54 STAT.] 76TH CONG. , 3D SESS.-CHS. 188 , 189-MAY 13, 14 , 1940 SEC. 3 . Whoever shall falsely make, forge, or counterfeit or cause or procure to be falsely made, forged, or counterfeited or shall aid in falsely making, forging, or counterfeiting any medal issued under the provisions of this Act, or whoever shall sell or bring into the United States or any place subject to the jurisdiction thereof from any foreign place, or have in his possession any such false, forged, or counterfeited medal, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than two years, or both. Approved, May 13, 1940. [CHAPTER 189] AN ACT Making appropriations for the Departments of State, Commerce, and Justice, and for The Judiciary, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1941, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by 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, for the Departments of State, Commerce, and Justice, and for The Judiciary, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1941, namely: TITLE I-DEPARTMENT OF STATE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE Salaries: For Secretary of State; Under Secretary of State, $10,000; counselor, $10,000; and other personal services in the District of Columbia, including temporary employees, and not to exceed $6,500 for employees engaged on piece work at rates to be fixed by the Secre- tary of State; $2,458,500: Provided, That in expending appropria- tions or portions of appropriations, contained in this Act, for the payment of personal services in the District of Columbia in accord- ance with the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, with the excep- tion of the four Assistant Secretaries of State and the Legal Adviser of the Department of State, the Assistant to the Attorney General, the Assistant Solicitor General, and six Assistant Attorneys General, the Assistant Secretaries of Commerce, the average of the salaries of the total number of persons under any grade in any bureau, office, or other appropriation unit shall not at any time exceed the average of the compensation rates specified for the grade by such Act, as amended, and in grades in which only one position is allocated the salary of such position shall not exceed the average of the compensa- tion rates for the grade, except that in unusually meritorious cases of one position in a grade advances may be made to rates higher than the average of the compensation rates of the grade but not more often than once in any fiscal year and then only to the next higher rate: Provided, That this restriction shall not apply (1) to grades 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the clerical-mechanical service, or (2) to require the reduc- tion in salary of any person whose compensation was fixed as of July 1, 1924, in accordance with the rules of section 6 of such Act, or (3) to require the reduction in salary of any person who is trans- ferred from one position to another position in the same or different grade in the same or a different bureau, office, or other appropriation unit, or (4) to prevent the payment of a salary under any grade at a rate higher than the maximum rate of the grade when such higher rate is permitted by the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, and is specifically authorized by other law, or (5) to reduce the com- pensation of any person in a grade in which only one position is allocated. 181 Counterfeiting, etc., of medal. Penalty. May 14, 1940 [H. R. 8319] [Public, No. 608] Department oState Appropriation Act, 1941. Salaries. Post, pp . 650 , 1044. Provisos. Salary restriction. 42 Stat. 1488. 5 U. S. C. §§ 661-674; Supp. V, §§ 673,673c. Restriction not ap- plicable in designated cases. 42 Stat. 1490. 5U.S.C.i666.
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