession of lands within the area described above on and prior to January 1, 1940, under placer-mining claims initiated prior to October 16, 1918, and shall ínure to the benefit of all parties having contracts with the lessees or operators under such placer mining claims as their interests may appear. Each lease shall be dated as of January 1, 1940, and shall be for a term of ten years and so long thereafter as oil or gas is produced in paying quantities. Each lease shall reserve as royalty to the United States 122 per centum of all the oil and gas produced except oil or gas used for production purposes or unavoidably lost. No lease shall issue unless (1) an application for lease be made within six months from the effective date of this Act; (2) the application covers all of the lands in the possession of the applicant within the area described above; (3) the applicant shows aggregate expenditures prior to January 1, 1940, by the applicant and his predecessors in interest of not less than $10,000 on or for the benefit of each claim upon which the application is based; and (4) the applicant shall pay to the United States as royalty 4 cents per barrel for all oil and one-fourth cent per thousand cubic feet for all gas produced from the claim prior to January 1, 1940, except oil or gas used for production purposes or unavoidably lost. Approved, July 3, 1941. (CHAPTER 275] AN ACT To amend section 2 of the Act of April 3, 1939 (53 Stat. 556), so as to make its provisions applicable to personnel of all components of the Army of the United States. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 2 of the Act of April 3, 1939 (53 Stat. 556), is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 2. When the facilities of the Army for instruction and training in aviation are deemed by the Secretary of War to be insufficient he may, under such regulations as he may prescribe, and without reference to any limitation contained in section 127a of the National Defense Act, as amended (10 U. S. C. 535), detail personnel of the Army of the United States as students of any technical, professional, or other educational institution, or as students, observers, or investigators at such 278941-42-PT. I-37 41 Stat. 445. Terms and conditions. |