An Act making supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1954, and for other purposes
PL 83-304 (H.R.7996), enacted 03/06/1954

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such service and (B) any other periods of active service, not to exceed 
an aggregate of five years, performed as a member of such forces, but 
shall not include any such service for which credit is allowed for the 
purposes of retirement or retired pay under any other provision of law, 
including Title I I I of the Army and Air Force Vitalization and 
Retirement Equalization Act of 1948'. 
"(d) (1) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 3 (a) of the 
Act of February 28,1948— 
"(A) subsections (b) and (c) of section 4, and the last sentence 
in section 9 of the Civil Service Retirement Act of May 29, 1930, 
as amended, shall apply to Members of Congress; and 
"(B) subsections (c), (d), (e), (g), and (h) of section 12 of 
such Act shall apply in the case of Members of Congress dying 
on or after the date of enactment of this section. 
Such subsec-
tions shall apply to the widower of any such Member of Congress 
to the same extent and in the same manner as to the widow of any 
such Member of Congress, if such widower shall have been married 
to such Member for at least two years immediately preceding her 
death or is the father of issue by such marriage. 
Such subsection 
(c) shall also apply in the case of any Member of Congress who 
died on or after November 4, 1952, and prior to the date of 
enactment of this subsection, except that in such case no annuity 
shall be payable for any period prior to such date of enactment and 
no annuity shall be payable unless the amount of any lump sum 
death benefit heretofore paid under the Civil Service Retirement 
Act of May 29,1930, as amended, is redeposited in the civil-service 
retirement and disability fund. 
"(2) Section 12 (c) of the Civil Service Retirement Act of May 29, 
1930, as amended, is amended by striking out 'computed as provided 
in section 4 (a) hereof with respect to such officer or employee' in 
paragraphs (1) and (2) and inserting in lieu thereof 'computed as 
provided in section 4 (a), section 4 (g), or section 3A hereof, as the 
case may be, with respect to such officer or employee as if he had retired 
under the disability provisions of this Act'; and by striking out 'sec-
tion 1, 2, or 6' in paragraphs (2) and (3) and inserting in lieu thereof 
'section 1,2,3A, or 6'. 
" (e) Section 13 of the Civil Service Retirement Act of May 29,1930, 
as amended, is amended by inserting before the period at the end of 
the first sentence of the third paragraph thereof a comma and the 
following: 'except that the annuity of an elected officer of the Senate 
or House of Representatives and any annuity granted under the provi-
sions of section 3A shall commence on the day following the day on 
which salary shall cease, provided the person entitled to such annuity 
meets the age and service requirements for annuity at that time'." 
SEC. 2. Except as otherwise provided, the amendments made by this 
Act shall take effect on the first day of the month following the date 
of its enactment. 
Approved March 6, 1954. 
62 Stat. 1087. 
10 u s e 
10 36-
10361. 
62 Stat. 49. 
5 u s e 693-1 note. 
5 u s e 698, 736b. 
W i d o w or wi*' 
OTwer. 
5 u s e 724. 
5 u s e 724. 
5 u s e 698; ante, 
p. 22. 
5 u s e 691, 715, 
693-1, 710-714. 
e omme nee me nt. 
5 u s e 718. 
Ante, p. 22. 
Effective date. 
Public Law 304 
CHAPTER 60 
AN ACT 
Making supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30,1954, and 
for other purposes. 
March 6, 1954 
[H. R. 7996] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following me^n^aVAppr'^^lal 
sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise "°" ^'=*' 1^54. 
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appropriated, to supply supplemental appropriations (this Act may 
be cited as the "Second Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1954") for 
the fiscal year ending June 30, 1954, and for other purposes, namely: 
CHAPTER I 
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LEGISLATIVE BRANCH 
SENATE 
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CONTINGENT EXPENSES OF THE SENATE 
Inquiries and investigations: For an additional amount for expenses 
of inquiries and investigations, $600,000. 
CHAPTER I I 
TREASURY DEPARTMENT 
BUREAU or ACCOUNTS 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES, DIVISION OF DISBURSEMENT 
For an additional amount for "Salaries and expenses, Division of 
Disbursement", $4,800,000. 
COAST GUARD 
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ACQUISITION., CONSTRUCTION, AND IMPROVEMENTS 
For an additional amount for "Acquisition, construction, and im-
provements", $8,120,500, to be derived by transfer from the appropri-
67 Stat. 347. 
atiou "Maintenance and operations. Air Force, 1954", and to remain 
available until expended. 
CHAPTER I I I 
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 
UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION FOR VETERANS 
For an additional amount for "Unemployment compensation for 
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veterans", $15,000,000. 
NATIONAL MEDIATION BOARD 
ARBITRATION AND EMERGENCY BOARDS 
For an additional amount for "Arbitration and emergency boards", 
$125,000. 
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CHAPTER IV 
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EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF T H E PRESIDENT 
PRESIDENT'S ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION 
For necessary expenses of the President's Advisory Committee 
on Government Organization, established by Executive Order 10432 
6o^i^t.^8io.°*** ^^ January 24j 1953, including services as authorized by section 15 
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of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a), at rates not to exceed 
$50 per diem for individuals; expenses of attendance at meetings 
concerned with the purposes of the Committee; and actual transporta-
tion expenses and an allowance of not to exceed $15 per diem in lieu 
of subsistence while away from their homes or regular places of busi-
ness, for members of the Committee and other persons serving without 
compensation; $60,000, to be immediately available and to remain 
available until June 30,1955: Provided, That the Committee is author-
ized, without regard to section 505 of the Classification Act of 1949, 
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to place one position in Grade GS-17 of the general schedule estab-
lished by said Act. 
INDEPENDENT OFFICES 
CoMMissioisr ON INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS 
Salaries and expenses: The limitation under this head contained 
in Chapter VII of the Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1954, on 
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the amount available for expenses of travel, is hereby increased to 
$143,200. 
COMMISSION ON ORGANIZATION OF THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH OF THE 
GOVERNMENT 
Salaries and expenses: For an additional amount for "salaries and 
expenses", including hire of passenger motor vehicles, $1,431,909: Pro-
vided^ That said appropriation shall remain available until expended: 
Provided further, That the limitation under said head in the Supple-
mental Appropriation Act, 1954, as amended, on the amount available 
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for expenses of travel, is increased to $302,344. 
CHAPTER V 
CLAIMS, AUDITED CLAIMS, AND JUDGMENTS 
For payment of claims for damages as settled and determined by 
departments and agencies in accord with law, audited claims certified 
to be due by the General Accounting Office, and judgments rendered 
against the United States by United States district courts and the 
United States Court of Claims, as set forth in House Document Num-
bered 329, Eighty-third Congress, $5,500,707, together with such 
amounts as may be necessary to pay interest (as and when specified 
in such judgments or in certain of the settlements of the General 
Accounting Office or provided by law) and such additional sums due 
to increases in rates of exchange as may be necessary to pay claims in 
foreign currency: Provided, That no judgment herein appropriated 
for shall be paid until it shall have become final and conclusive against 
the United States by failure of the parties to appeal or otherwise: 
Provided further, That, unless otherwise specifically required by law 
or by the judgment, payment of interest wherever appropriated for 
herein shall not continue for more than thirty days after the date of 
approval of this Act. 
CHAPTER VI 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
SEC. 501. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act, or of 
the funds available for expenditure by any corporation included in ment. 
this Act, shall be used to pay the salary or wages of any person who 
Strikes or ovep-
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Affidavit. 
Penalty. 
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engages in a strike against the (Toverinnent 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 TJnited 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 pei-son who engages in a strike 
against the Government of the United States or wlio 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 jvho 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. 
Approved March 6, 1954. 
March 10, 1954 
Public Law 305 
A
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f ACT 
CHAPTER 61 
[H. R. 6130] 
rfQ permit a first preference for former owners of certain dwellings being sold 
under lianham War jHousing Act. 
War housing. 
Purchase p r e f-
erence. 
64 Stat. 70. 
42 u s e 1587(b). 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhled, That section 607 (b) 
of the Act entitled "An Act to expedite the provision of housing in 
connection with national defense, and for other purposes", approved 
October 14, 1940, as amended, is amended by inserting after the first 
sentence of the last paragraph of that subsection the following sen-
tence : "In the disposition of any dwellings under this section which 
were acquired by the United States from persons occupying the dwell-
ings at the time of such acquisition, the Administrator may, notwith-
standing the order of preference provided in this section, grant a first 
preference to such persons in the purchase of any of these dwellings 
for such period and under such conditions as he may determine to be 
api)ropriate and in the public interest." 
Approved March 10, 1964. 
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March 12,1954 
[S. 1160] 
Public Law 306 
CHAPTER 78 
AN ACT 
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain land to the city of 
Tucson, Arizona, and to accept other land in exchange therefor. 
Tucson, Ariz. 
Conveyance. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary 
of the Interior is authorized and directed to convey by quitclaim deed 
to the city of Tucson, Arizona, a municipal corporation, all right, title,