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61 STAT.] 80TH CONG., 1ST SESS.- CHS. 20, 21-MIAR. 22, 26, 1947 Emergency fund for the President, defense housing, temporary shelter, War, Federal Public Housing Authority, maintenance, unexpended balance. National defense housing, War, Office of Administrator, Federal Works Agency, maintenance, and so forth, unexpended balance. Repair of arsenals, emergency construction, unexpended balance. Seacoast defenses, general, $130,619. Seacoast defenses, $106,468. Seacoast defenses, Panama Canal, $642,905. TITLE III-GENERAL PROVISIONS SEC. 301. No part of any appropriation contained 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 is a member of an organization that advocates, the over- throw of the Government of the United States by force or violence: Provided, That for the purposes hereof an affidavit shall be consid- ered 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 advo- cates, 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 mem- ber 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 vio- lence 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: Provided further, That the above penalty clause shall be in addition to, and not in sub- stitution for, any other provisions of existing law. SEC. 302. This Act may be cited as the "Urgent Deficiency Appro- priation Act, 1947". Approved March 22, 1947. 23 Persons engaging, etc., in strikes against or advocating over- throw of U. S. Gov. ernment. Affidavit. Penalty. Short title. [CHAPTER 21] AN ACT AN ACT March 26, 1947 To provide for payment and settlement of mileage and other travel allowance [S. 26] accounts of military personnel. [Public Law 211 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That payment and settlement of mileage and other travel allowance accounts of all mili- tary personnel, when such accounts are authorized to be based on dis- tances between given points, shall be made in accordance with distances established for payment and settlement of mileage accounts of officers pursuant to the provisions of the Act of June 12, 1906, as amended (34 Stat. 246; 10 U. S. C . 870). Approved March 26,1947.