An Act making supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1951, and for other purposes
PL 82-43 (H.R.3842), enacted 05/31/1951

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Public Law 43 
CHAPTER 118 
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AN ACT 
May 31, 1951 
[H. R.3842] 
Making supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1951, and 
for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
taiAppropriatfonTcT, United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following 
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sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise 
appropriated, to supply supplemental appropriations for the fiscal 
year ending June 30, 1951, and for other purposes, namely: 
CHAPTER I 
INDEPENDENT OFFICES 
ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION 
For an additional amount for "Atomic Energy Commission", 
$59,323,000. 
OFFICE OF HOUSING EXPEDITER 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
The amount made available under this head in the Supplemental 
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Appropriation Act, 1951, only for the payment of terminal leave, as 
amended by the Third Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1951, is 
changed from $1,750,000 to $1,000,000. 
CHAPTER I I 
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 
For additional amounts for appropriations under the Department 
of Defense, as follows: 
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DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMT 
FINANCE D E P A R T M E N T 
Finance Service, Army: 
"Pay of the Army", $107,150,000; 
"Travel of the Army", $32,000,000; 
"Finance service", $3,000,000; 
QUARTERMASTER CORPS 
Quartermaster Service, Army: 
"Welfare of enlisted men", $500,000; 
"Subsistence of the Army", $231,750,000; 
"Regular supplies of the Army", $63,631,000; 
"Clothing and equipage", $558,597,000; 
"Incidental expenses of the Army", $2,311,000; 
TRANSPORTATION CORPS 
"Transportation service. Army", $105,780,000; 
SIGNAL CORPS 
"Signal service of the Army", $175,231,000; 
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MEDICAIi DEPARTMENT 
"Medical and Hospital Department", $19,330,000; 
CORPS OF ENGINEERS 
"Engineer service, Army", $248,252,000; 
ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT 
"Ordnance service and supplies. Army", $898,588,000; 
UNTTED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY 
"Maintenance and operation", $200,000; 
DEPARTMENTAL SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
"Contingent expenses", $1,250,000; 
EXPEDITING PRODUCTION 
"Expediting production", $400,000,000. 
DEPARTMENT or THE NAVY 
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"Military personnel, Navy", $52,602,000; 
"Navy personnel, general expenses", $20,500,000; 
"Military personnel, Marine Corps", $50,517,000; 
"Marine Corps troops and facilities", $87,915,000; 
"Aircraft and facilities", $62,869,000; 
"Construction of aircraft and related procurement", $508,000,000, 
to remain available until expended: Provided^ That the aircraft pro-
curement program heretofore established for the fiscal year 1951 is 
further increased by $508,000,000: Provided further^ That the amount 
appropriated herein shall be available for expansion of public and 
private plants, including the land necessary therefor without regard 
to section 3734, Revised Statutes, as amended, and such land and ^gt" ^- ^- '-'• ^
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interests therein may be acquired and construction prosecuted thereon 
prior to the approval of title by the Attorney General as required by 
section 355, Revised Statutes, as amended: Provided further^ That 34%.^s.^c.*^§ sloPli 
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of buildings of any character for the expansion of private plants 
shall not exceed $100,000,000; 
"Ships and facilities", $275,443,000; 
"Construction of ships", for construction, acquisition, and conver-
sion as authorized by the Act of March 10,1951 (Public Law 3), with- 
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out regard to the limitation imposed under this head in the Second 
Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1951, $137,000,000, to remain avail- 
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able until expended; 
"Ordnance and facilities", $335,700,000; 
"Medical care", $34,856,000; 
"Civil engineering", $5,574,000; 
"Public works (new)", $17,500,000, to remain available until 
expended; 
"Service-wide supply and finance", $8,000,000; 
"Navy stock fund": For additional working capital for the Navy 
stock fund, established pursuant to the National Security Act Amend-
ments of 1949, $43,000,000; 
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"Service-wide operations", $5,963,000; 
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rACILITIES 
The authority granted under this head in the Supplemental Appro-
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priatioH Act, 1951, to acquire land and construct production facilities 
thereon, may be exercised prior to the approval of title by the Attorney 
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0 General as required by section 355, Kevised Statutes, as amended. 
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D E P A R T M E N T OF T H E A l R FORCE 
AIRCRAFT AND RELATED PROCUREMENT 
"Aircraft and related procurement", $700,000,000, to remain avail-
able until expended: Provided, 
That the aircraft procurement pro-
gram heretofore established for the fiscal year 1951 is further 
increased by $700,000,000; 
MAJOR PROCUREMENT OTHER T H A N AIRCRAFT 
"Major procurement other than aircraft", $340,000,000, to remain 
available until expended; 
ACQUISITION AND CONSTRUCTION OF REAL PROPERTT 
"Acquisition and construction of real property", including acquisi-
tion and construction as authorized by law, $281,664,000, to remain 
available until expended; 
MAINTENANCE AND OPERATIONS 
"Maintenance and operations", $440,000,000; 
MILITARY PERSONNEL REQUIREMENTS 
"Military personnel requirements", $125,000,000: Provided, 
That 
the Secretary of the Air Force is authorized to transfer not to exceed 
$18,000,000 to the appropriation granted under this head for the fiscal 
year 1950, from the unobligated balances of any other appropriations 
to the Air Force for said fiscal year. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
SEC. 201. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no part of 
any appropriation for the Department of Defense contained in this 
Act shall remain available until expended unless so provided in the 
appropriation concerned. 
CHAPTER I I I 
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 
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BONNEVILLE POWER ADMINISTRATION 
Construction 
For an additional amount for "Construction", $3,672,000, to remain 
available until expended. 
CHAPTER 
IV—GENERAL 
PROVISIONS 
SEC. 401. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act, or of 
the funds available for expenditure by any corporation included in 
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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 vio-
lence: 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 asseits 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 advo-
cates, the overthrow of the Government of the United States by force 
or violence: Provided fv/rther^ 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 light 
to strike against the Government of the United States, or who advo-
cates, 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 v/ages 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 sub-
stitution for, any other provisions of existing law. 
SEC. 402. This Act may be cited as the "Fourth Supplemental 
Appropriation Act, 1951". 
Approved May 31, 1951. 
Affidavit. 
Penalty. 
Short title. 
Public Law 44 
CHAPTER 120 
AN ACT 
To amend section 28 of the Enabling Act for the State of Arizona relating 
terms of leases of State-owned lands. 
to the 
June 2,1951 
[S. 108] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the third para-
graph of section 28 of the Act entitled "An Act to enable tlie people 
of New Mexico to form a constitution and State government and be 
admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original States; 
and to enable the people of Arizona to form a constitution and State 
government and be admitted into the Union on an equal footing with 
the original States", approved June 20, 1910, as amended, is amended 
to read as follows: 
"No mortgage or other encumbrance of the said lands, or any part 
thereof, shall be valid in favor of any person or for any purpose or 
under any circumstances whatsoever. 
Said lands shall not be sold 
or leased, in whole or in part, except to the highest and best bidder 
at a public auction to be held at the county seat of the county wherein 
the lands to be affected, or the major portion thereof, shall lie, notice 
of which public auction shal] first have been duly given by advertise-
ment, which shall set forth the nature, time, and place of the transac-
tion to be had, with a full description of the lands to be offered, and 
be published once each week for not less than ten successive weeks in 
a newspaper of general circulation published regularly at the State 
capital, and in that newspaper of like circulation which shall then 
be regularly published nearest to the location of the lauds so offered; 
Arizona. 
State-owned lands. 
36 Stat. 574. 
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mortgages. 
Sales and leases. 
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