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(/us/bill/75/pl/54)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Navy Department and naval service appropriations for fiscal year 1938. That the following 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, 1938, namely: NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT Naval Establishment. Office of the Secretary Secretary’s office. miscellaneous expenses Miscellaneous expenses.For traveling expenses of civilian employees, including not to exceed $5,000 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 Experts.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 may be contracted for Courts martial, etc.by and in the discretion of the Secretary of the Navy; expenses of courts martial, purchase of law and reference books, expenses of prisoners and prisons, courts of inquiry, boards of investigation, examining boards, clerical assistance; witnesses’ fees and traveling Accident prevention, shore establishments.expenses; not to exceed $15,000 for promoting accident prevention and safety in shore establishments of the Navy, to be expended in the discretion of the Secretary of the Navy; 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); costs of suits; relief of vessels in distress; recovery of valuables from shipwrecks; maintenance of attachés abroad, including office Living quarters, etc.rental and pay of employees, and not to exceed $12,000 in the aggregate or $900 for any one person for allowances for living quarters, [46 Stat. 818](/us/stat/46/818).[5 U. S. C. § 118a](/us/usc/t5/s118a).including heat, fuel, and light, as authorized by the Act approved June 26, 1930 (U.
S. C., title 5, sec. 118a); the collection and classification of information; not to exceed $195,000 for telephone, telegraph, and teletype rentals and tolls, telegrams, radiograms, and cablegrams; postage, foreign and domestic, and post-office box rentals; necessary expenses for interned persons and prisoners of war under the jurisdiction of the Navy Department, including funeral expenses for such interned persons or prisoners of war as may die while under Damage claims.such jurisdiction; payment of claims for damages as provided in the [41 Stat. 132](/us/stat/41/132).[34 U. S. C. § 600](/us/usc/t34/s600).Act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year 1920, approved July 11, 1919 (U.
S. C., title 34, sec. 600); and other *Provisos*.Restriction on use in certain naval districts.necessary and incidental expenses; in all, $1,241,780: *Provided*, That no part of any appropriation contained in this Act 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 Group IV
(b)employees.one of 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 $515,000. 97 contingent, navy For all emergencies and extraordinary expenses, exclusive of personalContingent, Navy. 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, $20,000, of which $2,500 shall be available immediately. care of lepers, and so forth, island of guam. Lepers, etc. Naval station, island of Guam: For maintenance and care of lepers,Care, etc., Guam and Culion, P. I. 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 laboratory Research Labora tory. For laboratory and research work and other necessary work of theWork of, for naval service. 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 and technical civilian assistants as may become necessary, and subscriptions to technical periodicals, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, $310,000: *Provided*, That $50.000 of*Provisos*.Temporary employment of scientists, etc. this appropriation 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 appropriationGroup IV
(b)employees. for employees assigned to group IV
(b)and thoseGroup IV
(b)employees. 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 $125,000, in addition to the amount authorized by the preceding proviso. operation and conservation of naval petroleum reserves Naval petroleum reserves.Conservation and operation.[41 Stat. 813](/us/stat/41/813).[34 U. S. C. § 524](/us/usc/t34/s524). To enable the Secretary of the Navy to carry out the provisions 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, $62,000, of which amount not to exceed $20,000 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*, That out of any sums appropriated*Provisos*.Protective work on Reserve No. 1. for 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[36 Stat. 847](/us/stat/36/847).[43 U. S. C. §§ 141–143](/us/usc/t43/s141–143). June 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)Group IV
(b)employees. 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 ofAgreement with adjoining landowners not to drill offset wells. the sum made available for the protection of this property shall be expended if a satisfactory agreement can be made with adjoining landowners not to drill offset wells for the purpose of producing oil. 98 naval prison farms and prison personnel Prison farms and prison personnel. Operation, etc.For the operation, maintenance, and improvement of naval prison farms and for the welfare, recreation, and education of prison personnel, to be expended under such regulations as the Secretary of *Proviso*.Limitation on expenditures.[48 Stat. 1227](/us/stat/48/1227).[31 U. S. C. § 725c](/us/usc/t31/s725c).the Navy may prescribe, $12,000: *Provided*, That expenditures hereunder shall not exceed the aggregate receipts covered into the Treasury in accordance with section 4 of the Permanent Appropriation Repeal Act, 1934. BUREAU OF NAVIGATION Bureau of Navigation. training, education, and welfare, navy Training, education, etc. Naval War College, maintenance, etc.Naval War College: For maintenance and operation, including repairs, improvements, and care of grounds; services of a professor of international law, $2,000; services of lecturers, $2,000; and other civilian services; library expenses, including the purchase, binding, and repair of books and periodicals and subscriptions to newspapers and periodicals; and including contingencies of the president of the Naval War College, to be expended in his discretion, not exceeding $1,000; and for other necessary expenses, $123,200; Naval training stations, maintenance, etc.Naval training stations: For maintenance, operation, and other necessary expenses, including repairs, improvements, and care of grounds of the naval training stations which follow: San Diego, California, $160,359; Newport, Rhode Island, $148,500; Great Lakes, Illinois, $256,500; Norfolk, Virginia, $260,000; Fleet training, gunnery, etc., prizes.Fleet training: For trophies and badges for excellence in gunnery, target practice, communication, 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, $57,000; Instruction expenses.Instruction: For postgraduate instruction of officers in other than civil government and literature, including such amounts as may be Retirement annuities.[49 Stat. 1092](/us/stat/49/1092).