63 STAT.] 81ST CONG. , IST SESS.-CHS. 354 , 356 -JULY 20, 21, 1949 an organization of Government employees that asserts the right to strike against the Government of the United States, or 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 or fund contained in this Act shall be guilty of a felony and, upon conviction, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or impris- oned 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. SEC. 602. This Act may be cited as the "Departments of State, Justice, Commerce, and the Judiciary Appropriation Act, 1950". Approved July 20, 1949. [CHAPTER 356] AN ACT To repeal the provisions of the Alaska Railroad Retirement Act of June 29 1936, as amended, and sections 91 to 107 of the Canal Zone Code and to extend the benefits of the Civil Service Retirement Act of May 29, 1930, as amended, to officers and employees to whom such provisions are applicable. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) the Alaska Railroad Retirement Act of June 29, 1936, as amended, is hereby repealed, and all officers and employees of The Alaska Railroad, Territory of Alaska, who are subject to the provisions of said Act are hereby included within the terms of the Civil Service Retirement Act of May 29,1930, as amended. (b) Sections 91 to 107 (comprising article 2 of chapter 6) of title 2 of the Canal Zone Code, approved June 19, 1934 (48 Stat. 1122), as amended (known as the Canal Zone Retirement Act), are hereby repealed, and all officers and employees of the Panama Canal and the Panama Railroad Company, who are subject to the provisions of such sections, are hereby included within the terms of the Civil Service Retirement Act of May 29, 1930, as amended. SEC. 2 . (a) The United States Civil Service Commission is hereby authorized and directed to ascertain the amount of the gross assets in the Alaska Railroad retirement and disability fund and the amount of the gross assets in the Canal Zone retirement and disability fund, and to certify such amounts to the Secretary of the Treasury, who is hereby authorized and directed to transfer such amounts on the books of the Treasury Department to the civil-service retirement and disability fund. (b) In the case of each officer or employee described in section 1 of this Act, the United States Civil Service Commission shall credit to his individual account in the civil-service retirement and disability fund an amount equal to all deductions withheld from his salary and deposited or redeposited by him under the Alaska Railroad Retire- ment Act, as amended, or the Canal Zone Retirement Act, as amended, together with interest compounded on June 30 of each year at 4 per centum per annum to December 31, 1947, and at 3 per centum per annum thereafter to the effective date of this Act, and credit shall be allowed for the purposes of the Act of May 29,1930, as amended, for the period of service covered by said contributions. SEC. 3 . Section 2 (a) of the Act of May 29, 1930, as amended, is further amended by adding at the end thereof the following: "In the case of an officer or an employee of The Alaska Railroad, Territory of Alaska, or an officer or employee who is a citizen of the United States 475 Short title. July 21, 1949 I[. 1359] [Public Law 180] Alaska and Canal Zone. Retirementbenefits. 49 Stat. 2017. 5 U. S. C.0I 745- 745r; Snpp. II, i 745 note. 46 Stat. 468 . 5U.S.C. 691st Cse.; Supp. II, § 691 st seq. Ante, pp. 170, 266; post, pp . 490, 577, 609, 621, 663, 699, 704, 884. Transfer of assets. Crediting of ac- countt. 49 Stat. 2017; 48 Stat. 1122. 5U.S.C.S9745- 745r; Supp. II, i 745 note. Supra. 46 Stat. 46 .9 5U.S.C, Supp. n, 715 (a). Automatic separa- tion.
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