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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

For an additional amount for salaries, Administrative Division, fiscal year 1942, $50,000.

For an additional amount for salaries, Criminal Division, fiscal year 1942, $60,000.

NAVY DEPARTMENT

NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT

BUREAU OF ORDNANCE

Ordnance and Ordnance Stores, Navy, 1942: For an additional amount for Ordnance and Ordnance Stores, Navy, 1942, including the objects and subject to the limitations and conditions applicable to the appropriation under this heading in the "Naval Appropriation Act, 1942," $120,996,000.

BUREAU OF YARDS AND DOCKS

Public works, Bureau of Yards and Docks: The appropriations heretofore made under this heading are hereby made available for the following public works and public utilities at a cost not to exceed the amount stated for each project, respectively:

Overhead structure near Moore Dry Dock Company, Oakland, California, $260,000.

Improvement of Seaside Avenue, Terminal Island, Los Angeles, California, $140,000.

The provisions of section 4 of the Act approved April 25, 1939 (53 Stat. 590-592), shall be applicable to all public works and publicutilities projects provided for the Navy Department in this Act regardless of location: Provided, That the fixed fee to be paid the contractor as a result of any contract hereafter entered into under the authority of this provision shall not exceed 6 per centum of the estimated cost of the contract, exclusive of the fee, as determined by the Secretary of the Navy.

NAVY DEPARTMENT

(Salaries in the District of Columbia)

The appropriations contained in the Naval Appropriation Act, 1942, shall be available for the employment of two additional employees in the Office of the Secretary of the Navy, at salaries per annum in excess of $5,000, but not in excess of the appropriate rates established in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, as amended.

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The last proviso under the heading "Miscellaneous Expenses" in the Naval Appropriation Act, 1942, as amended, is hereby further of employees, D. C. amended to read as follows: "That no part of this or any other appropriation for the Navy Department or Naval Establishment for the fiscal years 1941 and 1942, or the funds allotted to the Navy Department, shall be available for the employment of a greater number than twelve thousand civilian officers and employees in the Navy Department proper, at Washington, except in pursuance of specific appropriations as to numbers hereafter provided."

The paragraphs in this title under the caption "Navy Department" may be cited as "Title IV, Naval Appropriation Act, 1942”.

Citation of title.

278941°-42-PT. I-48

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Minister to Iceland.
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dian Institute.

DEPARTMENT OF STATE

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY

Salaries: For an additional amount for salaries, fiscal year 1942, including the objects specified under this head in the Department of State Appropriation Act, 1942, $835,000.

CONTINGENT EXPENSES (DEPARTMENTAL)

For an additional amount for contingent expenses, Department of State, fiscal year 1942, including, in addition to the objects specified under this head in the Department of State Appropriation Act, 1942, the purchase, maintenance, repair, and operation of one passengercarrying automobile, $140,000, of which there may be expended not to exceed $28,000 for the purchase of typewriters, adding machines, and other labor-saving devices, including rental, exchange, and repair thereof.

FOREIGN INTERCOURSE

SALARIES, AMBASSADORS AND MINISTERS

The appropriation for salaries of ambassadors and ministers contained in the Department of State Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1942, shall be available for the salary of an Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Iceland, at the rate of $10,000 per annum. Contingent Expenses, Foreign Service: For an additional amount for contingent expenses, Foreign Service, fiscal year 1942, including the objects specified under this head in the Department of State Appropriation Act, 1942, $1,000,000.

Emergencies arising in the Diplomatic and Consular Service: For an additional amount to enable the President to meet unforeseen emergencies arising in the Diplomatic and Consular Service, including the objects and subject to the limitations specified under this heading in the Department of State Appropriation Act for 1942, $1,000,000.

CONTRIBUTIONS, QUOTAS, ET CETERA

For an additional amount for United States contributions to international commissions, congresses, and bureaus, fiscal year 1942, as Inter-American In- follows: (1) To meet the contribution of the United States to the Inter-American Indian Institute, under the convention providing for the creation of the Inter-American Indian Institute, signed November Inter-American Cof- 29, 1940, $4,800; and (2) to meet the contribution of the United States to the Inter-American Coffee Board, under the Inter-American Coffee Agreement, signed at Washington, District of Columbia, on November 28, 1940, $8,000, to remain available until September 30, 1942.

fee Board.
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Meteorological services, Western Hemisphere.

