expended under the direction of the Administrator for such purposes as he deems proper, and his determination thereon shall be final and conclusive; $8,000,000. FEDERAL CONTRIBUTIONS For financial contributions to the States, not otherwise provided for, pursuant to subsection (i) of section 201 of the Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950, to be equally matched with State funds, $15,000,000__ EMERGENCY SUPPLIES AND EQUIPMENT For procurement of reserve stocks of emergency civil defense materials as authorized by subsection (h) of section 201 of the Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950, as amended, $20,000,000 $8, 000, 000 15, 000, 000 20, 000, 000 PROCUREMENT FUND The "Civil Defense Procurement Fund" is continued available without fiscal year limitation. [Total, Federal Civil Defense Administration, $43,000,000.] Total, Emergency Agencies (chapter XII)_. CHAPTER XIII CLAIMS, AUDITED CLAIMS, AND JUDGMENTS For payment of claims for damages as settled and determined by departments and agencies in accord with law, audited claims certified to be due by the General Accounting Office, and judgments rendered against the United States by United States district courts and the United States Court of Claims, as set forth in House Document Numbered 517, and Senate Documents Numbered 144, 154 and 157, Eighty-second Congress, $6,743,026, together with such amounts as may be necessary to pay interest (as and when specified in such judgments or in certain of the settlements of the General Accounting Office or provided by law) and such additional sums due to increases in rates of exchange as may be necessary to pay claims in foreign currency: Provided, That no judgment herein appropriated for shall be paid until it shall have become final and conclusive against the United States by failure of the parties to appeal or otherwise: Provided further, That, unless otherwise specifically required by law or by the judgment, payment of interest wherever appropriated for herein shall not continue for more than thirty days after the date of approval of this Act. Total, Claims, Audited Claims, and Judgments (chapter XIII) CHAPTER XIV-GENERAL PROVISIONS DEPARTMENTS, AGENCIES, AND CORPORATIONS SEC. 1401. Unless otherwise specifically provided, the maximum amount allowable during the current fiscal year, in accordance with section 16 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 78), for the purchase of any passenger motor vehicle (exclusive of busses, ambulances, and station wagons), is hereby fixed at $1,400, notwithstanding the provisions of section 405 of the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1953. SEC. 1402. Unless otherwise specified and during the current fiscal year, no part of any appropriation contained in this or any other Act shall be used to pay the compensation of any officer or employee of 157, 290, 000 6,743, 026 and indefinite 6,743, 026 the Government of the United States (including 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 (1) is a citizen of the United States, (2) is a person in the service of the United States on the date of enactment of this Act, who, being eligible for citizenship, had filed a declaration of intention to become a citizen of the United States prior to such date, or (3) is a person who owes allegiance to the United States: Provided, That for the purpose of this section, an affidavit signed by any such person shall be considered prima facie evidence that the requirements of this section with respect to his status have been compiled with: Provided further, That any person making a false affidavit shall be guilty of a felony and, upon conviction, shall be fined not more than $4,000 or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both: Provided further, That the above penal clause shall be in addition to, and not in substitution for, any other provisions of existing law: Provided further, that any payment made to any officer or employee contrary to the provisions of this section shall be recoverable in action by the Federal Government. This section shall not apply to citizens of the Republic of the Philippines or to nationals of those countries allied with the United States in the current defense effort. SEC. 1403. Appropriations of the executive departments and independent establishments for the current fiscal year, available for expenses of travel or for the expenses of the activity concerned, are hereby made available for living quarters allowances in accordance with the Act of June 26, 1930 (5 U. S. C. 118a), and regulations prescribed thereunder, and cost-of-living allowances similar to those allowed under section 901 (2) of the Foreign Service Act of 1946, in accordance with and to the extent prescribed by regulations of the President, for all civilian officers and employees of the Government permanently stationed in foreign countries: Provided, That the availability of appropriations made to the Department of State for carrying out the provisions of the Foreign Service Act of 1946 shall not be affected hereby. SEC. 1404. No part of any appropriation for the current fiscal year contained in this or any other 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 the nomination of said person. SEC. 1405. No part of any appropriation contained in this or any other Act shall be used to pay in excess of $4 per volume for the current and future volumes of the United States Code Annotated, and such volumes shall be purchased on condition and with the understanding that latest published cumulative annual pocket parts issued prior to the date of purchase shall be furnished free of charge, or in excess of $4.25 per volume for the current or future volumes of the Lifetime Federal Digest. SEC. 1406. Funds made available by this or any other Act for administrative expenses in the current fiscal year of the corporations and agencies subject to the Government Corporation Control Act, as amended (31 U. S. C. 841), shall be available, in addition to objects for which such funds are otherwise available, for rent in the District of Columbia; examination of budgets and estimates of appropriations in the field; services in accordance with section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a); and the objects specified under this head, all the provisions of which shall be applicable to the expenditure of such funds unless otherwise specified in the Act by which they are made available: Provided, That in the event any functions budgeted as administrative expenses are subsequently transferred to or paid from other funds, the limitations on administrative expenses shall be correspondingly reduced. SEC. 1407. No part of any funds of or available to any wholly owned Government corporation shall be used for the purchase or construction, or in making loans for the purchase or construction of any office building at the seat of Government primarily for occupancy by any department or agency of the United States Government or by any corporation owned by the United States Government. SEC. 1408. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act, or of the funds available for expenditure by any corporation included in this Act, shall be used to pay the salary or wages of any person who engages in a strike against the Government of the United States or who is a member of an organization of Government employees that asserts the right to strike against the Government of the United States, or who advocates, or 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 has not contrary to the provisions of this section engaged in a strike against the Government of the United States, is not a member of an organization of Government employees that asserts the right to strike against the Government of the United States, or that such person 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 engages in a strike against the Government of the United States or who is a member of an organization of Government employees that asserts the right to strike against the Government of the United States, or 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 or fund contained in this or any other 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. 1409. No payment shall be made from appropriations in this Act or any other to any officer on the retired lists of the Regular Army, Regular Navy, Regular Marine Corps, Regular Air Force, Regular Coast Guard, Coast and Geodetic Survey, and Public Health Service for a period of two years after retirement who for himself or for others is engaged in the selling of or contracting for the sale of or negotiating for the sale of to any agency of the Department of Defense, the Coast Guard, the Coast and Geodetic Survey, and the Public Health Service any supplies or war materials. SEC. 1410. Appropriations and funds made available by this or any other Act for salaries, wages, or compensation shall also be available for payment of any tax with respect thereto which is imposed on any department, agency, corporation, or other instrumentality of the United States, as an employer, by the provisions of the Social Security Act Amendments of 1950. SEC. 1411. During the current fiscal year, personnel and appropriations or funds available for salaries and expenses to any department, agency, or corporation in the executive branch of the Government, shall be transferred to any defense activity under the jurisdiction of such department or agency in such numbers or amounts as may be necessary for the discharge of responsibilities relating to the national defense assigned to such department, agency, or corporation by or pursuant to law. SEO. 1412. None of the funds provided by this Act shall be used to pay employees at a rate in excess of that paid for comparable work MISCELLANEOUS APPROPRIATIONS [PUBLIC LAW 282-82D CONGRESS] [CHAPTER 105-2D SESSION] [H. J. Res. 396] Joint Resolution making additional appropriations for the Legislative Branch and the Motor Carrier Claims Commission for the fiscal year 1952, and for other purposes. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1952, the following sums: LEGISLATIVE BRANCH SENATE SALARIES, OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES The appropriation for salaries of officers and employees of the Senate contained in the Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1952, is made available for the employment of additional clerical assistants for each Senator from the State of Minnesota, so that the allowance for administrative and clerical assistants for such Senators will be equal to that allowed other Senators from States having a population of more than three million but less than five million, the population of said State having exceeded three million inhabitants. CONTINGENT EXPENSES OF THE SENATE For an additional amount for "Joint Committee on Atomic Energy", $15,000__. For an additional amount for "Expenses of inquiries and investigations", $400,000 $15,000 400,000 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES For an additional amount for expenses of "Special and select committees", $400,000. 400,000 INDEPENDENT OFFICES MOTOR CARRIER CLAIMS COMMISSION SALARIES AND EXPENSES For an additional amount for "Salaries and expenses, Motor Carrier Claims Commission," $52,000: Provided, That said appropriation shall remain available until December 31, 1952, and the limitation on the amount available for personal services as set forth under this head in the Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1952, is repealed. Approved March 14, 1952. 258 52,000 [PUBLIC LAW 306-82D CONGRESS] [CHAPTER 170-2D SESSION] [S. 2266] An Act to authorize and validate payments of periodic pay increases for temporary indefinite employees of the Department of the Navy within the period of March 17, 1947, to July 1, 1948. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) all persons who were awarded administrative pay increases as temporary indefinite ungraded employees of the Department of the Navy within the period March 17, 1947, to July 1, 1948, through administrative error, are hereby relieved of all liability to repay to the United States the amounts of such unauthorized pay increases. (b) The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the persons described in subsection (a) such amounts as have been paid by them, or deducted from their salaries, on account of overpayments of compensation occasioned by such unauthorized pay increases (c) All disbursing officers, or other responsible officers, who made or authorized the pay increases to the persons described in subsection (a) are relieved of all liability for any such overpayments and their accounts shall be credited with the amounts erroneously overpaid. Approved April 9, 1952. Indefinite [PUBLIC LAW 326-82D CONGRESS] [CHAPTER 241-2D SESSION] [H. J. Res. 427] Joint Resolution making additional appropriations for disaster relief for the fiscal year 1952, and for other purposes. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1952, the following sum: DISASTER RELIEF For an additional amount for "Disaster relief", $25,000,000, to be [PUBLIC LAW 371-82D CONGRESS] [CHAPTER 363-2D SESSION] [H. J. Res. 454] Joint Resolution making additional appropriations for the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Defense for the fiscal year 1952, and for other purposes. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1952, the following sums: $25, 000, 000 |