Basic materials development: For assistance authorized by sections 514 and 548, $19,000,000;

Special economic assistance, Near East and Africa: For assistance authorized by section 206, $147,000,000; Palestine refugee program: Not to exceed $44,063,250 of the unobligated balances of appropriations heretofore made for this purpose are hereby continued available during the fiscal year 1954;

Special economic assistance, India and Pakistan: For assistance authorized by section 302 (b), $75,000,000; Movement of migrants: For contributions authorized by section 534, $7,500,000;

Multilateral technical cooperation: For contributions authorized by section 544 during the fiscal year 1954 under section 404 (b) of the Act for International De- 67 Stat. 155. velopment, $9,500,000;

International children's welfare work: For contributions during the fiscal year 1954 as authorized by law, $9,814,333;

67 Stat. 161.

Ocean freight, voluntary relief shipments: For payments authorized by section 535, $1,580,166, together with 67 Stat. 155. not to exceed $244,834 of the unobligated balances heretofore appropriated for this purpose, which balances shall be consolidated with this appropriation; Contributions to United Nations Korean Reconstruction Agency: For making contributions authorized by section 303 (a), $50,700,000.

67 Stat. 155.

In addition to amounts otherwise made available 1953 funds. herein, such amounts of 1953 funds as were obligated prior to June 30, 1953, and deobligated thereafter for any reason, shall be available for reobligation for the purposes of this Act during the current fiscal year.

CORPORATION

The following corporation is hereby authorized to make such expenditures, within the limits of funds and borrowing authority available to such corporation or agency and in accord with law, and to make such contracts and commitments without regard to fiscal year limitations as provided by section 104 of the Government Corporation 59 Stat. 598. Control Act, as amended, as may be necessary in carrying 31 U. S. C. 849. out the programs set forth in the Budget for the fiscal year 1954 for such corporation:

Institute of Inter-American Affairs.

GENERAL PROVISIONS

SEC. 102. Appropriations in this Act for economic or technical assistance and allocations from any appropriations to the Director for Mutual Security, or the Mutual Security Agency, or the Department of State, shall be available, without limitation on any authority conferred

65 Stat. 373. 22 U. S. C. 1651 note.

Rental of quarters.

47 Stat. 412.

62 Stat. 47.

Administrative expenses.

Salary restrictions.

by the Mutual Security Act of 1951, as amended, or any Act continued in effect thereby, for rents in the District of Columbia; expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the purposes of such appropriations; employment of aliens, by contract, for services abroad; examination of estimates of appropriations in the field; maintenance, operation, and hire of aircraft; hire of passenger motor vehicles and, in addition, passenger motor vehicles abroad may be exchanged or sold and replaced by an equal number of such vehicles; transportation of privately owned automobiles; entertainment within the United States (not to exceed $15,000); exchange of funds without regard to section 3651 of the Revised Statutes (31 U. S. C. 543); loss by exchange; expenditures (not to exceed $50,000) of a confidential character other than entertainment, provided that a certificate of the amount of each such expenditure, the nature of which it is considered inadvisable to specify, shall be made by the Director or Deputy Director of Mutual Security, and every such certificate shall be deemed a sufficient voucher for the amount therein specified; insurance of official motor vehicles in foreign countries; rental of quarters outside the continental limits of the United States to house employees of the United States Government (without regard to section 322 of the Act of June 30, 1932, as amended (40 U. S. C. 278a)), lease, necessary repairs and alterations to quarters; actual expenses of preparing and transporting to their former homes in the United States or elsewhere the remains of persons or members of the families of persons who may die while such persons are away from their homes participating in activities under the Mutual Security Act of 1951, as amended; purchase of uniforms; ice and drinking water for use abroad; and services of commissioned officers of the Public Health Service and of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, and for the purposes of providing such services the Public Health Service may appoint not to exceed twenty officers in the Regular Corps to grades above that of senior assistant, but not above that of director, as otherwise authorized in accordance with section 711 of the Act of July 1, 1944, as amended (42 U. S. C. 211a), and the Coast and Geodetic Survey may appoint for such purposes not to exceed twenty commissioned officers in addition to those otherwise authorized: Provided, That not to exceed $57,500,000 shall be available for administrative expenses of the departments and agencies concerned with the administration of the programs provided for herein, and no part of such amount shall be used to pay the salary of any civilian employee at a rate greater than that paid by the State Department for comparable work or services in the same area: Provided further, That none of the funds provided herein

shall be used after September 30, 1953, to pay any employee a basic salary of $12,000 or more per annum, except that this prohibition shall not apply to two-thirds of the number of employees being paid at the basic salary of $12,000 or more per annum on June 30, 1953: Provided further, That appropriations made under this Act Travel shall be available for expenses in connection with travel expenses. of personnel outside the continental United States, including travel of dependents and transportation of personal effects, household goods, or automobiles of such personnel when any part of such travel or transportation begins in the current fiscal year pursuant to travel orders issued in that fiscal year, notwithstanding the fact that such travel or transportation may not be completed during the current fiscal year: Provided further, That no part of any appropriation contained in this 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.

fees.

SEC. 103. Payments made from funds appropriated Engineering herein for engineering fees and services to any individual engineering firm on any one project in excess of $25,000 shall be reported to the Committees on Appropriations of Report. 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 Security Act of 1951, as amended, not less than $100,000,000 shall be used to carry out the provisions of section 550.

67 Stat. 152, 159.

restriction.

SEC. 105. None of the funds provided by this Act nor Foreign debts, any of the 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 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 comply has been adjudicated adversely to said

Noncompliance with treaties.

Transportation on U. S. flag vessels.

Strikes or overthrow of Government.

Affidavit.

Penalty.

Short title.

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 of commodities under authority of this Act, take such steps as may be 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 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 advocates, the otherthrow of the Government of the United States by force or violence: Provided, That for the purposes hereof an affidavit shall be considered prime 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 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 in this or any other 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 law.

SEC. 108. This Act may be cited as the "Mutual Security Appropriation Act, 1954".

XV. FAMINE RELIEF ACT OF 1953

Text of Public Law 216, 83d Congress, 1st Session

[S. 2249], 67 Stat. 476, approved August 7, 1953

AN ACT To enable the President, during the period ending March All 67 Stat. 476. 15, 1954, to furnish to peoples friendly to the United States

emergency assistance in meeting famine or other urgent relief requirements.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa

tives of the United States of America in Congress as- Famine relief. sembled, That, in order to enable the President to furnish emergency assistance on behalf of the people of the United States to friendly peoples in meeting famine or other urgent relief requirements, the Commodity Credit Corporation is authorized and directed to make available to the President out of its stocks such agricultural commodities f. o. b. vessels in United States ports as he may request for transfer (1) to any nation friendly to the United States in order to meet famine or other urgent relief requirements of such nation and (2) to friendly but needy populations without regard to the friendliness of their government providing that such commodities will be so distributed as to relieve actual distress among such populations. Not more than $100,000,000 (including the Corporation's investment in the commodities) shall be expended for all transfers, including delivery on board vessels, under this section. The President may make such transfer through such agencies, in such manner, and upon such terms and conditions as he deems appropriate.

SEC. 2. For the purpose of making payment to the Appropriation. Commodity Credit Corporation for commodities disposed of hereunder, there are hereby authorized to be appropriated to the Commodity Credit Corporation, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such sums as are equal to the Corporation's investment in such commodities, including handling costs, plus the cost incurred in making deliveries hereunder.

SEC. 3. No programs of assistance shall be undertaken Termination under the authority of this Act after March 15, 1954.

date.