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 58 STAT.] 78TH CONG., 2D SESS.-CH. 660 -DEC. 22, 1944 For working fund, War, Finance, $2,883.25. For working fund, War, Signal Corps, $107,321.23. For working fund, War, Air Corps, $196,626.98. For working fund, War, Medical, $28,224. For working fund, War, Ordnance, $553,942.91. For working fund, War, Chemical Warfare Service, $1,643.88. For emergency conservation work (transfer to War, Act February 9, 1937), $26.40. For Civilian Conservation Corps (transfer to.War), $9,001.78. For emergency conservation work (transfer to War, Act June 22, 1936), $1,943.95. For Foreign Service pay adjustment, appreciation of foreign cur- rencies (War), $23.55. For cemeterial expenses, War Department, $3.50. District of Columbia: For public parks, expenses, District of Columbia, $5. Total, audited claims, section 304 (a), $21,311,025.58, together with such additional sum due to increases in rates of exchange as may be necessary to pay claims in the foreign currency and interest as speci- fied in certain of the settlements of the General Accounting Office. SEC. 305. For payment of claims allowed by the General Account- ing Office covering judgments rendered in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington, Northern Division, against a collector of customs, where a certificate of probable cause has been issued as provided for under section 989 of the Revised Statutes (28 U. S . C . 842), and certified to the Seventy-eighth Con- gress in House Document Numbered 788, under the Department of Commerce, $591.19. TITLE IV-GENERAL PROVISIONS SEC. 401. Appropriations of the executive departments and inde- pendent establishments of the Government for the fiscal year 1945 shall be available for the expenses of committees, boards, or other interagency groups engaged in authorized activities of common inter- est to such departments and establishments and composed in whole or in part of representatives thereof who receive no additional com- pensation by virtue of such membership: Provided, That employees of such departments and establishments rendering service for such committees, boards, or other groups, other than as representatives, shall receive no additional compensation by virtue of such service. SEC. 402. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall 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: Pro- vided, 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 vio- lence: Provided further? That any person who advocates, or who is a member of an organization that advocates the overthrow of the Gov- ernment of the United States by force or violence and accepts employ- ment the salary or wages for which are paid from any appropriation 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: Providedfurther, That the above penal clause shall be in addition to, and not in substitution for, any other provisions of existing law. SEc. 403. If at any time during the fiscal year 1945 the termination of the Act entitled "An Act to provide temporary additional compensa- 885 Availabilityoffunds for interagency groups. Persons advocating overthrow of U. 8 . Oovernment. Affidvit. Penalty. Termintn ofdd. mnAted Acts, BMOt.

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