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55 STAT.] 77TH CONG. , 1ST SESS.-CHS. 40, 41 -APR . 5 , 1941 SEC. 3 . During the fiscal year ending June 30, 1942, the salaries of the Commissioners of the Interstate Commerce Commission, the Com- missioners of the United States Maritime Commission with the excep- tion of the Chairman so long as the office is held by the present incum- bent, and the Commissioners of the United States Tariff Commission shall be at the rate of $10,000 each per annum: Provided, That after the date of enactment of this Act the provisions of section 3 of the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1941, shall not apply to the salary of the Chairman of the United States Maritime Comnission, so long as the office is held by the present incumbent. SEC. 4. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act or authorized hereby to be expended shall be used to pay the compensation of any officer or employee of the Government of the United States, or of any agency the majority of the stock of which is owned by the Government of the United States, whose post of duty is in continental United States unless such person is a citizen of the United States or a person in the service of the United States on the date of enactment of this Act who, being eligible for citizenship, has filed a declaration of intention to become a citizen or who owes allegiance to the United States. SEC. 5 . No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall be used to pay the salary or wages of any person 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: Provided, That for the purposes hereof an affidavit shall be considered prima facie evidence that the person making the affidavit 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 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 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 penal clause shall be in addition to, and not in substitution for, any other provisions of existing law. SEC. 6 . This Act may be cited as the "Independent Offices Appro- priation Act, 1942". Approved, April 5, 1941. [CHAPTER 41] AN ACT Making deficiency and supplemental appropriations for the national defense 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 otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiency and supplemental appropriations for the national defense for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1941, and for other purposes, namely: TITLE I-WAR DEPARTMENT MILITARY ACTIVITIES For additional amounts for appropriations for the Military Estab- lishment, fiscal year 1941, to be supplemental to, and merged with, the appropriations under the same heads in the Military Appropriation 123 Salaries of desig- nated officials. Proviso. Chairman, U. S . Maritime Commis- sion. 54 Stat. 141. Citizenship require- ments. Persons advocating overthrow of U. S . Government. Proviso. Penalty. Short title. April 5, 1941 [H. R . 4124] [Publig Law 29] Fifth Supplemental National Defense Ap- propriation Act, 1941. Title VI, Military Appropriation Act, 1941. 54 Stat. 352; ant, p. 34.