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 224 65 Stat. 243.

PUBLIC LAW 156-JULY 28, 1953

interest thereon through June 30, 1953) pursuant to authority granted jn the Department of Agriculture Appropriation Act, 1952. INTERNATIONAL W H E A T

63 Stat. 945.

[67 S T A T.

AGREEMENT

The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to discharge indebtedness of the Commodity Credit Corporation to the Secretary of the Treasury by canceling notes issued by the Corporation of the Secretary of the Treasury in the amount of $171,740,395 for the net costs during the fiscal year 1952 (including interest thereon through June 30, 1953) under the International Wheat Agreement ^ c t of 1949 (7 U.S.C. 1641-1642). TITLE IV—GENERAL PROVISIONS

Passenger motor vehicles.

SEC. 401. Within the unit limit of cost fixed by law, the lump-sum appropriations and authorizations made for the Department under this Act shall be available for the purchase, in addition to those specifically provided for, of not to exceed 400 passenger motor vehicles for replacement only, and for the hire of such vehicles, necessary in the conduct of the work of the Department outside the District of Columbia. aiEns^ ^ ° ^"*"* °^ SEC. 402. Provisions of law prohibiting or restricting the employment of aliens shall not apply to (1) the temporary employment of translators when competent citizen translators are not available; (2) employment in cases of emergency of persons in the field service of the Department for periods of not more than sixty days; and (3) employment under the appropriation for the Foreign Agricultural Service. landl!'^^^^^ ° ' SEC. 403. Of appropriations herein made which are available for the purchase of lands, not to exceed $1 may be expended for each option to purchase any particular tract or tracts of land. prfdictio^s.^'**^* S^^^- ^^^' ^^ P^^^ ^^ *^® funds appropriated by this Act shall be used for the payment of any officer or employee of the Department who, as such officer or employee, or on behalf of the Department or any division, commission, 6t bureau thereof, issues, or causes to be issued, any prediction, oral or written, or forecast, except as to damage threatened or caused by insects and pests, with respect to future prices of cotton or the trend of same. ^JP^urchase of QEC. 405. Except to provide materials required in or incident to research or experimental work where no suitable domestic product is available, no part of the funds appropriated by this Act shall be expended in the purchase of twine manufactured from commodities or materials produced outside of the United States. Contracts. g^c^ 406. Not less than $575,000 shall be available for contracts in accordance with section 10(a) of the Act of August 14, 1946 (7 60 Stat. 1085. "[J. S. C. 4271) from appropriations herein made for the Bureau of Agricultural Economics; Bureau of Animal Industry; Bureau of Dairy Industry; Bureau of Plant Industry, Soils, and Agricultural Engineering; Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine; Bureau of Agricultural and Industrial Chemistry; Bureau of Human Nutrition and Home Economics; and the Forest Service, strikes or over- SEC. 407. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act, or Lent*."^ ° ovem- ^^ ^^^ fuuds available for expenditure by any corporation included 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 is a member of an organization that

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