PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 337-JULY 25, 1947
Emergency employ-
ment.
Jackson Hole Na-
tional Monument.
57 Stat. 731.
58 Stat. 845.
5 U.S. C. §61b-ie.
60 Stat. 1097.
5 U. . a.§133y-16
note.
W3Stat. 903.
5U.S.C.150.
Employees engaged
in personnel work.
60 Stat. 372 .
Short title.
Government of the United States by force or violence and accepts
employment the salary or wages for which are paid from any appro-
priation 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: Providedfurther, That the above penalty
clause shall be in addition to, and not in substitution for, any other
provisions of existing law: Provided further, That in cases of emer-
gency, caused by fire, flood, storm, act of God, or sabotage, persons
may be employed for periods of not more than thirty days and be
paid salaries and wages without the necessity of inquiring into their
membership in any organization.
SEC. 6. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall be
used directly or indirectly by way of wages, salaries, per diem or
otherwise, for the performance of any new administrative function or
the enforcement or issuance of any rule or regulation occasioned by
the establishment of the Jackson Hole National Monument as described
in Executive Proclamation Numbered 2578, dated March 15, 1943.
SEC. 7. Limitations on amounts to be expended for personal services
under appropriations in this Act shall not apply to lump-sum leave
payments pursuant to the Act of December 21, 1944 (Public Law 525).
SEC. 8.'Notwithstanding the provisions of Reorganization Plan
Numbered 3 of 1946, no part of any appropriation contained in this
Act shall be used, transferred, or allocated for the expenses or salaries
of any regional, field, or other office or committee to perform any func-
tion of the Bureau of Land Management now being performed in the
District of Columbia, or for the transfer or removal of any functions
or duties of the said Bureau, including tract books heretofore held
and administered in the District of Columbia, out of the District of
Columbia, unless specific approval therefor has been given by the
Congress prior to the establishment of such office or committee or
prior to such transfer or removal.
SEC. 9. Appropriations herein made shall be available for payment
of dues, when authorized by the Secretary, for library membership in
societies or associations which issue publications to members only or
at a price to members lower than to subscribers who are not members.
SEC. 10. Appropriations in this Act shall be available for health
service programs as authorized by the Act of August 8, 1946 (Public
Law 658).
SEC. 11 . Not to exceed a total of $1,000,000 of the appropriations
contained in this Act shall be available for expenditure for the com-
pensation of employees engaged in personnel work: Provided, That
for purposes of this section employees will be considered as engaged in
personnel work if they spend half time or more on personnel adminis-
tration consisting of recruitment and appointments, placement, posi-
tion classification, training, and employee relations.
TITLE II-SURPLUS APPROPRIATION RESCISSION
The appropriation in the sum of $450,000 for construction and
equipment of an Anthracite Research Laboratory, contained in the
"Interior Department Appropriation Act, 1947", under the heading
"Bureau of Mines"? is hereby carried to the surplus fund and covered
into the Treasury immediately upon the approval of this Act.
This Act may be cited as the "Interior Department Appropriation
Act, 1948".
Approved July 25, 1947.
492
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