the Air Reserve Officers' Training Corps; maintenance, operation, and modification of aircraft; transportation of things; rents at the seat of government and elsewhere, and in administering the provisions of 43 U. S. C. 315q payments of rents may be made in advance; repair of facilities; field printing plants; hire of passenger motor vehicles; training and instruction of military and civilian personnel of the Air Force, including tuition and related expenses; pay, allowances and travel expenses of contract surgeons; utility services for buildings erected at private cost as authorized by law (10 U. S. C. 1346), and buildings on military reservations authorized by Air Force regulations to be used for welfare and recreational purposes; rental of land or purchase of options to rent land without reference to section 3648, Revised Statutes, as amended, use or repair of private property, and other necessary expenses of combat maneuvers; organizational clothing and equipage; payment of exchange fees and exchange losses incurred by Air Force disbursing officers or their agents; losses in the accounts of Air Force disbursing officers as authorized by law (31 U. S. C. 95a; 50 U. S. C. 1705-1707; Act of July 26, 1947, Public Law 248); burial of the dead as authorized by law (10 U. S. C. 916–916d; 5 U. S. C. 103a), including remains of personnel of the Air Force of the United States who die while on active duty, travel allowances of attendants accompanying remains, and acquisition by lease or otherwise of temporary burial sites; conduct of schoolrooms, service clubs, chapels, and other instructional, entertainment, and welfare expenses for enlisted men, not otherwise provided for; expenses for inter-American cooperation as authorized for the Navy by the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 421f), for Latin-American cooperation; payments of deficiency judgments and interests thereon arising out of condemnation proceedings heretofore instituted; and special services by contract or otherwise, $704,600,000__

MILITARY PERSONNEL REQUIREMENTS

"Military personnel requirements", including pay, allowances, clothing, subsistence, transportation, interest on deposits of enlisted personnel, payment of life insurance premiums, and travel in kind for cadets and all other personnel of the Air Force of the United States on active duty (other than personnel of the Reserve components, including the Air National Guard, on active duty while undergoing reserve training), including mileage, per diem allowances, reimbursement of actual expenses of travel, transportation of troops, commutation of quarters, subsistence supplies for issue as rations to enlisted personnel, cloth and materials and clothing for issue and sale, and clothing allowances, as authorized by law; and, in connection with personnel paid from this appropriation, for rental of camp sites and local procurement of utility services and other necessary expenses incident to individual or troop movements (including packing and unpacking and transportation of organizational equipment), ice, meals for recruiting parties, monetary allowances for liquid coffee for troops when supplied cooked or travel rations, altering and fitting clothing, and commutation of rations, as authorized by law, to enlisted personnel, including those sick in hospitals (to be paid to the surgeon in charge); transportation, as authorized by law, of dependents, baggage, and household effects of personnel paid from this appropriation; transportation, or reimbursement therefor, of applicants for enlistment between places of acceptance for enlistment and recruiting stations, rejected applicants for enlistment, general prisoners, and discharged cadets; travel pay to discharged military personnel; transportation of persons discharged otherwise than honorably, prisoners

$704, 600, 000

upon each termination of confinement, and persons discharged from Saint Elizabeths Hospital after transfer thereto from the military service; commutation of quarters and rations to applicants for enlistment and general prisoners traveling under orders; rations for civilian employees when entitled thereto, applicants for enlistment, prisoners of war, and general prisoners; subsistence supplies for resale, as authorized by law; commutation of rations, as authorized by regulations, to applicants for enlistment, civilian employees entitled to subsistence at public expense, and general prisoners, while sick in hospitals (to be paid to the surgeon in charge); subsistence of supernumeraries necessitated by emergent military circumstances; issues of toilet articles and barbers' and tailors' material to general prisoners confined at military posts without pay and allowances, applicants for enlistment, and recruits upon first enlistment; civilian clothing and when necessary an overcoat, the cost of all not to exceed $30, for each person upon each release from a military prison, each enlisted man discharged otherwise than honorably, each enlisted man convicted by a civil court for an offense resulting in confinement in a civil prison, and each enlisted man interned, or discharged without internment as an alien enemy; expenses of apprehension and delivery of deserters, stragglers, and escaped military prisoners; payment, in the discretion of the Secretary, of rewards (not to exceed $25 in any one case) for the apprehension of deserters; confinement of military prisoners in nonmilitary facilities; donations of not to exceed $25 to each civilian prisoner upon each release from a military prison, to each enlisted man discharged otherwise than honorably upon each release from confinement under court-martial sentence, and to each person discharged for fraudulent enlistment; expenses of courts, boards, and commissions; welfare; and medals and other awards; $264,700,000 $264, 700, 000