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Transportation ex

penses.
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For the expenses of organizing and holding in the United States meetings of the national directors of the meteorological services of the countries of the Western Hemisphere, and of Regional Commissions III and IV of the International Meteorological Organization, fiscal year 1942, as authorized by and in accordance with Public Law 125, approved June 24, 1941, $14,500, to remain available until June 30, 1943.

COOPERATION WITH THE AMERICAN REPUBLICS

The appropriation "Cooperation with the American Republics," contained in the Department of State Appropriation Act for 1942, is hereby made available for the payment of actual transportation expenses in the United States and abroad and not to exceed $10 per diem, in lieu of subsistence and other expenses, to citizens of the other American republics as specified in said appropriation under such regulations as may be promulgated by the Secretary of State.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT

COAST GUARD

Office of Commandant: For an additional amount for personal services in the District of Columbia, fiscal year 1942, subject to the conditions specified under this head in the Treasury Department Appropriation Act, 1942, $118,000.

Pay and allowances: For an additional amount for pay and allowances, Coast Guard, fiscal year 1942, including the objects specified under this head in the Treasury Department Appropriation Act, 1942, as amended, which appropriation is made available for actual expenses of officers and cadets and quarters and subsistence of enlisted men on shore patrol, emergency shore detail, and other detached duty, or cash in lieu thereof, $6,000,000, and the limitation of $51,621 under this head in such act as modified by the Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1941, on the amount which may be expended for recreation, amusement, comfort, contentment, and health of enlisted men is hereby increased to $69,008.

General expenses: For an additional amount for general expenses, Coast Guard, fiscal year 1942, including the objects specified under this head in the Treasury Department Appropriation Act, 1942, as amended, which appropriation is made available for the reconditioning, equipment, and actual necessary expenses of operation of vessels acquired by the Coast Guard under authority of the Coast Guard Auxiliary and Reserve Act of 1941, $432,640.

Construction of vessels and shore facilities: For an additional amount for construction of vessels and shore facilities, Coast Guard, including the objects specified under this head in the Treasury Department Appropriation Act, 1942, $20,557,745, to remain available until expended, of which amount $346,745, together with the unobligated balance of the no-year appropriation "Special projects, vessels, Coast Guard," shall be available for constructing or purchasing and equipping lighthouse tenders and light vessels for the Coast Guard, $1,936,000 shall be available for the construction of a training station on a site to be donated to the United States Government by the State of Connecticut, and $4,250,000 shall be available for construction or purchase of motorboats and small yachts and for the reconditioning and equipment of motorboats and small yachts acquired by the Coast Guard through purchase or gift or under authority of the Coast Guard Auxiliary and Reserve Act of 1941, and not to exceed 4 percent of said $20,557,745 shall be available for administrative expenses in connection with the accomplishment of the purposes thereof, including personal services in the District of Columbia.

Establishing and improving aids to navigation: For an additional amount for establishing and improving aids to navigation and other works, $436,200, which sum shall be available for all expenditures directly relating thereto.

TITLE III-GENERAL PROVISIONS

SEC. 301. 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

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site to be donated by Connecticut.

Training station

Motorboats and small yachts.

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Persons advocating overthrow of U. S. Government.

Provisos.
Affidavit.

Penalty.

Short title.

October 29, 1941 [S. 1713] [Public Law 283]

ards Act of 1938, amendment.

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. 302. This Act may be cited as the "Second Supplemental National Defense Appropriation Act, 1942."

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25, 1938.

To amend Public Law Numbered 718, Seventy-fifth Congress, approved June

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Fair Labor Stand United States of America in Congress assembled, That paragraph (2) of subsection (b) of section 7 of Public Law Numbered 718, Seventy-fifth Congress, approved June 25, 1938, is hereby amended to read as follows:

52 Stat. 1063.

29 U.S. C. § 207 (b) (2).

Maximum hours of employment.

October 29, 1941 [H. R. 4498] [Public Law 284]

Hospital, D. C.

Saint Elizabeths Admission of insane persons belonging to Foreign Service.

"(2) on an annual basis in pursuance of an agreement with his employer, made as a result of collective bargaining by representatives of employees certified as bona fide by the National Labor Relations Board, which provides that the employee shall not be employed more than two thousand and eighty hours during any period of fifty-two consecutive weeks, or".

