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60 STAT.] 79TH CONG. , 2D SESS.-CHS. 114, 118 - -MAR. 28, 1946 of the United States by force or violence and accepts employment the salary or wages for which are paid from any appropriation con- tained 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 penal clause shall be in addition to, and not in substitution for, any other provision of existing law. SEC. 202. This Act may be cited as the "Second Urgent Deficiency short title. Appropriation Act, 1946". Approved March 28, 1946. [CHAPTER 118] AN ACT To amend section 502 of the Act entitled "An Act to expedite the provision of housing in connection with national defense, and for other purposes", approved October 14, 1940, as amended, so as to authorize the appropriation of funds necessary to provide additional temporary housing units for distressed families of servicemen and for veterans and their families. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 502 (a) of the Act entitled "An Act to expedite the provision of housing in connection with national defense, and for other purposes, approved October 14, 1940, as amended, is amended by striking out "$160,000,000" and inserting in lieu thereof "$410,000,000". SEC. 2. That section 502 of said Act be amended by adding after subsection (c) thereof the following subsections: "(d) Upon approval of an application, made by any educational institution, State or political subdivision thereof, local public agency or nonprofit organization, for temporary housing for the purposes of this title, the National Housing Administrator, if he determines that such action will aid in expediting the provision of such temporary housing, may- "(1) transfer hereunder to the applicant structures or facili- ties necessary or suitable to provide such temporary housing; and "(2) contract to reimburse the applicant (including the mak- ing of advances) for the cost, as certified by the applicant and approved by the Administrator, in the relocation or conversion (including the costs of disassembling, transporting and reerect- ing structures and facilities, and connecting utilities from dwell- ings to mains, but not including the costs of site acquisition and preparation, or the installation of streets and utility mains) of such temporary housing and facilities. "(e) The term 'administrative expenses', as used in this title V, shall be deemed to include administrative expenses of the National Housing Agency in performing any functions with respect to pri- orities or allocations of materials or equipment for public or private housing, and of the Housing Expediter (including until June 30, 1946, those of any Government agencies in carrying out parts of the veterans' emergency housing program of the Housing Expediter authorized by existing law, to the extent that additional adminis- trative expenses of such agencies are thereby involved) in perform- ing any functions with respect to facilitating the provision of vet- erans' housing authorized by existing law." Approved March 28, 1946. March 28, 1946 [S. 1821] [Public Law 336] Defense housing, amendment. Post,p. 88 . 59 Stat. 674. 42 U. S. C., Supp. V, § 1572(a). Post, p. 958. Temporary housing. Transfer of struc- tures, etc. Reimbursement. "Administrative ex- penses." 59 Stat. 260 , 674. 42 U. S. C., Supp. V, §§ 1571-1573. Post, p. 958. 85