SEC. 6. That this Act hereafter may be referred to as the "First Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1920."

Approved, November 4, 1919. [41 Stat., 327, 334.]

AN ACT To regulate further the entry of aliens into the United States.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That if the President shall find that the public safety requires that restrictions and prohibitions in addition to those provided otherwise than by this Act be imposed upon the entry of aliens into the United States, and shall make public proclamation thereof, it shall, until otherwise ordered by the President or Congress, be unlawful-

(a) For any alien to enter or attempt to enter the United States except under such reasonable rules, regulations, and orders, and subject to such passport, visé, or other limitations and exceptions as the President shall prescribe;

(b) For any person to transport or attempt to transport into the United States another person with knowledge or reasonable cause to believe that the entry of such other person is forbidden by this Act;

(c) For any person knowingly to make any false statement in an application for a passport or other permission to enter the United States with intent to induce or secure the granting of such permission, either for himself or for another;

(d) For any person knowingly to furnish or attempt to furnish or assist in furnishing to another a viséed passport or other permit or evidence of permission to enter, not issued and designed for such other person's use;

(e) For any person knowingly to use or attempt to use any viséed passport or other permit or evidence of permission to enter not issued and designed for his use;

(f) For any person to forge, counterfeit, mutilate, or alter, or cause or procure to be forged, counterfeited, mutilated, or altered, any passport, visé, or other permit or evidence of permission to enter the United States;

(g) For any person knowingly to use or attempt to use or furnish to another for use any false, forged, counterfeited, mutilated, or altered passport, permit, or evidence of permission, or any passport, permit, or evidence of permission which, though originally valid, has become or been made void or invalid.

SEC. 2. That any person who shall willfully violate any of the provisions of this Act, or of any order or proclamation of the President promulgated, or of any permit, rule, or regulation issued thereunder, shall, upon conviction, be fined not more than $5,000, or, if a natural person, imprisoned for not more than five years, or both; and the officer, director, or agent of any corporation who knowingly participates in such violation shall be punished by like fine or imprisonment, or both; and any vehicle or any vessel, together with its or her appurtenances, equipment, tackle, apparel, and furniture, concerned in any such violation, shall be forfeited to the United States. SEC. 3. That the term "United States" as used in this Act includes the Canal Zone and all territory and waters, continental or insular, subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.

The word "person" as used herein shall be deemed to mean any individual, partnership, association, company, or other unincorporated body of individuals, or corporation, or body politic.

SEC. 4. That in order to carry out the purposes and provisions of this Act the sum of $600,000 is hereby appropriated.

SEC. 5. That this Act shall take effect upon the date when the provisions of the Act of Congress approved the 22d day of May, 1918,210 entitled "An Act to prevent in time of war departure from and entry into the United States, contrary to the public safety," shall cease to be operative, and shall continue in force and effect until and including the 4th day of March, 1921.

Received by the President, October 29, 1919.

(Note by State Department.-The foregoing act having been presented to the President of the United States for his approval, and not having been returned by him to the House of Congress in which it originated within the time prescribed by the Constitution of the United States, has become a law without his approval.) [41 Stat., 353.]

210 p. 191. See proclamation of Aug. 8, 1918 (E. O. 240-242) issued under authority thereof. See also Jt. Res. of Mar. 3, 1921, p. 231, declaring that certain acts, etc., shall be construed as if the present war had ended as of Mar. 3, 1921. See also Executive Order of May 12, 1921 (E. O. 287) quoting authority of said act of May 22, 1918, and amending above Executive Order to permit stop-overs at ports of United States without requirement of viséed passports.

AN ACT To deport certain undesirable aliens and to deny readmission to those deported. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That aliens of the following classes, in addition to those for whose expulsion from the United States provision is made in the existing law, shall, upon the warrant of the Secretary of Labor, be taken into his custody and deported in the manner provided in sections 19 and 20 of the act of February 5, 1917,21 titled "An Act to regulate the immigration of aliens to, and the residence of aliens in, the United States," if the Secretary of Labor after hearing, finds that such aliens are undesirable residents of the United States, to wit:

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(1) All aliens who are now interned under section 4067 of the Revised Statutes of the United States and the proclamations issued by the President in pursuance of said section under date of April 6, 1917, November 16, 1917,212 December 11, 1917, and April 19, 1918, respectively.

