Joint resolution making temporary appropriations for the fiscal year 1956, providing for increased pay costs for the fiscal year 1955, and for other purposes
PL 84-123 (H.J.Res.366), enacted 06/30/1955

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PUBLIC LAW 122-JUNE 30, 1955 
[69 STAT. 
Penalty. 
Publicity or prop-
aganda. 
International Ma-
terials Conference. 
Short title. 
lence: 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 appro-
priation 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 any appropriation contained in this Act shall 
be used for publicity or propaganda purposes not heretofore author-
ized by the Congress. 
SEC. 403. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall 
be used to pay any expenses incident to or in connection with participa-
tion in the International Materials Conference. 
This Act may be cited as the "Department of Commerce and Kelated 
Agencies Appropriation Act, 1956". 
Approved June 30, 1955. 
Public Law 122 
CHAPTER 254 
June 30, 1955 
^ ^ ^ ^ ^ 
[S. 2366] 
rji,j i-ontimie the effectiveness of the Missing Persons Act. as extended, until 
July 1, 1956. 
68 Stat. 7. 
50 U S C 
1015. 
a p p . 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Eepresentatives 
of the 
United /States of America in Congress assembled^ That section 15, 
Missing Persons Act (56 Stat. 147, 1093), as amended, is further 
ii mended by deleting "July 1,1955" and inserting in lieu thereof "July 
1,1950". 
Approved Jiine 30, 1955. 
June 30, 1955 
[H. J. Res. 366] 
Public Law 123 
CHAPTER 255 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
Makinj^ temporary appropriations for the fiscal year 1956, providing for increased 
pay costs for the fiscal year 1955, and for other purposes. 
Resolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled^ That the following sums are 
appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appro-
priated, and out of applicable corporate or other revenues, receipts, 
and funds, for the several departments, agencies, corporations, and 
other organizational units in each branch of the Government, namely: 
TITLE I 
; fSvlftfil'Jrt 
TEMPORARY APPROPRIATIONS 
(a) (1) Such amounts as may be necessary (plus increased pay 
costs pursuant to law) for continuing projects or activities which were 
conducted in the fiscal year 1955, and for which appropriations, funds, 
or other authority would be made available in the following appropria-
tion Acts for the fiscal year 1956: 
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Departments of Labor, and Health, Education, and Welfare, and 
related agencies Appropriation Act; 
J)epartments of State and Justice, the Judiciary, and related 
ajrencies Appropriation Act; 
Public Works Appropriation Act; 
(2) Appropriations made by this subsection shall be available to 
the extent and in the manner which would be provided for by the 
pertinent appropriation Act. 
(3) Whenever the amount which would be made available or the 
authority which would be granted under an Act listed in this subsection 
as passed by the House is different from that which would be made 
available or granted under such Act as passed by the Senate, the perti-
nent project or activity shall be continued under the lesser amount or 
the more restrictive authority. 
(4) Whenever an Act lifted in this subsection has been passed by 
only one House or Avhere an item is included in only one version of 
an Act as passed by both Houses, the pertinent project or activity 
shall be continued under the appropriation, funds, or authority 
granted by the one House, but at a rate for operations not exceeding 
the current rate or the rate permitted by the action of the one House, 
whichever is lower. 
(b) Such amounts as may be necessary for continuing projects or 
activities which were conducted in the fiscal year 1955 and listed in 
this subsection (1) at a rate for operations not in excess of the current 
rate or the rate provided for in the budget estimate, whichever is 
lower, plus increased pay costs pursuant to law, or (2) in the amount 
or at the rate specified herein: 
Legislative branch; 
Funds appropriated to the President, Emergency fund for inter-
national affairs; 
President's Commission on Veterans Pensions; 
Export-Import Bank of Washington; 
Small Business Administration; 
Federal Civil Defense Administration, Civil defense functions of 
Federal agencies (Department of Health, Education, and Welfare 
functions only); 
Department of Agriculture, Agricultural conservation program 
service (wind-erosion control); 
Department of Defense, Government and relief in occupied areas; 
Department of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, Conservation and 
development of mineral resources (Rifle, Colorado); Fish and Wild-
life Service, Investigation of resources (International Convention for 
High Seas Fisheries); 
Mutual Security programs, $200,000,000, to be expended in accord 
with provisions of law applicable to such programs during the fiscal 
year 1955 and at a rate for any individual program not in excess of 
the current rate therefor: Provided, That administrative expenses for 
such programs shall not exceed the current rate. 
SEC. 102. Appropriations and funds made available and authority 
granted pursuant to this title shall remain available until (a) enact-
ment into law of an appropriation for any project or activity provided 
for in this title, or (b) enactment of the aj^plicable appropriation Act 
by both Houses without any provision for such project or activity, or 
(c) July 31, 1955, whichever first occurs. 
SEC. 103. Appropriations and funds made available and authority 
granted pursuant to this title may be used without regard to the time 
limitations set forth in subsection (d) (2) of section 3679, Revised 
fj usc6«' 
Statutes, and expenditures therefrom shall be charged to the appli-
cable appro])riation, fund, or authorization whenever a bill in which 
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such applicable appropriation, fund, or authorization is contained 
is enacted into law. 
