An Act to amend certain laws relating to the submission of postmasters accounts under oath, and for other purposes
PL 82-112 (S.1246), enacted 08/14/1951

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PUBLIC LAW 112—AUG. 14, 1951 
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Penalty. 
Availability of funds 
for compensation of 
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 strike against the Government of the United States, or who advo-
cates, or who is a member of an organization that advocates, the over-
throw 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 or fund 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. 402. No part of the money appropriated by this Act or of the 
funds made available for expenditure by the Export-Import Bank of "designateTpersonnei. 
Washington which is in excess of 75 per centum of the amount required 
to pay the compensation of all persons the budget estimates for per-
sonal services heretofore submitted to the Congress for the fiscal year 
1952 contemplated would be employed by the Treasury and Post 
Office Departments and the Export-Import Bank of Washington dur-
ing such fiscal year in the performance of— 
(1) functions performed by a person designated as an information 
specialist, information and editorial specialist, publications and in-
formation coordinator, press relations officer or counsel, photographer, 
radio expert, television expert, motion-picture expert, or publicity 
expert, or designated by any similar title, or 
(2) functions performed by persons who assist persons performing 
the functions described in (1) in drafting, preparing, editing, typing, 
duplicating, or disseminating public information publications or 
releases, radio or television scripts, magazine articles, photographs, 
motion pictures, and similar material, 
shall be available to pay the compensation of persons performing the 
functions described in (1) or (2). 
SEC. 403. Except for the automobiles officially assigned to the Secre-
tary of the Treasury and the Postmaster General, respectively, and 
automobiles assigned for operation by the Secret Service Division, no 
part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall be used to pay 
the compensation of any civilian employee of the Government whose 
primary duties consist of acting as chauffeur of any Government-
owned passenger motor vehicle (other than a bus or ambulance), 
unless such appropriation is specifically authorized to be used for 
paying the compensation of employees performing such duties. 
SEC. 404. This Act may be cited as the "Treasury and Post Office 
Departments Appropriation Act, 1952", 
Approved August 11, 1951. 
Chauffeurs. 
Short title. 
Public Law 112 
CHAPTER 3 0 3 
AN ACT 
To amend certain laws relating to the submission of iK)Stmasters' accounts under 
oath, and for other purposes. 
August 14, igsi 
[S. 1246] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That (a) section 
Postmasters'ae-
3843 of the Revised Statutes (39 U. S. C. 42) is hereby amended to ''*' 
read as follows: 
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PUBLIC LAW 113—AUG. 16, 1951 
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STAT. 
Certification. 
False return. 
Withholding of com-
pensation. 
"Every postmaster shall render to the Postmaster General, in such 
form and at such times as the latter shall prescribe, accounts of all 
moneys received or charged by him or at his office, for postage, rent 
of boxes or other receptacles for mail matter, or by leason of keeping 
a branch office, or for the delivery of mail matter in any manner what-
ever or for the performance oi any other function connected with 
his office." 
(b) Section 3844 of the Revised Statutes (39 U. S. C. 43) is hereby 
amended to read as follows: 
"The Postmaster General ma}'^ require a certification to accompany 
each account of a postmaster, to the effect that such account contains 
a true statement of the entire amount of postage, box rents, charges, 
and moneys collected or received at his office during the accounting 
period; that he has not knowingly delivered, or permitted to be deliv-
ered, any mail matter on w'hich the postage was not at the time paid, 
that such account exhibits truly and faithfully the entire receipts 
collected at his office, and which, by due diligence, could have been 
collected; and that the credits he claims are just and right." 
(c) That part of the Act entitled "An Act making appropriations 
for the service of the Post Office Department for the fiscal year end-
ing June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and for other 
purposes", approved June 17, 1878 (20 Stat. 140), as amended by the 
Act entitled "An Act to enable the Postmaster General to withhold 
commissions on false returns made by postmasters", approved June 
18, 1934 (48 Stat. 989; 39 U. S. C. 45), is hereby amended to read as 
follows: 
"In any case where the Postmaster General shall be satisfied that 
a postmaster has made a false return of business, it shall be within 
the discretion of the Postmaster General to withhold compensation 
on such returns and to allow any compensation that under the cir-
cumstances he may deem reasonable or proper. 
The form of certi-
fication to be made by postmasters upon their returns shall be such 
as may be prescribed by the Postmaster General." 
Approved August 14, 1951. 
Public Law 113 
CHAPTER 317 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
August 16, 1
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. Res. 311] 
Making a supplemental appropriation for tlie Department of Labor for the fiscal 
year 1952. 
Resolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled^ That there is hereby appro-
priated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, 
for the fiscal year ending June 30,1952, the following sum: 
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 
BUREAU OF EMPLOYMENT SBOURITT 
Ante, p. 119. 
Ante, p. 119. 
For necessary expenses to enable the Secretary of Labor to discharge 
his responsibilities under the provisions of the Act of July 12, 1951 
(Public Law 78), $950,000, of which $750,000 shall be for the establish-
ment of a working capital fund, such fund to be used for the payment 
of those expenses for which employers are liable under agreements 
entered into pursuant to section 502 of the Agricultural Act of 1949, 
as amended by the Act of July 12,1951, and such fund to be reimbursed 
from payments made to the United States by employers pursuant to