30, 1953: Provided further, That the total capital of said fund shall not exceed $140,000,000. [Total, Rivers and Harbors and Flood Control, $421,686,600.] [For appropriation for 1954 for Niagara Remedial Works, see p. 218.] UNITED STATES SOLDIERS' HOME For maintenance and operation of the United States Soldiers' Home, to be paid from the Soldiers' Home permanent fund, $4,655,000, of which $529,000 shall remain available until expended for the construction of buildings and facilities, and $525,000 shall remain available until expended for renovation and expansion of existing boiler plant: Provided, That this appropriation shall not be available for the payment of hospitalization of members of the Home in United States Army hospitals at rates in excess of those prescribed by the Secretary of the Army, upon the recommendation of the Board of Commissioners of the Home and the Surgeon General of the Army. CANAL ZONE GOVERNMENT Operating expenses: For operating expenses necessary for the Canal Zone Government, including operation of the Postal Service of the Canal Zone; purchase and hire of passenger motor vehicles (including not to exceed four for replacement only); expenses incident to conducting hearings and examining estimates for appropriations on the Isthmus; expenses of attendance at meetings, when authorized by the Governor of the Canal Zone, of organizations concerned with activities pertaining to the Canal Zone Government; expenses of special training of employees of the Canal Zone Government as authorized by law (63 Stat. 602); contingencies of the Governor; medical aid and support of the insane and of lepers and aid and support of indigent persons legally within the Canal Zone, including expenses of their deportation when practicable; and payments of not to exceed $50 in any one case to persons within the Government service who shall furnish blood for transfusions; $13,300,000: Provided, That hereafter all revenues from operation of the Canal Zone postal service shall be paid into miscellaneous receipts of the Treasury: Provided further, That the number of passenger motor vehicles held by the Canal Zone Government on December 31, 1952, shall be reduced by three. PANAMA CANAL COMPANY The following corporation is hereby authorized to make such expenditures, within the limits of funds and borrowing authority available to it 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 Control Act, as may be necessary in carrying out the programs set forth in the Budget for the fiscal year 1954 for such corporation, except as hereinafter provided: Not to exceed $3,684,000 of the funds available to the Panama Canal Company shall be available during the current fiscal year for general and administrative expenses of the Company, which shall be computed on an accrual basis: Provided, That as used herein, the term "general and administrative expenses" shall not be construed to include expenses otherwise classified in the preceding fiscal year: Provided further, That funds available for operating expenses shall be available for the purchase of not to exceed three passenger motor vehicles (for replacement only): Provided further, That the number of passenger motor vehicles held by the Panama Canal Company on December 31, 1952, shall be reduced by six. $4,655,000 (trust funds) 13, 300, 000 3,684,000 (corporate funds) REDUCTIONS IN APPROPRIATIONS CEMETERIAL EXPENSES The appropriation granted under the head, "Cemeterial Expenses, No Year", in the "Civil Functions Appropriation Act, 1949" is reduced by $5,158,763, and said amount shall be carried to the surplus of the Treasury. CANAL ZONE GOVERNMENT The appropriation granted under this head in the Civil Functions Appropriation Act, 1953, is reduced by $750,017, and said amount shall be carried to the surplus of the Treasury: Provided, That the amount made available in said appropriation for construction and major equipment is decreased from "$4,900,000" to "$4,149,983". [For appropriation for 1954 for Government and Relief in Occupied Areas, see p. 218.] GENERAL PROVISIONS SEC. 102. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act, or of the funds made 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 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 the provisions of this section 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 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. 103. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall be used directly or indirectly, except for temporary employment in case of emergency, for the payment of any civilian for services rendered by him on the Canal Zone while occupying a skilled, technical, clerical, administrative, executive, or supervisory position unless such person is a citizen of the United States of America or of the Republic of Panama: Provided, however, (1) That, notwithstanding the provision in the Act approved August 11, 1939 (53 Stat. 1409) limiting employment in the above-mentioned positions to citizens of the United States from and after the date of approval of said Act, citizens of Panama may be employed in such positions; (2) that at no time shall the number of Panamanian citizens employed in the above-mentioned positions exceed the number of citizens of the United States so em ployed, 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 controlling factors in filling these positions shall be efficiency, experi ence, 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: Provided further, That the President may suspend from time to time in whole or in part compliance with this section if he should deem such course to be in the public interest. SEC. 104. The Governor of the Canal Zone is authorized to employ services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a), in an amount not exceeding $15,000: Provided, That the rates for individuals shall not exceed $100 per diem. SEC. 105. Amounts expended by the Panama Canal Company in maintaining defense facilities in standby condition for the Department of Defense, and amounts expended by the Canal Zone Government in providing school and hospital services for agencies of the United States other than the Panama Canal Company and the Canal Zone Government hereafter shall, notwithstanding any other provision of law, be fully reimbursable to the Panama Canal Company or to the Canal Zone Government, as the case may be, by such other agencies. SEC. 106. No part of the funds of the Canal Zone Government or the Panama Canal Company shall be used after December 31, 1953, for providing free medical and hospital care to employees of the Panama Canal Company or the Canal Zone Government. SEC. 107. No part of the funds of the Panama Canal Company or the Canal Zone Government shall be available hereafter for payment of military personnel assigned to the Panama Canal Company or the Canal Zone Government in excess of their military pay: Provided, That this section shall not apply to those officers serving as Governor of the Canal Zone and President, Panama Canal Company and as Lieutenant Governor of the Canal Zone. SEC. 108. This Act may be cited as the "Civil Functions Appropriations Act, 1954". Approved July 27, 1953. Total, Civil Functions Appropriation Act, 1954--- NOTE. In addition to the appropriations for the fiscal year 1954, carried in the foregoing annual appropriation Act, the following additional amounts are available for the civil functions, Department of the Army, for such fiscal year: Permanent and indefinite appropriations (general and special accounts) (p. 427). Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1954 (pp. 218-220) $1,050, 000 ------- 4, 600, 000 Grand total, civil functions, Department of the Army, exclusive For trust funds, see p. 427. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE APPROPRIATION ACT, 1954 [PUBLIC LAW 179-83D CONGRESS] [CHAPTER 305-1ST SESSION] [H. R. 5969] By the Act making appropriations for the Department of Defense and related independent agencies for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1954, and for other purposes, approved August 1, 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, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1954, for military functions administered by the Department of Defense, and for other purposes, namely: TITLE I NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL Salaries and expenses: For expenses necessary for the National Security Council, including services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a), at rates not in excess of $50 per diem for individuals; acceptance and utilization of voluntary and uncompensated services; and expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with work related to the activity of the Council; $220,000__. NATIONAL SECURITY TRAINING COMMISSION SALARIES AND EXPENSES For necessary expenses of the National Security Training Commission, including services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a), at rates for individuals not in excess of $50 per diem and contracts with temporary or part-time employees may be renewed annually; and expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the purposes of this appropriation; $55,000. [Total, Title I, Independent Agencies, $275,000.] TITLE II DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE MILITARY FUNCTIONS OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE SALARIES AND EXPENSES For expenses necessary for the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Armed Forces Policy Council, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Joint Staff, the Munitions Board, and the Research and Development Board, including purchase (not to exceed four for replacement only) and hire of passenger motor vehicles; and not to exceed $60,000 for emergency and extraordinary expenses, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of Defense for such purposes as he deems 38917-53-4 $220,000 55,000 proper, and his determination thereon shall be final and conclusive; $12,800,000. CLAIMS For payment of claims by the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Army (except as provided in appropriations for civil functions administered by the Department of the Army), Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force, as authorized by law (5 U. S. C. 191a, 946; 10 U. S. C. 1861-1866; 28 U. S. C. 2672; 31 U. S. C. 222c, 222e, 223b, 223d, 224d; 35 U. S. C. 91; 39 U. S. C. 135; 46 U. S. C. 797; Act of July 11, 1919 (41 Stat. 132), as amended; Act of November 15, 1945, 59 Stat. 582); claims (not to exceed $1,000 in any one case) for damages to or loss of private property incident to the operation of Army and Air National Guard camps of instruction, either during the stay of units of said organizations at such camps or while en route thereto or therefrom; claims, as authorized by law, for damage to property of railroads under training contracts; and repayment of amounts determined by the Secretary of the Army, the Secretary of the Navy, or the Secretary of the Air Force, or officers designated by them, to have been erroneously collected from military and civilian personnel of the Departments of the Army, Navy, and Air Force or from States, Territories, or the District of Columbia, or members of National Guard units thereof; $6,000,000__. RETIRED PAY For retired pay and retirement pay, as authorized by law, of military personnel on the retired lists of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and the Air Force, including the reserve components thereof; and retainer pay for personnel of the inactive Fleet Reserve; $365,000,000 and, in addition, the Secretary of Defense may transfer from other appropriations available to the Department of Defense such amounts (not to exceed $10,000,000) as may be necessary: Provided, That no part of such sum shall be used to pay the retired or retirement pay of any commissioned member of the Regular Army, Navy, Marine Corps, or Air Force who is voluntarily retired after the date of enactment of this Act, unless such member was retired because of (1) being unfit to perform the duties of his office, rank, grade, or rating by reason of a physical disability incurred in line of duty, or (2) achieving the age at which retirement is required by law, or (3) unless the application of such member is approved in writing by the Secretary of Defense stating that the retirement will not be contrary to the best interests of the service or is required to avoid individual hardship, or (4) unless such member is retired as otherwise authorized by law and has had active service during the periods April 6, 1917, to November 11, 1918, and December 7, 1941, to September 2, 1945, in any capacity as a member of the military or naval forces of the United States. CONTINGENCIES For emergencies and extraordinary expenses arising in the Department of Defense, to be expended on the approval or authority of the Secretary of Defense and such expenses may be accounted for solely on his certificate that the expenditures were necessary for confidential military purposes, $75,000,000: Provided, That a report of disbursements under this item of appropriation shall be made quarterly to the Appropriations Committees of the Congress. $12, 800, 000 6, 000, 000 365, 000, 000 75, 000, 000 |