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SEC. [201] 206. 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: 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. The appropriations and authority with respect to appropriations contained herein for the fiscal year 1944 shall be available from and including July 1, 1943, for the purposes respectively provided in such appropriations and authority. All obligations incurred during the period between June 30, 1943, and the date of the enactment of this Act in anticipation of such appropriations and authority are hereby ratified and confirmed if in accordance with the terms thereof.]

SEC. 207. Whenever the Civil Service Commission shall find that within the Federal service in the District of Columbia basic daily or hourly pay rates, fixed by wage boards or similar administrative authority serving the same purpose, for mechanical crafts and trades and laborer positions are higher than rates for such positions authorized by the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, to such an extent as to cause undesirable competition for such services between units of the Government in the District of Columbia, said Commission is authorized to adjust from time to time and without regard to said Act the pay rates of such positions subject to the Classification Act to the extent necessary to prevent such competition. This authority shall cease six months after the termination of the present hostilities, at which time the adjusted rates shall revert to those prescribed by the Classification Act.

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ESTIMATE OF APPROPRIATION FOR OFFICE OF CENSORSHIP

COMMUNICATION

FROM

THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

TRANSMITTING

AN ESTIMATE OF APPROPRIATION FOR THE OFFICE OF CENSORSHIP FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 1945, AMOUNTING TO $29,814,425

March 10, 1944.-Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed

THE WHITE HOUSE, Washington, March 9, 1944.

The SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

SIR: I have the honor to transmit herewith for the consideration of Congress, an estimate of appropriation for the Office of Censorship or the fiscal year 1945, amounting to $29,814,425.

The details of this estimate are set forth in the letter of the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, transmitted herewith, in whose comments and observations thereon I concur.

Respectfully,

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT.

The PRESIDENT,

EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT,

The White House.

BUREAU OF THE BUDGET, Washington, 25, D. C., March 7, 1944

SIR: I have the honor to submit herewith for your consideration an estimate of appropriation for the Office of Censorship amounting to $29,814,425 for the fiscal year 1945.

The estimate of appropriation, the details of which are transmitted herewith, is to provide funds for the censorship of communications by mail, cable, radio, and other means of transmission passing between the United States and any foreign country, or other means of communication which may be carried by any vessel or other means of transportation touching at any port, place, or territory of the United States and bound to or from any foreign country and to coordinate the efforts of the domestic press and radio in voluntarily withholding from publication military and other information which should not be released in the interest of the effective prosecution of the war. I recommend approval of this estimate.

Very respectfully,

HAROLD D. SMITH, Director of the Bureau of the Budget.

EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT

OFFICE OF CENSORSHIP

Salaries and Expenses, Office of Censorship—

Salaries and expenses: [For all expenses necessary to enable the Office of Censorship to perform the functions and duties prescribed by the President, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; the employment of aliens as examiners or translators; the employment of a Director and a Deputy Director at not exceeding $10,000 and $9,000 per annum respectively; the acceptance and utilization of voluntary and uncompensated services; not to exceed $20,000 for temporary employment, without regard to civil-service and classification laws; expenses of attendance at meetings of organizations concerned with the work of the Office; traveling expenses (not to exceed $175,500), including not to exceed $10 per diem in lieu of subsistence and other expenses of persons serving as advisers while away from their homes without other compensation from the United States; payment of living and quarters allowances to personnel stationed outside the continental limits of the United States in accordance with the Standardized Regulations dated December 30, 1942; printing and binding (not to exceed $355,000); hire, maintenance, and repair of automobiles; purchase of guard uniforms, lawbooks, books of reference, newspapers, and periodicals; purchase of gloves, aprons, and other items necessary for protection from chemicals and other laboratory materials and equipment; $27,800,000] For all necessary expenses of the Office of Censorship, including the employment of aliens as examiners or translators; the employment of a Director and a deputy director at not exceeding $10,000 and $9,000 per annum, respectively; not to exceed $20,000 for temporary personal services without regard to civil-service and classification laws; travel expenses (not to exceed $165,000); travel expenses of appointees from point of induction in continental United States to their first posts of duty outside continental United States and such expenses of employees returning from their places of employment outside continental United States to their homes in the United States or possessions or in foreign countries; reimbursement at not to exceed 3 cents per mile to employees for expenses incurred by them for official travel in privately owned automobiles within the limits of their official stations; printing and binding (not to exceed $275,000); rental of news and other reporting services; rental and/or operation of photographic, communication, and other equipment and devices; not to exceed $3,500 for the purchase of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; purchase of guard uniforms; purchase of special wearing apparel or equipment for protection of employees while engaged in their work; not to exceed $10,000 for scientific research on models, devices, and other items related to the functions of the Office of Censorship without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes; $29,814,425: Provided, That section 3709 of the Revised Statutes shall not be construed to apply to any purchase made by or service rendered for the Office of Censorship outside the continental limits of the United States when the aggregate amount involved in such case does not exceed $500: Provided further, That not to exceed $10,000 of this appropriation shall be available for expenses of a confidential character, to be expended under the direction of the Director who shall make a certificate of the amount of each such expenditure which he may think it advisable not to specify and every such certificate shall be deemed a sufficient voucher for the amount therein certified (Act of July 12, 1943, Public Law 139). Estimate 1945, $29,814,425 Appropriated 1944, $27,800,000

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