An Act to extend the period of authorization of appropriations for the hospital center and facilities in the District of Columbia.
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Short title. 
time, part-time, and intermittent employees of the agency concerned: 
Provided, That for purposes of this section employees shall be con-
sidered as engaged in personnel work if they spend half-time or more 
in personnel administration consisting of direction and administra-
tion of the personnel program; employment, placement, and separa-
tion; job evaluation and classification; employee relations and serv-
ices; training; committees of expert examiners and boards of civil-
service examiners; wage administration; and processing, recording, 
and reporting. 
TITLE III—GENERAL PROVISIONS 
SEC. 301. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act, or 
of the funds available for expenditure by any corporation included 
in this Act, shall be used to pay the salary or wages of 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 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 has not contrary to the provisions of this section 
engaged in a strike against the Government of the United States, is 
not a member of an 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 advocates, 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 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 provi-
sions of existing law. 
SEC. 302. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act, or 
of the funds available for expenditure by any corporation or agency 
included in this Act, shall be used for publicity or propaganda pur-
poses designed to support or defeat legislation pending before the 
Congress. 
SEC. 303. This Act may be cited as the "Independent Offices Ap-
propriation Act, 1956". 
Approved June 30, 1955. 
J vine 30. 1955 
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CHAPTER 245 
AN ACT 
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66 Stat. 288. 
To extend the i)eii«)(i of authoi-izatiou of appropiiatlous for the hosiutal center 
and facilities in the District of Columbia. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and Home of Representatives 
of the 
rated States of America in Congress asnemhled. That section 6 of 
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the Act of August 7,1946 (60 Stat. 897), as amended, entitled "An Act 
to provide for the establishment of a modern, adequate, and efficient 
liospital center in the District of (^olumbia, to authorize the making 
of grants for liospital facilities to private agencies in the District of 
Columbia, to provide a basis for repayment to the Government by 
the Commissioners of the District of (^olumbia, and for other pur-
poses", is further amended by substituting "June W, 1957'' for 
•Mune 30, 1955". 
Approved June 30,1955. 
Public Law 114 
CHAPTER 246 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
j„„e 30. 1955 
To authorize the Secretary of Commerce to sell certain vessels to citizens of the 
[S. J. Res. 67] 
Republic of the Philippines; to provide for the rehabilitation of the interisland 
commerce of the Philippines, and for other purposes. 
Resolved by the /Senate and House of Representatives 
of the United 
/States of America in (Jongress assembled^ That notwithstanding the 
provisions of section 14 of the Merchant Ship Sales Act of 1946 (Public 
Law 321, Seventy-ninth Congress), as amended, or any other provision 
of law, the Secretary of Commerce is hereby authorized and directed 
to sell to citizens of the Kepublic of the Philippines in accordance with 
the Merchant Ship Sales Act of 1946, five vessels named herein: Carrick 
Bend, Masthead Knot, Snug Hitch, Boatswains Hitch and Turks Head, 
which at present are in the Philippines: Provided^ That with respect 
to each of the said vessels one-half of the charter hire paid to the United 
States shall be subtracted from the sales price as additional deprecia-
tion for the period beginning July 1, 1954, and ending with the date 
of execution of the contract of sale of th6 respective vessel: And pro-
vided further^ That the Secretary of Commerce after consultation with 
the National Advisory Council in International Monetary and Finan-
cial Problems, shall fix the terms of payment on unpaid balances, which 
terms shall in no event be more favorable than the terms applicable in 
the case of sales to citizens of the United States. 
In determining the order of preference between applicants for the 
purchase of such vessels, first preference shall be given to the applicants 
who are charterers of such vessels under the terms of the Philippine 
Rehabilitation Act of 1946, as amended, at the time of making applica-
tion to purchase vessels under the terms of this Act; second preference "
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shall be given to applicants who suffered losses of interisland tonnage 
in the interests of the Allied war effort: Provided^ That applications 
for the purchase of said vessels are received by the Secretary of Com-
merce within one year after the date of enactment of this Act. 
Except with the prior approval of the Secretary of Commerce, any 
vessel sold under this joint resolution shall, for a period of ten years 
from the date of sale of the vessel, be operated only in the interisland 
commerce of the Philippines. 
Delivery of the vessels for the purposes of sale shall be made at a 
port in the Philippines designated by the Secretary of Commerce. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the said vessels shall 
continue to operate in the Philippines under existing charters until 
such time as the agreements of sale are executed and deliveries of the 
vessels thereunder are accomplished. 
For the purposes of this Act, the term "citizen" includes any individ-
ual, corporation, partnership, association, or other form of business 
entity authorized to do business under the laws of the Republic of the 
Philippines. 
Approved June 30, 1955. 
Vessels. 
S a l e to Philip-
pine citizens. 
60 Stat. 50. 
50 u s e app. 1735 
note. 
60 Stat. 128. 
50 u s e app. 1751 
Interisland con^ 
merce.