Approved, October 29, 1941.

[CHAPTER 462]

AN ACT

To provide for the admission to Saint Elizabeths Hospital of insane persons belonging to the Foreign Service of the United States.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That upon the application of the Secretary of State, the Federal Security Administrator is authorized to admit to Saint Elizabeths Hospital in the District of Columbia, for treatment, American citizens who are Foreign Service officers, as defined in section 2 of the Act of May 24, 1924 (43 Stat. 140), as amended by the Act of February 23, 1931 (46) Stat. 1207; 22 U. S. C. 2), or who are clerks in the Foreign Service classified as provided in section 1 of the Act of February 23, 1931 (46 Stat. 1207; U. S. C. 23 (a)), or who are employees in the Foreign Service and stationed outside the United States, and who are legally adjudged insane in any foreign country and whose legal residence in one of the States, Territories, or the District of Columbia, it has been Subsequent transfer impossible to establish. Upon the ascertainment of the legal resi

22 U. S. C. § 23a.

to place of residence.

Hearing as to mental condition.

dence of persons so admitted to the hospital, the superintendent of the hospital shall thereupon transfer such persons to their respective places of residence, and the expenses attendant thereon shall be paid from the appropriation for the support of the hospital.

Upon the request of any such patient, his relatives or friends, he shall have a hearing in the District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia upon his mental condition and the right of the superintendent of Saint Elizabeths Hospital to hold him for treatment.

Approved, October 29, 1941.

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To amend section 124 of the Internal Revenue Code by extending the time for applications, and changing the procedure, for certification of nationaldefense facilities and contracts for amortization purposes.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 124 (f) (1) of the Internal Revenue Code, as amended, is amended to read as follows:

"(1) There shall be included only so much of the amount otherwise constituting such adjusted basis as is properly attributable to such construction, reconstruction, erection, installation, or acquisition after June 10, 1940, as either the Secretary of War or the Secretary of the Navy has certified as necessary in the interest of national defense during the emergency period, which certification shall be under such regulations as may be prescribed from time to time by the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy, with the approval of the President."

SEC. 2. Section 124 (f) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code, as amended, is amended by striking out "sixty days" and inserting in lieu thereof "six months" and by striking out "February 6, 1941" and inserting in lieu thereof "December 1, 1941".

SEC. 3. Section 124 (i) of the Internal Revenue Code, as amended, is amended to read as follows:

"PROTECTION OF THE UNITED STATES.-If the taxpayer has been or will be reimbursed by the United States for all or a part of the cost of any emergency facility pursuant to any contract (in excess of $15,000 in amount) with the United States, made on its behalf after December 31, 1939, by the War Department, the Navy Department, the United States Maritime Commission, or such other department or agency as the President may designate, either

"(1) directly, by a provision therein dealing expressly with such reimbursement, or

"(2) indirectly, because the price paid by the United States (insofar as return of cost of the facility is used by the United States as a factor in the fixing of such price) is recognized by the contract as including a return of cost greater than the normal exhaustion, wear, and tear: Provided, That no such greater return of cost shall be deemed to have been used as a factor in the fixing of such price when the negotiating or contracting officer reports that after careful consideration he is satisfied that such greater return was not included in the price,

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Nonallowance of amortization deduc

Reimbursement not provided for under

no amortization deduction with respect to such emergency facility
shall be allowed for any month after the end of the month in which tion.
such contract is made unless either the Secretary of War or the
Secretary of the Navy certifies to the Commissioner that the interest
of the United States is adequately protected with reference to the
future use and disposition of such emergency facility. A certificate
of like effect may also be issued with respect to emergency facilities
for which the taxpayer has not been or will not be so reimbursed. A
certificate by either the Secretary of War or the Secretary of the contract.
Navy made to the Commissioner, to the effect that under any such
contract, reimbursement for all or a part of the cost of any emergency
facility is not provided for within the meaning of clause (1) or clause
(2), shall be conclusive for the purposes of this subsection. Except in
cases of applications therefor filed before December 1, 1941, the cer-
tificates provided for under this subsection shall have no effect unless
an application therefor is filed either before the expiration of six

Filing of applications.

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