[34 U. S. C., Supp. II, §§ 1073–1073e](/us/usc/t34/s1073–1073e).necessary to carry out the provisions of the Act approved January 16, 1936 (Public Act Numbered 417, Seventy-fourth Congress), and for special instruction, education, and individual training of officers and enlisted men at home and abroad, including maintenance of students abroad, except aviation training and submarine training *Proviso*.Restriction on special courses of instruction.otherwise appropriated for, $197,310: *Provided*, That no part of this or any other appropriation contained in this Act shall be available for or on account of any expense incident to giving special educational courses or postgraduate instruction to officers with view to qualifying them or better qualifying them for the performance of duties required to be performed by or in pursuance of law by officers of the Supply Corps, Construction Corps, or Corps of Civil Engineers,Exception. except present students and except such officers who are commissioned in such corps or who have not been commissioned in the line of the Navy more than three years and four months prior to the commencement of such educational courses or postgraduate instruction; Libraries.Libraries: For libraries, professional books, textbooks, religious books, periodicals, and newspaper subscriptions for ships and shore stations not otherwise appropriated for, $60,000;99 Welfare and recreation: For welfare and recreation of the Navy,Welfare and recreation. including periodicals and newspaper subscriptions, and not exceeding $4,000 for care and operation of schools at naval stations at Guantanamo Bay, Guam, and Tutuila, for the children of Naval and Marine Corps commissioned, enlisted, and civilian personnel, to be expended in the discretion or the Secretary of the Navy, under such regulations as he may prescribe, $280,000; Naval Reserve Officers’ Training Corps: For all expenses incidentNaval Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, operation. to the conduct of the Naval Reserve Officers’ Training Corps under such regulations as the President has prescribed or hereafter may prescribe under the provisions of section 22 of the Act approved[43 Stat. 1276](/us/stat/43/1276).[34 U. S. C. § 821](/us/usc/t34/s821). March 4, 1925 (43 Stat., p. 1276; U. S. C., title 34, sec. 821), $84,400: *Provided*, That uniforms and other equipment or material issued*Proviso*.Uniforms, equipment, etc. to the Naval Reserve Officers’ Training Corps in accordance with law may be furnished from surplus or reserve stocks of the Navy without payment under this appropriation, except for actual expenses incurred in the manufacture or issue; In all, training, education, and welfare, Navy, $1,627,269: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Group IV
(b)employees. 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, shall not exceed the following amounts, respectively: Naval War College, $77,000; Naval Training Station, San Diego, $3,050; Naval Training Station, Newport, $7,700; Naval Training Station, Great Lakes, $12,350; Naval Training Station, Norfolk, $2,100; Instruction, $19,411; Libraries, $19,115; Welfare and Recreation, $4,000. state marine schools, act of march 4, 1911 State Marine Schools. To reimburse the State of California, $25,000; the State of Massachusetts,Reimbursing designated States for expenses. $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,[36 Stat. 1353](/us/stat/36/1353).[34 U. S. C. § 1121](/us/usc/t34/s1121).Maintenance, etc., of vessels loaned. 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, $90,000, and no other vessels shall be furnished by or through the Navy Department; in all, $190,000. instruments and supplies, bureau of navigation For supplies for seamen’s quarters; and for the purchase of allInstruments and supplies. 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; hire of launches or other small boats in Asiatic waters; quarantine expenses; services and materials in repairing, correcting, adjusting, and testing compasses on shore and on board ship; nautical and astronomical instruments and repairs to same; 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; commissions, warrants, diplomas, discharges, 100good-conduct badges, and medals for men and boys; transportation of effects of deceased officers, nurses, and enlisted men of the Navy, and of officers and men of the Naval Reserve who die while on duty; not to exceed $5,000 for contingent expenses and emergencies arising under cognizance of the Bureau of Navigation, unforeseen and impossible to classify; and for the necessary civilian electricians for *Proviso*.Group IV
(b)employees.gyrocompass testing and inspection, $637,670: *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 Schedules of Wages for Civil Employees in the Field Service of the Navy Department shall not exceed $36,240. ocean and lake surveys, bureau of navigation Ocean and lake surveys.For hydrographic surveys, including the pay of the necessary hydrographic surveyors, cartographic draftsmen, and recorders, and for the purchase of nautical books, charts, and sailing directions, *Proviso*.Group IV
(b)employees.$80,000: *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 $34,000. naval reserve Naval Reserve. Organizing, recruiting, etc., of, and Naval Militia.For expenses of organizing, administering, and recruiting the Naval Reserve and Naval Militia, including the designing, purchasing, and engraving of trophies; 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, etc.Pay, mileage, etc.Naval Reserve while performing authorized training or other duty without pay; pay, mileage, and allowances of officers of the Naval Reserve and pay, allowances, subsistence and transportation with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof 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 and allowances, including travel and other allowances as authorized by law (excluding clothing and small-stores issues and uniform gratuities), of aviation cadets of the Naval Reserve when ordered to active duty, including active duty undergoing training; 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 administrativeFlight training. 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, they shall have been found by such agency as the Secretary of the Navy may designate physically and psychologically Armories, wharfage, etc.qualified to serve as pilots of naval aircraft, $9,277,109, of which amount not more than $150,000 shall be available for maintenance and rental of armories, including pay of necessary janitors, and for Group IV
(b)employees.wharfage; 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; 101not less than $3,359,469 shall be available, in addition to other appropriations,Aviation material, hangars, etc. for aviation material, equipment, fuel, and rental of hangars, and not more than $397,914 shall be available, in addition to other appropriations, for fuel and the transportation thereof, and for all other expenses in connection with the maintenance, operation, repair, and upkeep of vessels assigned for training the Naval Reserve,Aviation, Naval and Marine Corps Reserve. and of such total sum $6,568,489 shall be available exclusively for and on account of Naval and Marine Corps Reserve aviation: *Provided*, *Provisos.*Reserve officers performing active duty.That no appropriation contained in this Act shall be available to pay more than twenty officers 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 the performanceLimitation. of fifteen days’ active training duty, and other officers above such grades employed on such class of active duty (not to exceed four months in any calendar year) shall not be entitled to 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: *Provided further*, That no appropriation made in this Act shall be available for pay,Pay, allowances, etc., restrictions. allowances, or traveling or other expenses of any officer or enlisted man of the Naval or Marine Corps Reserve who may be drawing a pension, disability allowance, disability compensation, or retired pay from the Government of the United States; and “retired pay” as here used shall not include the pay of transferred members of such reserve forces. naval academy Naval Academy. Pay, Naval Academy: For pay of professors and instructors,Pay of professora, etc.Annuities. including one professor as librarian, and such amounts as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of the Act approved January[49 Stat. 1092](/us/stat/49/1092).[34 U. S. C., Supp, II, §§ 1073–1073e](/us/usc/t34/s1073–1073e).*Proviso*.Swordsmanship Instruction, etc. 16, 1936 (49 Stat., pp. 1092, 1093), $293,561, of which $1,487 shall be available immediately: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall not be available for the employment of more than nine masters and instructors in swordsmanship and physical training. For pay of other employees, $609,821, of which $2,474 shall beEmployees.H. H. Rogers collection of ship models.*Post*, p. 102.*Proviso*.Group IV
