An Act making appropriations for Mutual Security for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1955, and for other purposes
PL 83-778 (H.R.10051), enacted 09/03/1954

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SEC. 106. The analysis immediately preceding section 2151 of title 
18, United States Code, is amended to read as follows: 
"Sec. 
2151. Definitions. 
2152. Fortifications, harbor defenses or defensive sea areas. 
21.53. Destruction of war material, war premises or war utilities. 
2154. Production of defective war material, war premises or war utilities. 
21.55. Destruction of national-defense materials, national-defense premises or 
national-defense utilities. 
2156. Production 
of 
defective 
national-defense 
material, 
national-defense 
premises or national-defense utilities." 
TITLE II—DISCLOSUKE OF INFORMATION 
RELATING 
TO NATIONAL DEFENSE 
SEC. 201. Section 794 of title 18, United States Code, is amended to 
^^ stat. 737. 
read as follows: 
"(a) Whoever, with intent or reason to believe that it is to be used 
to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of a foreign 
nation, communicates, delivers, or transmits, or attempts to com-
municate, deliver, or transmit, to any foreign government, or to any 
faction or party or military or naval force within a foreign country, 
whether recognized or unrecognized by the United States, or to any 
representative, officer, agent, employee, subject, or citizen thereof, 
either directly or indirectly, any document, writing, code book, signal 
book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, 
map, model, note, instrument, appliance, or information relating to 
the national defense, shall be punished by death or by imprisonment 
for any term of years or for life. 
"(b) Whoever, in time of war, with intent that the same shall 
be communicated to the enemy, collects, records, publishes, or com- 
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municates, or attempts to elicit any information with respect to the 
movement, numbers, description, condition, or disposition of any 
of the Armed Forces, ships, aircraft, or war materials of the United 
States, or with respect to the plans or conduct, or supposed plans or 
conduct of any naval or military operations, or with respect to any 
works or measures undertaken for or connected with, or intended for 
the fortification or defense of any place, or any other information 
relating to the public defense, which might be useful to the enemy, 
shall be punished by death or by imprisonment for any term of years 
or for life. 
"(c) If two or more persons conspire to violate this section, and one 
or more of such persons do any act to effect the object of the con-
spiracy, each of the parties to such conspiracy shall be subject to the 
punishment provided for the offense which is the object of such 
conspiracy." 
Approved September 3, 1954. 
Public Law 778 
CHAPTER 1262 
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September 3. 1954 
Making appropriations for Mutual Security for the fiscal year ending June 30, 
LH. R. 10051] 
1955, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the /Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Conqress assembled. That the following . Mutual sectn-ity 
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sums are appropriated, out 01 any money m the Ireasury not other- 1955. 
wise appropriated, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1955, namely: 
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Ante, p. 832. 
Ante, p. 833. 
Ante, p. 834. 
Capital ships. 
Ante, p. 837. 
Ante, p. 837. 
Ante, p. 838. 
Ante, p. 838« 
Ante, p. 843. 
Ante, p. 838. 
67 Stat. 336. 
Ante, p. 840. 
MUTUAL SECUKITY 
For expenses necessary to enable the President to carry out the pro-
visions of the Mutual Security Act of 1954, Public Law 
, approved 
1954 (H. R. 9678), as follows: 
Military assistance: For military assistance as authorized by title 
I, chapter 1, $1,192,700,000 plus unobligated balances, as follows: For 
general military assistance authorized by section 103, $1,092,700,000 
plus not to exceed $2,383,512,729 of unobligated balances; for infra-
structure authorized by section 104 (a), $100,000,000, plus not to exceed 
$39,000,000 of unobligated balances: Provided, That such unobligated 
balances shall be derived from balances of appropriations heretofore 
made for military assistance (Europe; Near East and Africa; Asia 
and the Pacific; American Republics; and mutual special weapons 
planning) : Provided further, That not to exceed $23,250,000 of such 
funds shall be available for administrative expenses to carry out the 
purposes of title I, chapter 1 until June 30, 1955: Provided 
further. 
