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(/us/pl/72/216).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the following Navy Department and naval service appropriations, fiscal year 1933.sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Navy Department and the naval service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1933, namely: NAVAL ESTABLISHMENTNaval Establishment. office of the secretarySecretary’s office. pay, miscellaneousPay, miscellaneous.
For commissions and interest; transportation of funds, including Expenses designated.the cost of insurance on shipments of money by registered mail when necessary; exchange; for traveling expenses of civilian employees, including not to exceed $1,500 for the expenses of attendance, at Attendance at meetings.home and abroad, upon meetings of technical, professional, scientific, and other similar organizations when, in the judgment of the Secretary of the Navy, such attendance would be of benefit in the conduct of the work of the Navy Department; not to exceed $2,000 for the part-time or intermittent employment in the District of Columbia or elsewhere of such experts and at such rates of compensation as Experts.may be contracted for by and in the discretion of the Secretary of the Navy; actual expenses of officers and midshipmen while on shore-patrol duty, including the hire of automobiles when necessary for the use of shore-patrol detachments; hire of launches or other small boats in Asiatic waters; for rent of buildings and offices not in navy yards; expenses of courts-martial, including law and reference books, prisoners and prisons, and courts of inquiry, boards of inspection, examining boards, with clerks, and witnesses’ fees, and traveling expenses and costs; expenses of naval districts; not to exceed $15,000 for promoting accident prevention and safety for civilian employees in shore establishments of the Navy, to be expended in the discretion of the Secretary of the Navy; stationery and recording; religious 422Advertising, etc.books; newspapers and periodicals for the naval service; all advertising of the Navy Department and its bureaus (except advertising for recruits for the Bureau of Navigation); copying; ferriage, tolls; cost of suits; relief of vessels in distress; recovery of valuables from shipwrecks; quarantine expenses; reports; professional investigation; cost of special instruction at home in other than civil government and literature, and cost of special instruction abroad, including maintenance of students and attaches, and not to exceed $9,750 for allow-books; newspapers and periodicals for the naval service; all advertising of the Navy Department and its bureaus (except advertising for recruits for the Bureau of Navigation); copying; ferriage, tolls; cost of suits; relief of vessels in distress; recovery of valuables from shipwrecks; quarantine expenses; reports; professional investigation; cost of special instruction at home in other than civil government and literature, and cost of special instruction abroad, including maintenance of students and attaches, and not to exceed $9,750 for allowances Living quarters, etc.Vol. 46, p. 818.U.
S. C., Supp. V, p. 19.Information from abroad, etc.for living quarters, including heat, fuel, and light, as authorized by the Act approved June 26, 1930 (U. S. C., Supp. V, title 5, sec. 118a); information from abroad and at home, and the collection and classification thereof; all charges pertaining to the Navy Department and its bureaus for ice for the cooling of drinking water on shore (except at naval hospitals), and not to exceed $175,000 for telephone rentals and tolls, telegrams and cablegrams; postage, foreign and domestic, and post-office box rentals; for necessary Interned prisoners of war, etc.expenses for interned persons and prisoners of war under the jurisdiction of Navy Department, including funeral expenses for such interned persons or prisoners of war as may die while under such jurisdiction, and for payment of claims for damages as provided in Damage claims.Vol. 41, p. 132.U.
S. C., p. 1127.*Provisos.*Restriction on use in certain naval districts.the Act making making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year 1920, approved July 11, 1919 (U. S. C., title 34, sec. 600) ; and other necessary and incidental expenses; in all, $1,450,000: *Provided,* That no part of this appropriation shall be available for the expense of any naval district in which there may be an active navy yard, naval training station, or naval operating base, unless the commandant of the naval district shall be also the commandant of one of Group IV
(b)employees, etc.such establishments: *Provided further,* That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation for employees assigned to Group IV
(b)and those performing similar services carried under native and alien schedules in the Schedule of Wages for Civil Employees in the Field Service of the Navy Department shall not exceed $530,000. contingent, navyContingent, Navy. For all emergencies and extraordinary expenses, exclusive of personal services in the Navy Department or any of its subordinate bureaus or offices at Washington, District of Columbia, arising at home or abroad, but impossible to be anticipated or classified, to be expended on the approval and authority of the Secretary of the Navy, and for such purposes as he may deem proper, and for examination of estimates for appropriations and of naval activities in the field for any branch of the naval service, $15,000. state marine schools, act march 4, 1911State Marine Schools.Reimbursing California, Massachusetts, New York, and Pennsylvania for expenses.Vol. 36, p. 1353.U. S. C., p. 1150. To reimburse the State of California, $25,000; the State of Massachusetts, $25,000; the State of New York, $25,000; and the State of Pennsylvania, $25,000, for expenses incurred in the maintenance and support of marine schools in such States as provided in the Act authorizing the establishment of marine schools, and so forth, approved March 4, 1911 (U. S. C., title 34, sec. 1121), and for the maintenance and repair of the particular vessels loaned by the United States to the said States on the date of the approval of this Act for use in connection with such State Marine Schools, $117,600; in all, $217,600. 423 care of lepers, and so forth, island of guamLepers, etc. Naval station, island of Guam: For maintenance and care of Care, etc., Culion, P. I.lepers, special patients, and for other purposes, including cost of transfer of lepers from Guam to the island of Culion, in the Philippines, and their maintenance, $20,000: for educational purposes, $15,000; in all, $35,000. naval research laboratoryResearch laboratory. For laboratory and research work and other necessary work of Work of, for naval service.the naval research laboratory for the benefit of the naval service, including operation and maintenance of a laboratory, additions to equipment necessary properly to carry on work in hand, maintenance of buildings and grounds, temporary employment of such scientific civilian assistants as may become necessary, and subscriptions to technical periodicals, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the. Navy, $213,000: *Provided,* That $20,000 of this appropriation *Provisos.*Temporary employment of scientists, etc.shall be available for the temporary employment of civilian scientists and technicists required on special problems: *Provided further,* That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation for Limit on sum for Group IV
(b)employees.employees assigned to group IV
(b)and those performing similar services carried under native and alien schedules in the Schedule of Wages for Civil Employees in the Field Service of the Navy Department shall not exceed $95,000, in addition to the amount authorized by the preceding proviso. operation and conservation of the naval petroleum reservesNaval petroleum reserves. To enable the Secretary of the Navy to carry out the provisions Conservation, etc.Vol. 41, p. 813.U. S. C., p. 1122.contained in the Act approved June 4, 1920 (U. S. C., title 34, sec. 524), requiring him to conserve, develop, use and operate the naval petroleum reserves, $80,000, of which amount not to exceed $15,000 shall be available for employees assigned to group IV
(b)and those performing similar services carried under native and alien schedules in the Schedule of Wages for Civil Employees in the Field Service of the Navy Department and of which $5,000 shall be available exclusively for repairs to shut-in wells, Naval Petroleum, Reserve Numbered 3: *Provided,* That out of any sums appropriated for *Provisos.*Work on Reserve No. 1.naval purposes by this Act any portion thereof, not to exceed $10,000,000, shall be available to enable the Secretary of the Navy to protect Naval Petroleum Reserve Numbered 1, established by Executive order of September 2, 1912, pursuant to the Act of June Vol. 36, p. 847.U. S. C., p. 1333.25, 1910 (U. S. C., title 43, secs. 141–143), by drilling wells and performing any work incident thereto, of which amount not to exceed $100,000 shall be available for employees assigned to Group IV
(b)and those performing similar services carried under native and alien schedules in the Schedule of Wages for Civil Employees in the Field Service of the Navy Department: *Provided further,* That no part Subject to agreement of adjoining owner not to drill offset wells.of the sum made available for the protection of this property shall be expended if a satisfactory agreement can be made with adjoining landowners to not drill offset wells for the purpose of producing oil. BUREAU OF NAVIGATIONBureau of Navigation. recreation for enlisted men, navy For the recreation, amusement, comfort, contentment, and health Recreation for enlisted men.of the Navy, including subscriptions to newspapers, to be expended in the discretion of the Secretary of the Navy, under such regulations 424*Provisos.*Limit on sum for Group IV
(b)employees.as he may prescribe, $308,000: *Provided,* That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation for employees assigned to Group IV
(b)and those performing similar services carried under native and alien schedules in the Schedule of Wages for Civil Employees in the Field Service of the Navy Department, exclusive of temporary services, Acceptance of donations and contributions.shall not exceed $36,000: *Provided further,* That hereafter the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to accept donations and contributions from organizations, individuals, or others, for use in providing recreation, amusement, and contentment of enlisted men; such donations to be credited to “Ships’ Stores Profits, Navy.” contingent, bureau of navigationContingent. For continuous-service certificates, commissions, warrants, diplomas, discharges, good-conduct badges, and medals for men and boys; purchase of gymnastic apparatus; transportation of effects or deceased officers, nurses, and enlisted men of the Navy, and of officers and men of the Naval Reserve who die while on duty; books for training apprentice seamen and landsmen, packing boxes and materials; books and models; stationery; and other contingent expenses and emergencies arising under cognizance of the Bureau of Navigation, unforeseen and impossible to classify, $9,000. gunnery and engineering exercises, bureau of navigationGunnery and engineering exercises.Badges, ranges, etc. For trophies and badges for excellence in gunnery, target practice, engineering exercises, and for economy in fuel consumption to be awarded under such rules as the Secretary of the Navy may formulate; for the purpose of recording, classifying, compiling, and publishing the rules and results; for the establishment and maintenance of shooting galleries, target houses, targets, and ranges; for hiring established ranges, and for transporting equipment to and from ranges; entrance fees in matches for the rifle team, and special equipment therefor, $42,750. instruments and supplies, bureau of navigationEquipment supplies, etc For supplies for seamen’s quarters; and for the purchase of all other articles of equipage at home and abroad; and for the payment of labor in equipping vessels therewith and manufacture of such articles in the several navy yards; all pilotage and towage of ships of war; canal tolls, wharfage, dock and port charges, and other necessary incidental expenses of a similar nature; services and materials in repairing, correcting, adjusting, and testing compasses on shore and on board ship; nautical and astronomical instruments and repairs to same; libraries for ships of war, professional books, schoolbooks, and papers; maintenance of gunnery and other training classes; compasses, compass fittings, including binnacles, tripods, and other appendages of ship’s compasses; logs and other appliances for measuring the ship’s way and leads and other appliances for sounding; photographs, photographic instruments and materials, printing outfit and materials; music and musical instruments; and for the necessary civilian electricians for gyrocompass testing and inspection; in all, $533,243: *Provided,* That the*Proviso.*Limit on sum for Group IV
