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 PUBLIC LAWS--CH. 185-JULY 1, 1943 are available in continental United States or on the Canal Zone; Employees with15 (3) that nothing in this Act shall prohibit the continued employment years of service. of any person who shall have rendered fifteen or more years of faith- Selection of person- ful and honorable service on the Canal Zone; (4) that in the selection nel. of personnel for skilled, technical, administrative, clerical, super- visory, or executive positions, the controlling factors in filling these oment; f employ- positions shall be efficiency, experience, training, and education; (5) that all citizens of Panama and the United States rendering skilled, technical, clerical, 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 iApplcabilty ofae- employment in continental United States plus 25 per centum; (6) this entire section shall apply only to persons employed in skilled, techni- cal, clerical, administrative, 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 Wartimeor mer- wholly or in part by the United States Government: Provided gency suspension. 8F. R. 9175. further, That the President may suspend from time to time in whole or in part compliance with this section in time of war or national emergency if he should deem such course to be in the public interest. civilian employees, SE. 8. Appropriations for the Military Establishment for the fiscal year 1944 shall be available for all necessary expenses in connection with the instruction and training, including tuition, not otherwise provided for, of civilian employees in and under the War Department and the Military Establishment. feSConlh, persaonel SEc. 9. Whenever, during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1944, the Secretary of War should deem it to be advantageous to the national defense, and if in his opinion the existing facilities of the War Department are inadequate, he is hereby authorized to employ, by 41U.S.C.. contract or otherwise, without reference to section 3709, Revised Statutes, civil service or classification laws, or section 5 of the Act 5U.8.C. Of April 6, 1914 (38 Stat. 335), and at such rates of compensation (not to exceed $25 per day for individuals) as he may determine, the services of architects, engineers, or firms or corporations thereof, and other technical and professional personnel as may be necessary. mdoney 5 of public SEC. 10. Section 3648, Revised Statutes (31 U. S . C. 529), shall not apply to payments made from appropriations contained in this Act in compliance with the laws of foreign countries or their ministerial reguations under which military attaches are required to operate or to payments made for tuition. overthrow of U.a SEC. 11. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall Government. 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, ffidavit. 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: Pro- Penslty. vided further, That 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 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 and not in substitution for, any other provisions of existing law. [57 STAT. 368

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