PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 280 -JUNE 29, 1949
47 Stat. 14 .
Post, p . 986.
Passenger motor ve-
hicles.
Employment of
aliens.
60 Stat. 903.
60 Stat. 843; 62 Stat.
1008.
28 U. S. C., Supp.
11, §2672 .
Ante, pp. 62, 106.
Persons engaging,
etc., in strikes against
or advocating over-
throw of U. S. Govern-
ment.
Administration of
oaths.
Affidavit.
Penalty.
FEDERAL LAND BANKS
The total amount of $189,000,000 in the revolving fund appropriated
to the Office of the Secretary, Treasury Department, for subscriptions
to the paid-in surplus of the Federal land banks, as authorized by the
Federal Farm Loan Act, as amended (12 U. S . C . 781 (Tenth)).
TITLE III-GENERAL PROVISIONS
SEC. 301. Within the unit limit of cost fixed by law the lump-sum
appropriations and authorizations made for the Department under
this Act shall be available for the purchase of passenger motor vehicles,
and for the hire of such vehicles, necessary in the conduct of the work
of the Department outside the District of Columbia, but the number
of such vehicles purchased or otherwise acquired for all the activities
of the Department for which appropriations and authorizations are
made under such Act shall not exceed two-thirds of the total number
indicated for purchase by the Department under the statements of
proposed expenditures for purchase and hire of passenger motor
vehicles in the Budget: Provided, That any such number shall be
increased proportionately (as nearly as may be) as the amount appro-
priated or made available under the particular heading involved may
exceed the budget estimate.
SEC. 302. Provisions of law prohibiting or restricting the employ-
ment of aliens shall not apply to (1) the temporary employment of
translators when competent citizen translators are not available; (2)
employment in cases of emergency of persons in the field service of
the Department for periods of not more than sixty days; and (3)
employment under the appropriation for the Office of Foreign Agri-
cultural Relations.
SEC. 303. Appropriations and authorizations made in this Act shall
be available for health service programs as authorized by law (5
U. S. C. 150).
SEC. 304. Funds available to the Department during the current
fiscal year shall be available for the payment of claims pursuant to
section 403 of the Federal Tort Claims Act (28 U. S . C . 2672).
SEC. 305. 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 the salary or wages of any person who
engages in a strike against tihe 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 such administrative or supervisory employees
of the Department as may be designated for the purpose by the Secre-
tary are hereby authorized to administer the oaths to persons making
affidavits required by this section, and they shall charge no fee for so
doing: Provided further, 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 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 member
of an organization of Government employees that asserts the right to
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