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56 STAT.] 77TH CONG. , 2D SESS.-CH. 475-JULY 2, 1942 between the contributing agency and the National Youth Administra- tion and such reimbursements shall be available for the purposes of this appropriation. PAR. 8. The facilities and services of the United States Employ- ment Service of the Social Security Board shall be utilized wherever possible in the selection and referral of youth for employment and work training on projects of the National Youth Administration. PAR. 9 . No alien shall be given employment or continued in employ- ment on any work project prosecuted under the appropriation in paragraph 1 or paragraph 2 and no part of the money appropriated in paragraph 1 or paragraph 2 or paragraph 3 shall be available to pay any person who has not made or who does not make affidavit that he is a citizen of the United States, such affidavit to be considered prima facie evidence of such citizenship. This paragraph shall not apply to citizens of the Commonwealth of the Philippines. PAR. 10. No person shall be employed or retained in employment in any administrative position, or in any supervisory position on any project, and no person shall receive assistance in the form of pay- ments or otherwise from the United States for services rendered under the National Youth Administration, under the appropriation in paragraph 1 or paragraph 2 or paragraph 3 unless such person before engaging in such employment or receiving such assistance subscribes to the following oath: "I, A B, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reser- vation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office (or employment) on which I am about to enter (or which I now occupy). So help me God." PAR. 11. Compensated and uncompensated administrative and supervisory employees of the National Youth Administration, desig- nated for the purpose by the National Youth Administrator, or his authorized representative, shall have the general powers of notaries public in the administration of oaths required by paragraphs 9 and 10, and the execution and acknowledgment of other legal instruments, and all forms of notarial acts determined by the National Youth Administrator to be necessary for the effective prosecution of the National Youth Administration programs. No fee shall be charged for oaths administered by such employees. PAR. 12. No person who refuses prior to employment to agree that he will accept employment in industry related to national defense if and when offered in good faith shall be eligible for employment on any project of the National Youth Administration. PAR. 13. No portion of the appropriation in paragraph 1 or para- graph 2 or paragraph 3 shall be used to pay any compensation to any person who advocates, or who is a member of an organization that advocates, the overthrow of the Government of the United States through force or violence. PAR. 14 . No portion of the appropriations in paragraph 1 or para- graph 2 or paragraph 3 shall be used to pay the compensation of any civil service employee, except persons so appointed who are already employed by another agency of the Government and are assigned or deteiled to the National Youth Administration. PAR. 15. In carrying out the purposes of this appropriation, the National Youth Administrator, or his authorized representatives, sub- ject to the approval of the Federal Security Administrator, is author- ized to accept and utilize voluntary and uncompensated services; to appoint and compensate officers and employees without regard to 573 Utilization of U. S . Employment Service. Restriction on em- ployment of aliens. Exception. Oath of office. Administration of oaths. Agreement to accept employment in indus- try. Persons advocating overthrow of U. S. Government. Compensation of civil-service employ- ees, restriction. Acceptance of un- compensated services.