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 [57 STAT. PUBLIC LAWS-CHS. 221-223-JULY 12, 1943 Funds for training defense workers. Availability of appro- priations and author- lty. Ratification of in- curred obligations. Short title. July 12, 1943 [H. J. Res. 37] [Public Law 136] Saint Elizabeths Hospital. Butter substitutes. 56 Stat. .55. Government of the United States by force or violence and accepts employment the salary or wages for which are paid from any appro- priation 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 pen- alty clause shall be in addition to, and not in substitution for, any other provisions of existing law. SEC. 803. No part of any appropriation for training of defense workers contained in this Act shall be available for obligation for a period longer than sixty days after cessation of hostilities in the present war. SEC. 804. The appropriations and authority with respect to appro- priations contained herein shall be available from and including July 1, 1943, for the purposes respectively provided in such appropriations and authority. All obligations incurred during the period between June 30, 1943, and the date of the enactment of this Act in anticipa- tion of such appropriations and authority are hereby ratified and confirmed if in accordance with the terms thereof. SEC. 805. This Act may be cited as the "Labor-Federal Security Appropriation Act, 1944". Approved July 12, 1943. [CHAPTER 222] JOINT RESOLUTION Relating to the provision of butter for the patients of Saint Elizabeths Hospital. Whereas it is no longer possible for officials of Saint Elizabeths Hospital in the District of Columbia to obtain butter in amounts required to provide for its six thousand nine hundred mentally ill patients, no response having been received from advertisements for bids for the butter required for the month of December 1942, and the weekly purchase of butter in sufficient amounts from other sources being subject to great uncertainty due to the greatly limited supply of available butter stocks: Therefore be it Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That notwithstanding the provisions of the Labor-Federal Security Appropriation Act, 1943, the superintendent of Saint Elizabeths Hospital is hereby authorized, whenever he finds the procurement of an adequate butter supply is not feasible, to purchase from the funds therein appropriated for the hospital, such butter substitutes as may be necessary to meet the requirements of the hospital. SEC. 2. This Act shall remain in effect only during the present national emergency. Approved July 12, 1943. [CHAPTER 223] ANTArT tuly 12, 1943 [S. 335] To authorize the use for war purposes of silver held or owned by the United [Public Law 137] States. Sale orlease of Gov- ernment silver. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President is authorized, through the Secretary of the Treasury, upon the recom- mendation of the Chairman of the War Production Board, to sell, or lease for domestic purposes for a period not longer than six months after the cessation of hostilities in the present war, as proclaimed by the President, upon such terms as the Secretary of the Treasury 520

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