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the amount to be expended on the purchase of land or the construction of buildings of any character for the expansion of private plants shall not exceed $100,000,000;

"Ships and facilities", $275,443,000–.

"Construction of ships", for construction, acquisition, and conver sion as authorized by the Act of March 10, 1951 (Public Law 3), without regard to the limitation imposed under this head in the Second Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1951, $137,000,000, to remain available until expended;

"Ordnance and facilities", $335,700,000.

"Medical care", $34,856,000.

"Civil engineering", $5,574,000-

"Public works (new)", $17,500,000, to remain available until expended;

"Service-wide supply and finance", $8,000,000___

"Navy stock fund": For additional working capital for the Navy stock fund, established pursuant to the National Security Act Amendments of 1949, $43,000,000

"Service-wide operations", $5,963,000.

FACILITIES

The authority granted under this head in the Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1951, to acquire land and construct production facilities thereon, may be exercised prior to the approval of title by the Attorney General as required by section 355, Revised Statutes, as amended. [Total, Department of the Navy, $1,645,439,000.]

DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE

AIRCRAFT AND RELATED PROCUREMENT

“Aircraft and related procurement", $700,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That the aircraft procurement program heretofore established for the fiscal year 1951 is further increased by $700,000,000;

MAJOR PROCUREMENT OTHER THAN AIRCRAFT

"Major procurement other than aircraft", $340,000,000, to remain available until expended;

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ACQUISITION AND CONSTRUCTION OF REAL PROPERTY

"Acquisition and construction of real property", including acquisition and construction as authorized by law, $281,664,000, to remain available until expended;

281, 664, 000

MAINTENANCE AND OPERATIONS

"Maintenance and operations", $440,000,000-

MILITARY PERSONNEL REQUIREMENTS

"Military personnel requirements", $125,000,000: Provided, That the Secretary of the Air Force is authorized to transfer not to exceed $18,000,000 to the appropriation granted under this head for the fiscal year 1950, from the unobligated balances of any other appropriations to the Air Force for said fiscal year.

[Total, Department of the Air Force, $1,886,664,000.]

440, 000, 000

125, 000, 000

GENERAL PROVISIONS

SEC. 201. 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.

[Total, Department of Defense, $6,379,673,000.]

CHAPTER III

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

BONNEVILLE POWER ADMINISTRATION

Construction

For an additional amount for "Construction", $3,672,000, to remain available until expended.

CHAPTER IV-GENERAL PROVISIONS

SEC. 401. 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.

SEC. 402. This Act may be cited as the "Fourth Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1951".

Approved May 31, 1951.

$3, 672, 000

Total, Fourth Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1951 6, 442, 668, 000

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

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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE APPROPRIATION

ACT, 1952

[PUBLIC LAW 135-82D CONGRESS]

[CHAPTER 374-1ST SESSION]

[H. R. 3973]

By the Act making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1952, and for other purposes, approved August 31, 1951.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1952, namely:

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

TITLE I-REGULAR ACTIVITIES

RESEARCH AND MARKETING ACT OF 1946

To enable the Secretary to improve and develop, independently or through cooperation among Federal and State agencies, and others, a sound and efficient system for the distribution and marketing of agricultural products under the provisions of titles II and III of the Act of August 14, 1946, as amended (7 U. S. C. 1621–1629), $4,750,000: Provided, That not less than $600,000 of this amount shall be available for contracts in accordance with the provisions of section 205 of said Act: Provided further, That the Secretary may make available to any bureau, office, or agency of the Department such amounts from this appropriation as may be necessary to carry out the functions for which it is made (but amounts made available to the Office of the Secretary, Office of the Solicitor, and Office of Information, shall not exceed those which the Bureau of the Budget, after a hearing thereon with representatives of the Department, shall determine), and any such amounts shall be in addition to amounts transferred or otherwise made available to other appropriation items of the Department: Provided further, That no part of this appropriation shall be available for work relating to fish or shellfish or any product thereof, except for the support of equitable transportation rates before Federal agencies concerned with such rates and for development of foreign markets.

BUREAU OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS

For necessary expenses in carrying out the provisions of the Act establishing the Bureau of Agricultural Economics (7 U. S. C. 411) and related Acts, as follows:

Economic investigations: For conducting investigations and for acquiring and diffusing useful information among the people of the United States, relative to agricultural production, distribution, land utilization, and conservation in their broadest aspects, including farm management and practice, utilization of farm and food prod

$4,750,000

ucts, purchasing of farm supplies, farm population and rural life, farm labor, farm finance, insurance and taxation, adjustments in production to probable demand for the different farm and food products; land ownership and values, costs, prices and income in their relation to agriculture, including causes for their variations and trends, $2,150,000: Provided, that no part of the funds herein appropriated or made available to the Bureau of Agricultural Economics under the heading "Economic investigations" shall be used for State and county land-use planning, for conducting cultural surveys, or for the maintenance of regional offices.

Crop and livestock estimates: For collecting, compiling, abstracting, analyzing, summarizing, interpreting, and publishing data relating to agriculture, including crop and livestock estimates, acreage, yield, grades, staples of cotton, stocks, and value of farm crops and numbers, grades, and value of livestock and livestock products on farms, production, distribution, and consumption of turpentine and rosin pursuant to the Act of August 15, 1935 (5 U. S. C. 556b), and for the collection and publication of statistics of peanuts as provided by the Act approved June 24, 1936, as amended May 12, 1938 (7 U. S. C. 951-957), $2,848,304: Provided, That no part of the funds herein appropriated shall be available for any expense incident to ascertaining, collating, or publishing a report stating the intention of farmers as to the acreage to be planted in cotton, or for estimates of apple production for other than the commercial crop. [Total, Bureau of Agricultural Economics, $4,998,304.]

AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH ADMINISTRATION

OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATOR

For necessary expenses of the Office of Administrator, including travel and subsistence expenses of advisory committees authorized by title III of the Act of August 14, 1946 (7 U. S. C. 1628-1629), and the maintenance, operation, and furnishing of facilities and services at the Agricultural Research Center, $541,440: Provided, That the appropriation current at the time services are rendered may be reimbursed (by advance credits or reimbursements based on estimated or actual charges) from applicable appropriations, to cover the charges, including handling and other related services, for equipment rentals (including depreciation, maintenance, and repairs); for services, supplies, equipment, and material furnished: Provided further, That of the several appropriations of the Agricultural Research Administration, not to exceed $15,000 shall be available for employment pursuant to the second sentence of section 706 (a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (5 U. S. C. 574), as amended by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a): Provided further, That the several appropriations of the Agricultural Research Administration shall be available for the construction, alteration, and repair of buildings and improvements: Provided, however, That unless otherwise provided, the cost of constructing any one building (excepting headhouses connecting greenhouses and experimental farm houses) shall not exceed $5,000, the total amount for construction of buildings costing more than $2,500 each shall be within the limits of the estimates submitted and approved therefor, and the cost of altering any one building during the fiscal year shall not exceed $2,500 or 2 per centum of the cost of the building as certified by the Research Administrator, whichever is greater, except for the alteration of one building at Greenfield, Massachusetts, at a cost not to exceed $7,500: Provided further, That not to exceed 7 per centum of the funds of any research appropriation of the Agricul

$2, 150, 000

2,848, 304

541, 440

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