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56 STAT.] 77TH CONG., 2D SESS.-CH. 524-JULY 25, 1942 WAR DEPARTMENT MILITARY ACTIVITIES OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF WAR For payment to Booz, Fry, Allen and Hamilton, 135 South La' Salle Street, Chicago, Illinois, for services rendered the War Depart- ment in making a survey of the executive offices of the War Depart- ment, $3,298.47, which payment shall be in addition to the amount paid under Contract Numbered WSW 438, dated October 18, 1941, and authorized under the heading "Salaries, War Department" in the Fifth Supplemental National Defense Appropriation Act, 1941. TITLE II-GENERAL PROVISIONS SEa. 201. 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: Pro- vided 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 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 substitution for, any other provisions of existing law. SEC. 202. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act or authorized hereby to be expended (except as otherwise provided for herein) shall be used to pay the compensation of any officer or employee of the Government of the United States, whose post of duty is in continental United States unless such person is a citizen of the United States, or a person in the service of the United States on the date of the approval of this Act who being eligible for citizenship had theretofore filed a declaration of intention to become a citizen or who owes allegiance to the United States. This section shall not apply to citizens of the Commonwealth of the Philippines. SEC. 203. Wherever appropriations in this Act for any Federal agency are available for printing and binding, traveling expenses, and the purchase of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, the amounts expended for such purposes, respectively, shall not exceed the sums set forth therefor in the justifications of the Budget esti- mates of appropriations for such agencies submitted to the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, in connection with this Act, except where amounts for such purposes are included for special projects or for transfer to other agencies; and wherever transfers from any such appropriation are made to another Federal agency, other than an agency acting solely in a procurement capacity, the amounts of such transfers expended, respectively, for the foregoing purposes shall not exceed the sums which the Director of the Bureau of the Budget shall approve therefor in connection with each such transfer. SEc. 204. The Civil Service Commission shall forthwith make an investigation of transfers of employees from one executive agency to another (except to the uniformed forces of the United States) for the purpose of studying the cause and effect of such transfers with a 65714°-43 - -PT. I--- 6 Persons advocating overthrow of U. . Government. Prorios. Affidavit. Penalty. Citizenship require- ments. Exception. Limitationson de- ignated expenditures Exception. Transfers of em- ployees. Investigation by Civil Service Com- mission 721 55 Stat. 128.