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 62 STAT.] 80TH CONG. , 2D SESS.-CHS. 773, 774-JUNE 30, 1948 1195 SEC. 305. No part of the funds of, or available for expenditure by, Persons engaging, any corporation or agency included in this Act shall be used to pay or advocating over- the salary or wages of any person who engages in a strike against ethrw of.s.GOv- the Government of the United States or who is a member of an organization of Government employees that asserts the right to strike against the Government of the United States, or who advocates, or is a member of an organization that advocates, the overthrow of the Government of the United States by force or violence: Provided, That for the purposes hereof an affidavit shall be considered prima Affidavit. facie evidence that the person making the affidavit has not contrary to the provisions of this section engaged in a strike against the Government of the United States, is not a member of an organization of Government employees that asserts the right to strike against the Government of the United States, or that such person 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 engages in a strike against Penalty. the Government of the United States or who is a member of an organization of Government employees that asserts the right to strike against the Government of the United States, or 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 funds available to any corporation or agency included 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 laws. SEC. 306. This Act may be cited as "The Government Corporations short title. Appropriation Act, 1949." Approved June 30, 1948. [CHAPTER 774] AN ACT To amend section 2 of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for insanity proceedings Iit. .1l9i? in the District of Columbia", approved August 9, 1939. [i'uhlic Law li] l Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the first para- Insanity proceed- graph of section 2 of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for insanity n*t D. r . amend proceedings in the District of Columbia", approved August 9, 1939, is 63 stat. 1294. amended to read: D. C. Code 21-311. "SEC. 2. Upon the filing with the court of a verified petition as hereinabove provided, accompanied by the affidavits of two or more responsible residents of the District of Columbia setting forth that they believe the person therein named to be insane or of unsound mind, the length of time they have known such person, that they believe such person to be incapable of managing his own affairs, and that such person is not fit to be at large or go unrestrained, and that if such person be permitted to remain at liberty the rights of persons and property will be jeopardized or the preservation of public peace imperiled or the commission of crime rendered probable, and that such person is a fit subject for treatment by reason of his or her mental condition, the court, or any judge thereof in vacation, may, in its or his discretion, issue an attachment for the immediate apprehension and detention, for preliminary examination, of such person in Saint Elizabeths Hospital and, unless found by the staff of Saint Elizabeths Hospital to be of sound mind, therein for a period not exceeding thirty days. Any person so apprehended and detained shall be given an examination within five days of his admission into Saint Elizabeths

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