That the military supplies and equipment (or the equivalent value 
thereof as the Secretary of Defense shall determine but not to exceed 
$200,000,000 in inventory value) which have been procured and proc-
essed for delivery to foreign areas and which subsequently are returned 
to the custody of the United States because of a change in the interna-
tional situation, shall remain available for military assistance author-
ized by law, and such amounts shall be in addition to the amounts 
herein otherwise provided for: Provided 
further, 
That this limita-
tion on military supplies and equipment shall not apply to capital 
ships for which title has passed but which have been reclaimed by the 
Navy Department; 
Southeast Asia and the Western Pacific: For assistance authorized 
by section 121, $700,000,000: Provided, That none of the funds appro-
priated in this paragraph may be used for assistance to any nation 
which in the opinion of the President is not making satisfactory efforts 
against Communist penetration and/or aggression; 
Production for forces support: For assistance authorized by section 
122, $35,000,000, all of which shall be in the form of United States 
surplus agricultural commmodities; 
Common-use items: For assistance authorized by section 123, 
$60,000,000; 
Defense support, Europe: For assistance authorized by section 
131 (b) (1), $45,000,000; 
Special assistance in joint control areas in Europe, as authorized 
by section 403, $25,000,000; 
Defense support. Near East, Africa and South Asia: For assistance 
authorized by section 131 (b) (2), $73,000,000; 
Defense support, Far East and the Pacific: For assistance author-
ized by section 131 (b) (3), $80,098,195; 
Korean program: For assistance authorized by section 132 (except 
subsection (c)), $205,000,000 and in addition, unobligated balances of 
the appropriation under the head "Civilian Relief in Korea" in the 
Department of Defense Appropriation Act, 1954, are continued avail-
able for the purposes of section 132 (a) through June 30,1955, and are 
hereby consolidated with this appropriation; 
Contributions to United Nations Korean Reconstruction Agency: 
For making contributions authorized by section 132 (c), $3,000,000, 
and in addition, not to exceed $16,000,000 of the unobligated balances 
of funds heretofore made available under this head; 
Development assistance. Near East and Africa: For assistance 
authorized by section 201 (a) (1), $115,000,000; 
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Development assistance, South Asia: For assistance authorized by 
section 201 (a) (2), $60,500,000; 
Development assistance, American Republics and non-self-governing 
territories of the Western Hemisphere: For assistance authorized by 
section 201 (a) (3), $9,000,000; 
Technical cooperation, general authorization: For assistance au-
thorized by section 304, $105,000,000; 
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Contributions to the United Nations expanded program of tech-
nical assistance: For contributions to cover the amount pledged by 
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the United States for conducting the program during the calendar 
year 1954, $9,957,621: Provided, That no commitment for the calendar 
year 1955 or thereafter shall be pledged on behalf of the United States 
until the Congress appropriates for said purpose; 
Contributions for programs of the Organization of American 
States: For contributions authorized by section 306 (b), $1,500,000; 
^"'*' P- 842. 
• Contributions to the Intergovernmental Committee for European 
Migration: For contributions authorized by section 405 (a), $10,- 
^nte.p. 844. 
000,000, and in addition, not to exceed $500,000 of the unobligated 
balance heretofore appropriated for "Movement of Migrants": Pro-
vided, That no funds appropriated in this Act shall be used 
to assist directly in the migration to any nation in the Western 
Hemisphere of any person not having a security clearance based on 
reasonable standards to insure against communist infiltration in the 
Western Hemisphere; 
Contributions to the United Nations children's fund: For contri-
butions authorized by section 406, $12,500,000 which shall constitute 
the total United States contribution through June 30,1955; 
Contributions to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency: 
Not to exceed $23,063,250 of the unobligated balances of funds appro-
griated under the head "Palestine Refugee Program" in the Mutual 
ecurity Appropriation Act, 1954, are continued available through 
^^ ^tat. 479. 
June 30,1955, for the purposes authorized by section 407; 
Contributions to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization: For pay-
ments authorized by section 408, $1,169,000; 
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Ocean freight charges: For payments authorized by section 409, 
$4,400,000; 
Control Act expenses: For carrying out the purposes of the Mutual 
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Defense Assistance Control Act of 1951, as authorized by section 410, 
$1,175,000; 
Administrative expenses: For expenses authorized by section 411, 
$32,500,000. 
