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 67 S T A T. J

PUBLIC LAW 218-AUG. Y, 1953

481

Act shall be available for expense of transportation, packing, crating, temporary storage, drayage, and unpacking of household goods and personal effects in excess of an average of five thousand pounds net but not exceeding nine thousand pounds net in any one shipment, but the limitations imposed herein shall not be applicable in the case of employees transferred to or serving in stations outside the continental United States under orders relieving them from a duty station within the United States prior to August 1, 1953. SEC. 103. Payments made from funds appropriated herein for engi- Engineering neering fees and services to any individual engineering firm on any one *Report. project in excess of $25,000 shall be reported to the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and House of Representatives at least twice annually. SEC. 104. Of the funds appropriated by this Act, except funds appropriated for assistance under sections 541 and 548 of the Mutual jg^"*^' PP* ^^2, Security Act of 1951, as amended, not less than $100,000,000 shall be used to carry out the provisions of section 550. SEC. 105. None of the funds provided by this Act nor any of the Foreign debts, counterpart funds generated as a result of assistance under this or '•«^**"^«=*^°'*' any other Act shall be used to make payments on account of the principal or interest on any debt of any foreign government or on any loan made to such government by any other foreign government; nor shall any of these funds be expended for any purpose for which funds have been withdrawn by any recipient country to make payment on such debts: Provided, That after September 1, 1953, none of the funds ^^'TniSn.^*^" herein appropriated shall be used to make up any deficit to the European Payments Union for any nation of which a dependent area fails to comply with any treaty to which the United States and such dependent area are parties and said failure to qomply has been adjudicated adversely to said nation in any court of competent jurisdiction nor shall any of the counterpart funds generated as a result of assistance under this Act be made available to such nation. SEC. 106. The Administrator shall, in providing for the procurement Transportation of commodities under authority of this Act, take such steps as may be seis^*^* "*^ ^**" necessary to assure, so far as is practicable, that at least 50 per centum of the gross tonnage of commodities, procured within the United States out of funds made available under this Act and transported abroad on ocean vessels, is so transported on United States flag vessels to the extent such vessels are available at market rates. SEC. 107. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall strikes or overbe used to pay the salary or wages of any person who engages in a strike Lent*.* °^ Governagainst 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 Affidavit, for the purposes hereof an affidavit shall be considered prima facie evidence that the person making the affidavit has not contrary to the provisions of this paragraph 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 the Government Penalty. 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 appropriation or fund contained

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