(b)employees. available exclusively on account of the collection of ship models bequeathed by the late Henry H. Rogers: *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 $251,440. Current and miscellaneous expenses, Naval Academy: For textCurrent, etc., expenses. and reference books for use of instructors; stationery, blank books and forms, models, maps, newspapers, and periodicals; apparatus and materials for instruction in physical training and athletics; expenses of lectures and entertainments, not exceeding $2,000, includingLectures, etc. pay and expenses of lecturers and visiting clergymen; chemicals, philosophical apparatus and instruments, stores, machinery, tools, fittings, apparatus, materials for instruction purposes, and purchase of and engraving of trophies and badges, $50,000; for purchase, binding,Library. and repair of books for the library (to be purchased in the open market on the written order of the superintendent), $5,500; for expenses of the Board of Visitors to the Naval Academy, $1,200;Board of Visitors. for contingencies for the superintendent of the Academy, to be expended in his discretion, not exceeding $4,000; for contingencies for the commandant of midshipmen, to be expended in his discretion, not exceeding $1,200; in all, $61,900, to be accounted for as one fund.102 Maintenance and repairs.Maintenance and repairs, Naval Academy: For necessary repairs of public buildings, wharves, and walls enclosing the grounds of the Naval Academy, accident prevention, improvements, repairs, and fixtures; for books, periodicals, maps, models, and drawings; purchase and repair or fire engines; fire apparatus and plants, Horses, vehicles, etc.machinery; purchase and maintenance of all horses and horse-drawn 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 sanie; 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; pay of inspectora and draftsmen; and music and astronomical instruments, $1,058,000, of which $2,000 shall be available exclusively on account of the collection of ship *Provisos*.Group IV
(b)employees.models bequeathed by the late Henry H. Rogers: *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 H. H. Rogers bequest, acceptance expenses.[49 Stat. 1628](/us/stat/49/1628).*Ante*, p. 101.exceed $26,100: *Provided further*, That the appropriation of $5,000 contained in the First Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1936 (49 Stat., p. 1628), for expenses in connection with the acceptance of the collection of ship models bequeathed by the late Henry H. Rogers, shall remain available for such purpose until June 30, 1938. naval home, philadelphia, pennsylvania Naval Home, Philadelphia, Pa. Personal services.*Proviso*.Group IV
(b)employees.For pay of employees, $90,120: *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 $13,800; Maintenance.Maintenance: For water rent, heating, and lighting; cemetery, burial expenses, and headstones; general care and improvements of grounds, buildings, walls, and fences; repaira to power-plant equipment, implements, tools, and furniture, and purchase of the same; music in chapel and entertainment 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 Employment of beneficiaries.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, $99,880; In all, Naval Home, $190,000. BUREAU OF ENGINEERING Bureau of Engineering. engineering Engineering, repairs, machinery, etc.Equipment, supplies, etc.For repairs, preservation, and renewal of machinery, auxiliary machinery, and boilers of naval vessels, yard craft, and snips’ boats, distilling and refrigerating apparatus; repairs, preservation, and 103renewals of electric interior and exterior signal communications and all electrical appliances of whatsoever nature on board naval vessels, except range tinders, 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; 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 grounds at theAnnapolis, Md., engineering experiment station. 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 persons so employed; in all, $22,080,800: *Provided*, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation*Proviso*.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 $1,758,500. BUREAU OF CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR Bureau of Construction and Repair. For designing naval vessels, including services, instruments, apparatus,Construction and repair of vessels. and materials necessary for experimental and research work; 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; maintenance, repairs, and alterations of vessels; care and preservation of vessels out of commission; docking of vessels; salvage and salvage services for naval floating property; construction and repair of district and yard craft; purchase and manufacture of equipage, appliances, supplies, and materials at home and abroad as required for the maintenance, repair, alteration, and operation of naval vessels and district and yard craft; carrying on work of the experimental model basin and wind tunnel; tools and appliances for all purposes in navy yards and naval stations; labor in navy yards and naval stations and elsewhere at home and abroad; accident prevention; payField force. of classified field force, including employees in material inspection and superintending constructors’ offices; incidental expenses at navy yards and naval stations and in material inspection and superintending constructors’ offices such as photographing, technical and professional books and magazines, plans, stationery, drafting instruments and other materials, $19,458,500: *Provided*, That the sum to be paid*Proviso*.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 $1,890,000. 104 BUREAU OF ORDNANCE Bureau of Ordnance. ordnance and ordnance stores, bureau of ordnance Procuring, etc., ordnance and ordnance stores.For procuring, producing, preserving, and handling ordnance 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 exceeding $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 Schools at designated stations.depots, and for care and operation of schools at ordnance stations at Indianhead, Maryland; Dahlgren, Virginia; and South Charleston, *Proviso*.Group IV
(b)employees.West Virginia, $24,429,800: *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 $1,380,000. BUREAU OF SUPPLIES AND ACCOUNTS Bureau of Supplies and Accounts. pay, subsistence, and transportation of naval personnel Pay of naval personnel.Officers.Aerial flights, increased pay restriction.Pay of naval personnel: For pay and allowances prescribed by law of officers on sea duty and other duty, and officers on waiting orders, pay—$34,762,731, including not to exceed $1,698,100 for increased pay for making aerial flights, no part of which shall be available for increased pay for making aerial flights by any officer above the rank of captain, except not more than three officers of the rank of rear admiral, nor by nonflying officers or observers at a rate in excess of $1.440 per annum, which shall be the legal maximum rate Rent and subsistence.Retired officers.as to such nonflying officers or observers; rental allowance, $7,275,000; subsistence allowance, $4,358,427; in all, $46,396,158; officers on the Hire of quarters.retired list, $9,000,000; 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 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 Enlisted men.may render them uninhabitable, $9,000; pay of enlisted men on the retired list, $7,600,000; interest on deposits by men, $3,000; pay of petty officers (not to exceed an average of eight thousand two hundred 105and forty chief petty officers, of which number those with a permanent appointment as chief petty officer shall not exceed an average of seven thousand one hundred and ninety-eight),seamen, landsmen, and apprentice seamen, including men in the engineer’s force and