(b)employees.sum to lie paid out of this appropriation for employees assigned to Group IV
(b)and those performing similar services carried under native and alien schedules in the Schedule of Wages for Civil Employees in the Field Service of the Navy Department shall not exceed $33,460. 425 ocean and lake surveys, bureau of navigation For hydrographic surveys, including the pay of the necessary Ocean and lake surveys.hydrographic surveyors, cartographic draftsmen, and recorders, and for the purchase of nautical books, charts, and sailing directions, $65,000: *Provided,* That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation *Proviso.*Limit on sum for Group IV
(b)employees.for employees assigned to Group IV
(b)and those performing similar services carried under native and alien schedules in the Schedule of Wages for Civil Employees in the Field Service of the Navy Department shall not exceed $27,000. naval training stations, bureau of navigationTraining stations. For maintenance, including labor and material, heat, light, water, Maintenance, etc.general care, repairs, and improvements; school books; and all other incidental expenses for the naval training stations that follow : San Diego, California, $160,200; Newport, Rhode Island, $202,000; Great Lakes, Illinois, $245,000; Hampton Roads, Virginia, $225,000: *Provided,* That the amount to be paid out of each of the foregoing *Proviso.* Limit on sum for Group IV
(b)employees.sums for employees assigned to Group IV
(b)and those performing similar services carried under native and alien schedules in the Schedule of Wages for Civil Employees in the Field Service of the Navy Department shall not exceed for San Diego, $7,500; for Newport, $10,000; for Great Lakes, $14,500; and for Hampton Roads, $5,500. naval reserveNaval Reserve. For expenses of organizing, administering, and recruiting the Organizing, recruiting, etc., expenses of, and Militia.Naval Reserve and Naval Militia; pay and allowances of officers and enlisted men of the Naval Reserve when employed on authorized training duty; mileage for officers while traveling under orders to and from training duty; transportation of enlisted men to and from training duty, and subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof; subsistence of enlisted men during the actual period of training duty; subsistence of officers and enlisted men of the Fleet Fleet Naval Reserve, subsistence.Naval Reserve while performing authorized training or other duty without pay; pay, mileage, and allowances of officers of the Naval Pay, etc.Reserve and pay, allowances, and subsistence of enlisted men of the Naval Reserve when ordered to active duty in connection with the instruction, training, and drilling of the Naval Reserve; pay of officers and enlisted men of the Fleet Naval Reserve for the performance of not to exceed forty-eight drills per annum or other equivalent instruction or duty, or appropriate duties, and administrative duties, exclusive, however, of pay, allowances, or other expenses on account of members of any class of the Naval Reserve incident to their being given flight training unless, as a condition precedent, Flight training.they shall have been found by such agency as the Secretary of the Navy may designate physically and psychologically qualified to serve as pilots of naval aircraft, $3,077,686, of which amount not more than $150,000 shall be available for maintenance and rental of armories, including pay of necessary janitors, and for wharfage; Armories, wharfage, etc.not more than $81,000 shall be available for employees assigned to Group IV
(b)and those performing similar services carried under native and alien schedules in the Schedule of Wages for Civil Employees in the Field Service of the Navy Department; not less than $575,079 shall be available, in addition to other appropriations, for aviation material, equipment, fuel, and rental of hangars, and not Hangars.more than $336,375 shall be available, in addition to other appropria-426tions, for fuel and the transportation thereof, and for all other expenses in connection with the maintenance, operation, repair, and *Proviso.*Flying pay restrictions.upkeep of vessels assigned for training the Naval Reserve: *Provided,* That no appropriation contained in this Act shall be available to pay more than one officer of the Naval Reserve and one officer of the Marine Corps Reserve above the grade of lieutenant or captain, respectively, the pay and allowances of their grade for the performance of active duty other than the performance of drills or other equivalent instruction or duty, or appropriate duties, and/or the performance of fifteen days’ active training duty, and other officers above such grades employed on such class of active duty shall not be entitled to or be paid a greater rate of pay and allowances than authorized by law for a lieutenant of the Navy or a captain of the Marine Corps entitled to not exceeding ten years’ longevity pay. naval reserve officers’ training corpsNaval Reserve Officers’ Training Corps.Procuring supplies, etc., for units of. For the procurement, maintenance, and issue, under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy, to institutions at which one or more units of the Naval Reserve Officers’ Training Corps are established, of such means of transportation, books, supplies, tentage, equipment, and uniforms as he may deem necessary, and all other miscellaneous items, including cleaning and laundering of uniforms and clothing at camps or on board ship; and to pay commutation in lieu of uniforms at a rate to be fixed annually by the Secretary of the Navy; for transporting supplies and equipment from place of issue to the several institutions, training camps, and ships and return of same to place of issue when necessary; Expenses of training camps and ship schools.for the establishment and maintenance of camps of instruction, and schools on ships for the further practical instruction of members of the Naval Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, and for transporting members of such corps to and from camps, ships, or other designated places of instruction, and to subsist them while traveling to and from such camps or ships and while remaining therein so far as appropriations Commutation of travel allowance.will permit or, in lieu of transporting them to and from such camps or ships and subsisting them while en route, to pay them travel allowance at the rate of 5 cents per mile for the distance by the shortest usually traveled route from the places from which they are authorized to proceed to the camp or ship and for the return journey thereto, and to pay the return travel pay in advance of the actual performance of the travel; for pay of students attending advanced camps or advanced schools on ships at the rate prescribed Subsistence commutation to senior division.for enlisted men of the seventh pay grade; for the payment of commutation of subsistence to members of the senior division of the Medical, etc., treatment.Naval Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, at a rate not exceeding the cost of the commuted ration of the Navy; for medical and hospital treatment, subsistence until furnished transportation, and transportation when fit for travel to their homes of members of the Naval Burial expenses, etc.Reserve Officers’ Training Corps injured in line of duty while at camps of instruction or on ships; and for the cost of preparation and transportation to their homes and burial expenses of the remains of the members of the Naval Reserve Officers’ Training Corps who die while attending camps of instruction or on ships; and for the cost of maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying *Provisos.*Restriction on training cruises, etc.vehicles, $90,085: *Provided,* That none of the funds appropriated in this Act shall be used for mileage, pay, or subsistence incident to training or practice cruises of members of the Appointments as ensigns in Naval Reserve.Naval Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, but members of such Corps denied such cruises in consequence hereof shall not be refused appointments as ensigns in the Naval Reserve by reason thereof: 427*Provided further,* That uniforms and other equipment or material Uniforms, etc.issued to the Naval Reserve Officers’ Training Corps in accordance with law may be furnished from surplus or reserve stocks of the Navy without payment from this appropriation, except for actual expenses incurred in the manufacture or issue: *Provided further,* Price limitations.That in no case shall the amount paid from this appropriation for uniforms, equipment, or material furnished to the Naval Reserve Officers’ Training Corps from stocks under the control of the Navy be in excess of the price current at the time the issue is made. naval war college, bureau of navigationNaval War College. For maintenance of the Naval War College on Coasters Harbor Maintenance.Island, including care of grounds, $100,000; services of a professor of international law, $2,000; services or civilian lecturers, rendered at the War College, $2,000; care and preservation of the library, including the purchase, binding, and repair of books of reference and periodicals, including subscriptions to newspapers, $5,000; for contingencies of the president of the Naval War College, to be expended in his discretion, not exceeding $1,000; in all, $110,000: *Provided,* That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation for*Proviso.*Limit on sums for Group IV
(b)employees.employees assigned to group IV
(b)and those performing similar services carried under native and alien schedules in the Schedule of Wages for Civil Employees in the Field Service of the Navy Department shall not exceed $73,000. naval home, philadelphia, pennsylvaniaNaval home. For pay of employees, $86,525: *Provided,* That the sum to be paid Personal services.*Proviso.*Limit on sum for Group IV
(b)employees.out of this appropriation for employees assigned to Group IV