(2) All aliens who since August 1, 1914, have been or may hereafter be convicted of any violation or conspiracy to violate any of the following Acts or parts of Acts, the judgment on such conviction having become final, namely:

(a) An Act entitled "An Act to punish acts of interference with the foreign relations, the neutrality, and the foreign commerce of the United States, to punish espionage, and better to enforce the criminal laws of the United States, and for other purposes," approved June 15, 1917,213 or the amendment thereof approved May 16, 1918;

(b) An Act entitled "An Act to prohibit the manufacture, distribution, storage, use, and possession in time of war of explosives, providing regulations for the safe manufacture, distribution, storage, use, and possession of the same, and for other purposes," approved October 6, 1917;

(c) An Act entitled "An Act to prevent in time of war departure from and entry into the United States contrary to the public safety," approved May 22, 1918;214 (d) An Act entitled "An Act to punish the willful injury or destruction of war material or of war premises or utilities used in connection with war material, and for other purposes," approved April 20, 1918;215

(e) An Act entitled "An Act to authorize the President to increase temporarily the Military Establishment of the United States," approved May 18, 1917,216 or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto;

(f) An Act entitled "An Act to punish persons who make threats against the President of the United States," approved February 14, 1917;

(g) An Act entitled "An Act to define, regulate, and punish trading with the enemy, and for other purposes," approved October 6, 1917,27 or any amendment thereof;

(h) Section 6 of the Penal Code of the United States.

(3) All aliens who have been or may hereafter be convicted of any offense against section 13 of the said Penal Code committed during the period of August 1, 1914, to April 6, 1917, or of a conspiracy occurring within said period to commit an offense under said section 13, or of any offense committed during said period against the Act entitled "An Act to protect trade and commerce against unlawful restraints and monopolies," approved July 2, 1890, in aid of a belligerent in the European war. SEC. 2. That in every case in which any such alien is ordered expelled or excluded from the United States under the provisions of this Act the decision of the Secretary of Labor shall be final.

SEC. 3. That in addition to the aliens who are by law now excluded from admission into the United States all persons who shall be expelled under any of the provisions of this Act shall also be excluded from readmission.

Approved, May 10, 1920. [41 Stat., 593.]

AN ACT Making appropriations for fortifications and other works of defense, for the armament thereof, and for the procurement of heavy ordnance for trial and service, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in

the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for fortifications and other works of defense, for the armament thereof, and for the procurement of heavy ordnance for trial and service, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, and for other purposes, namely:

PANAMA CANAL FORTIFICATIONS.

For fortifications and armament thereof for the Panama Canal:
For maintenance of clearings and trails, $30,000;

For protection, preservation, and repair of fortifications, of the Panama Canal, including structures erected for torpedo defense, and for maintaining channels for access to torpedo wharves, $25,000;

For maintenance and repair of searchlights and electric light and power equipment for fortifications, and for tools, electrical and other supplies, and appliances to be used in their operation, $20,000;

For the construction of seacoast batteries on the Canal Zone, $20,000;

For reserve engineer equipment for the fortifications of the Panama Canal, $7,500; For the purchase or reclamation of land required for the defenses of the Panama Canal, $6,250;

For the construction of fire-control stations, the purchase and installation of accessories therefor, and for subaqueous, sound and flash ranging apparatus, including their development, $474,000;

For operation and maintenance of fire-control installations at sea-coast defenses, $15,000;

For the purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition for seacoast and land defense cannon, including the necessary experiments in connection therewith, and the machinery necessary for its manufacture, $1,000,000;

For the alteration and maintenance and installation of the seacoast artillery, including the purchase and manufacture of machinery, tools, and materials necessary for the work, and expenses of civilian mechanics, and extra-duty pay of enlisted men engaged thereon, $104,546;

For alteration, maintenance, and repair of submarine mine matériel, $4,138;

For continuing the construction of barracks, quarters, storehouses, and other buildings necessary for accommodating the Coast Artillery troops to be stationed in the vicinity of the Panama Canal, including water, sewer, and electrical systems, roads, walks, and so forth, $40,000;

The Governor of the Panama Canal, so far as the expenditure of appropriations contained in this Act may be under his direction, shall purchase needed materials, supplies, and equipment from available surplus stocks of the War Department;

For the purchase, manufacture, maintenance, operation, and repair of airships and other aerial machines, buildings, for equipment, and other accessories necessary in the Air Service for use in connection with the seacoast defenses of the Panama Canal, $100;

For the establishment, construction, enlargement, or improvement of the aviation station at France Field, Canal Zone, for use in connection with the seacoast defenses of the Panama Canal, including the acquisition of land or any interest in land by purchase, lease, condemnation, or otherwise, and the preparation necessary to make the same suitable for the purpose intended, and for the acquisition and improvement of emergency landing fields in the Canal Zone, $239,000.

In all, specifically for fortifications and armament thereof for the Panama Canal, $1,985,534.

SEC. 2. That all material purchased under the provisions of this Act shall be of American manufacture except in cases when, in the judgment of the Secretary of War, it is to the manifest interest of the United States to make purchases abroad, which material shall be admitted free of duty.

SEC. 3. That except as expressly otherwise authorized herein no part of the sums appropriated by this Act shall be expended in the purchase from private manufacturers of any material at a price in excess of 25 per centum more than the cost of manufacturing such material by the Government, or, where such material is not or has not been manufactured by the Government, at a price in excess of 25 per centum more than the estimated cost of manufacture by the Government.