men detailed for duty with the Bureau of Fisheries, 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 $106,000) for menPrizes, etc. for excellence in gunnery, target practice, communication, and engineering competitions, $78,484,680, and, in addition, $10,000,000 appropriated in the Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1935, for a “floating dry dock, type B, including mooring facilities and accessories”, such sum being hereby reappropriated for the objects embraced by this clause and paragraph; outfits for all enlisted menOutfits, clothing, etc. and apprentice seamen of the Navy on first enlistment, civilian clothing not to exceed $15 per man to men given discharges for bad conduct or undesirability or inaptitude, reimbursement in kind of clothingReimbursement for certain losses. to persons in the Navy tor losses in cases of marine or aircraft disasters or in the operation of water- or air-borne craft, and theNurse Corps. authorized issue of clothing and equipment to the members of the Nurse Corps, $1,775,210; pay of enlisted men undergoing sentence of court martial, $25,000, and as many machinists as the President may from time to time deem necessary to appoint; pay and allowances of the Nurse Corps, including assistant superintendents, directors, and assistant directors—pay, $558,880; rental allowance, $24,000; subsistence allowance, $23,871; pay retired list, $243,249; in all, $850,000; rent of quarters for members of the Nurse Corps; pay andFleet Naval Re serve. allowances of transferred and assigned men of the Fleet Naval Reserve, $15,290,000; reimbursement for losses of propertyProperty losses.[40 Stat. 389](/us/stat/40/389); [44 Stat. 1368](/us/stat/44/1368).[34 U. S. C. §§ 981–983](/us/usc/t34/s981–983). as provided in the Act approved October 6, 1917 (U. S. C., title 34, secs. 981, 982 k as amended by the Act of March 3, 1927 (U. S. C., title 34, sec. 983), $10,000; payment of six months’ death gratuity, $150,000; in all, $159,593,048; and no part of such sum shall be available to pay active-duty pay and allowances to officers in excess of nine on the retired list, except retired officers temporarily ordered to active duty as members of retiring and selection boards as authorized by law: *Provided*, That, except for the public quarters occupied by the Chief*Proviso*.Enlisted men ashore as household servants. of Office of Naval Operations, the Superintendent of the Naval Academy, and the Commandant of the Marine Corps and messes temporarily set up on shore for officers attached to seagoing vessels, to aviation units based on seagoing vessels including officers’ messes at the fleet air bases, and to landing forces and expeditions, and in addition not to exceed forty in number at such places as shall be designated by the Secretary of the Navy, no appropriation contained in this Act shall be available for the pay, allowances, or other expenses of any enlisted man or civil employee performing service in the residence or quarters of an officer or officers on shore as a cook, waiter, or other work of a character performed by a household servant, but nothing herein shall be construed as preventing the voluntaryVoluntary, etc., sendees. employment in any such capacity of a retired enlisted man or a transferred member of the Fleet Naval Reserve without additional expense to the Government, nor the sale of meals to officers by generalSale of meals to officers on shore duty. messes on shore as regulated by detailed instructions from the Navy Department; Subsistence of naval personnel: For provisions and commutedSubsistence.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 106 Unavoidable absences.hospital fund; subsistence of men unavoidably detained or absent from vessels to which attached under orders (during which subsistence rations to be stopped on board ship and no credit for Detached duty.commutation therefor to be given); quarters and subsistence of men on Naval Reserve, etc.detached duty; subsistence of members of the Naval Reserve during 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, $20,219,851; Transportation.Transportation and recruiting of naval personnel: For mileage 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 the cost of a compartment or such other accommodations, as may be authorized by the Secretary of the Navy, for security when secret documents are transported by officer messenger, Attendance at meetings.and including not to exceed $2,900 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 Midshipmen, etc.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 *Proviso*.Limitation increased.midshipmen: *Provided*, That for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1937, such limitation of $2,500, likewise applying to such fiscal year, is hereby increased to $8,000, effective as of July 1, 1936; for actual traveling Enlisted men.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 home, 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 subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof; Apprehending deserters, etc.apprehension and delivery of deserters and stragglers, and for railway guides and other expenses incident to transportation; expenses of Recruiting.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 Transporting dependents.Funeral escorts.to officers on duty with traveling recruiting parties; transportation of dependents of officers and enlisted men, $1,038,400; expenses of funeral escorts of naval personnel; actual expenses of officers and midshipmen while on shore-patrol duty, including the hire of automobiles when necessary for the use of shore-patrol detachment; in all, $5,271,680; Aggregate; amount immediately available.Accounting.In all, for pay, subsistence, and transportation of naval personnel, $185,084,579, of which sum $1,000,000 shall be immediately available, and the money herein specifically appropriated for “Pay, subsistence, and transportation of naval personnel” shall be disbursed and accounted for in accordance with existing law and shall constitute one fund :*Provisos*.Additional medical detail, Veterans’ Administration patients in naval hospitals. *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 107in addition to the numbers appropriated for in this Act: *Provided further*,Restriction on admissions to Naval Academy after January 30, 1937. That no part of this appropriation shall be available for the pay of any midshipmen whose admission subsequent to January 30, 1937, would result in exceeding at any time an allowance of four midshipmen for each Senator, Representative, and Delegate in Congress; of one midshipman for Puerto Rico, a native of the island, appointed on nomination of the Governor, and of four midshipmen from Puerto Rico, appointed on nomination of the Resident Commissioner; and of four midshipmen from the District of Columbia: *Provided further*, That nothing herein shall be construed to repealAppointments at large from enlisted men not affected. or modify in any way existing laws relative to the appointment of midshipmen at large, from the enlisted personnel of the naval service, from the Naval Reserve, from honor graduates of military schools or Naval Reserve Officers’ Training Corps: *Provided further*, ThatSea service requirements of appointees from enlisted men. 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 1938 who has not served aboard a vessel of the Navy in full commission for at least nine months prior to such admission. maintenance, bureau of supputes and accounts For equipage, supplies, and services under the cognizance of theMaintenance. Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, including stationery for commanding, executive, communication, and navigating officers of ships, boards and courts on ships, and chaplains; commissions, interest, and exchange; ferriage and bridge tolls; including streetcar fares; rent of buildings and offices not in navy yards except for use of naval attachés and recruiting officers; accident prevention; services of civilian employees under the cognizance of the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts; freight, express, and parcel-post charges, includingFreight, etc. charges. transportation of funds and cost of insurance on shipments of money when necessary; for transportation on Government-owned vessels, notwithstanding the provisions of other law, of privately owned automobiles of Regular Navy and Marine Corps personnel upon change of station, and ice for cooling drinking water on shore (except at naval hospitals and shops at industrial navy yards), pertaining to the Navy Department and Naval Establishment, $9,313,180: *Provided*,*Provisos*.Supply or replacement of kitchen, etc., ware for officers’ quarters ashore forbidden. That no part of this or any other appropriation contained in this Act shall be available for or on account of the supply or replacement of table linen, dishes, glassware, silver, and kitchen utensils for use in the residences or quarters of officers on shore: *Provided further*, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation forGroup 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 $4,700,000: *Provided further*, That, withoutUse of certain receipts for current expenses; accounting. deposit to the credit of the Treasurer of the 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. clothing, naval reserve The clothing and small-stores fund shall be charged with the valueClothing and small stores fund. of all issues of clothing and small stores made to aviation cadets and enlisted men of the Naval Reserve and the uniform gratuity paid to officers and aviation cadets of the Naval Reserve.108 strategic and critical materials Strategic and critical materials.Procurement and transportation.*Provisos*.Use restricted. For the procurement and transportation of strategic and critical materials, $3,500,000, to remain available until expended: *Provided*, That materials acquired hereunder shall not be issued for current use in time of peace without the approval of the Secretary of the Navy, except that materials acquired under this title may be issued for current use when replaced by materials purchased from current Determination of.appropriations: *Provided further*, That for the purposes of this paragraph, the Secretary of the Navy shall determine what materials are strategic and critical. fuel and transportation, bureau of supplies and accounts Fuel and transportation.For coal and other fuel for submarine bases and steamers’ and 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, *Provisos*.Issue to be charged to applicable appropriation.$8,847,076: *Provided*, 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 Price for fuel on hand.purchased: *Provided further*, That the President may direct the use, wholly 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*,Restriction on use, etc., of foreign fuel oil. That no part of this appropriation shall be available, any 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. BUREAU OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. medical department Surgeons’ necessa ries.Civil establishment.For surgeons’ 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, Navy Medical Center, Naval Medical School and Naval 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; Vehicles, etc.purchase and repairs of non-passenger-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 Center, 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 Center, Naval Medical School and Naval Dispensary, Washington, naval medical supply 109depots, sick quarters at Naval Academy and marine barracks, dispensaries at navy yards and naval stations, and ships; and for minor repaire on buildings and grounds of the 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,Care, etc., of insane on Pacific coast. maintenance, 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 other necessary contingent expenses; in all, $2,292,293: *Provided*, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation*Proviso*.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 $155,000. care of the dead Care of the dead. For the care of the dead; for funeral expenses and interment orInterment or transportation expenses. transportation to their homes or to designated cemeteries of the remains of officers and enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps, of members of the Nurse Corps, reservists on active or training duty, and accepted applicants for enlistment, civilian employees of theCivilian employees dying abroad. 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 care of graves outside of the continental limits of the United States, including those in sites not owned by the United States; 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 abroad, and remains temporarily interred, $70,000: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Retired officers, etc., on active duty included. 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. BUREAU OF YARDS AND DOCKS Bureau of Yards and Docks. maintenance, bureau of yards and docks For the labor, materials, and supplies necessary, as determined byGeneral maintenance, etc. 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 purchase, maintenance, repair, and operation of passenger-carryingVehicles. vehicles for the Navy Department (not to exceed ten in number) and the Naval Establishment not otherwise provided for; not toGroup IV
(b)employees. exceed $1,525,000 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 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, $7,875,958: *Provided*, That during the fiscal year 1938*Provisos*.Limitation on vehicle purchases. the motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles to be purchased hereunder shall not exceed the following respective numbers and costs: Ten at $1,600 each, thirty-six at $550 each, and three motorbusses at $4,200 each, and motortruck chasses with station wagon 110 Maintenance, operation, repair, etc.type bodies as required: *Provided further*, That expenditures from appropriations contained 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 $90,000, exclusive of such vehicles owned and operated by the Marine Corps in connection with expeditionary duty without the continental limits of the United States, motorbusses, station wagon motortrucks, and motorcycles, and on any one vehicle, except busses and ambulances, 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 not more than $400. contingent, bureau of yards and docks Contingent.For contingent expenses and minor extensions and improvements of public works at navy yards and stations, $140,000. public works, bureau of yards and docks Public works, etc.For public works and public utilities, Bureau of Yards and Docks, $6,552,000, which, together with the unexpended balances of appropriations heretofore made under this head, shall be disbursed and accounted for in accordance with existing law and shall constitute *Provisos*.Personal services.one fund: *Provided*, That not to exceed 2½ per centum of the aggregate amount available on July 1, 1937, 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: Construction of authorized projects. *Provided further*, That the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to commence, continue, or complete the construction of, or make provision for, by contract or otherwise, projects heretofore authorized and appropriated for under this head, and, in addition, 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: Charleston, S. C.Navy Yard, Charleston, South Carolina: Repairing and improving power plant, high-pressure boilers, and electrical distribution system to water front and drydock, $75,000; repairing and modernizing electric lighting and power in shops, $26,000; repairing and extending fire-alarm system, $16,000; Washington, D. C.Navy Yard, Washington, District