(b)and those performing similar services carried under native and alien schedules in the Schedule of Wages for Civil Employees in the Field Service of the Navy Department shall not exceed $15,000; Maintenance: For water rent, heating, and lighting; cemetery, Maintenance.burial expenses, and headstones; general care, and improvements of grounds, buildings, walls, and fences; repairs to power-plant equipment, implements, tools, and furniture, and purchase of the same; music in chapel and entertainments for beneficiaries; stationery, books, and periodicals; transportation of indigent and destitute beneficiaries to the Naval Home, and of sick and insane beneficiaries, their attendants and necessary subsistence for both, to and from other Government hospitals; employment of such beneficiaries in and about the Naval Home as may be authorized by the Secretary of the Navy, on the recommendation of the governor; support of beneficiaries and all other contingent expenses, including the maintenance, repair, and operation of two motor-propelled vehicles, and one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle, to be used only for official purposes, $98,475; In all, Naval Home, $185,000, which sum shall be paid out of the Payable from naval pension fund.income from the naval pension fund. BUREAU OF ENGINEERINGBureau of Engineering. engineering For repairs, preservation, and renewal of machinery, auxiliary Engineering repairs, machinery.machinery, and boilers of naval vessels, yard craft, and ships’ boats, distilling and refrigerating apparatus; repairs, preservation, and renewals of electric interior and exterior signal communications and all electrical appliances of whatsoever nature on board naval vessels, 428except range finders, battle order and range transmitters and indicators, and motors and their controlling apparatus used to operate machinery belonging to other bureaus; searchlights and fire-control equipments for antiaircraft defense at shore stations; Equipment, supplies.maintenance and operation of coast signal service; equipage, supplies, and materials under the cognizance of the bureau required for the maintenance and operation of naval vessels, yard craft, and ships’ boats; purchase, installation, repair, and preservation of machinery, tools, and appliances in navy yards and stations, accident prevention, pay of classified field force under the bureau; incidental expenses for naval vessels, navy yards, and stations, inspectors’ offices, the engineering experiment station, such as photographing, technical books and periodicals, stationery, and instruments; services, instruments, machines and auxiliaries, apparatus, and supplies, and technical books and periodicals necessary to carry on experimental and research work; maintenance and equipment of buildings and Annapolis, Md., engineering experiment station.grounds at the engineering experiment station, Annapolis, Maryland; payment of part time or intermittent employment in the District of Columbia or elsewhere of such scientists and technicists as may be contracted for by the Secretary of the Navy, in his discretion, at a rate of pay not exceeding $20 per diem for any person so employed ; in all, $18,030,000, of which $250,000 shall be available New tools and machinery for shops by transfers from naval supply fund.exclusively for the procurement and installation of new tools and machinery for shops under the cognizance of the Bureaus of Engineering and Construction and Repair, and $90,000 shall be available exclusively to continue in effect for an additional period of eighteen License agreement concerning radio control.months the license agreement entered into by the Navy Department, May 2, 1931, for the use of certain inventions pertaining to radio control, and the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to enter into contract for purchase of the patents covered by this license agreement, *Proviso.*Limit on sum for Group IV
(b)employees.subject to appropriations therefor: *Provided,* That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation for employees assigned to Group IV
(b)and those performing similar services carried under native and alien schedules in the Schedule of Wages for Civil Employees in the Field Service of the Navy Department shall not exceed $1,850,000. BUREAU OF CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIRBureau of Construction and Repair.Construction and repair of vessels. For preservation and completion of vessels on the stocks and in ordinary; purchase of materials and stores of all kinds; steam steerers, steam capstans, steam windlasses, and all other auxiliaries; labor in navy yards and on foreign stations; accident prevention; purchase of machinery and tools for use in shops; carrying on work of experimental model tank and wind tunnel; designing naval vessels; construction and repair of yard craft, lighters, and barges; wear, tear, and repair of vessels afloat; general care and protection of the Navy in the line of construction and repair; incidental expenses for vessels and navy yards, inspectors’ offices, such as photographing, books, professional magazines, plans, stationery, and instruments for drafting room, and for pay of classified field force under the bureau; services, instruments and apparatus, supplies, and technical books and periodicals necessary to carry on experimental and research work; for payment of part time or intermittent employment in the District of Columbia, or elsewhere, of such scientists and technicists as may be contracted for by the Secretary of the Navy, in his discretion, at a rate of pay not exceeding $20 per diem for any person so employed; for the difference between inactive and active duty pay and allowances of members of the Fleet Naval Reserve 429transferred thereto after twenty years’ naval service who may be employed as shipkeepers under the cognizance of the Bureau of Construction and Repair; for hemp, wire, iron, and other materials for the manufacture of cordage, anchors, cables, galleys, and chains; specifications for purchase thereof shall be so prepared as shall give fair and free competition; canvas for the manufacture of sails, awnings, hammocks, and other work; interior appliances and tools for manufacturing purposes in navy yards and naval stations; and for the purchase of all other articles or equipage at home and abroad; and for the payment of labor in equipping vessels therewith and manufacture of such articles in the several navy yards; naval signals and apparatus, other than electric, namely, signals, lights, lanterns, running lights, and lamps and their appendages for general use on board ship for illuminating purposes; and oil and candles used in connection therewith; bunting and other material for making and repairing flags of all kinds; for all permanent galley fittings and equipage; rugs, carpets, curtains, and hangings on board naval vessels, $15,821,000, of which $250,000 shall be available exclusively for the procurement and installation of new tools and machinery for shops under the cognizance of the Bureaus of Construction and Repair and Engineering: *Provided,* That the sum *Proviso.*Limit on sum for Group IV
(b)employees.to be paid out of this appropriation for employees assigned to Group IV
(b)and those performing similar services carried under native and alien schedules in the Schedules of Wages for Civil Employees in the Field Service of the Navy Department shall not exceed $2,160,000. BUREAU OF ORDNANCEBureau of Ordnance. ordnance and ordnance stores, bureau of ordnance For procuring, producing, preserving, and handling ordnance Procuring, etc., ordnance and ordnance stores.material, for the armament of ships; for the purchase and manufacture of torpedoes and appliances; for the purchase and manufacture of smokeless powder; for fuel, material, and labor to be used in the general work under the cognizance of the Bureau of Ordnance; for furniture at naval ammunition depots, torpedo stations, naval ordnance plants, and proving grounds; for technical books; plant appliances as now defined by the “Navy Classification of Accounts for machinery and machine tools; for accident prevention; for experimental work in connection with the development of ordnance material for the Navy; for maintenance of proving grounds, powder factory, torpedo stations, gun factory, ammunition depots, and naval ordnance plants, and for target practice; not to exceed $15,000 for minor improvements to buildings, grounds, and appurtenances of a character which can be performed by regular station labor; for payment of part time or intermittent employment in the District of Columbia, or elsewhere, of such scientists and technicists as may be contracted for by the Secretary of the Navy in his discretion at a rate of pay not exceding $20 per diem for any person so employed; for the maintenance, repair, and operation of horse-drawn and motor-propelled freight and passenger-carrying vehicles, to be used only for official purposes at naval ammunition depots, naval proving grounds, naval ordnance plants, and naval torpedo stations; for the pay of chemists, clerical, drafting, inspection, and messenger service in navy yards, naval stations, naval ordnance plants, and naval ammunition depots, and for care and operation of schools at ordnance stations at Indianhead, Maryland, Dahlgren, Virginia, and 430 *Proviso.*Limit on sum for Group IV
(b)employees.South Charleston, West Virginia, $11571,000: *Provided,* That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation for employees assigned to Group IV
(b)and those performing similar services carried under native and alien schedules in the Schedule of Wages for Civil Employees in the Field Service of the Navy Department shall not exceed $1,262,500. BUREAU OF SUPPLIES AND ACCOUNTSBureau of Supplies and Accounts. pay, subsistence, and transportation of naval personnelPay, etc., of the Navy.Officers.Pay, rental, subsistence allowances. Pay of naval personnel: For pay and allowances prescribed by law of officers on sea duty and other duty, and officers on waiting orders (not to exceed nine hundred and eight officers of the Medical Corps, one hundred and eighty-six officers of the Dental Corps, five hundred and fifty-six officers of the Supply Corps, eighty-three officers of the Chaplain Corps, two hundred and thirty-three officers of the Construction Corps, one hundred and nine officers of the Civil Engineer Corps, and one thousand four hundred and sixty-one warrant *Proviso.*Excess officers to be carried.and commissioned warrant officers: *Provided,* That if the number of warrant and commissioned warrant officers and officers in any staff corps holding commission on July 1, 1932, is in excess of the number herein stipulated, such excess officers may be retained in the Navy until the number is reduced to the limitations imposed by this Aerial flights by nonflying officers.Act), pay—$31,479,106, including not to exceed $1,157,535 (none of which shall be available for increased pay for making aerial flights by non-flying officers or observers except eight officers above the grade of lieutenant commander, to be selected by the Secretary of the Navy) for increased pay for making aerial flights; rental allowance, $6,098,515; subsistence allowance, $3,705,180; in all, $41,282,801; Retired.Hire of quarters.officers on the retired list, $5,800,410; for hire of quarters for officers serving with troops where there are no public quarters belonging to the Government, and where there are not sufficient quarters possessed by the United States to accommodate them, and hire of quarters for Enlisted men.officers and enlisted men on sea duty at such times as they may be deprived of their quarters on board ship due to repairs or other conditions which may render them uninhabitable, $3,000; pay of enlisted men on the retired list, $4,419,910; extra pay to men reenlisting after being honorably discharged, $2,480,225; interest on deposits by men, $3,000; pay of petty officers (not to exceed an average of five thousand nine hundred and ten chief petty officers and an average of eight hundred and fifty chief petty officers under acting appointment), seamen, landsmen, and apprentice seamen, including men in the engineer’s force and men detailed for duty with the Fish Commission, enlisted men, men in trade schools, pay of enlisted men of the Hospital Corps, extra pay for men for diving, and cash prizes (not to exceed $71,500) for men for excellence in gunnery, target practice, and engineering competitions, $63,729,756, and, in addition, the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed, upon request of the Secretary of the Navy, to make transfers during the fiscal Outfits, etc.year 1933 from the clothing and small stores fund to this appropriation of sums aggregating not to exceed $2,750,000; outfits for all enlisted men and apprentice seamen of the Navy on first enlistment Clothing.at not to exceed $100 each, civilian clothing not to exceed $15 per man to men given discharges for bad conduct or undesirability or inaptitude, Reimbursements etc.reimbursement in kind of clothing to persons in the Navy for losses in cases of marine or aircraft disasters or in the operation of water or air borne craft, and the authorized issue of clothing and equipment to the members of the Nurse Corps, $1,409,449; pay of 431enlisted men undergoing sentence of court-martial, $134,596, and as many machinists as the President may from time to time deem necessary Machinists, apprentice seamen under training, etc.to appoint; and apprentice seamen under training at training stations and on board training shins, at the pay prescribed by law, $990,420; pay and allowances of the Nurse Corps, including assistant Nurse Corps.superintendents, directors, and assistant directors—pay $613,900, rental allowance $35,520, subsistence allowance $19,272 ; pay retired list $47,641; in all, $716,333; rent of quarters for members of the Nurse Corps; pay and allowances of transferred and assigned men of the Fleet Naval Reserve, $10,451,941; reimbursement for losses of Fleet Naval Reserve.Property losses.Vol. 40, p. 389; U. S. C., p. 1144.Vol. 44, p. 1368; U. S. C., Supp. V. 539.property as provided in the Act approved October 6, 1917 (U. S. C., title 34, secs. 981, 982), as amended by the Act of March 3, 1927 (U. S. C., Supp. V, title 34, sec. 983) , $5,000 ; payment of six months’ death gratuity, $150,000; in all, $131,576,841, and no part of such sum shall be available to pay active duty pay and allowances to officers in excess of four on the retired list : *Provided,* That hereafter *Proviso.*No additional men to be assigned to Fleet Naval Reserve.Vol. 43, p. 1086; U. S. C., p. 1136.no enlisted man of the Navy shall be assigned to the Fleet Naval Reserve as provided for in section 22 of the Act of February 28, 1925 (U. S. C., title 34, sec. 783); Subsistence of naval personnel: For provisions and commuted Subsistence.Provisions, commutation of rations, etc.rations for enlisted men of the Navy, which commuted rations may be paid to caterers of messes in case of death or desertion upon orders of the commanding officers, at 50 cents per diem, and midshipmen at 75 cents per diem, and commuted rations stopped on account of sick in hospital and credited at the rate of 70 cents per ration to the naval hospital fund; subsistence of men unavoidably detained or absent Subsistence while absent from duty.from vessels to which attached under orders (during which subsistence rations to be stopped on board ship and no credit for commutation therefor to be given) ; quarters and subsistence of men on detached duty; subsistence of members of the Naval Reserve during Naval Reserve, etc.period of active service; subsistence in kind at hospitals and on board ship in lieu of subsistence allowance of female nurses and Navy and Marine Corps general courts-martial prisoners undergoing imprisonment with sentences of dishonorable discharge from the service at the expiration of such confinement; in all, $14,283,817; Transportation and recruiting of naval personnel: For mileage Transportation.and actual and necessary expenses and per diem in lieu of subsistence as authorized by law to officers of the Navy while traveling under orders, including not to exceed $2,000 for the expenses of attendance at home and abroad, upon meetings of technical, professional, scientific, and other similar organizations, when, in the judgment of the Secretary of the Navy, such attendance would be of benefit in the conduct of the work of the Navy Department; for mileage, at 5 cents per mile, to midshipmen entering the Naval Academy while proceeding from their homes to the Naval Academy for examination and appointment as midshipmen, and not more than $2,500 shall be available for transportation of midshipmen, including reimbursement of traveling expenses while traveling under orders after appointment as midshipmen; for actual traveling expenses of female nurses; for travel allowance or for transportation and subsistence as authorized by law of enlisted men upon discharge; transportation of enlisted men and apprentice seamen and applicants for enlistment at home and abroad, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof; transportation to their homes, if residents of the United States, of enlisted men and apprentice seamen discharged on medical survey, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof; transportation of sick or insane enlisted men and apprentice seamen and insane supernumerary patients to hospitals, with sub-432Apprehending deserters, etc.istence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof; apprehension and delivery of deserters and stragglers, and for railway guides and Recruiting.other expenses incident to transportation: expenses of recruiting for the naval service; rent of rendezvous and expenses of maintaining the same; advertising for and obtaining men and apprentice seamen; actual and necessary expenses in lieu of mileage to officers on duty Transporting dependents.Funeral escorts.with traveling recruiting parties; transportation of dependents of officers and enlisted men (not to exceed $450,000) ; expenses of funeral escorts of naval personnel; in all, $4,017,173, and not more than $593,479 of such sum shall be available for travel by officers, midshipmen, and female nurses;Aggregate amount. In all, for pay, subsistence, and transportation of naval personnel, $149,877,831, of which sum $1,000,000 shall be immediately available, Accounting, etc.and the money herein specificially appropriated, or transferred from the clothing and small stores’ fund to this appropriation as herein authorized, for “Pay, subsistence, and transportation of naval personnel,” shall be disbursed and accounted for in accordance with *Provisos.*Additional medical detail for Veterans’ Administration patients in naval hospitals.existing law and shall constitute one fund: *Provided,* That additional commissioned, warranted, appointed, enlisted, and civilian personnel of the Medical Department of the Navy, required for the care of patients of the United States Veterans’ Administration in naval hospitals, may be employed in addition to the numbers appropriated for Restriction on admissions to Naval Academy after January 30, 1932.in this Act: *Provided further,* That no part of this appropriation shall be available for the pay of any midshipmen whose admission subsequent to January 30, 1932, would result in exceeding at any time an allowance of three midshipmen for each Senator, Representative, and Delegate in Congress; of one midshipman for Porto Rico, a native of the island, appointed on nomination of the governor, and of three midshipmen from Porto Rico, appointed on nomination of the Resident Commissioner; and of two midshipmen for the District Appointments at large or from enlisted men not affected.Columbia : *Provided further,* That nothing herein shall be construed to repeal or modify in any way existing laws relative to the appointment of midshipmen at large, from the enlisted personnel of the Sea service requirements of appointees from enlisted men.naval service, or from the Naval Reserve: *Provided further,* That no part of this appropriation shall be available for the pay of any midshipman appointed from enlisted men of the Navy for admission to the Naval Academy in the class entering in the calendar year 1933 who has not served aboard a vessel of the Navy in full commission for at least nine months prior to such admission. maintenance, bubeau of supplies and accountsMaintenance. For equipage, supplies, and services under the cognizance of the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, including stationery for commanding, executive, communication, and navigating officers of ships, boards and courts on ships, and chaplains; accident prevention; services Freight, etc., department and bureaus.of civilian employees under the cognizance of the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts; freight, express, and parcel-post charges pertaining to the Navy Department and Naval Establishment, *Provisos.*Not available for transporting privately owned automobiles; exception.$9,417,500: *Provided,* That no appropriation contained in this Act shall be available for any expense for or incident to the transportation of privately owned automobiles except on account of the return to the United States of such privately owned automobiles as may be in transit to or from points outside of the continental limits of the United States or have been transported to such outside points at Limit on sum for Group IV
(b)employees, etc.public expense on or by the date of the approval of this Act: *Provided further,* That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation for employees assigned to Group IV(b) and those performing 433similar services carried under native and alien schedules in the Schedule of Wages for Civil Employees in the Field Service of the Navy Department shall not exceed $4,925,000: *And provided further,* That, without deposit to the credit of the Treasurer of the Naval, etc, disbursing officers may use certain receipts for current expenses; accounting.United States and withdrawal on money requisitions, receipts of public moneys from sales or other sources by officers of the Navy and Marine Corps on disbursing duty and charged in their official accounts may be used by them as required for current expenditures, all necessary bookkeeping adjustments of appropriations, funds, and accounts to be made in the settlement of their disbursing accounts. The clothing and small-stores fund shall be charged with the value Clothing and small stores fund.Issue to Naval Reserve, from.the Naval Reserve and the uniform gratuity paid to officers of the Naval Reserve. evacuation of high explosives, navyEvacuation of high explosives. Toward the handling and transportation of high explosives to Handling and transporting to ammunition, depots.the naval ammunition depot, Hawthorne, Nevada, and other points, and expenses incident thereto, in accordance with the primary recommendations contained in House Document Numbered 199, Seventieth Congress, first session, as modified by the Second Deficiency Act, Vol. 45, p. 908.fiscal year 1928, approved May 29, 1928 (45 Stat., p. 908), $75,000, and the unexpended balance of the appropriation under this head Balance available.Vol. 46, p. 1442.for the fiscal year 1932 is continued available during the fiscal year 1933. fuel and transportation, bureau of supplies and accounts For coal and other fuel for submarine bases and steamers’ and Fuel, and transportation of, etc.ships’ use, including expenses of transportation, storage, and handling the same and the removal of fuel refuse from ships; maintenance and general operation of machinery of naval fuel depots and fuel plants; water for all purposes on board naval vessels, and ice for the cooling of water, including the expense of transportation and storage of both, $6,735,000 and, in addition, $150,000 of the Additional sum.Vol. 46, p. 1442.unexpended balance of the appropriation “Fuel and Transportation, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, 1932,” is hereby reappropriated and made available during the fiscal year 1933: *Provided,* *Provisos.