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Expenditures of confidential character.
Acquisition of temporary quarters.
Officers of PHS and C o a s t and Geodetic Survey.
62 Stat. 47.
P e r s o n s engaging, etc., in strikes against or advocating o v e r throwof U. S. Government.
Affidavit.
Penalty clause.
PUBLIC LAW 249—OCT. 31, 1951
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of not to exceed ten aircraft for use outside the continental limits of the United States and maintenance, operation, and hire of aircraft; purchase of not to exceed fifty passenger motor vehicles for use outside the continental limits of the United States and, in addition, passenger motor vehicles abroad may be exchanged or sold and replaced for an equal number of such vehicles; transportation of privately owned automobiles; entertainment within the United States (not to exceed $20,000); 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; acquisition of temporary quarters outside the continental limits of the United States to house employees of the United States Government by rental (without regard to section 322 of the Act of June 30, 1932, as amended (40 U.S.C. 278a)), lease, or construction and necessary repairs and alterations to such temporary quarters; health and accident insurance for foreign trainees and technicians while en route or absent from their own countries participating in activities authorized under the Mutual Security Act of 1951; 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 pjersons are away from their homes participating in activities under the Mutual Security Act of 1951; and services of commissioned officers of the Public Health Service and of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, and for purposes of providing such services the Public Health Service may appoint not to exceed 20 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 20 commissioned officers in addition to those otherwise authorized: Provided, That not to exceed $75,000,000 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. SEC. 3, No part of any appropriation contained in this Act, or of the funds available for expenditure by any corporation included in this Act, shall be used to pay th^ 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 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 tt) 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
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