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 56 STAT.] 77TH CON, ., 2D SESS.--CH. 246-APR. 28, 1942 225 tive positions, the controlling factors in filling these positions shall be efficiency, experience, training, and education; (5) that all citizens of Hours of en Panama and the United States rendering skilled, technical, clerical, ment rates administrative, executive, or supervisory service on the Canal Zone under the terms of this Act (a) shall normally be employed not more than forty hours per week, (b) may receive as compensation equal rates of pay based upon rates paid for similar employment in conti- nental United States plus 25 per centum; (6) this entire section shall Applicability. apply only to persons employed in skilled, technical, clerical, adminis- trative, executive, or supervisory positions on the Canal Zone directly or indirectly by any branch of the United States Government or by any corporation or company whose stock is owned wholly or in part by the United States Government: Provided further, That the Wartime or President may suspend from time to time in whole or in part compli- gec susp ns ance with this section in time of war or national emergency if he should deem such course to be in the public interest. SEC. 3. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act or Citizenship re authorized hereby to be expended shall be used to pay the compen- n sation of any officer or employee of the Government of the United States, or of 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 is a citizen 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 citizen- ship had theretofore filed a declaration of intention to become a citizen or who owes allegiance to the United States. This section Ecepton. shall not apply to citizens of the Commonwealth of the Philippines. SEC. 4. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall overth ro of be used to pay the salary or wages of any person who advocates, or Government. who is a member of an organization that advocates, the overthrow of the Government of the United States by force or violence: Pro- vided, That for the purposes hereof an affidavit shall be considered Affdooit. 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 Penalty. 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 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. 5. The Governor of the Panama Canal is hereby authorized feshionicperl nd to employ by contract or otherwise without reference to section 3709, 41 v. . C5. Revised Statutes, and at such rates (not to exceed $50 per day for individuals) as he may determine, the services of architects, engineers, and other technical and professional personnel, or firms or corpora- tions thereof, as may be necessary. SEC. 6. No part of any money appropriated by this Act or any chof ehicles. other Act, except the appropriation "Contingent expenses, Executive Pot. 392. Office", and Acts making appropriations for the Military and Naval Establishments, shall be used for the purchase or exchange of any motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle without the specific approval of the Secretary of War. SEC. 7. This Act may be cited as the "War Department Civil Short title Appropriation Act, 1943". Approved, April 28, 1942. 65714°-4 3- -rT. I-15 nploy- emer- 1. qulre- ating U. S. pro- iel. pur-

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