56 STAT.] 77TH CONG., 2o SESS. -CH. 475-JULY 2, 1942 PAR. 21. Any person who knowingly and with intent to defraud the United States makes any false statement in connection with any application for any project authorized in paragraph 1, or diverts, or attempts to divert, or assists in diverting, for the benefit of any person or persons not entitled thereto, any portion of the appropriation in paragraph 1, or any services or real or personal property acquired thereunder, or who knowingly, by means of any fraud, force, threat, intimidation, or boycott, or discrimination on account of race, religion, political affiliations, or membership in a labor organization, deprives, or attempts to deprive, or assists n depriving any person of any of the benefits to which he may be entitled under such appropriation, shall be deemed guilty of a felony and fined not more than $2,000 or imprisoned not more than two years, or both. The provisions of this paragraph shall be in addition to, and not in substitution for, any other provisions of existing law. PAR. 22 . All training or educational programs other than work and training on the project location incidental to the supervision of a work program being conducted thereon for youth employed by the National Youth Administration on work projects shall be under the control and supervision of the State boards for vocational education of the several States and shall be paid for out of appropriations made to the Office of Education and expended by the States pursuant to plans submitted by State boards for vocational education and approved by the Commissioner of Education. PAR. 23. Section 3709 of the Revised Statutes shall not be construed to apply to any purchase with funds appropriated under this title when the aggregate amount involved in such purchase does not exceed the sum of $300. PAR. 24. Whenever the Chairman of the War Manpower Commis- sion shall determine that the facilities of any shop project of the National Youth Administration can contribute more effectively to the prosecution of the war if operated by another department or agency of the Government, or by another public agency, he may direct the transfer of such facilities to such department or agency. PAR. 25. Property and facilities which are declared surplus to the needs of the program as provided in paragraph 1 may be transferred, upon such terms as may be approved by the Federal Security Admin- istrator, but without cost to the United States for transportation or otherwise, to school districts, municipalities, counties, States, or other non-Federal public agencies, without regard to other Federal law or regulation: Provided, That such property and facilities shall first be tendered to other agencies of the United States for use in the war effort. PAR. 26. The paragraphs herein under the National Youth Admin- istration may be cited as the "National Youth Administration Appropriation Act, 1943". OFFICE OF EDUCATION Salaries: For the Commissioner of Education and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $300,000. General expenses: For general expenses of the Office of Education, including lawbooks, books of reference, and periodicals; streetcar fares; purchase, distribution, and exchange of educational documents, motion-picture films, and lantern slides; collection, exchange, and cataloging of educational apparatus and appliances, articles of school furniture and models of school buildings illustrative of foreign and domestic systems and methods of education, and repairing the same; and exchange as part payment for office equipment, $12,000. False statements with intent to de- fraud, etc. Penalty. Supervision of pro- grams. Minor purchases. 41 U.S.C.§ 5. Transferof facilities. Disposition of sur- plus property and facilities. Prosw. Citation of para- graphs.
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