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

"Research and development", $115,000,000, to remain available until expended;

RESERVE PERSONNEL REQUIREMENTS

"Reserve personnel requirements", including pay, allowances, clothing, subsistence, and travel for personnel of the United States Air Force Reserve and the Air Reserve Officers' Training Corps, while on active duty undergoing reserve training or while performing drills or equivalent duty, or undergoing training and instruction; and the procurement and issue of uniforms to institutions necessary for the training of the Air Reserve Officers' Training Corps, as authorized by law; $1,000, to remain available until June 30, 1952: Provided, That the unexpended balances of funds appropriated for the foregoing purposes in the Defense Appropriation Act, 1951, shall remain available until June 30, 1952;

115, 000, 000

1,000

CONTINGENCIES

"Contingencies", $13,110,000_

[Total, Department of the Air Force, $4,603,011,000.]

GENERAL PROVISIONS

SEC. 701. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no part of any appropriation for the Department of Defense contained in this act shall remain available until expended unless so provided in the appropriation concerned.

90932-51--2

13, 110, 000

SEC. 702. Section 619 of the Defense Appropriation Act, 1951, is amended by deleting the words: "(other than on permanent change of station).

SEC. 703. Payments by members of the United Nations for equipment, materials or services furnished in joint military operations shall be credited to proper appropriations of the Department of Defense in the manner authorized by section 403 (b) of the Mutual Defense Assistance Act of 1949.

SEC. 704. The Secretary of Defense is authorized to employ not to exceed ten persons of outstanding experience and ability without compensation; and he is authorized to provide by regulation for the exemption of such persons from the operation of sections 281, 283, 284, 434, and 1914 of title 18 of the United States Code and section 190 of the Revised Statutes (5 U. S. C. 99). Persons appointed under the authority of this section may be allowed transportation and not to exceed $15 per diem in lieu of subsistence while away from their homes or regular places of business pursuant to such employment. SEC. 705. Funds heretofore or hereafter appropriated under the appropriation title "Naval Petroleum Reserve Numbered 4, Alaska," Department of the Navy, shall be available for exploration and prospecting on Government-owned lands adjacent to the Naval Petroleum Reserve Numbered 4.

SEC. 706. None of the firearms, pistols, revolvers, shells, and cartridges purchased with funds appropriated for the military departments by this or any other Act shall be subject to any tax imposed on the sale or transfer of such articles.

Total, Department of Defense (chapter VII)

CHAPTER VIII

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

(Out of revenues of the District of Columbia)

OFFICE OF CIVIL DEFENSE

For an additional amount for "Office of Civil Defense," $250,000; and appropriations granted under this head for the fiscal year 1951 shall be available for personal services without reference to the civilservice laws as related to recruitment.

CHAPTER IX

FOREIGN AID

Whenever he determines that such action is essential, the President may from time to time utilize, for the effective carrying out of the purposes of the China Area Aid Act of 1950 (title II of Public Law 535, Eighty-first Congress), not to exceed in the aggregate 3 per centum of the funds made available for the fiscal year 1951 for the purposes of the Economic Cooperation Act of 1948 (Public Law 472, Eightieth Congress), as amended.

CHAPTER X

CLAIMS FOR DAMAGES, 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

$16,795,181,000

250,000

to be due by the General Accounting Office, and judgments rendered against the United States by United States district courts, the United States Court of Claims, and the Indian Claims Commission, as set forth in Senate Document Numbered 244, and House Document Numbered 729, Eighty-first Congress, $6,983,938, together with such such amounts as may be necessary to pay interest (as and when specified and indefinite 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.

CHAPTER XI

GENERAL PROVISIONS

SEC. 1101. 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 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: Provided further, That, as applicable to the Department of the Interior, nothing in this section shall be construed to require an affidavit from any person employed for less than sixty days for sudden emergency work involving the loss of human life or destruction of property, and the payment of salary or wages may be made to such persons from applicable appropriations for services rendered in

such emergency without execution of the affidavit contemplated by this section.

SEC. 1102. Appropriations and funds made available by this or any other Act for salaries, wages, or compensation, for the fiscal year 1951, 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. 1103. This Act may be cited as the "Second Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1951".

Approved January 6, 1951.

Total, Second Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1951--------$19,841,412,938 In addition to the appropriations made in the foregoing Act, contracts are thereby authorized to be entered into subject to future appropriations for not to exceed $224,000,000 for "Ship construction, maritime activities, Department of Commerce".

NOTE.-The following tabulation is a classification by fiscal years and by departments and establishments of appropriations made in the foregoing Act: