An Act making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1952, and for other purposes.
PL 82-431 (H.R.7860), enacted 06/30/1952

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Public Law 431 
PUBLIC LAW 431-JUNE 30, 1952 
AN ACT 
CHAPTER 532 
Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in certain appropriations 
for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1952, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted 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 other-
wise appropriated, to supply supplemental appropriations for the 
fiscal year ending June 30, 1962, and for other purposes, namely: 
CHAPTER I 
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 
(Out of Revenues of the District of Columbia) 
GENERAL ADMINISTRATION 
OFFICE OF THE CORPORATION COUNSEL 
For an additional amount for "OflSce of the Corporation Counsel", 
$30,000, to be available for settlement of claims only; and the limita-
tion under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act 
of 1952, on the amount available for settlement of claims, is increased 
from "$20,000" to "$50,000". 
COMPENSATION AND RETIREMENT FUND EXPENSES 
DISTRICT G O V E R N M E N T RETIREMENT AND RELIEF FUNDS 
For an additional amount for "District government retirement and 
relief funds", $113,000. 
COURTS 
UNITED STATES COURTS 
For an additional amount, fiscal year 1951, for "United States 
courts", $28,746. 
JUDGMENTS 
For the payment of final judgments rendered against the District 
of Columbia, as set forth in House Document Numbered 460 (Eighty-
second Congress), together with such further sums as may be necessary 
to pay the interest at not exceeding 4 per centum per annum on such 
judgments, as provided by law, from the date the same became due 
until the date of payment, $19,614. 
AUDITED CLAIMS 
For an additional amount for the payment of claims, certified to 
be due by the accounting officers of the District of Columbia, under 
appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or credited 
to the general fund of the District of Columbia as provided by law 
(D. C. Code, title 47, sec. 130a), being for the service of the fiscal 
year 1949 and prior fiscal years, as set forth in House Document 
Numbered 460 (Eighty-second Congress), $117,284. 
June 30, 1952 
[H. R. 7860] 
Urgent Deficien-
c y A p propriation 
Act, 1952. 
65 Stat. 155. 
58 Stat. 533. 
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DIVISION OF EXPENSES 
The sums appropriated in this Act for the District of Columbia 
shall, unless otherwise specifically provided for, be paid out of the 
general fund of the District of Columbia, as defined in the District 
, of Columbia Appropriation Acts for the fiscal years involved. 
CHAPTER I I 
LEGISLATIVE BRANCH 
SENATE 
CONTINGENT EXPENSES OF THE SENATE 
Miscellaneous items: For an additional amount for "Miscellaneous 
items", fiscal year 1951, $350. 
CHAPTER I I I 
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 
CIVIL AERONAUTICS 
ADMINISTRATION 
H» 
E S T A B L I S H M E N T OF AIR-NAVIGATION F A C I L I T I E S 
The limitation under this head in the Department of Commerce 
65 Stat. 587. 
Appropriation Act, 1952, on the amount available for emergency 
repairs and replacement of facilities damaged by fire, flood, or storm 
is increased from "$200,000" to "$300,000". 
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T H E JUDICIARY 
OTHER COURTS AND SERVICES 
FEES OF COMMISSIONERS 
For an additional amount for "Fees of commissioners", $60,000. 
FEES OF JURORS 
For an additional amount for "Fees of jurors", $260,000. 
CHAPTER IV 
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 
BUREAU OF EMPLOYMENT SECURITY 
GRANTS TO STATES FOR UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION AND EMPLOYMENT 
SERVICE ADMINISTRATION 
For an additional amount for "Grants to States for Unemploy-
ment Compensation and Employment Service 
Administration", 
$2,500,000. 
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY 
RESEARCH FACILITIES 
For the establishment of a laboratory and related facilities for 
investigation of foot-and-mouth and other animal diseases, in accord-
ance with the Act of April 24, 1948 (21 U. S. C. 113a), $10,000,000, 
62 stat. i98. 
at a location to be selected by the Secretary of Agriculture after full 
hearings of which reasonable public notice shall be given to those 
who may reside within twenty-five miles from the island selected. 
SOIL CONSERVATION SERVICE 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
The unobligated balance of the amount appropriated under this 
head in the Flood Rehabilitation Act, 1952, shall remain available 
^s stat. eie. 
until December 31,1952. 
PRODUCTION AND MARKETING ADMINISTRATION 
CONSERVATION AND USE OF AGRICULTURAL LAND RESOURCES 
The unobligated balance of the amount made available to the Soil 
Conservation Service from the appropriation granted under this head 
in the Flood Rehabilitation Act, 1952, shall remain available until 
ss stat. eis. 
December 31,1952. 
CHAPTER VI 
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 
TITLE I 
DEPARTMENT OF THE A R M Y 
M I L I T A R Y PERSONNEL 
For an additional amount for "Military personnel, Army", 
$335,000,000. 
M A I N T E N A N C E AND OPERATIONS 
For an additional amount for "Maintenance and operations. Army", 
fiscal year 1953, $618,000,000 of which $250,000,000 shall be immedi-
ately available. 
CIVILIAN R E L I E F IN KOREA 
For an additional amount for "Civilian relief in Korea", $175,-
000,000, which, together with funds previously appropriated under 
this head, shall remain available until June 30,1953. 
MILITARY CONSTRUOTION, ARMY CIVILIAN COMPONENTS 
The unexpended balance in the appropriation account "Military 
construction. Army civilian components, 1951-1952", as established 
pursuant to section 403 (b) of the National Security Act of 1947, as 
s\j|*c*i7li?.* 
amended, shall be merged with the appropriation "Military construe-
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tion, Army civilian components", and shall remain available until 
June 30, 1954: Provided^ That money available under this head and 
to be expended under the provisions of section 3 (c), Public Law 783, 
so vie 882.* 
Eighty-first Congress, may be used for the construction of armory 
facilities for company or battery size and larger units. 
TITLE I I 
; 
DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY 
MILITARY PERSONNEL, MARINE CORPS 
For an additional amount for "Military personnel. Marine Corps", 
$38,000,000. 
MARINE CORPS TROOPS AND FACILITIES 
Not to exceed $8,445,000 of the unexpended balance of the appro-
priation "Marine Corps troops and facilities", fiscal year 1951, shall 
remain available during the fiscal year 1952 for obligation under 
procurement requests transmitted to the Department of the Army 
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during the fiscal year 1951. 
ORDNANCE AND FACILITIES 
Not to exceed $46,420,000 of the unexpended balance of the appro-
priation "Ordnance and facilities", fiscal year 1951, shall remain 
available during the fiscal year 1952 for obligation under procure-
ment requests transmitted to the Department of the Army during 
the fiscal year 1951. 
NAVAL PETROLEUM RESERVE NUMBERED 4, ALASKA 
For expenses necessarv for exploration and prospecting in Naval 
Petroleum Reserve Numbered 4, $6,100,000, to be derived by transfer 
from the appropriation "Contingencies", Office of the Secretary of 
Defense, fiscal year 1952: Provided^ That the unexpended balances 
of appropriations heretofore made available under this head shall be 
merged with this appropriation and shall remain available until 
June 30, 1953. 
AUDITED CLAIMS 
Applicable current appropriations of the Department of the Navy 
shall be available for payment of claims certified by the Comptroller 
General to be otherwise due, in the amounts stated below, from the 
following appropriations: 
"Pay, subsistence, and transportation of naval personnel", 
' fiscal year 1940, $11. 
"Fuel and transportation. Navy", fiscal year 1944, $103,605. 
"Fuel Navy", fiscal year 1948, $30,609. 
"Transportation of things, Navy", fiscal year 1948, $15,902. 
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DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE 
MAINTENANCE AND OPERATIONS 
For an additional amount for "Maintenance and operations, Air 
Force", $235,000,000. 
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I V 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
During the fiscal years 1952 and 1953, the agencies of the Depart-
ment of Defense may accept property and services and moneys from 
foreign countries for the use of the United States in accordance with 
mutual defense agreements; and such agencies may use the same for 
the support of the United States forces in such areas without specific 
appropriation therefor. 
The second proviso under the heading "Incidental expenses of the 
Army" in the Department of Defense Appropriation Act, 1952, is 
hereby amended by changing the period at the end to a comma and 
adding the words, "except for recruitment of personnel who cannot 
be obtained through Selective Service processes". 
The President is hereby authorized to continue during the fiscal 
year 1953 the ten temporary positions authorized in section 630 of 
the Defense Appropriations Act of 1952: Provided^ That five of such 
positions may be placed in the grade of GS-16. 
Recruitment 
vertising. 
65 Stat. 429. 
Temporary posi-
t i o n s i n grades 
GS-17 and GS-18. 
65 Stat. 449. 
CHAPTER VII 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
Affidavit. 
SEC. 701. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act, or th^r*o^w*%f°Gover*^ 
of the funds available for expenditure by any corporation included ment. 
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 
;£- 
f. 
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 hj 
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: Pro-
vided further^ That the above penalty clause shall be in addition 
to, and not in substitution for, any other provisions of existing law. 
SEC. 702. Any annual appropriations granted to the Department of 
Commerce and the Department of Defense, for the fiscal year 1952, ances 
shall be respectively available for transfer, with the approval of the 
Bureau of the Budget, to the applicable appropriations within each 
of said departments in such amounts as may be required to meet 
Penalty. 
Increased costs 
of pay and allow-
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Ante, p. 79. 
Short title. 
increased costs of pay and allowances for said fiscal year authorized 
by the Act of May 19, 1952 (Public Law 346), and any limitations 
on personal services, or for purposes involving personal services, 
for said fiscal year are hereby increased to the extent necessary to meet 
such increased costs. 
SEC. 703. This Act may be cited as the "Urgent Deficiency Appro-
priation Act, 1952". 
Approved June 30, 1952. 
July 1, 1952 
[S. 2198] 
Public Law 432 
CHAPTER 535 
AN ACT 
To amend section 1708 of title 18, United States Code, relating to the theft or 
receipt of stolen mail matter generally. 
62 Stat. 779. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the fourth 
paragraph of section 1708, title 18, United States Code, is hereby 
amended by changing the semicolon to a period and by striking out 
the clause reading "but if the value or face value of any such article 
or thing does not exceed $100, he shall be fined not more than $1,000 
or imprisoned not more than one year, or both." 
Approved July 1, 1952. 
Public Law 433 
CHAPTER 536 
Ju., 1, 1952 
AN ACT 
[H. R. 160] 
r^Q amend section 5192 of the Revised Statutes, with respect to the reserves 
of certain national banks. 
Alaska and Insu-
lar possessions. 
National bank re-
serves. 
Be it enacted by the Senxite and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That section 5192 
of the Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended (12 U. S. C. 
144), is hereby amended to read as follows: 
"SEC. 5192. Four-fifths of the reserve of 15 per centum which a 
national bank located in Alaska or in a dependency or insular posses-
sion or any part of the United States outside of the continental United 
States, and not a member of the Federal Reserve System, is required to 
keep, may consist of balances due such bank from associations approved 
by the Comptroller of the Currency and located in any one of the cen-
tral reserve or reserve cities as now or hereafter defined by law or 
designated by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System." 
Approved July 1, 1952. 
July 1, 1952 
[H.R.6500] 
Public Law 434 
CHAPTER 537 
AN ACT 
To amend the joint resolution of August 8, 1946, as amended, with respect to 
appropriations authorized for the conduct of Investigations and studies there-
under. 
Great Lakes. 
Sea lampreys. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the last sentence 
of the first paragraph of the joint resolution entitled "Joint resolution 
authorizing and directing the Director of the Fish and Wildlife Service