An Act to revive and reenact the Act entitled ""An Act authorizing the State of Michigan, acting through the International Bridge Authority of Michigan, to construct, maintain, and operate a toll bridge or series of bridges, causeways, and approaches thereto, across the Saint Marys River, from a point in or near the city of Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan, to a point in the Province of Ontario, Canada"", approved December 16, 1940
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advocates, the overthrow of the Government of the United States b j 
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 per-
son 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 TJnited 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 provisions of existing law: Provided 
further, That nothing in this section shall be construed to require an 
affidavit from any person employed for less than sixty days for sudden 
emergency work involving the loss of human life or destruction of 
property, the payment of salary or wages may be made to such persons 
from applicable appropriations for services rendered in such emer-
gency without execution of the affidavit contemplated by this section. 
SEC. 408. 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 to support or defeat legislation pending before the Congress. 
SEC. 409. This Act may be cited as the "Department of Agriculture 
Appropriation Act, 1954". 
Approved July 28, 1953. 
Affidavit. 
Penalty. 
Emergency work. 
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propaganda. 
Short title. 
Public Law 157 
CHAPTER 252 
AN ACT 
To revive and reenact the Act entitled "An Act authorizing the State of Michigan, 
acting through the International Bridge Authority of Michigan, to construct, 
maintain, and operate a toll bridge or series of bridges, causeways, and 
approaches thereto, across the Saint Marys River, from a point in or near 
the city of Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan, to a point in the Province of Ontario, 
Canada", approved December 16, 1940. 
July 28, 1953 
[H. R. 4302] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States 
of America 
in Congress assembled, That the Act 
approved December 16,1940, authorizing the State of Michigan, acting 
through the International Bridge Authority of Michigan, to construct, 
maintain, and operate a toll bridge or series of bridges, causeways, 
or tunnel and approaches thereto, across the Saint Marys River, from 
a point in or near the city of Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan, to a point 
in the Province of Ontario, Canada, be, and is hereby, revived and 
reenacted: Provided, That this Act shall be null and void unless the 
actual construction of the bridge herein referred to be commenced 
within three years and completed within six years from the date of 
approval hereof. 
SEC. 2. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby ex-
pressly reserved. 
Approved July 28, 1953. 
Bridge. 
St. Marys River, 
Mich. 
54 Stat. 1222. 
Limitation. 
Right reserved.