of Columbia: Improvement of power plant, $265,000; Mare Island, Calif.Navy Yard, Mare Island, California: Construction of graving drydock, to continue, $3.350,000; Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.Navy Yard, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii: Improvement of harbor and channel, $1,000,000; mooring facilities and accessories, $275,000; improvement of water supply, Aiea, $140,000; Norfolk, Va.Navy Yard, Norfolk, Virginia: Improvement of power plant, $45,000; Saint Thomas, Virgin Islands.Naval Station, Saint Thomas, Virgin Islands: Aviation facilities, $125,000; San Diego, Calif.Naval Station, San Diego, California: Mooring quay wall and dredging, $105,000; Alameda, Calif., air station; sito and buildings.Naval Air Station, Alameda, California: For acquisition of site, free from all encumbrances, at a cost not to exceed $1, and, thereafter, toward the development of such site, as authorized by the Act [49 Stat. 1901](/us/stat/49/1901).approved June 24, 1936 (49 Stat., pp. 1901, 1902), including buildings and accessories, bulkheads, and dredging, $1,000,000;111 Model Testing Plant: Toward the model testing plant, authorizedModel testing plant.[49 Stat. 1263](/us/stat/49/1263). by the Act approved May 6, 1936 (49 Stat., pp. 1263,1264), including buildings and facilities and purchase of land, $3,000,000: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Use restricted. That no part of such sum shall be available for the provision, by contract or otherwise, of any buildings or facilities for testing other than surface and subsurface craft; Naval Air Station, San Diego, California: Barracks for enlistedSan Diego, Calif., air station. men, $300,000; galley and mess hall for enlisted men, $300,000; services, accessories, and equipment for barracks and mess hall, $125,000; Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island: Addition to libraryNaval War College, Newport, R. I. building and accessories, $155,000. BUREAU OF AERONAUTICS Bureau 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, 1937, $750,000; for maintenance, repair, and operation of aircraft factory, 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, $18,064,000, including $250,000 for the equipment of vessels with catapults and including not to exceed $50,000 for the procurement of helium, which sum of $50,000 shallHelium.*Post*, p. 602. be transferred to and made available to the Bureau of Mines on July 1, 1937, in addition to which sum the Bureau of Mines may use for helium-plant operation in the fiscal year 1938 the unexpended balance of funds transferred to it for such operation in the fiscal year 1937, and the Bureau may lease, after competition, surplus metal cylinders acquired for use as helium containers; for continuingDeveloping aircraft types, etc. experiments and development work on all types of aircraft, including the 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, $3,500,000; for new construction and procurementNew construction, etc.Incurred obligations. of aircraft and equipment, spare parts and accessories, $27,- 186,000, of which amount not to exceed $13,000,000 shall be available for the payment of obligations incurred under the contract authorization carried in the Navy Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1937; in all, $49,500,000, and the money herein specifically appropriatedAggregate; accounting. for “Aviation” shall be disbursed and accounted for in accordance with existing law and shall constitute one fund: *Provided*,*Provisos*.Group IV
(b)employees. That the 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 $1,582,340: *Provided further*, That in additionContracts for new airplanes, etc. to the amount herein appropriated, the Secretary of the Navy may, prior to July 1, 1938, 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 $15,000,000: *Provided further*, That the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized andTransfer of sums for traveling expenses. directed, upon the request of the Secretary of the Navy, to transfer not to exceed in the aggregate $50,000 from this appropriation to the appropriations “Pay, subsistence, and transportation,Number of coast stations limited. Navy” and “Pay, Marine Corps” to cover authorized traveling expenses of offi-112cers and enlisted men in connection with flying new airplanes from contractor’s works to assigned station or ship, including travel to contractor’s works and return of personnel to stations of duty, and the amount so transferred shall be in addition to any limitations contained in the appropriations “Pay, subsistence, and transportation, Navy” and “Pay, Marine Corps”: *Provided further*, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for maintenance of more than six heavier-than-air stations on the coast of the continental Airplane factory construction forbidden.United States: *Provided further*, That no part of this appropriation shall be used for the construction of a factory for the manufactureAdjustment of damage claims. of airplanes: *Provided further*, That the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to consider, ascertain, adjust, determine, and pay out of this appropriation the amounts due on claims 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. MARINE CORPS Marine Corps. pay, marine corps Pay, 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 allowance, $4,166,211, including not to exceed $245,017 for increased pay for making aerial flights, none of which shall be available for increased pay for making aerial flights by nonflying officers at a rate in excess of $1,440 per annum, which shall be the legal maximum rate as to such nonflying officers: subsistence allowance, $532,608; rental allowance, $653,181; in all, $5,352,000; and no part of such sum shall be available to payActive duty pay, etc., to retired officers; restriction. active-duty pay and allowances to officers on the retired list; Retired officers.Enlisted men, active list.For pay of officers prescribed by law on the retired list, $1,425,000; Pay of enlisted men, active list: 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, including not to exceed $250 for the expenses of attendance upon meetings of technical, professional, scientific, and other 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 Marine Corps, 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 communication competitions, 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 Pay and allowances.honorable conditions—pay and allowances. $8,204,512; allowance for lodging and subsistence, $640,488; in all, $8,845,000; Retired enlisted men.For pay and allowances prescribed by law of enlisted men on the retired list, $841,000; Undrawn clothing.Undrawn clothing: For payment to discharged enlisted men for clothing undrawn, $320,000; Marine Corps Reserve.For pay and allowances of the Marine Corps Reserve
(a)excluding transferred and assigned men, $923,720;