*Issue of, charged to applicable appropriation.That fuel acquired other than by purchase shall not be issued without charging the applicable appropriation with the cost of such fuel at the rate current at the time of issue for fuel purchased: *Provided further,* That the President may direct the use, wholly Prices for fuel on hand.or in part, of fuel on hand, however acquired, to be charged at the last issue rate for fuel acquired by purchase, when in his judgment, prices quoted for supplying fuel are excessive: *Provided further,* That no part of this appropriation shall be available, any Restriction on use, etc., of foreign fuel oil.provision in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding, for the purchase of any kind of fuel oil of foreign production for issue, delivery, or sale to ships at points either in the United States or its possessions where oil of the production of the United States or its possessions may be procurable, notwithstanding that oil of the production of the United States or its possessions may cost more than oil of foreign production, if such excess of cost, in the opinion of the Secretary of the Navy, which shall be conclusive, be not unreasonable 434 BUREAU OF MEDICINE AND SURGERYBureau of Medicine and Surgery. medical departmentSurgeon’s necessaries.Civil establishment. For surgeon’s necessaries for vessels in commission, navy yards, naval stations, and Marine Corps ; and for the civil establishment at the several naval hospitals, navy yards, naval medical supply depots, Naval Medical School and dispensary, Washington, and Naval, Academy; for tolls and ferriages; purchase of books and stationery; hygienic and sanitary investigation and illustration ; sanitary, hygienic, administrative, and special instruction, including the issuing of naval medical bulletins and supplements; purchase and repairs of Vehicles, etc.nonpassenger-carrying wagons, automobile ambulances, and harness; purchase of and feed for horses and cows ; maintenance, repair, and operation of three passenger-carrying motor vehicles for naval dispensary, Washington, District of Columbia, and of one motor-propelled vehicle for official use only for the medical officer on out-patient medical service at the Naval Academy ; trees, plants, care of grounds, garden tools, and seeds; incidental articles for the Naval Medical School and naval dispensary, Washington, naval medical supply depots, sick quarters at Naval Academy and marine barracks; washing for medical department at Naval Medical School and naval dispensary, Washington, naval medical supply depots, sick quarters at Naval Academy and marine barracks, dispensaries at navy yards and naval stations, and ships; and for minor repairs on buildings and grounds of the United States Naval Medical School and naval medical supply depots; rent of rooms for naval dispensary, Washington, District of Columbia, not to exceed $1,200; for the care, maintenance, Care, etc., of insane on Pacific coast.and treatment of the insane of the Navy and Marine Corps on the Pacific coast, including supernumeraries held for transfer to Saint Elizabeths Hospital; for dental outfits and dental material; and all *Proviso.*Limit on sum for Group IV
(b)employees.other necessary contingent expenses ; in all, $1,840,000 : *Provided,* that the sum to be paid out of this appropriation for employees assigned to Group IV
(b)and those performing similar services carried under native and alien schedules in the Schedule of Wages for Civil Employees in the Field Service of the Navy Department shall not exceed $200,000. care of the deadCare of the dead.Expenses of interment of officers, etc., dying in service, etc. For the care of the dead ; for funeral expenses and interment or transportation to their homes or to designated cemeteries of the remains of officers (including officers who die within the United States) and enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps, of members of the Nurse Corps, reservists on active or training duty, and accepted Civilian employees dying abroad.applicants for enlistment, civilian employees of the Navy Department and Naval Establishment who die outside of the continental limits of the United States, and former enlisted men who are discharged while in naval hospitals and are inmates of said hospitals on the date of their death; for funeral expenses and interment of the remains of pensioners and destitute patients who die in naval hospitals; for purchase and care of cemetery lots; for removal of remains from abandoned cemeteries to naval or national cemeteries, or to their homes, including remains interred in isolated graves at home and *Proviso.*Retired officers, etc., on active duty, included.abroad, and remains temporarily interred, $68,000: *Provided,* That the above provision shall apply in the case of officers and enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps on the retired list who die while on active duty. 435 BUREAU OF YARDS AND DOCKSBureau of Yards and Docks. maintenance, bureau of yards and docks For the labor, materials, and supplies necessary, as determined General maintenance.by the Secretary of the Navy, for the general maintenance of the activities and properties now or hereafter under the cognizance of the Bureau of Yards and Docks, including accident prevention; the maintenance, repair, and operation of passenger-carrying vehicles Vehicles.for the Navy Department (not to exceed ten in number) and the Naval Establishment not otherwise provided for; the purchase of one motor bus, $4,000; not to exceed $1,600,000 for employees assigned to Group IV
(b)and those performing similar services Employees of Group IV (b), etc.carried under native and alien schedules in the Schedule of Wages for Civil Employees in the Field Service of the Navy Department, and part time or intermittent employment in the District of Columbia, or elsewhere, of such engineers and architects as may be contracted for by the Secretary of the Navy, in his discretion, at a rate of pay not exceeding $25 per diem for any person so employed, $8,400,000: *Provided,* That expenditures from appropriations contained *Provisos.*Limitation on operation, etc.in this Act for the maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, including the compensation of civilian chauffeurs and the compensation of any greater number than ninety enlisted men detailed to such duty, shall not exceed in the aggregate $70,000, exclusive of such vehicles owned and operated by the Marine Corps in connection with expeditionary Marine Corps, outside continental limits, excluded.duty without the continental limits of the United States and motor excluded, cycles, and on any one vehicle shall not exceed for maintenance, upkeep, and repair, exclusive of garage rent, pay of operators, tires, fuel, and lubricants, one-third of the market price of a new vehicle of the same make or class, and in any case more than $500. contingent, bureau of yards and docks For contingent expenses and minor extensions and improvements Contingent.of public works at navy yards and stations, $138,000. PUBLIC WORKS, BUREAU OF YARDS AND DOCKSPublic works. To enable the Secretary of the Navy to complete, provide, or Construction of authorized projects.Vol. 46, p. 1444.continue the construction, by contract or otherwise, of the public works and public-utilities projects named in the Naval Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1932, including the naval lighter-than-air base near Sunnyvale, California, provided for in the Second Deficiency Sunnyvale, Calif., base included.Vol. 46, pp. 1092, 1577.Act, fiscal year 1931, and within the limits of cost specified in those Acts; and to construct or provide, by contract or otherwise, the following-named public works and public-utilities projects, at a limit of cost not to exceed the amount stated for each project enumerated, respectively, $2,490,000, of which not to exceed $150,000 Personal services.shall be available for the employment of classified personal services in the Bureau of Yards and Docks and in the field service to be engaged upon such work and to be in addition to employees otherwise provided for: *Provided,* That the unexpended balances of *Provisos.*Consolidation of funds.the appropriation “Public works, Navy, emergency construction,” and all other appropriations under the cognizance of the Bureau of Yards and Docks for public works (including the purchase of land) are hereby transferred to and merged with the appropriation 436Availability.“Public works, Bureau of Yards and Docks,” and made available for the purposes of such appropriation and/or for the purposes for Limit of cost not to be increased.which they were made, respectively: *Provided further,* That nothing herein shall be construed as increasing the authorized limit of cost of any specific project:Norfolk, Va. Navy Yard, Norfolk, Virginia: Caisson for dry dock numbered 2, $110,000.Ammunition storage facilities.Vol. 45, p. 928. Ammunition storage facilities, Navy: Ammunition storage facilities authorized by the Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1928, $1,500,000, being part of the contractual authorization granted in such Act.Hingham, Mass. Naval ammunition depot, Hingham, Massachusetts: Improvement of magazines, $8,000; improvement of water system, $9,000; in all, $17,000.Mare Island, Calif. Naval ammunition depot, Mare Island, California: Improvement of magazines, $50,000; improvement of fire protection, $25,000; in all. $75,000.Ordnance stations, lightning protection.Sunnyvale, Calif.Lighter-than-air base, construction.Vol. 46, p. 1092. Lightning protection at ordnance stations, $60,000. Naval lighter-than-air base, Sunnyvale, California: To continue construction and improvements as authorized by the Act entitled “An Act authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to accept, without cost to the Government of the United States, a lighter-than-air base, near Sunnyvale, California, in the county of Santa Clara, and construct necessary improvements thereon,” Contract authorization.Vol. 46, p. 1577.*Proviso.*Officers quarters.approved February 12, 1931, in addition to the contract authorization contained in the Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1931, approved March 4, 1931, $1,000,000: *Provided,* That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for the construction of quarters for commissioned officers to cost in excess of the respective limits fixed by law for quarter’s for commissioned officers of corresponding rank in the Army.Radio and radio-compass stations. Naval radio and radio compass stations: Improvement of power plant, Darien, Canal Zone, and improvement of building numbered 1, Destruction Island, Washington, $40,000.Philadelphia, Pa., hospital construction. The availability of the $200,000 authorized by the Act approved February 12, 1931, Public Numbered 620, of the Seventy-first Congress, Subsurface conditions of site.Vol. 46, p. 1091, amended.to be expended from the naval hospital fund for the acquisition of land for a site for the hospital buildings at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, authorized by said Act, is hereby extended to include investigations by contract or otherwise of subsurface conditions at said site.Additional authorization. Naval Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: To continue construction of the public works authorized by the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Navy to proceed with the construction of certain public works at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and for other purposes,” approved February 12, 1931 (46 Stat., *Post,* p. 783.1091), the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to expend $1,000,000 from the naval hospital fund for the buildings, equipment, accessories, utilities, and appurtenances authorized by such Act, in addition to the expenditures authorized from such fund by such Act: *Proviso.*Limit of cost reduced.*Provided,* That the limit of cost of such buildings, equipment, accessories, utilities, and appurtenances is hereby reduced from $3,000,000 to $2,250,000, and additional appropriations for such work Amount from naval hospital fund.may be made from the naval hospital fund to the extent that the Secretary of the Navy may approve. 437 BUREAU OF AERONAUTICSBureau of Aeronautics. aviation, navy For aviation, as follows: For navigational, photographic, aerological, Designated aviation expenses.radio, and miscellaneous equipment, including repairs thereto, for use with aircraft built or building on June 30, 1932, $949,900; for maintenance, repair, and operation of aircraft factory, Aircraft factory, etc.air stations, fleet air bases, fleet and all other aviation activities, accident prevention, testing laboratories, for overhauling of planes, and for the purchase for aviation purposes only of special clothing, wearing apparel, and special equipment, $13,435,520, including $153,000 for the equipment of vessels with catapults and including not to exceed $175,000 for the procurement of helium, and such sum Helium.*Post,* p. 517.shall be transferred to and made available to the Bureau of Mines on July 1, 1932; for continuing experiments and development work on all types of aircraft, including the payment of part-time or intermittent Aircraft types.employment in the District of Columbia or elsewhere of such scientists and technicists as may be contracted for by the Secretary of the Navy, in his discretion, at a rate of pay not exceeding $20 per diem for any person so employed, $2,210,000; for the payment of obligations incurred under the contract authorization carried in the Incurred obligations.Navy Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1932 for the production and purchase of new airplanes and their equipment, spare parts and New airplanes, etc.accessories, $7,200,000; toward the construction of the rigid airships Vol. 46, p. 1446.Rigid airships.Vol. 44, p. 1465.U. S. C., Supp. V, p. 536.as provided in the Act authorizing construction of aircraft, and so forth, approved June 24, 1926 (U. S. C., Supp. V, title 34, sec. 749a), and subject to the contractural conditions stipulated as to such rigid airships in the Act making appropriations for the Navy Department and the naval service for the fiscal year 1929, $1,450,000; in all, $25,245,420; and the money herein specifically appropriated for “Aviation ” shall be disbursed and accounted for in accordance with Accounting.existing law and shall constitute one fund: *Provided,* That the sum *Provisos.*Limit on sum for Group IV
(b)employees.to be paid out of this appropriation for employees assigned to Group IV
(b)and those performing similar services carried under native and alien schedules in the Schedule of Wages for Civil Employees in the Field Service of the Navy Department shall not exceed $1,192,145: *Provided further,* That in addition to the amount herein Contracts for new airplanes, etc.appropriated, the Secretary of the Navy may, prior to July 1, 1934, enter into contracts for the production and purchase of new airplanes and their equipment, spare parts and accessories, to an amount not in excess of $5,715,000: *Provided further,* That no part of this Coast stations limited.appropriation shall be expended for maintenance of more than six heavier-than-air stations on the coast of the continental United States: *Provided further,* That no part of this appropriation shall Airplane factory construction forbidden.be used for the construction of a factory for the manufacture of airplanes: *Provided further,* That the Secretary of the Navy is Determination of damage claims.hereby authorized to consider, ascertain, adjust, determine, and pay out of this appropriation the amounts due on chums for damages which have occurred or may occur to private property growing out of the operations of naval aircraft, where such claim does not exceed the sum of $500. NAVAL ACADEMYNaval Academy. Pay, Naval Academy: Pay for professors and others, Pay of professors and instructors, including one professor as librarian, $284,130: *Provided,* That not more than $36,500 shall be paid for masters and instructors in swordsmanship and physical *Proviso.*Pay restriction.training. 438Employees.*Proviso.*Limit on sum for Group IV
(b)employees. For pay of employees, $577,387: *Provided,* That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation for employees assigned to Group IV
(b)and those performing similar services carried under native and alien schedules in the Schedule of Wages for Civil Employees in the Field Service of the Navy Department shall not exceed $236,000.Current, etc., expenses. Current and miscellaneous expenses, Naval Academy: For text and reference books for use of instructors; stationery, blank books and forms, models, maps, and periodicals; apparatus and materials for instruction in physical training and athletics; expenses of lectures and entertainments, not exceeding $1,000, including pay and expenses of lecturer; chemicals, philosophical apparatus and instruments, stores, machinery, tools, fittings, apparatus, materials for instruction purposes, and engraving of trophies and badges, Library.$68,800; for purchase, binding, and repair of books for the library (to be purchased in the open market on the written order of the Board of Visitors.Superintendent.superintendent), $5,000; for expenses of the Board of Visitors to the Naval Academy, $1,400; for contingencies for the superintendent of the academy, to be expended in his discretion, not exceeding $3,500; for contingencies for the commandant of midshipmen, to be expended in his discretion, not exceeding $1,000; in all, $79,700, to be accounted for as one fund.General maintenance, repairs, etc. Maintenance and repairs, Naval Academy: For necessary repairs of public buildings, wharves, and walls inclosing the grounds of the Naval Academy, accident prevention, improvements, repairs, and fixtures; for books, periodicals, maps, models, and drawings; purchase and repair of fire engines; fire apparatus and plants, machinery; purchase and maintenance of all horses and horse-drawn Vehicles, etc.vehicles for use at the academy, including the maintenance, operation, and repair of three horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles to be used only for official purposes; seeds and plants; tools and repairs of the same; stationery; furniture for Government buildings and offices at the academy, including furniture for midshipmen’s rooms; coal and other fuels; candles, oil, and gas; attendance on light and power plants; cleaning and clearing up station and care of buildings; attendance on fires, lights, fire engines, fire apparatus, and plants, and telephone, telegraph, and clock systems; incidental labor; advertising, water tax, postage, telephones, telegrams, tolls, and ferriage; flags and awnings; packing boxes; fuel for heating and lighting bandsmen’s quarters; pay of inspectors and draftsmen; music and astronomical instruments; and for pay of employees on *Proviso.*Limit on sum for Group IV
(b)employees.leave, $940,000: *Provided,* That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation for employees assigned to Group IV
(b)and those performing similar services carried under native and alien schedules in the Schedule of Wages for Civil Employees in the Field Service of the Navy Department shall not exceed $23,000. MARINE CORPSMarine Corps. pay, marine corpsPay, etc., officers on active list. Pay of officers, active list: For pay and allowances prescribed by law for all officers on the active list—pay and allowances, $3,602,277, together with $129,101 of the unexpended balance of “Pay, Marine Corps, 1932,” including not to exceed $138,148 for increased pay for making aerial flights; subsistence allowance, $493,116; rental allowance, $648,063; in all, $4,743,456; and no part of such sum shall be available to pay active duty pay and allowances to officers on the retired list; 439 For pay of officers prescribed by law on the retired list, $794,786;Retired officers.Enlisted men, active list. Pay of enlisted men, active fist: For pay and allowances of noncommissioned officers, musicians, and privates, as prescribed by law, and for the expenses of clerks of the United States Marine Corps traveling under orders, and including additional compensation for enlisted men of the Marine Corps qualified as expert riflemen, sharpshooters, marksmen, or regularly detailed as gun captains, gun pointers, cooks, messmen, including interest on deposits by enlisted men, post-exchange debts of deserters and of men discharged or sentenced to terms of imprisonment while in debt to the United States, under such rules as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe, and the authorized travel allowance of discharged enlisted men, and for prizes for excellence in gunnery exercises and target practice, and for pay of enlisted men designated as Navy mail clerks and assistant Navy mail clerks both afloat and ashore, and for gratuities to enlisted men discharged not under honorable conditions—pay and allowances, $7,497,537, together with $100,000Pay and allowances.Balance reappropriated.Vol. 46, p. 1447.Retired enlisted men.of the unexpended balance of “Pay, Marine Corps, 1932 ”; allowance for lodging and subsistence, $670,542; in all, $8,168,079; For pay and allowances prescribed by law of enlisted men on the retired list, $620,208; Undrawn clothing: For payment to discharged enlisted men for Undrawn clothing.clothing undrawn, $155,160; For pay and allowances of the Marine Corps Reserve
(a)excluding Marine Corps Reserve.*Proviso.*Assignments of enlisted men to Fleet Reserve forbidden.Vol. 43, pp. 1086, 1276.U. S. C., p. 1136.transferred and assigned men, $237,620;
(b)transferred men, $281,696;