Funds appropriated under each paragraph of this Act (other than 
appropriations under the head of military assistance), including 
specified amounts of unobligated balances, and amounts certified 
pursuant to section 1311 of the Supplemental Appropriation Act, 
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1955, as having been obligated against appropriations heretofore 
made for the same general purpose as such paragraph, which amounts 
are hereby continued available during fiscal year 1955, may be con-
solidated in one account for each paragraph: Provided, That any 
apparent recorded obligation outstanding on June 30, 1954, against 
any such appropriations which is not eligible for certification under 
the terms of section 1311 of the Supplemental Appropriation Act, 
1955, may be corrected and certified under section 1311 as an obliga-
tion if approved by the Director of the Foreign Operations Adminis-
tration and the Director of the Budget not later than Februray 1,1955. 
GENEKAL PROVISIONS 
SEC. 102. Appropriations in this Act for the purposes of chapters 
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2 and 3 of title I and titles II, III, and IV of the Mutual Security Act 838"84o| 841,* 843.' 
35 Stat. 1027. 
Ante, p. 859. 
Ante, p. 857. 
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of 1954, and allocations to the Foreign Operations Administration, 
from any other appropriations shall be available for rents in the 
District of Columbia; expenses of attendance at meetings concerned 
with the purposes of such appropriations, including (notwithstanding 
the provision of section 9 of the Act of March 4, 1909 (31 U. S. C. 
673)), expenses in connection with meetings of persons whose employ-
ment is authorized by section 530 of the Mutual Security Act of 1954; 
employment of aliens, by contract, for services abroad; maintenance, 
operation, and hire of aircraft; hire of passenger motor vehicles and, 
in addition, passenger motoi^ vehicles abroad may be exchanged or 
sold and replaced by an equal number of such vehicles and the cost, 
including the exchange allowance, of each such replacement shall not 
exceed $3,000 in the case of an automobile for the chief of any special 
mission or staff abroad established under section 526, and $1,400 in the 
case of all other such passenger vehicles except station wagons; trans-
portation of privately owned automobiles; entertainment within the 
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United States (not to exceed $15,000); exchange of funds without 
regard to section 3651 of the Revised Statutes (31 U. S. C. 543) ; loss 
by exchange; expenditures (not to exceed $50,000) of a confidential 
character other than entertainment, provided that a certificate of the 
amount of each such expenditure, the nature of which it is considered 
inadvisable to specify, shall be made by the Director or Deputy Direc-
tor of the Foreign Operations Administration, and every such certifi-
cate shall be deemed a sufficient voucher for the amount therein speci-
fied; insurance of official motor vehicles in foreign countries; rental 
of quarters outside the continental limits of the United States to house 
employees of the United States Government (without regard to section 
47 Stat. 412. 
322 of the Act of June 30, 1932, as amended (40 U. S. C. 278a)), lease, 
necessary repairs and alterations to quarters; actual expenses of pre-
paring and transporting to their former homes in the United States 
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or elsewhere the remains of persons or members of the families of 
persons who may die while such persons are away from their homes 
Ante, p. 832. 
participating in activities under the Mutual Security Act of 1954 or 
other Act administered by the Foreign Operations Administration; 
purchase of uniforms; employment of chauffeurs for passenger carry-
ing vehicles abroad notwithstanding the provisions of any other 
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law; medical examinations of dependents of overseas personnel or 
candidates for overseas positions on the same basis as for employees 
or candidates; payment of per diem in lieu of subsistence to persons 
participating in any program of furnishing technical information and 
assistance, while in countries other than their own and other than 
the continental United States, at rates not in excess of those prescribed 
by the Standardized Government Travel Regulations, notwithstand-
Ante, p. 418. 
jj^g scctiou 107 of the Department of State Appropriation Act, 1955; 
expenses authorized by the Foreign Service Act of 1946, as amended 
60 Stat. 999. 
(22 U. S. C. 801-1158), not otherwise provided for; ice and drinking 
water for use abroad; and services of commissioned officers of the 
Public Health Service and of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, and for 
the purposes of providing such services the Public Health Service may 
appoint not to exceed twenty officers in the Regular Corps to grades 
above that of senior assistant, but not above that of director, as other-
wise authorized in accordance with section 711 of the Act of July 1, 
62 Stat. 47. 
^944^ as amended (42 U. S. C. 211a), and the Coast and Geodetic 
Survey may appoint for such purposes not to exceed twenty commis-
sioned officers in addition to those otherwise authorized: 
Provided, 
That no part of the administrative expenses shall be used to pay the 
salary of any civilian employee at a rate greater than that paid by the 
State Department for comparable work or services in the same area: 
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Provided further, That none of the funds provided herein shall be ^^s^^i^y p~wbi. 
used to pay any employee a basic salary of $12,000 or more per annum, 
except that this prohibition shall not apply to two-thirds of the num-
ber of employees being paid at the basic salary of $12,00() or more per 
annum on June 30, 1953, and except that this prohibition shall not 
apply to employees receiving salaries in excess of $12,000 as the result of 
general pay raise legislation enacted during the fiscal year 1955, nor to 
not to exceed six employees assigned to the administration or imple-
mentation of the program authorized by section 132 of the Mutual 
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Security Act of 1954: Provided further, That appropriations made 
travel expenses, 
under tLis Act shall be available for expenses in connection with travel 
of personnel outside the continental United States, including travel of 
dependents and transportation of personal effects, household goods, or 
automobiles of such personnel when any part of such travel or trans-
portation begins in the current fiscal year pursuant to travel orders 
issued in that fiscal year, notwithstanding the fact that such travel 
or transportation may not be completed during the current fiscal 
year, and cost of transporting to and from a place of storage, and 
the cost of storing, the furniture and household and personal effects 
of an employee of the Foreign Operations Administration who is 
assigned to a post at which he is unable to use his furniture and 
effects, under such regulations as the Director of the Foreign Opera-
tions Administration may prescribe: Pronided further, That no part 
of any appropriation contained in this Act shall be available for 
expense of transportation, packing, crating, temporary storage, 
drayage, and unpacking of household goods and personal effects in 
excess of an average of five thousand pounds net but not exceeding 
nine thousand pounds net in any one shipment, but the limitations 
imposed herein shall not be applicable in the case of employees trans-
ferred to or serving in stations outside the continental United States 
under orders relieving them from a duty station within the United 
States prior to August 1, 1953. 
SEC. 103. Payments made from funds appropriated herein for 
t^e'l-^re^olx.^l 
engineering fees and services to any individual engineering firm on congress, 
any one project in excess of $25,000 shall be reported to the Commit-
tees on Appropriations of the Senate and House of Representatives 
at least twice annually. 
SEC. 104. Pursuant to section 1415 of the Supplemental Appropri-
ation Act, 1953, and in addition to other amounts made available pur- 
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suant to said section, not to exceed the equivalent of $25,000,000 of 
foreign currencies or credits owed to or owned by the United States 
shall remain available until expended, without reimbursement to the 
Treasury, for liquidation of obligations incurred against such cur-
rencies or credits prior to July 1, 1953, pursuant to authority con-
tained in the Mutual Security Act of 1951, as amended, and Acts for 
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which funds were authorized by that Act and hereafter, foreign no*** 
currencies generated under the provisions of this Act shall be utilized 
only for the purposes for which the funds providing the commodities 
which generated the currency were appropriated (except as spe-
cifically provided in section 109 of this Act) : Provided, That the 
proviso in section 502 (b) of the Mutual Security Act of 1954 is 
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amended as follows: (1) Strike out "Committee on Rules and Admin-
istration of the Senate" and insert "Committee on Appropriations of 
the Senate". 
SEC. 105. None of the funds provided by this Act nor any of the ref^Ict^n.'* * *
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counterpart funds generated as a result of assistance under this or ^^ "" *°"* 
any other Act shall be used to make payments on account of the prin-
cipal or interest on any debt of any foreign government or on any 
loan made to such government by any other foreign government; nor 
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European 
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ments Union. 
T r a n s portation 
on U. S. flag ves-
sels. 
Procurement out-
side U. S. 
Re s tri ction on 
obligations. 
Surplus agricul-
tural commodities. 
Ante, p. 843. 
Funds allocated 
to D e f e n s e 
D e -
partment. 
Accounting, etc. 
shall any of these funds be expended for any purpose for which funds 
have been withdrawn by any recipient country to make payment on 
such debts: Provided, That none of the funds herein appropriated 
shall be used to make up any deficit to the European Payments Union 
for any nation of which a dependent area fails to comply with any 
treaty to which the United States and such dependent area are parties 
and said failure to comply has been adjudicated adversely to said 
nation in any court of competent jurisdiction nor shall any of the 
counterpart funds generated as a result of assistance under this Act 
be made available to such nation. 
SEC. 106. The Director shall, in providing for the procurement of 
commodities under authority of this Act, take such steps as may be 
necessary to assure, so far as is practicable, that at least 50 per centum 
of the gross tonnage of commodities, procured within the United 
States out of funds made available under this Act and transported 
abroad on ocean vessels, is so transported on United States flag vessels 
to the extent such vessels are available at market rates. 
SEC. 107. Funds made available pursuant to this Act may not be 
used for the procurement of equipment or materials outside the United 
States unless the President or an official of Cabinet rank designated by 
him determines that such procurement will not result in one or more 
of the following conditions: 
(1) Adverse effects upon the economy of the United States, 
with special reference to any areas of labor surplus, or upon the 
industrial mobilization base, which outweigh the strategic and 
logistic advantages to the United States of procurement abroad; 
(2) Production of such equipment or materials outside the 
United States under inadequate safeguards against sabotage or 
the release to potential enemies of information detrimental to the 
security of the United States; 
(3) Unjustifiable cost in comparison with procurement in the 
United States; and 
(4) Delays in delivery incompatible with United States defense 
objectives. 
SEC. 108. Not more than 25 per centum of any funds made available 
by this Act shall be obligated during the last two months of the fiscal 
year. 
SEC. 109. $55,000,000 of the unobligated balances continued available 
under this Act shall be available only for the procurement and sale, in 
accordance with provisions of section 402 of the Mutual Security Act 
of 1954, of surplus agricultural commodities as assistance to Spain 
during the current fiscal year: Provided, That 80 per centum of the 
foreign currencies generated hereunder shall be used to strengthen 
and improve the civilian economy of Spain, the balance to be available 
for use of the United States: Provided, however, That this provision 
shall not be construed as a precedent or as an abrogation of any 
agreement heretofore entered into. 
SEC. 110. Funds heretofore or hereafter allocated to the Depart-
ment of Defense from any appropriation for military assistance (ex-
cept funds obligated directly against any such appropriation for off-
shore procurement or other purposes) shall be accounted for by 
geographic area and by country solely on the basis of the value of 
materials delivered and services performed (such value to be deter-
mined in accordance with the applicable provisions of law governing 
the administration of military assistance). 
Within the limits of 
amounts available from funds so allocated, the Department of Defense 
is authorized to incur, in applicable appropriations, obligations in 
anticipation of reimbursement from such allocations, and no funds so 
allocated and available shall be withdrawn by administrative action 
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until the Secretary of Defense shall certify that they are not required 
for liquidation of obligations so incurred. 
