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 59 STAT.] 79TH CONG., 1ST SESS.-CHS. 95, 97, 98-APR. 25, 27, 1945 SEC. 205. For the payment of claims allowed by the General Accounting Office pursuant to the Act entitled "An Act for the relief of officers and soldiers of the volunteer service of the United States mustered into service for the War with Spain, and who were held in service in the Philippine Islands after the ratification of the treaty of peace, April 11, 1899", approved May 2, 1940 (Public Act Num- bered 505, Seventy-sixth Congress), and which have been certified to the Seventy-ninth Congress under section 2 of the Act of July 7, 1884 (5 U. S . C . 266), under the War Department in House Document Numbered 83, $770.78. TITLE III-GENERAL PROVISIONS SEC. 301. 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 violence: Provided 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 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 penal clause shall be in addition to, and not in substitution for, any other provision of existing law. SEC. 302. This Act may be cited as the "First Deficiency Appro- priation Act, 1945". Approved April 25, 1945. [CHAPTER 97] Volunteers, W a r with Spain. 54 Stat. 176. 10 U. S.C. § 866a- 266e. 23 Stat. 254. Persons advocating overthrow of U. S. Government. Affidavit. Penalty. Short title. AN ACT To extend to June 30 1946 the period during which females may be employed in the District of Columbia for more than eight hours a day, or forty-eight hours a week, under temporary permits. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 1 of the Act entitled "An Act to regulate the hours of employment and safeguard the health of females employed in the District of Colum- bia", approved February 24, 1914, as amended (D. C. Code, title 36, Supp. III, sec. 36-301), is amended by striking out "June 30, 1945" and inserting in lieu thereof "June 30, 1946". Approved April 27, 1945. [CHAPTER 98] AN ACT To extend the life of the Smaller War Plants Corporation. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the first sen- tence of section 4 (d) of the Act entitled "An Act to mobilize the productive facilities of small business in the interests of successful prosecution of the war, and for other purposes", approved June 11, 1942, as amended, is amended to read as follows: "The Corporation April 27, 1945 [H. R. 21221 [Public Law 411 District of Colum- bia. Employment of fe- males. 57 Stat. 93. D. C . Code, Supp. IV, 1 36-301. April 27, 1945 [S. 105] [Public Law 421 Smaller War Plants Corporation, continu- ance. 6 Stat. 353 . o0U. . 0. Spp. IV, app. 110

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