(c)assigned men, $65,750; in all, $585,066: *Provided,* That hereafter no enlisted man of the Marine Corps shall be assigned to the Fleet Marine Corps Reserve as provided for in section 22 of the Act of February 28, 1925 (U. S. C., title 34, sec. 783); Not to exceed for mileage and actual and necessary expenses and Mileage, etc.per diem in lieu of subsistence as authorized by law to officers traveling under orders without troops, $84,334; In all, $15,151,089: *Provided,* That no money appropriated in this *Proviso.*Additional Marines in Nicaragua.Act shall be used to defray the expense of sending additional Marines to Nicaragua to supervise an election there, and the money herein specifically appropriated for pay of the Marine Corps shall Accounting.be disbursed and accounted for in accordance with existing law and shall constitute one fund. pay of civil employees, marine corps Pay of civil force: For personal services in the District of Columbia, Civil force at headquarters.as follows: Offices of the Major General Commandant and adjutant inspector, $127,590; Office of paymaster, $50,880; Office of the quartermaster, $126,560; in all, $305,030: *Provided,* *Proviso.*No increase of enlisted men at headquarters.Vacancies to be filled by civilians.Pay rates according to Classification Act.Vol. 46, p. 1003; U. S. C., Supp. V, p. 28.That the total number of enlisted men on duty at Marine Corps headquarters on May 7, 1930, shall not be increased, and in lieu of enlisted men whose services at such headquarters shall be terminated for any cause prior to July 1, 1933, their places may be filled by civilians, for the pay of whom, in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, either or both the appropriations “Pay, Marine Corps,” and “General expenses, Marine Corps,” shall be available. general expenses, marine corpsGeneral expenses. For every expenditure requisite for, and incident to, the authorized Authorized work.work of the Marine Corps, other than as appropriated for under the headings of pay and salaries, as follows: 440Provisions, etc. For provisions, subsistence, board and lodging of enlisted men, recruits and recruiting parties, and applicants for enlistment, cash allowance for lodging and subsistence to enlisted men traveling on duty; ice, ice machines and their maintenance, $2,123,598;Clothing. For clothing for enlisted men, $698,672;Fuel, etc. For fuel, heat, light, and power, including sales to officers, $475,000;Military supplies, etc.Purchase, repairs, etc. For military supplies and equipment, including their purchase, repair, preservation, and handling; recreational, school, educational, library, musical, amusement, field sport and gymnasium supplies, equipment, services, and incidental expenses; purchase and marking Prizes, badges, medals, etc.of prizes for excellence in gunnery and rifle practice, good-conduct badges, medals, and buttons awarded to officers and enlisted men by the Government for conspicuous, gallant, and special service; rental and maintenance of target ranges and entrance fees for competitions, $495,300;Transportation and recruiting. Not to exceed for transportation of troops and applicants for enlistment, including cash in lieu of ferriage and transfers en route; toilet kits for issue to recruits upon their first enlistment and other incidental expenses of the recruiting service; and including not to Dependents.exceed $26,250 for transportation for dependents of officers and enlisted men, $381,250; Repairs, etc., to barracks, quarters, etc. For repairs and improvements to barracks, quarters, and other public buildings at posts and stations; for the renting, leasing, and improvement of buildings in the District of Columbia, with the approval of the Public Buildings Commission, and at such other places as the public exigencies require, and the erection of temporary buildings upon the approval of the Secretary of the Navy at a total cost of not to exceed $10,000 during the year, $360,000;Forage, etc. For forage and stabling of public animals and the authorized number of officers’ horses, $40,000;Contingent. For miscellaneous supplies, material, equipment, personal and other services, and for other incidental expenses for the Marine Corps not otherwise provided for; purchase, repair, and exchange of typewriters and calculating machines; purchase and repair of Vehicles.furniture and fixtures; repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, purchase of five motor cycles, at not to exceed $295 each, and purchase, exchange, and repair of horse-drawn passenger-Horses.carrying and other vehicles, including parts; veterinary services and medicines for public animals and the authorized number of officers’ horses; purchase of mounts and horse equipment for all officers below the grade of major required to be mounted; shoeing for public animals and the authorized number of officers’ horses; books, Funeral expenses.newspapers, and periodicals; printing and binding; packing and crating of officers’ allowance of baggage; funeral expenses of officers and enlisted men and accepted applicants for enlistment and retired Transporting remains, etc.officers on active duty, including the transportation of their bodies, arms, and wearing apparel from the place of demise to the homes of the deceased in the United States; construction, operation, and Laundries.maintenance of laundries; and for all emergencies and extraordinary expenses, $1,789,900.Marine Corps Reserve. Marine Corps Reserve: For clothing, subsistence, heat, light, transportation, and miscellaneous expenses, $95,000;Accounting.*Proviso.*Limit on sum for Group IV
(b)employees. In all, $6,458,720, to be accounted for as one fund: *Provided,* That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation for employees assigned to Group IV
(b)and those performing similar services carried under native and alien schedules in the Schedule of Wages for Civil Employees in the Field Service of the Navy Department shall not exceed $90,000. 441 alterations to naval vesselsAlterations. Toward the alterations and repairs required for the purpose of Modernizing “New Mexico,” “Mississippi,” and “Idaho.”Vol. 46, p. 1453.Balance reappropriated.Vol. 46, pp. 1453, 1577.modernizing the United States ships New Mexico, Mississippi, and Idaho, authorized by the Act entitled “An Act to authorize alterations and repairs to certain naval vessels,” approved February 28, 1931, $14,000,000, this sum, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $10,000,000 for the same purpose contained in the Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1931, to be apportioned and to remain available until expended: *Provided,* That the sum to be paid *Proviso.*Limit on sum for Group IV
(b)employees.out of the amount available for expenditure under this head for the fiscal year 1933 for employees in the field service assigned to Group IV
(b)and those performing similar services carried under native and alien schedules in the Schedule of Wages for Civil Employees in the Field Service of the Navy Department shall not exceed $30,000. INCREASE OF THE NAVYIncrease of the Navy. Construction and machinery: On account of hulls and outfits of Construction and machinery of vessels heretofore authorized.vessels and machinery of vessels heretofore authorized, $15,063,000, and, in addition, the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed, upon the request of the Secretary of the Navy, to make transfers during the fiscal year 1933 from the naval supply account Amount from naval supply account fund.fund to this appropriation of sums aggregating not to exceed $6,000,000, and the total sums hereby made available shall remain available until expended: *Provided,* That the sum to be paid out of the amount *Provisos.*Group IV
(b)employees.available for expenditure under the head of “Construction and Machinery ” for the fiscal year 1933 for employees in the field service assigned to Group IV
(b)and those performing similar services carried under native and alien schedules in the Schedule of Wages for Civil Employees in the Field Service of the Navy Department shall not exceed $790,000: *Provided,* That of the appropriations contained Technical services.in this Act under the head of “Increase of the Navy,” there shall be available such sums as the Secretary of the Navy may from time to time determine to be necessary for the engagement of technical services, including the purchase of plans, and the employment of personnel Purchase of plans, etc.in the Navy Department and in the field, in addition to those otherwise provided for, owing to the construction of vessels heretofore authorized and herein or heretofore appropriated for in part. Armor, armament, and ammunition: Toward the armor, armament, Armor, etc., for vessels authorized.and ammunition for vessels heretofore authorized $3,000,000, to remain available until expended: *Provided,* That the sum to be *Proviso.*Group IV
(b)employees.paid out of the amount available for expenditure under this head for the fiscal year 1933 for employees in the field service assigned to Group IV
(b)and those performing similar services carried under native and alien schedules in the Schedule of Wages for Civil Employees in the Field Service of the Navy Department shall not exceed $175,000. The total appropriation cost of the following vessels shall not Cost limitation on vessels mentioned.exceed the sum stated after each, namely: Fleet submarine numbered 169, $4,955,000; fleet submarine numbered 170, $3,996,000; fleet submarine numbered 171, $4,196,000; destroyer numbered 348, $4,934,000; destroyer numbered 349, $4,694,000, and destroyers numbered 350, 351, and 352, $4,844,000 each. That in the expenditure of appropriations in this Act the Secretary Purchase of foreign products, etc., forbidden.of the Navy shall, unless in his discretion the interest of the Government will not permit, purchase or contract for, within the limits of the United States, only articles of the growth, production, or manufacture of the United States, notwithstanding that such 442Exception.articles of the growth, production, or manufacture of the United States may cost more, if such excess of cost be not unreasonable.Purchase of equipment available for letters patent, etc. The appropriations made in this Act for the purchase or manufacture of equipment or material or of a particular class of equipment or material shall be available for the purchase of letters patent, applications for letters patent, licenses under letters patent and applications for letters patent that pertain to such equipment or material for which the appropriations are made.Department uses limited. No part of any appropriation made for the Navy shall be expended for any of the purposes herein provided for on account of the Navy Department in the District of Columbia, including personal services of civilians and of enlisted men of the Navy, except as herein *Provisos.*Details to Navigation Bureau.Designated services not department detail.expressly authorized: *Provided,* That there may be detailed to the Bureau of Navigation not to exceed at any one time six enlisted men of the Navy: *Provided further,* That enlisted men detailed to the naval dispensary and the radio communication service shall not be regarded as detailed to the Navy Department in the District of Columbia.No pay to officer, etc., using time-measuring device on work of employees. 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 or persons 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; nor shall any part of the appropriations Cash rewards, etc., restricted.made in this Act be available to pay any premiums or bonus or cash reward to any employee in addition to his regular wages, except for suggestions resulting in improvements or economy in the operation of any Government plant; and that no part of the moneys herein appropriated for the Naval Establishment or herein made available therefor shall be used or expended under contracts hereafter made Repair and equipment at other than navy yards, etc., restricted.for the repair, purchase, or acquirement, by or from any private contractor, of any naval vessel, machinery, article or articles that at the time of the proposed repair, purchase, or acquirement can be repaired, manufactured, or produced in each or any of the Government navy yards or arsenals of the United States, when time and facilities permit, and when, in the judgment of the Secretary of the Navy, such repair, purchase, acquirement, or production would not *Proviso.*Construction, etc., of first and alternate cruisers, at Government yards, factories, etc., required.Vol. 45, p. 1165.involve an appreciable increase in cost to the Government: *Provided,* That nothing herein shall be construed as altering or repealing the proviso contained in section 1 of the Act to authorize the construction of certain naval vessels, approved February 13, 1929, which provides that the first and each succeeding alternate cruiser upon which work is undertaken, together with the main engines, armor, and armament shall be constructed or manufactured in the Government navy yards, naval gun factories, naval ordnance plants, or arsenals of the United States, except such material or parts as are not customarily manufactured in such Government plants. NAVY DEPARTMENTNavy Department. salariesSalaries.Secretary. Secretary of the Navy, $15,000.Civilian personnel in offices, etc., designated. For compensation for other personal services in the District of Columbia, as follows: Office of the Secretary of the Navy, $200,520. General board, $12,560. 