AUDITED CLAIMS (c) None of the judgments contained under this caption shall be paid until the right of appeal shall have expired, except such as have become final and conclusive against the United States by failure of the parties to appeal or otherwise. SEC. 304. (a) For the payment of the following claims, certified to be due by the General Accounting Office under appropriations the balances of which have been carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section 5 of the Act of June 20, 1874 (31 U. S. C. 713), and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year 1942 and prior years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under section 2 of the Act of July 7, 1884 (5 U. S. C. 266), as fully set forth in House Document Numbered 799, Seventy-eighth Congress, there is appropriated as follows: Navy Department: For emergency fund for the President, Navy (allotment to Navy Department), $1,045.24. For naval emergency fund, $26,569.72. For miscellaneous expenses, Navy, $492.15. For contingent expenses, Navy Department, $1.84. For welfare and recreation, Navy, $69. For Naval Reserve Officer's Training Corps, $4.07. For contingent and miscellaneous expenses, Hydrographic Office, $13,070.70. For engineering, Bureau of Engineering, $20,221.33. For engineering, Navy, $13,956.80. For maintenance, Bureau of Ships, $631,443.47. For ordnance and ordnance stores, Navy, $409,864.84. Ordnance and ordnance stores, Bureau of Ordnance, $782.50. For pay, subsistence, and transportation, Navy, $113,002.36. For maintenance, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $36,666.95. For foreign service pay adjustment, appreciation of foreign currencies, Navy, $16.80. For Medical Department, Navy, $122,546.25. For care of the dead, Navy, $50. For maintenance, Bureau of Yards and Docks, $22,586.08. For pay and allowances, Coast Guard (Navy), $6,048.31. For outfits, Coast Guard (Navy), $45,270.36. For civilian employees, Coast Guard (Navy), $781.05. For general expenses, Coast Guard (Navy), $67,575.30. For general expenses, Lighthouse Service, Coast Guard (Navy), $8.297.64. For salaries, lighthouse vessels, Coast Guard (Navy), $759.15. For aviation, 1938 contracts, Navy, $60,593.42. For pay, Marine Corps, $2,923.17. For general expenses, Marine Corps, $46,815.32. Total, audited claims, section 304 (a), $21,311,025.58, together with such additional sum due to increases in rates of exchange as may be necessary to pay claims in the foreign currency and interest as specified in certain of the settlements of the General Accounting Office. * TITLE IV-GENERAL PROVISIONS SEC. 401. Appropriations of the executive departments and independent establishments of the Government for the fiscal year 1945 shall be available for the expenses of committees, boards, or other interagency groups engaged in authorized activities of common interest to such departments and establishments and composed in whole or in part of representatives thereof who receive no additional compensation by virtue of such membership: Provided, That employees of such departments and establishments rendering service for such committees, boards, or other groups, other than as representatives, shall receive no additional compensation by virtue of such service. SEC. 402. 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 penal clause shall be in addition to, and not in substitution for, any other provisions of existing law. SEC. 403. If at any time during the fiscal year 1945 the termination of the Act entitled "An Act to provide temporary additional compensation for employees in the Postal Service", approved April 9, 1943, or of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the payment of overtime compensation to Government employees, and for other purposes", approved May 7, 1943, shall be fixed by concurrent resolution of the Congress at a date earlier than June 30, 1945, the appropriations contained in this Act shall cease to be available on such earlier date for obligation for the purposes of the terminated Act and the unobligated portions of appropriations allocated for the purposes of such terminated Act shall not be obligated for any other purposes of [CHAPTER 661-2D SESSION] [H. R. 1023] AN ACT To establish a Chief of Chaplains of the United States Navy. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That until the termination of the wars in which the United States is now engaged by proclamation of the President or such earlier date as the Congress by concurrent resolution may fix, there shall be in the Chaplain Corps of the Navy one officer, designated as Chief of Chaplains, under the Chief of Naval Personnel, who shall be entitled to hold the temporary rank of rear admiral, and shall receive the pay and allowances of a rear admiral of the lower half while serving in such grade. Approved December 22, 1944. (349) [CHAPTER 662-2D SESSION] [H. R. 1284] AN ACT Relating to the naturalization of persons not citizens who serve honorably in the military or naval forces of the United States during the present war. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 701 of the Nationality Act of 1940 (56 Stat. 182-183; 8 U. S. C. 1001), as amended, is amended (a) By striking out "who, having been lawfully admitted to the United States, including its Territories and possessions, shall have been at the time of his enlistment or induction a resident thereof" and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "Who shall have been at the time of his enlistment or induction a resident thereof and who (a) was lawfully admitted into the United States, including its Territories and possessions, or (b) having entered the United States, including its Territories and possessions, prior to September 1, 1943, being unable to establish lawful admission into the United States serves honorably in such forces beyond the continental limits of the United States or has so served". (b) By inserting after the words "no declaration of intention" the following: ", no certificate of arrival for those described in group (b) hereof,". SEC. 2. The proviso to section 702 of the Nationality Act of 1940, as amended, is amended to read as follows: "Provided, That the record of any proceedings hereunder, together with a copy of the certificate of citizenship shall be forwarded to and filed by the clerk of a naturalization court in the district designated by the petitioner and be made a part of the record of the court". Approved December 22, 1944. [CHAPTER 667-2D SESSION] [H. R. 4547] AN ACT To amend the Act of February 14, 1931, as amended, so as to permit the compensation on a mileage basis, of civilian officers or employees for the use of privately owned airplanes while traveling on official business. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act of February 14, 1931 (46 Stat. 1103), entitled "An Act to permit payments for the operation of motorcycles and automobiles used for necessary travel on official business, on a mileage basis in lieu of actual operating expenses", be amended by the addition of the words "or airplane" after the word "automobile" and before the words "for such transportation," so that as amended it shall read as follows: "A civilian officer or employee engaged in necessary travel on official business away from his designated post of duty may be paid, in lieu of actual expenses of transportation, under regulations to be prescribed by the President, not to exceed 2 cents per mile for the use of a privately owned motorcycle or 5 cents per mile for the use of a privately owned automobile or airplane for such transportation, whenever such mode of travel has been previously authorized and payment on such mileage basis is more economical and advantageous to the United States. All laws or parts of laws are hereby modified or repealed to the extent the same may be in conflict herewith." SEC. 2. This Act shall become effective ninety days after the approval thereof by the President. Approved December 22, 1944. 1 |