Unobligated amounts of 
such allocations equal to the value of orders placed with the military 
departments against such allocations during the current fiscal year 
shall be reserved and shall remain available until June 30, 1957, for 
making such reimbursements (except in case of funds obligated 
directly against such allocations) only upon the basis of materials 
delivered and services rendered: Provided, That reports of items to be ^11°"^^ *° ^°"" 
delivered against funds reserved as provided herein shall be furnished 
quarterly by the Secretary of Defense to the Committees on Appro-
priations of the Senate and the House of Representatives and, not less 
often than once each quarter beginning with the period ending 
December 31, 1954, said Secretary shall make a detailed report to the 
Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and the House of Repre-
sentatives, on a delivery or service-rendered basis, on all military 
assistance funds allocated and available to the Department of Defense 
as of the end of the preceding quarter: Provided further, That no refnA^Vemems.*''' 
reimbursements for materials or services shall be made after June 
30, 1955, until the value of materials delivered and services performed 
shall equal the amount of expenditures made from all appropriations 
herein and heretofore made for military assistance as of said date: 
Provided further, That in the event the President shall determine that 
supplies and equipment ordered against funds so allocated are required 
for the defense of the United States, the amount allocated for supplies 
and materials required for such purpose shall be returned to the appro-
priation from which allocated: Provided further. That funds appro-
priated in this Act for military assistance (including specified amounts 
of unobligated balances), and amounts certified pursuant to section 
1311 of the Supplemental Appropriation x\ct, 1955, as having been 
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obligated against appropriations heretofore made for such purposes, 
shall be maintained in one account which shall be used for all trans-
actions involving military assistance during the current fiscal year, 
and no expenditures shall be made from such account except as may be 
within the limits of the sum of the amounts mentioned in this proviso: 
Provided further, 
That any apparent recorded obligation exceeding 
$5,000,000, outstanding on June 30, 1954, which is not eligible for 
certification under the terms of section 1311 of the Supplemental 
Appropriation Act, 1955, may be corrected and certified under section 
1311 as an obligation if approved by the Secretary of Defense and the 
Director of the Budget not later than February 1, 1955: Provided 
further, TliRt nothing in this Act shall be construed as making any 
appropriation or fund available for obligation after June 30, 1955, 
except as may be necessary for reimbursements authorized herein or 
as authorized by the Mutual Security Act of 1954. 
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SEC. 111. The appropriations, authorizations, and authority with fu^d'^f Uc.''"^*^ °' 
respect thereto in this Act shall be available from July 1, 1954, for tlie 
purposes provided in such appropriations, authorizations, and author-
ity. All obligations incurred during the period between June 30,1954, 
and the date of enactment of this Act in anticipation of such appro-
priations, authorizations, and authority are hereby ratified and 
confirmed if in accordance with the terms hereof and the terms of 
Public Law 475, Eighty-third Congress. 
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SEC. 112. Not to exceed $30,000 of the funds appropriated in this 
Act shall be used to carry out the purposes of section 416 of the 
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Mutual Security Act of 1954. 
SEC. 113. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall »u^*'*''** ,°i °^*'-
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strike against the Government of the United States or who is a mem-
ber of an organization of Government employees that asserts the right 
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Affidavit. 
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Penalty. 
Short title. 
to strike against the Government of the United States, or who advo-
cates, or is a member of an organization that advocates, the over-
throw 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 con-
trary to the provisions of this paragraph engaged in a strike against 
the Government of the United States, is not a member of an organiza-
tion 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 vio-
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 
appropriation or fund contained in this or any other 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. 
This Act may be cited as the "Mutual Security Appropriation Act, 
1955". 
Approved September 3, 1954. 
Public 1 Law 779 
CHAPTER 1263 
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AN ACT 
September 3, 1954 
[H. R. 9730] 
To amend various statutes and certain titles of the United States Code, for the 
purpose of correcting obsolete references, and for other purposes. 
C o rr e c tions of 
statutes, etc. 
61 Stat. 637. 
61 Stat. 639. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That paragraph 
(a) of section 201 of Title 1, United States Code, entitled "General 
Provisions", is amended by striking out "Secretary of State," appear-
ing at the end of such paragraph, and in lieu thereof inserting 
"Administrator of General Services", so that such paragraph will 
read as follows: 
"(a) Publishing in Slip or Pamphlet Form or in Statutes at Large 
Publication in slip or pamphlet form or in the Statutes at Large 
of any of the volumes or publications enumerated in sections 202 and 
203 of this title, shall, in event of enactment, be dispensed with when-
ever the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives 
so directs the Administrator of General Services;". 
SEC. 2. Section 209 of Title 1, United States Code, is amended by 
striking out, at the end thereof, "Secretary of State", and in lieu 
thereof inserting "Administrator of General Services", so that such 
section will read as follows: 
"§ 209. Copies of Supplements to Code of Laws of United States 
and of District of Columbia Code and Supplements; 
Conclusive Evidence of Original 
"Copies of the Code of Laws relating to the District of Columbia 
and copies of the suj^plements provided for by sections 202 and 203 
of this title printed at the Government Printing Office and bearing its