443 Naval examining and retiring boards, $10,600. Compensation board, $8,700. Office of Naval Records and Library, including employees engaged in the collection or copying and classification, with a view to publication, of the naval records of the war with the Central Powers of Europe, $39,240. Office of Judge Advocate General, $130,240. Office of Chief of Naval Operations, $73,760. Board of Inspection and Survey, $20,780. Office of Director of Naval Communications, $134,980. Office of Naval Intelligence, $41,440. Bureau of Navigation, $500,540. Hydrographic Office, $430,980. Naval Observatory, including $2,500 for pay of computers on piecework in preparing for publication the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac and in improving the tables of the planets, moon, and stars, $193,540. Bureau of Engineering, $333,040. Bureau of Construction and Repair, $393,900. Bureau of Ordnance, $165,000. Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $873,000. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, $87,560. Bureau of Yards and Docks, $314,320. Bureau of Aeronautics, $290,400. In all, salaries, Navy Department, $4,270,100. In expending appropriations or portions of appropriations contained Salaries limited to average rates under Classification Act.in this Act, for the payment for personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, with the exception of the Assistant Secretaries Exception.Vol. 46, p. 1003.U. S. C., Supp. V, p. 28.of the Navy the average of the salaries of the total number of persons under any grade in any bureau, office, or other appropriation unit shall not at any time exceed the average of the compensation rates specified for the grade by such Act, as amended: *Provided,* That *Proviso.*Restriction not applicable to clerical-mechanical service.No reduction in fixed salaries.Vol. 42, p. 1490.Transfers to another position without reduction.Payments under higher rates permitted.this restriction shall not apply
(1)to grades 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the clerical-mechanical service, or
(2)to require the reduction in salary of any person whose compensation was fixed as of July 1, 1924, in accordance with the rules of section 6 of such Act,
(3)to require the reduction in salary of any person who is transferred from one position to another position in the same or different grade in the same or a different bureau, office1 1 So in original.or other appropriation unit,
(4)to prevent the payment of a salary under any grade at a rate higher than the maximum rate of the grade when such higher rate is permitted by the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, and is specifically If only one position in a grade.authorized by other law, or
(5)to reduce the compensation of any person in a grade in which only one position is allocated. contingent expenses For professional and technical books and periodicals, law books, Department contingent expenses.and necessary reference books, including city directories, railway guides, freight, passenger, and express tariff books and photostating, Library.for department library; for purchase of photographs, maps, documents, and pictorial records of the Navy, photostating and other necessary incidental expenses in connection with the preparation Naval records of World War.for publication of the naval records of the war with the Central Powers of Europe; for stationery, furniture, newspapers, plans, drawings, and drawing materials; purchase and exchange of motor trucks or motor delivery wagons, maintenance, repair, and operation 444of motor trucks or motor delivery wagons; garage rent; street-car fares not exceeding $500; freight, expressage, postage, typewriters, Naval service appropriations not to be used for Department expenses.and computing machines, and other absolutely necessary expenses of the Navy Department and its various bureaus and offices, $80,000; it shall not be lawful to expend, unless otherwise specifically provided herein, for any of the offices or bureaus of the Navy Department in the District of Columbia, any sum out of appropriations made for the naval service for any of the purposes mentioned or authorized in this paragraph. Printing and BindingPrinting and binding. For printing and binding for the Navy Department and the Naval Establishment executed at the Government Printing Office, $550,000, including not exceeding $103,000 for the Hydrographic Office and $2,800 for the Naval Reserve Officers’ Training Corps. contingent and miscellaneous expenses, hydrographic officeHydrographic office.Contingent and miscellaneous expenses. For purchase and printing of nautical books, charts, and sailing directions, copperplates, steel plates, chart paper, packing boxes, chart portfolios, electrotyping copperplates, cleaning copperplates; tools, instruments, power, and material for drawing, engraving, and printing; materials for and mounting charts; reduction of charts by photography; photolithographing charts for immediate use; transfer of photolithographic and other charts to copper; purchase of equipment for the storage of plates used in making charts and for the storage of Hydrographic Office charts and publications; modernization, care and repair to printing presses, furniture, instruments, and tools; extra drawing and engraving; translating Pilot charts.from foreign languages; telegrams on public business; preparation of pilot charts and their supplements, and printing and mailing same; purchase of data for charts and sailing directions and other nautical publications; books of reference and works and periodicals relating to hydrography, marine meteorology, navigation, surveying, oceanography, and terrestrial magnetism, and to other professional and technical subjects connected with the work of the Hydrographic Office, $77,000. branch hydrographic officesBranch offices.Contingent expenses of, designated. For contingent expenses of branch hydrographic offices at Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore. Norfolk, Savannah, New Orleans, San Francisco, Portland (Oregon), Portland (Maine), Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Buffalo, Duluth, Sault Sainte Marie, Seattle, Panama, San Juan (Porto Rico), Los Angeles, Honolulu, 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, $16,000.Employees. For services of necessary employees at branch offices, $45,120. contingent and miscellaneous expenses naval observatoryNaval Observatory.Library, apparatus, repairs, etc. For professional and scientific books, books of reference, periodicals, engravings, photographs, and fixtures for the library; for apparatus and instruments, and for repairs of the same; for repairs to 445buildings (including quarters), fixtures, and fences; for cleaning, repair, and upkeep of grounds and roads; furniture and furnishings Miscellaneous supplies.for offices and quarters, gas, chemicals, paints, and stationery, including transmission of public documents through the Smithsonian exchange, foreign postage; plants, seeds, and fertilizers; for fuel, oil, grease, pipe, wire, and other materials needed for the maintenance and repair of boilers, engines, heating apparatus, electric lighting and power, and water supply; purchase and maintenance of teams; maintenance, repair, and operation of motor trucks and passenger automobiles, and of horse-drawn vehicles; telegraph and telephone service; and other absolutely necessary expenses, $25,000. For the purchase and installation of equipment, utilities, and Astronomical plant.Modernization, etc.Vol. 46, p. 556.appurtenances for astrographic and research work and modernization of the astronomical plant of the Naval Observatory, as authorized by the Act approved June 11, 1930 (46 Stat., p. 556), $110,000, to be available immediately. For preparation for and observation of total solar eclipse of Observing solar eclipse.August 31, 1932, $4,000. Sec. 2. No part of any money appropriated by this Act shall be Government-owned automobiles.Restricted to official purposes.used for maintaining, driving, or operating any Government-owned motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle not used exclusively for official purposes; and “official purposes” shall not include the transportation Transportation between domicile and place of employment.of officers and employees between their domiciles and places place of employment, of employment except in cases of medical officers on out-patient medical service and except in cases of officers and employees engaged in field work the character of whose duties makes such transportation necessary and then only as to such latter cases when the same is approved by the head of the department. This section shall not Exemptions.apply to any motor vehicle for official use of the Secretary of the Navy, and no other persons connected with the Navy Department or the naval service, except the commander in chief of the United States Asiatic Fleet, Marine Corps officers serving with expeditionary forces in foreign countries, and medical officers on out-patient medical service, shall have a Government-owned motor vehicle assigned for their exclusive use. Sec. 3. No part of any appropriation made by this Act shall be Subsistence restriction.used to pay the actual expenses of subsistence in excess of $6 each for any one calendar day or per diem allowance for subsistence in excess of the rate of $5 for any one calendar day to any officer or employee of the United States in a travel status, and payment accordingly shall be in full, notwithstanding any other statutory provision. Approved, June 30, 1932. To authorize extensions of time on oil and gas prospecting permits, and for other purposes. 1932-06-30 319 Chapter 47 Stat. 445 72 2 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2024-12-27 public [CHAPTER 319.] AN ACT To authorize extensions of time on oil and gas prospecting permits, and for other purposes.June 30, 1932.[[H. R. 11639](/us/bill/72/hr/11639).][[Public, No. 217](/us/pl/72/217).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That any oil or Oil and gas prospecting permits.Extensions of time on, authorized.Vol. 41, p. 437; Vol. 42, p. 356; Vol. 44, p. 236; Vol. 45, p. 252; Vol. 46, p. 58.gas prospecting permit issued under the Act of February 25, 1920 (41 Stat. 437), or extended under the Act of January 11, 1922 (42 Stat. 356), or as further extended under the Acts of April 5, 1926 (44 Stat. 236), March 9, 1928 (45 Stat. 252), and the Act of January 23, 1930 (46 Stat. 58), may be extended by the Secretary of the Interior for an additional period of three years in his discretion, on such conditions as he may prescribe. 446Expired permits. Sec. 2. Upon application to the Secretary of the Interior, and subject to valid intervening rights and to the provisions of section 1 of this Act, any permit which has already expired because of lack of authority under existing law to make further extensions may be extended for a period of three years from the date of the passage of this Act. Approved, June 30, 1932. Providing for the transfer of the duties authorized and authority conferred by law upon the board of road commissioners in the Territory of Alaska to the Department of the Interior, and for other purposes. 1932-06-30 320 Chapter 47 Stat. 446 72 2 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2024-12-27 public [CHAPTER 320.] AN ACT Providing for the transfer of the duties authorized and authority conferred by law upon the board of road commissioners in the Territory of Alaska to the Department of the Interior, and for other purposes.June 30, 1932.[[S. 4525](/us/bill/72/s/4525).][
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