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 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 632-JUNE 24, 1948 Employees with 15 years of service. Selection of per- sonnel. Hours of employ- ment; pay rates. Applicability of sec- tion. Wartime or emer- gency suspension. Suspension because of housing shortage. Instruction, etc., of civilian employees. Temporary services by contract. 60 Stat. 810. 38 Stat. 335. Advances of public moneys. Persons engaging, etc., in strikes against or advocating over- throw of U. S. Gov- ernment. Affidavit. positions exceed the number of citizens of the United States so employed, if United States citizens are available in continental United States or on the Canal Zone; (3) that nothing in this Act shall prohibit the continued employment of any person who shall have rendered fifteen or more years of faithful and honorable service on the Canal Zone; (4) that in the selection of personnel for skilled, technical, administrative, clerical, supervisory, or executive positions, the con- trolling factors in filling these 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 employment in continental United States plus 25 per centum; (6) this entire section shall apply only to persons employed in skilled, technical, 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 wholly or in part by the United States Government: Providedfurther,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: Provided further, That the President may, if he finds it necessary because of a shortage of housing, suspend, for the fiscal year 1949, the application of those portions of this section which require the employment of citizens of the Republic of Panama or of the United States in skilled, technical, clerical, administrative, execu- tive or supervisory positions. SEC. 5. Appropriations for the Department of the Army for the fiscal year 1949 shall be available for all necessary expenses in connec- tion with the instruction and training, including tuition, not other- wise provided for, of civilian employees in and under the Department of the Army. SEC. 6. Whenever, during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1949, the Secretary of the Army should deem it to be advantageous to the national defense, and if in his opinion the existing facilities of the Department of the Army are inadequate, he is hereby authorized to procure services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S . C. 55a), which supersedes the provisions of section 5 of the Act of April 6, 1914 (5 U. S. C. 55), at rates not in excess of $50 per day for individuals, and to pay in connection therewith travel expenses of individuals, including actual transportation and per diem in lieu of subsistence while traveling from their homes or places of business to official duty station and return as may be authorized in travel orders or letters of appointment. SEC. 7. 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 regulations, to payments for rent in such countries for such periods as may be necessary to accord with local custom, or to payments made for tuition. SEC. 8. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall be used to pay the salary or wages of any person who engages in a strike against 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: Provided, That for the purposes hereof an affidavit shall be considered prima facie evidence that the person making the affidavit has not contrary to 668 [62 STAT.

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