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TITLE VI—GENERAL PROVISIONS Annual leave. SEC. 601. No part of the funds of, or available for expenditure by any corporation or agency included in this or any other Act, including the government of the District of Columbia, shall be available to pay for annual leave accumulated by any civilian officer or employee daring the calendar year 1951 and unused at the close of business on June 30, 1952: Provided, That after July 1, 1951, no civilian officer or employee shall be entitled to earn annual leave at a rate in excess of twenty days per year: Provided further, That the head of any such corporation or agency shall afford an opportunity for officers or employees to use the annual leave accumulated under this section prior to June 30, 1952: Provided further, That this section shall not apply to officers and employees whose post of duty is outside the continental United States: And provided further, That this section shall not apply with respect to the payment of compensation for accumulated annual leave in the case of officers or employees who leave their civilian positions for the purpose of entering upon active military or naval service in the Armed Forces of the United States. SEC. 602. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act, or of Persons engaging, in strikes the funds available for expenditure by any corporation included in etc.,advocating againstor over throwof U. S. Governthis Act, shall be used to pay the salary or wages of any person who ment. engages in a strike against the Government of the United States or who is a member of an organization of Government employees that asserts the right to strike against the Government of the United States, or who advocates, or is a member of an organization 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 Affidavit. 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 (xovernment 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 organization that advocates, the overthrow of the Government of the United States by force or violence: Provided further, That any person who engages in a Penalty. strike against the Government of the United States or who is a member of 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 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. Publicity or propaSEC. 603. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act, or of ganda. the funds available for expenditure by any corporation or agency included in this Act, shall be used for publicity or propaganda purposes designed to support or defeat legislation pending before the Congress. Informational a SEC. 604. No part of the money appropriated by this Act to any editorial functions. n d corporation or agency or made available for expenditure by any corporation or agency which is in excess of 75 per centum of the amount required to pay the compensation of all persons the budget estimates for personal services heretofore submitted to the Congress for the fiscal year 1952 contemplated would be employed by such corporation or agency during such fiscal year in the performance of—