SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION ACT, 1954 [PUBLIC LAW 207-83D CONGRESS] [CHAPTER 340-1ST SESSION] By the Act making supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1954, and for other purposes, approved August 7, 1953. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply supplemental appropriations (this Act. may be cited as the "Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1954") for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1954, and for other purposes, namely: CHAPTER I DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PUBLIC WELFARE For an additional amount, fiscal year 1952, for "Saint Elizabeths Hospital", $51,457-- SETTLEMENT OF CLAIMS AND SUITS For the payment of claims in excess of $250, approved by the Commissioners in accordance with the provisions of the Act of February 11, 1929, as amended (45 Stat. 1160; 46 Stat. 500; 65 Stat. 131), $24,234. AUDITED CLAIMS $51, 457 24, 234 For an additional amount for the payment of claims, certified to be due by the accounting officers of the District of Columbia, under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or credited to the general fund of the District of Columbia as provided by law (D. C. Code, Title 47, section 130a), being for the service of the fiscal year 1951 and prior fiscal years, as set forth in House Document Numbered 194 (Eighty-third Congress), $55,801__ DIVISION OF EXPENSES The sums appropriated in this Act for the District of Columbia shall, unless otherwise specifically provided for, be paid out of the general fund of the District of Columbia, as defined in the District. of Columbia Appropriations Acts for the fiscal years involved. Total, District of Columbia (chapter I). 206 55, 801 131, 492 CHAPTER II LEGISLATIVE BRANCH SENATE For payment to Anna Lee Smith, widow of Willis Smith, late a Senator from the State of North Carolina, $12,500--- For payment to Lillian C. Tobey, widow of Charles W. Tobey, late a Senator from the State of New Hampshire, $12,500. For payment to Martha B. Taft, widow of Robert A. Taft, late a Senator from the State of Ohio, $12,500--- CONTINGENT EXPENSES OF THE SENATE Miscellaneous Items: For an additional amount for Miscellaneous Items, exclusive of labor, fiscal year 1953, $50,000__. [Total, Senate, $87,500.] HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES For payment to Ruth B. Bryson, widow of Joseph R. Bryson, late a Representative from the State of South Carolina, $12,500--For payment to Jessie M. Hull, widow of Merlin Hull, late a Representative from the State of Wisconsin, $12,500_. CONTINGENT EXPENSES OF THE HOUSE Stationery (revolving fund): For an additional amount for "Stationery (revolving fund)", for the first session of the Eighty-third Congress, $800, to remain available until expended.. [Total, House of Representatives, $25,800.] INTERPARLIAMENTARY UNION FOR 1953 For carrying out the provisions of the Joint Resolution entitled "Joint Resolution authorizing an appropriation to defray the expenses of the Annual Meeting of the Interparliamentary Union for the year 1953, to be held in Washington, District of Columbia", approved July 13, 1953 (Public Law 110, Eighty-third Congress), $150,000, to be disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate, who hereby is authorized to advance to the President of the American Group such sums within the appropriation as may be necessary to defray incidental expenses, to be accounted for in the same manner as provided by law for Senate committees. Total, Legislative Branch (chapter II) CHAPTER III DEPARTMENT OF STATE INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION AND EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES For expenses necessary to enable the Department of State to carry out international information and educational activities as authorized by the United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 (22 U. S. C. 1431-1479) and the Act of August 9, 1939 (22 U. S. C. 501), and to administer the programs authorized by section 32 (b) (2) of the Surplus Property Act of 1944, as amended (50 $12,500 12, 500 12,500 50,000 12, 500 12,500 800 150,000 263, 300 U. S. C. App. 1641 (b)) (except in Germany and Austria), the Act of August 24, 1949 (20 U. S. C. 222-224), the Act of September 29, 1950 (20 U. S. C. 225) and the informational media guarantee program authorized by section 111 (b) (3) of the Economic Cooperation Act of 1948, as amended and continued by section 7 of the Mutual Security Act of 1952 (22 U. S. C. 1509), including rents in the District of Columbia; employment, without regard to the civil-service and classification laws, of (1) persons on a temporary basis (not to exceed $120,000), (2) aliens within the United States, and (3) aliens abroad for service in the United States relating to the translation or narration of colloquial speech in foreign languages (such aliens to be investigated for such employment in accordance with procedures established by the Secretary of State and the Attorney General); travel expenses of aliens employed abroad for service in the United States to and from the United States; salaries, expenses, and allowances of personnel and dependents as authorized by the Foreign Service Act of 1946, as amended (22 U. S. C. 801-1158); expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with activities provided for under this appropriation (not to exceed $6,000); entertainment within the United States (not to exceed $3,000); purchase (not to exceed. six) and hire of passenger motor vehicles; insurance of official motor vehicles in foreign countries when required by the law of such countries; purchase of space in publications abroad, without regard to the provisions of law set forth in 44 U. S. C. 322; services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 Ú. S. C. 55a); payment of tort claims, in the manner authorized in the first paragraph of section 2672, as amended, of title 28 of the United States Code when such claims arise in foreign. countries; advance of funds notwithstanding section 3648 of the Revised Statutes as amended; actual expenses of preparing and transporting to their former homes the remains of persons, not United States Government employees, who may die away from their homes. while participating in activities authorized under this appropriation; radio activities and acquisition and production of motion pictures and visual materials and purchase or rental of technical equipment and facilities therefor, narration, script-writing, translation, and engineering services, by contract or otherwise; and purchase of objects for presentation to foreign governments, schools, or organizations; $75,000,000, of which not less than $5,000,000 shall be available for the payment of terminal leave and related costs: Provided, That not to exceed $30,000 may be used for representation abroad: Provided further, That passenger motor vehicles used abroad exclusively for the purposes of this appropriation may be exchanged or sold, pursuant to section 201 (c) of the Act of June 30, 1949 (40 U. S. C. 481 (c)), and the exchange allowances or proceeds of such sales shall be available for replacement of an equal number of such vehicles and the cost, including the exchange allowance of each such replacement, except station wagons, shall not exceed $1,400: Provided further, That, notwithstanding the provisions of section 3679 of the Revised Statutes, as amended (31 U. S. C. 665), the Department of State is authorized in making contracts for the use of international shortwave radio stations and facilities, to agree on behalf of the United States to indemnify the owners and operators of said radio stations and facilities from such funds as may be hereafter appropriated for the purpose against loss or damage on account of injury to persons or property arising from such use of said radio stations and facilities: Provided further, That in the acquisition of leasehold interests payments may be made in advance for the entire term or any part thereof: Provided further, That funds herein appropriated shall not be used to purchase more than 75 per centum of the effective daily broadcasting time from any person or corporation holding an international $75,000,000 short-wave broadcasting license from the Federal Communications Commission without the consent of such licensee: Provided further, That funds appropriated herein shall be available for payment to private organizations abroad in pursuance of contracts entered into for the processing and distribution of motion-picture films: Provided further, That after the effective date of Reorganization Plan No. 8, 1953, existing appointments and assignments to the Foreign Service Reserve for the purposes of foreign information and educational activities which expire within one year of said effective date may be extended for a period of one year in addition to the period of appointment or assignment authorized in section 522 of the Foreign Service Act of 1946 (22 U. S. C. 922): Provided further, That upon the effective date of Reorganization Plan Number 8 of 1953, the President may authorize the Director of the United States Information Agency thereby created to carry out (under such regulations as the President may from time to time prescribe) the functions of the Board of the Foreign Service with respect to personnel appointed or assigned for service in the United States Information Agency under the provisions of the Foreign Service Act of 1946, as amended: Provided further, That not to exceed $2,000,000 of the funds made available under the head "International Information and Educational Activities" in the Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1950, the Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1951, and the Third Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1951, for purchase, rent, construction and improvement of facilities for radio transmission and reception shall be available for such purposes relating to such radio facilities under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of State: Provided further, That the general provisions of the Department of State Appropriation Act, 1954, shall apply to this appropriation: Provided further, That, until January 1, 1954, notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, the Director of the United States Information Agency created pursuant to Reorganization Plan Numbered 8 of 1953 may terminate the employment of any person above the grade of G. S. 7 transferred to or employed by said agency but this authority shall not be applicable to any person entitled to Veterans' preference for federal government employment: Provided further, That the operations of the International Broadcasting Service presently located in New York City shall be moved to the District of Columbia or its environs by June 30, 1954. INTERNATIONAL CLAIMS COMMISSION For expenses necessary to enable the Commission to settle certain claims of the Government of the United States on its own behalf and on behalf of American nationals against foreign governments as authorized by Public Law 455, approved March 10, 1950, including expenses of attendance at meetings of organizations concerned with the purpose of this appropriation; hire of passenger motor vehicles for field use only; services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a); and employment of aliens; $220,000__ [Total, Department of State, $75,220,000.] DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE LEGAL ACTIVITIES AND GENERAL ADMINISTRATION SALARIES AND EXPENSES, UNITED STATES ATTORNEYS AND MARSHALS The Attorney General is hereby authorized to transfer from appropriations contained in the Department of Justice Appropriation Act, 1953, not to exceed $250,000 to the appropriation "Salaries and expenses, United States attorneys and marshals", fiscal year 1953. 38917-53- -14 $220,000 SALARIES AND EXPENSES, CLAIMS OF PERSONS OF JAPANESE ANCESTRY For an additional amount, fiscal year 1952, for "Salaries and expenses, claims of persons of Japanese ancestry", $4,172,696- For an additional amount, fiscal year 1953, for "Salaries and expenses, claims of persons of Japanese ancestry", $3,900,000--Total, Salaries and expenses, claims of persons of Japanese ancestry, $8,072,696.] IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE SALARIES AND EXPENSES For an additional amount for payment of claims for extra pay for Sunday and holiday services under the Act of March 2, 1931, as construed by the Court of Claims in the case of Renner and Krupp versus the United States (106 Court of Claims 676), fiscal year 1946 and prior fiscal years, $14,546__-. $4, 172, 696 3,900,000 14, 546 FEDERAL PRISON SYSTEM SUPPORT OF UNITED STATES PRISONERS For an additional amount, fiscal year 1951, for "Support of United States prisoners", $11,000--. [Total, Department of Justice, $8,098,242.] DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE BUREAU OF FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC COMMERCE EXPORT CONTROL For expenses necessary for carrying out the provisions of the Export. Control Act of 1949, as amended, relating to export controls, $4,000,000, of which not to exceed $1,100,000 may be transferred to the Bureau of Customs, Treasury Department, for enforcement of the export control program, and of which not to exceed $84,500 may be transferred to the appropriation for "Salaries and expenses" under the Office of the Secretary: Provided, That, in addition, not to exceed $100,000 of the unobligated balance of the appropriation made available under this head for the fiscal year 1953 shall remain available during the current fiscal year to cover the cost of reduction in force of officers and employees whose services are terminated. MARITIME ACTIVITIES OPERATING-DIFFERENTIAL SUBSIDIES 11,000 4, 000, 000 For an additional amount for "Operating-differential subsidies", $35,000,000, to remain available until expended_ [Total, Department of Commerce, $39,000,000.] 35, 000, 000 Total, Departments of State, Justice and Commerce (chapter 122, 318, 242 |