SEC. 4. That expenditures for carrying out the provisions of this Act shall not be made in such manner as to prevent the operation of the Government arsenals at their most economical rate of production, except when a special exigency requires the operation of a portion of an arsenal's equipment at a different rate: Provided, That no part of the appropriations made in this Act shall be available for the salary or pay of

any officer, manager, superintendent, foreman, or other person having charge of the work of any employee of the United States Government while making or causing to be made with a stop watch or other time-measuring device a time study of any job of any such employee between the starting and completion thereof, or of the movements of any such employee while engaged upon such work.

SEC. 5. That no part of the moneys appropriated in each or any section of this Act shall be used or expended for the purchase or acquirement of any article or articles that at the time of the proposed acquirement can be manufactured or produced in each or any of the Government arsenals of the United States for a sum less than it can be purchased or procured otherwise.

SEC. 6. That all orders or contracts for manufacture of material pertaining to approved projects, which are placed with arsenals or other ordnance establishments and which are chargeable to armament of fortifications appropriations, shall be considered as obligations in all respects in the same manner as provided for similar orders placed with commercial manufacturers.

SEC. 7. That whenever any Government bureau or department procures, by purchase or manufacture, stores or materials of any kind, or performs any service for another bureau or department, the funds of the bureau or department for which the stores or materials are to be procured or the service performed may be placed subject to the requisitions of the bureau or department making the procurement or performing the service for direct expenditure: Provided, That funds so placed with the procuring bureau shall remain available for a period of two years for the purposes for which the allocation was made unless sooner expended;

SEC. 8. That the following unexpended balances, or portions of the unexpended balances, or combined unexpended balances, or portions of combined unexpended balances of appropriations for fortifications and other works of defense, as set forth in this section, shall be carried to the surplus fund and covered into the Treasury immediately upon the approval of this Act, namely:

Sea walls and embankments, Panama Canal, $3,000.

Submarine mine structures, $15,200.

Armament of fortifications, Panama Canal, $2,306,481.73.
Submarine mines, Panama Canal, $231,082.21.

Approved, May 21, 1920. [41 Stat., 611.]

AN ACT Making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, in full compensation for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, namely:

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NAVY DEPARTMENT.

HYDROGRAPHIC OFFICE.

Contingent expenses of branch offices at Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Norfolk, Savannah, New Orleans, San Francisco, Portland (Oregon), Portland (Maine), Chicago, Cleveland, Buffalo, Duluth, Sault Sainte Marie, Seattle, Panama, and Galveston, including furniture, fuel, lights, works, and periodicals relating to hydrography, marine meteorology, navigation, surveying, oceanography, and terrestrial magnetism, stationery, miscellaneous articles, rent, and care of offices, care of time balls, car fare and ferriage in visiting merchant vessels, freight and express

charges, telegrams, and other necessary expenses incurred in collecting the latest information for pilot charts, and for other purposes for which the offices were established, $15,000.

SEC. 6. That all civilian employees of the Governments of the United States and the District of Columbia who receive a total of compensation at the rate of $2,500 per annum or less, except as otherwise provided in this section, shall receive, during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, additional compensation at the rate of $240 per annum: Provided, That such employees as receive a total of annual compensation at a rate more than $2,500 and less than $2,740 shall receive additional compensation at such a rate per annum as may be necessary to make their salaries, plus their additional compensation, at the rate of $2,740 per annum, and no employee shall receive additional compensation under this section at a rate which is more than 60 per centum of the rate of the total annual compensation received by such employee: Provided further, That the increased compensation at the rate of $240 per annum for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, shall not be computed as salary in construing this section: Provided further, That where an employee in the service on June 30, 1919, has received during the fiscal year 1920 or shall receive during the fiscal year 1921, an increase of salary at a rate in excess of $200 per annum, or where an employee, whether previously in the service or not, has entered the service since June 30, 1919, whether such employee has received an increase in salary or not, such employees shall be granted the increased compensation provided herein only when and upon the certification of the person in the legislative branch or the head of the department or establishment employing such persons of the ability and qualifications personal to such employees as would justify such increased compensation: Provided further, That the increased compensation provided in this section to employees whose pay is adjusted from time to time through wage boards or similar authority shall be taken into consideration by such wage boards or similar authority in adjusting the pay of such employees.

The provisions of this section shall not apply to the following: Employees paid from the postal revenues and sums which may be advanced from the Treasury to meet deficiencies in the postal revenues; employees of the Panama Canal on the Canal Zone;218

Approved, May 29, 1920. [41 Stat., 665, 689.]

AN ACT Making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, in full compensation for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, for the purposes and objects hereinafter expressed, namely:

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General Expenses, Weather Bureau: For carrying into effect in the District of Columbia and elsewhere in the United States, in the West Indies, in the Panama Canal, the Caribbean Sea, and on adjacent coasts, in the Hawaiian Islands, in Bermuda, and in Alaska, the provisions of an Act approved October 1, 1890, so far as they relate to the weather service transferred thereby to the Department of Agriculture,

218 Similar provision in acts of June 12, 1917, p. 156; July 3, 1918, p. 196; and Mar. 1, 1919, p. 206. See compensation fixed under sec. 5, Panama Canal Act, p. 82.