Volume 55 · 54
Public Law 77–30
Making supplemental appropriations for the national defense to provide aid to the government of any country whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the United States, and for other purposes.
Approved March 27, 1941
Statutory text
AN ACT
Making supplemental appropriations for the national defense to provide aid to the government of any country whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the United States, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That to enable the President, through such departments or agencies of the Government as he may designate, to carry out the provisions of An Act to Promote
Ante, p. 31; post, p. 745.
the Defense of the United States, approved March 11, 1941, and for each and every purpose incident to or necessary therefor, there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the following sums for the following respective purposes, namely:
Procurement of designated defense articles.
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For the procurement, by manufacture or otherwise, of defense articles for the government of any country whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the United States, including services and expenses in connection therewith, as follows:
Ordnance and ordnance stores, supplies, spare parts, and materials, including armor and ammunition and components thereof, $1,343,000,000.
Aircraft and aeronautical material, including engines, spare parts, and accessories, $2,054,000,000.
Tanks, armored cars, automobiles, trucks, and other automotive vehicles, spare parts, and accessories, $362,000,000.
Vessels, ships, boats, and other watercraft, and equipage, supplies, materials, spare parts, and accessories, $629,000,000.
Miscellaneous military equipment, supplies, and materials, $260,000,000.
Facilities and equipment, for the manufacture or production of defense articles, by construction or acquisition, including the acquisition of land, and the maintenance and operation of such facilities and equipment, $752,000,000.
Agricultural, industrial, and other commodities and articles, $1,350,000,000.
Testing, outfitting, etc.
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For testing, inspecting, proving, repairing, outfitting, reconditioning, or otherwise placing in good working order any defense articles for the government of any country whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the United States, including services and expenses in connection therewith, $200,000,000.
Interchangeability of funds.
Not to exceed 20 per centum of any of the foregoing eight appropriations may be transferred by the President to any other such appropriation, but no appropriation shall be increased by more than 30 per centum.
Services and expenses.
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For necessary services and expenses for carrying out the purposes of such Act not specified or included in the foregoing, $40,000,000.
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For administrative expenses, $10,000,000.
In all, $7,000,000,000, to remain available until June 30, 1943.
Sec. 2.
Transfer of funds.
If any defense article procured from an appropriation made before March 11, 1941, is disposed of, under such Act of March 11, 1941, by any department or agency to the government of any country whose defense the President deemed vital to the defense of the United States, the President may transfer, from the appropriations made by this Act to the appropriate appropriation of such department or agency, an amount equivalent to the value (as computed for the purposes of the $1,300,000,000 limitation contained
Ante, p. 31.
in section 3 (a) (2) of such Act of March 11, 1941) of the defense article so disposed of, but not to exceed in the aggregate $1,300,000,000.
Sec. 3.
Retention of defense article by U. S.
Any defense article procured from an appropriation made by this Act shall be retained by or transferred to and for the use of such department or agency of the United States as the President may determine, in lieu of being disposed of to a foreign government, whenever in the judgment of the President the defense of the United States will be best served thereby.
Sec. 4.
Persons advocating overthrow of U. S. Government.
No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall be used to pay the salary or wages of any person 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: Provided,
Provisos.
That for the purposes hereof an affidavit shall be considered prima facie evidence that the person making the affidavit 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 advocates, or who is a member
Penalty.
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 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. 5.
This Act may be cited as the “Defense Aid Supplemental
Short title.
Appropriation Act, 1941”.
Approved, March 27, 1941, 10:50 a. m., E. S. T.