An Act to further encourage the distribution of fishery products, and for other purposes
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Penalty. 
PUBLIC LAW 466-JULY 1, 1954 
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Exception. 
Short title. 
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 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 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: Provided further^ That in 
cases of emergency, caused by fire, flood, storm, act of God, or sabotage, 
persons may be employed for periods of not more than thirty days 
and be paid salaries and wages without the necessity of inquiring into 
their membership in any organization. 
TITLE V—KEDUCTIONS IN APPROPRIATIONS 
Amounts available to the Department of the Interior from appro-
priations are hereby reduced in the sums hereinafter set forth, such 
sums to be carried to the surplus fund and covered into the Treasury 
immediately upon the approval of this Act: 
BUREAU o r RECLAMATION 
Construction and Rehabilitation: Missouri Basin Project, Missouri 
Diversion Unit, $1,700,000. 
This Act may be cited as the "Interior Department Appropriation 
Act, 1955". 
Approved July 1, 1954. 
Public Law 466 
CHAPTER 447 
July 1. 1954 
AN A C T 
[S« 2802] 
rjiQ further encourage the distribution of fishery products, and for other purposes. 
F i s h e r y 
ucts. 
Distribution. 
T r a n s f e r 
funds. 
49 Stat. 774. 
7 u s e 612c. 
prod-
o f 
Use. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 2 of the 
Act of August 11, 1939 (53 Stat. 1411), is hereby amended to read as 
follows: 
"SEC. 2. (a) The Secretary of Agriculture shall transfer to the 
Secretary of the Interior each fiscal year, beginning with the fiscal 
year commencing July 1, 1954, and ending on June 30, 1957, from 
moneys made available to carry out the provisions of section 32 of such 
Act of August 24,1935, an amount equal to 30 per centum of the gross 
receipts from duties collected under the customs laws on fishery prod-
ucts (including fish, shellfish, mollusks, Crustacea, aquatic plants and 
animals, and any products thereof, including processed and manu-
factured products), which shall be maintained in a separate fund and 
used by the Secretary of the Interior (1) to promote the free flow of 
domestically produced fishery products in commerce by conducting a 
fishery educational service and fishery technological, biological and 
related research programs, the moneys so transferred to be also avail-
able for the purchase or other acquisition, construction, equipment, 
operation, and maintenance of vessels or other facilities necessary for 
conducting research as provided for in this section, and (2) to develop 
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and increase markets for fishery products of domestic origin and (3) 
to conduct any biological, technological, or other research pertaining 
to American fisheries. 
"(b) For the purposes of this section, any agency of the United cds^lsseisf etc^ 
States, or any corporation wholly owned by the United States, is 
authorized to transfer, without reimbursement or transfer of funds, 
any vessels or equipment excess to its needs required by the Secretary 
of the Interior for the activities, studies, and research authorized 
herein. 
"(c) In carrying out the purposes and objectives of this section, ti^,'^etZ^°°^^'^°' 
the Secretary of the Interior is directed as far as practicable to co-
operate with other appropriate agencies of the Federal Government, 
with State or local governmental agencies, private agencies, organi-
zations, or individuals, having jurisdiction over or an interest in fish 
or fishery commodities and he is authorized to appoint an advisory n,-^*^'^^®°'^ '^'""" 
committee of the American fisheries industry to advise him in the 
formulation of policy, rules and regulations pertaining to requests 
for assistance, and other matters. 
"(d) The Secretary of the Interior is further authorized to retrans- fu^dV'""^'*'^ °^ 
fer any of the funds not to exceed $1,500,000 to be made available under 
this section to the Secretary of Agriculture to be used for the purposes 
specified in section 1 of this Act, and only such funds as are thus trans-
ferred shall be used for the purposes specified in section 1 of this Act 
with respect to domestically produced fishery products. 
"(e) The separate fund created for the use of the Secretary of fui^Js"^^^^*^ °^ 
the Interior under section 2 (a) of this Act and the annual accruals 
thereto shall be available until expended, except (1) that not more 
than $3,000,000 be spent in any fiscal year and (2) that the balance of 
the fund shall not exceed $5,000,000 at the end of any fiscal year, and 
the Secretary of the Interior shall retransfer the funds in excess of 
said $5,000,000 balance to the Secretary of Agriculture to be used 
for the purposes specified in section 32 of the Act of 1935 (49 Stat. 
774; 7 U. S. C. 612c), as amended. 
"(f) The Secretary of the Interior shall make a report to the appro- 
Report, 
priate committees of Congress annually on the use of the separate 
fund created under section 2 of this Act." 
Approved July 1, 1954. 
Public Law 467 
CHAPTER 448 
AN ACT 
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To restore eligibility of certain citizens or subjects o^ Germany or Japan to 
[H. R. 8488] 
receive benefits under veterans' laws. 
Be it enacted J)y the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress asseivJbled^ That any person who, an^le™cltil2ns'!^^ 
but for the last proviso of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the 
VA benefits.* 
payment of pension or other benefits withheld from persons for the 
period they were residing in countries occupied by enemy forces in 
World War II", approved August 7, 1946 (Public Law 622, Seventy-
ninth Congress), would be entitled to compensation or pension bene- 
|g us^c*7^29a. 
fits payable under laws administered by the Veterans' Administration 
shall be entitled to such benefits from the date of enactment of this 
Act, if claim therefor is filed within one year after such date, or from 
the date of claim, if claim therefor is filed more than one year after 
such date. 
Approved July 1, 1954.