(b)transferred men, $443,280; in all, $1,367,000.113 For mileage and actual and necessary expenses and per diem inMileage, etc. lieu of subsistence as authorized by law to officers traveling under orders without troops, $150,000; In all, $18,300,000, and the money herein specifically appropriatedAggregate; accounting. for pay of the Marine Corps shall 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 head quarters. as follows: Offices of the Major General Commandant and adjutant inspector, $114,180; Office of paymaster, $47,260; Office of the quartermaster, $125,020; in all, $286,460: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Number of enlisted men at headquarters.Vacancies to be filled by civilians. 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, 1938, their places may be filled by civilians, for the pay of whom, in accordance with the ClassificationPay rates.[6 U. S. C. §§ 661–374](/us/usc/t6/s661–374). Act of 1923, as amended, either or both the appropriations “Pay, Marine Corps” and “General expenses, Marine Corps” shall be available. general expenses, marine corps General expenses. For every expenditure requisite for, and incident to, the authorizedAuthorized work. work of the Marine Corps, other than as appropriated for under the headings of pay and salaries, as follows: For provisions, subsistence, board and lodging of enlisted men,Provisions, etc. 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, $2,697,153; For clothing for enlisted men, $900,000;Clothing. For fuel, neat, light, and power, including sales to officers,Fuel, etc. $470,000; For military supplies and equipment, including their purchase,Military supplies, etc.Purchase, preservation, etc.Prizes, badges, etc. repair, preservation, and handling; recreational, school, educational, library, musical, amusement, field sport and gymnasium supplies, equipment, services, and incidental expenses; purchase and marking 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, $610,000; For transportation of troops and applicants for enlistment, includingTransportation, etc. 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 for transportation for dependents of Dependents.officers and enlisted men, $300,000; For repairs and improvements to barracks, quarters, and otherRepairs, etc., to barracks, quarters, etc. public buildings at posts and stations; for the renting, leasing, and improvement of buildings in the District of Columbia, 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, $400,000; For forage and stabling of public animals and the authorized numberForage, etc. of officers’ horses, $20.000; For miscellaneous supplies, material, equipment, personal andMiscellaneous supplies, etc. other services, and for other incidental expenses for the Marine Corps not otherwise provided for; purchase, repair, and exchange 114of typewriters and calculating machines; purchase and repair of Vehicles, etc.furniture and fixtures; repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; and purchase, exchange, and repair of horse-drawn passenger-carrying and other vehicles, including parts; veterinary services and medicines for public animals and the authorized number of Horses, etc.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, newspapers, and periodicals; printing and binding; packing Funeral expenses.and crating of officers’ allowance of baggage; funeral expenses of officers and enlisted men and accepted applicants for enlistment and retired 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 maintenance of laundries; and for all emergencies and *Proviso*.Purchase of vehicles.extraordinary expenses, $2,330,600: *Provided*, That there may be expended out of this appropriation (including the exchange value of any vehicle that may be used as part payment) for the purchase of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, the gross cost of any one vehicle not to be in excess of the respective amounts as follows: Two at $1,600 each; two at $900 each; eight at $700 each; ten station wagons at $700 each; and five motorcycles at $300 each; Marine Corps Reserve.Marine Corps Reserve: For clothing, including clothing for anation cadets, subsistence, heat, light, transportation, and miscellaneous expenses, $266,000; Accounting.*Proviso*.Group IV
(b)employees.In all, $7,993,753, 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 $80,000. REPLACEMENT OF NAVAL VESSELS Replacement of naval vessels. Construction and machinery.*Post*, p. 767.Destroyers and submarines.*48 Stat. 503*.Construction and machinery: On account of hulls and outfits of vessels and machinery of vessels heretofore authorized (and appropriated for in part), and for the commencement of the following vessels authorized by the Act approved March 27, 1934 (48 Stat. 503- 505), eight destroyers and four submarines, $90,000,000, to remain *Provisos*.Group IV
(b)employees.available until expended: *Provided* That the sum to be paid out of the amount available for expenditure under the head of “Construction and machinery” for the fiscal year 1938 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 Test boilers for navy yards.not exceed $4,570,000: *Provided further*, That not to exceed $390,000 of the amount available for expenditure under the head of “Construction and machinery” for the fiscal year 1938 shall be available for the purchase and installation of test boilers for navy yards engaged in Technical services.new construction: *Provided further*, That, of the appropriations made available by this Act under the head of “Replacement of naval vessels”, 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, and the employment of personnel in the Navy Department and in the field, the purchase of plans, drafting and other supplies, and the expenses of printing and travel, in addition to those otherwise provided for, owing to the construction of vessels which have been, or may hereafter be authorized. Armor, armament, and ammunition for vessels.Armor, armament, and ammunition: Toward the armor, armament, and ammunition for vessels hereinbefore described under the head of 115“Construction and machinery”, $40,000,000, to remain available until expended: *Provided*, That the sum to be paid out of the amount available*Proviso*.Group IV
(b)employees. for expenditure under this head for the fiscal year 1938 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 $1,300,000. The appropriations made in this Act for the purchase or manufacturePurchase of letters patent, etc. 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. No part of any appropriation made for the Navy shall be expendedDepartment use limited. 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 expressly authorized: *Provided*, That there may be detailed to the Bureau of*Provisos*.Details to Bureau Of Navigation.Designated services not regarded as details. Navigation not to exceed at any one time seven enlisted men of the Navy: *Provided further*, That enlisted men detailed to the Navy Dispensary and the Radio Communication Service shall not be regarded as detailed to the Navy Department in the District of Columbia. No part of the appropriations made in this Act shall be availableNo pay to officer, etc., using time-measuring device on work of employee. 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 appropriationsCash rewards prohibited. 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 no part of the moneys herein appropriatedRepairs, etc., other than at navy yards, etc., restricted. for the Naval Establishment or herein made available therefor shall be used or expended under contracts hereafter made 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 involve an appreciable increase in cost to the Government: *Provided*, That*Proviso*.Construction, first and alternate vessels at Government yards, factories, etc., required.[45 Stat. 1165](/us/stat/45/1165); [48 Stat. 503](/us/stat/48/503).[34 U. S. C. § 495](/us/usc/t34/s495). nothing herein shall be construed as altering or repealing the provisos contained in the Acts to authorize the construction of certain naval vessels, approved February 13, 1929, and March 27, 1934, which provide that the first and succeeding alternate vessels in each category, except the fifteen-thousand-ton aircraft carrier, 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. No part of the funds herein apropriated 11So in original shall be available to payContractors to furnish estimates. a contractor upon any contract for a naval vessel entered into under authority of this Act unless, at the time of filing his bid, he shall also file the estimates upon which such bid was based.116 NAVY DEPARTMENT Navy Department. salaries Salaries.For compensation for personal services in the District of Columbia, as follows: Secretary, Assistant, and civilian personnel in offices, etc., designated.Office of the Secretary of the Navy: Secretary of the Navy, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and other personal services, $189,130. General Board, $12,560. Naval examining and retiring boards, $10,580. Compensation board, $6,840. Office of Naval Records and Library, $34,080. Office of Judge Advocate General, $120,920. Office of Chief of Naval Operations, $69,260. Board of Inspection and Survey, $19,840. Office of Director of Naval Communications, $130,000. Office of Naval Intelligence, $72,250. Bureau of Navigation, $480,040. Hydrographic Office, $408,000. American Ephemeris, etc.