SEC. 104. No appropriation or fund made available or authority 
granted pursuant to this title shall be used to initiate or resume any 
project or activity which was not being conducted during the fiscal 
year 1965. Appropriations made and authority granted pursuant to 
this title shall cover all obligations or expenditures incurred for any 
project or activity during the period for which funds or authority for 
such project or activity are available under this title. 
TITLE I I 
INCREASED PAY COSTS 
For costs in the fiscal year 1955 of pay increases granted by or pur-
>infe,pp.88,i72. suaut to Public Laws 68 and 94, Eighty-fourth Congress, for any 
branch of the Federal Government or the municipal government of the 
District of Columbia, such amounts as may be necessary, to be deter-
mined and made available as hereinafter provided in this title, but no 
appropriation, fund, or authorization may be increased pursuant to 
the provisions of this title in an amount in excess of the cost to such 
appropriation, fund, or authorization of increased compensation pur-
suant to Public Laws 68 and 94, Eighty-fourth Congress. 
SEC. 202. Any officer having administrative control of an appropria-
tion, fund, or authorization properly chargeable with the costs in the 
fiscal year 1955 of pay increases granted by or pursuant to Public LaAvs 
68 and 94, Eighty-fourth Congress, is authorized to transfer thereto, 
from the unobligated balance of any other appropriation, fund, or 
authorization under his administrative control and expiring for obliga-
tion on June 80, 1955, such amounts as may be necessary for meeting-
such costs. 
SEC. 203. Whenever any officer referred to in section 202 of this title 
shall determine that he has exhausted the possibilities of meeting the 
cost of pay increases through the use of transfers as authorized by said 
section, he shall certify the additional amount required to meet such 
costs for each appropriation, fund, or authorization under his admin-
istrative control, and the amounts so certified shall be added to the 
pertinent appropriation, fund, or authorization for the fiscal year 
1955: Provided^ That any transfer under the authority of section 202 
or any certification made under the authority of this section by an 
officer in or under the executive branch of the Federal Government 
shall be valid only when approved by the Director of the Bureau of 
the Budget. 
SEC. 204. For the purposes of the transfers and certifications author-
ized by sections 202 and 203 of this title, the following officers shall be 
deemed to have administrative control of appropriations, funds, or 
authorizations 
available within 
their 
respective 
organizational 
units— 
(a) For the legislative branch: 
The Clerk of the House; 
The Secretary of the Senate; 
The Librarian of Congress; 
The Architect of the Capitol; 
The Public Printer; 
The Comptroller General of the United States; 
The Chairman of any commission in or under the legislative branch. 
(b) For the judiciary: 
The Administrative Officer of the United States Courts. 
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(c) For the executive branch: 
The head of each department, agency, or corporation in or under 
the executive branch. 
(d) For the municipal government of the District of Columbia: 
The Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia. 
SEC. 205. Obligations or expenditures incurred for costs in the fiscal 
year 1955 of pay increases granted by or pursuant to Public Laws 68 
and 94, Eighty-fourth Congress, shall not be regarded or reported as 
^4n'e,pp.88,172. 
violations of section 3679 of the Revised Statutes, as amended (31 
U.S.C.665). 
64 Stat. 765. 
SEC. 206. (a) Amounts made available by this title shall be derived 
from the same source as the appropriation, fund, or authorization to 
which such amounts are added. 
(b) Appropriations made by, and transfers made pursuant to this 
title shall be recorded on the books of the Government as of June 30, 
1955: Provided^ That no appropriation made by this title shall be 
warranted, and no transfer authorized by this title shall be made, 
after August 15, 1955. 
(c) A complete report of the appropriations and transfers made by 
Repots, 
or pursuant to this title shall be made, not later than September 15, 
1955, by the officers described in section 204, to the Director of the 
Bureau of the Budget, who shall compile and transmit to the Congress 
a consolidated report not later than October 15, 1955. 
Approved June 30, 1955. 
Public Law 124 
CHAPTER 256 
AN ACT 
June 30, 1955 
To extend for one year the existing temporary increase in the public debt limit. 
[H. R. 6992] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act entitled 
"An Act to provide for a temporary increase in the public debt limit", 
approved August 28,1954 (31 U. S. C , sec. 757b), is hereby amended 
68 stat. 895. 
by striking out "June 30, 1955" and inserting in lieu thereof "June 
30, 1956". 
Approved June 30, 1955. 
Public Law 125 
CHAPTER 257 
AN ACT 
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June 30, 1955 
To continue the effectiveness of the Act of December 2, 1942, as amended, and the 
[H. R. 6871] 
Act of July 28, 1945, as amended, relating to war-risk hazard and detention 
benefits until July 1, 1956. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 201 of 
the Act of December 2, 1942 (ch. 668, 56 Stat. 1033), as amended, is f| ^i^ ^^a^ 
further amended by deleting the words "July 1,1955" and inserting in 
lieu thereof "July 1, 1956". 
SEC. 2, Section 5 (b) of the Act of July 28, 1945 (ch. 328, 59 Stat. 
l^jMc&oi^' 
505), as amended, is further amended by deleting the words "July 1, 
1955" and inserting in lieu thereof "July 1,1956". 
Approved June 30, 1955. 
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