PUBLIC LAWS--CHS. 152-154 -APR. 1, 3 , 1944 54 Stat. 176. 1OU. S.C. I§ 86e- 866e. 23 Stat. 254. Persons advocating overthrow of U. S. Government. Affidavit. Penalty Short title. of peace, April 11, 1899", approved May 2, 1940 (Public Act Numbered 505, Seventy-sixth Congress), and which have been certified to the Seventy-eighth Congress under section 2 of the Act of July 7, 1884 (. S. C., title 5, sec. 266), under the War Department in House Document Numbered 468, $373.92. TITLE IV-GENERAL PROVISIONS SEc. 401. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall be used to pay the salary or wages of any person 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 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 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 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: Providedfurther, That the above penal clause shall be in addition to, and not in substitution for, any other provisions of existing law. SEo. 402. This Act may be cited as the "First Deficiency Appropria- tion Act, 1944". Approved April 1, 1944. [CHAPTER 153] April 1, 194 [8. 6621 [Public Law 280] Pensions for certain helpless children. 49 Stat. 614. 3aU..S.C. t 38, 369. Eligibility. April, 1944 [H. B . 27781 [Public Law 281] AN ACT To authorize pensions for certain physically or mentally helpless children, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That hereafter pen- sion under the general and service pension laws pertaining to service prior to April 21, 1898, and under the laws reenacted by Public Law Numbered 269, Seventy-fourth Congress, August 13, 1935, shall be allowed to or for any person otherwise entitled as a physically or mentally helpless child regardless of his or her age at the time of death of the veteran or date of filing claim: Provided That such person was insane, idiotic, or otherwise physically or mentally helpless at the date of attaining the age of sixteen years and the helpless condition exists at the date of filing claim. Payments of pension shall con- tinue during the period of helplessness, except that payments shall be discontinued as of the date preceding the marriage of a helpless child, and when pension is properly discontinued by reason of marriage it shall not thereafter be recommenced. This Act shall not be so construed as to reduce any pension under any Act, public or private. Approved April 1, 1944. [CHAPTER 154] AN ACT To ratify and confirm act 16 of the Session Laws of Hawaii, 1943, extending the time within which revenue bonds may be issued and delivered under act 174 of the Session Laws of Hawaii, 1935. Hswai. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the boda. United States of Ameria i Congress assembled, That act 16 of the [58 STAT. 186
�
