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63 STAT.] 81ST CONG., 1ST SESS. -CH. 694-OCT. 14, 1949 BUREAU OF THE MINT MEDAL FOR ALBEN W. BARKLEY, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES For carrying out the provisions of Public Law 221, Eighty-first Congress, approved August 12, 1949, $2,500. TITLE II-CLAIMS FOR DAMAGES AND JUDGMENTS For payment of claims for damages as settled and determined by departments and agencies in accord with law, and judgments rendered against the United States by United States district courts and the United States Court of Claims, as set forth in Senate Document Numbered 111, and House Document Numbered 283, Eighty-first Congress, $1,033,748.54, together with such amounts as may be neces- sary to pay interest (as and when specified in such judgments or provided by law) and such additional sums due to increases in rates of exchange as may be necessary to pay claims in foreign currency: Provided, That no judgment herein appropriated for shall be paid until it shall have become final and conclusive against the United States by failure of the parties to appeal or otherwise: Provided further, That, unless otherwise specifically required by law or by the judgment, payment of interest wherever appropriated for herein shall not continue for more than thirty days after the date of approval of this Act. TITLE III-GENERAL PROVISIONS SEC. 301. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act, or of the funds made available for expenditure by any corporation in- cluded in this Act, shall be used to pay the salary or wages of any person who engages in a strike against the Government of the United States or who is a member of an organization of Government em- ployees that asserts the right to strike against the Government of the United States, or who advocates, or is a member of an organi- zation 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 has not contrary to the provisions of this section engaged in a strike against the Government of the United States, is not a member of an organization of Government employees that asserts the right to strike against the Government of the United States, or that such person does not advocate, and is not a member of an or- ganization that advocates, the overthrow of the Government of the United States by force or violence: Provided further, That any per- son who engages in a strike against the Government of the United States or who is a member of an organization of Government em- ployees that asserts the right to strike against the Government of the United States, or who advocates, or who is a member of an organi- zation 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 imprisoned for not more than one year, or both: Provided further,That the above penalty clause shall be in addition to, and not in substitution for, any other provisions of existing law. SEC. 302. This Act may be cited as the "Supplemental Appropria- tion Act, 1950". Approved October 14, 1949. 879 Ante, p. 599. Persons engaging, etc., in strikes against or advocating over- throw of U.S. Govern- ment. Affidavit. Penalty. Short title.