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, $171,560. Bureau of Engineering, $307,400. Bureau of Construction and Repair, $347,479. Bureau of Ordnance, $149,000. Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $801,440. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, $83,720. Bureau of Yards and Docks, $276,800. Bureau of Aeronautics, $358,800. In all, salaries, Navy Department, $4,049,699. Salaries limited to average rates under Classification Act.[5 U. S. C. §§ 661–674](/us/usc/t5/s661–674).Exception.In expending appropriations or portions of appropriations contained 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 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, and in grades in which only one position is allocated the salary of such position shall not exceed the average of the compensation rates for the grade, except that in unusually meritorious cases of one position in a grade advances may be made to rates higher than the average of the compensation rates of the grade but not more often than once in any *Proviso*.Restriction not applicable to clerical-mechanical service.No reduction in fixed salaries.[42 Stat. 1400](/us/stat/42/1400).Transfers without reduction.fiscal year and then only to the next higher rate: *Provided*, That 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 Payment under higher rate.different bureau, office, 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 authorized by If only one position in a grade.other law, or
(5)to reduce the compensation of any person in a grade in which only one position is allocated. 117 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, 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 for publication of the naval records of the war with the Central PowersNaval records of the World War. 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 of motor trucks or motor-delivery wagons; garage rent; street-car fares; freight, expressage, postage, typewriters, and computing machines, and other absolutely necessary expenses of the Navy Department and its various bureaus and offices, $105,000; it shall not be lawful toNaval service appropriations not to be used for Department expenses. 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 Binding For printing and binding for the Navy Department and the NavalPrinting and binding. Establishment executed at the Government Printing Office, $490,000, including not exceeding $102,000 for the Hydrographic Office and $2,800 for the Naval Reserve Officers’ Training Corps. printing historical and naval documents For continuing the printing of historical and naval documents,Historical and naval documents. including composition, clerical copying in the Navy Department, and other preparatory work, in accordance with the provisions of the appropriation made for the commencement of this work as contained[48 Stat. 414](/us/stat/48/414).Balance reappropriated.[49 Stat. 1419](/us/stat/49/1419). in the Naval Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1935, $20,000, together with the unexpended balance for this purpose for the fiscal year 1937: *Provided*, That nothing in such Act shall preclude*Proviso*.Copies to Library of Congress. the Public Printer from furnishing one hundred and fifty copies of each volume published to the Library of Congress. contingent and miscellaneous expenses, hydrographic office Hydrographie Office. For purchase and printing of nautical hooks, charts, and sailingContingent and miscellaneous expenses. directions, copper plates, steel plates, chart paper, packing boxes, chart portfolios, electrotyping copper plates, cleaning copper plates; tools, instruments, power, and material for drawing, engraving, and printing; materials for and mounting charts; reduction of charts byCharts, etc. 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; purchase of temperature and humidity control equipment for lithographic pressroom; modernization, care, and repair to printing presses, furniture, instruments, and tools; extra drawing and engraving; translating 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 118relating 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, $78,000. Branches.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 (Puerto 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, carfare 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, $11,380. For services of necessary employees at branch offices, $47,220. contingent and miscellaneous expenses, naval observatory Naval Observatory. Library.For professional and scientific books, books of reference, periodicals,Apparatus, etc. engravings, photographs, and fixtures for the library; for apparatus and instruments, and for repairs of the same; for repairs to buildings (including quarters), fixtures, and fences; for cleaning, repair, and upkeep of grounds and roads; furniture and furnishings 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, $27,000. Sec. 2. No part of any money appropriated by this Act shall be 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 of officers and employees between their domiciles and places 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 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. Approved, April 27, 1937. Relative to the classification of bills or statements of account produced by photo-static or mechanical process. 1937-04-27 141 Chapter 50 Stat. 119 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 2024-11-23 75 1 public 119 [CHAPTER 141] AN ACT Relative to the classification of bills or statements of account produced by photo-static or mechanical process. April 27, 1937[[H. R. 1521](/us/bill/75/hr/1521)][[Public, No. 55](/us/bill/75/pl/55)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That section 206 (a)Postal Service, mail matter.Postage rate, bills or statements produced by mechanical process.[43 Stat. 1067](/us/stat/43/1067).[39 U. S. C. § 235](/us/usc/t39/s235). of the Act entitled “An Act reclassifying the salaries of postmasters and employees of the Postal Service, readjusting their salaries and compensation on an equitable basis, increasing postal rates to provide for such readjustment, and for other purposes”, approved February 28, 1925, as amended (43 Stat. 1053; U. S. C., 1934 edition, title 39, sec. 235), is hereby amended by inserting before the period at the end of such section a comma and the following: “but bills or statements of account produced by any photographic or mechanical process shall not be accepted as mail matter of the third class unless presented in quantities of twenty or more identical copies. When such bills or statements are not identical or are presented in quantities of less than twenty identical copies, they shall be subject to postage at the first-class rate”. Approved, April 27, 1937. To amend an Act entitled “An Act providing for the establishment of a term of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of Florida, at Orlando, Florida”, approved June 15, 1933. 1937-04-27 142 Chapter 50 Stat. 119 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 2024-11-23 75 1 public [CHAPTER 142] AN ACT To amend an Act entitled “An Act providing for the establishment of a term of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of Florida, at Orlando, Florida”, approved June 15, 1933. April 27, 1937[[H. R. 1521](/us/bill/75/hr/1521)][
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