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SEC. 6. (a) There is hereby authorized to be appropriated from time to time, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such amounts as may be necessary to carry out the provisions and accomplish the purposes of this Act.

(b) All money and all property which is converted into money received under section 3 from any government shall, with the approval of the Director of the Budget, revert to the respective appropriation or appropriations out of which funds were expended with respect to the defense article or defense information for which such consideration is received, and shall be available for expenditure for the purpose for which such expended funds were appropriated by law, during the fiscal year in which such funds are received and the ensuing fiscal year; but in no event shall any funds so received be available for expenditure after June 30, 1946.

SEC. 7. The Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Navy, and the head of the department or agency shall in all contracts or agreements for the disposition of any defense article or defense information fully protect the rights of all citizens of the United States who have patent rights in and to any such article or information which is hereby authorized to be disposed of and the payments collected for royalties on such patents shall be paid to the owners and holders of such patents. SEC. 8. The Secretaries of War and of the Navy are hereby authorized to purchase or otherwise acquire arms, ammunition, and implements of war produced within the jurisdiction of any country to which section 3 is applicable, whenever the President deems such purchase or acquisition to be necessary in the interests of the defense of the United States.

SEC. 9. The President may, from time to time, promulgate such rules and regulations as may be necessary and proper to carry out any of the provisions of this Act; and he may exercise any power or authority conferred on him by this Act through such department, agency, or officer as he shall direct.

SEC. 10. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to change existing law relating to the use of the land and naval forces of the United States, except insofar as such use relates to the manufacture, procurement, and repair of defense articles, the communication of information and other noncombatant purposes enumerated in this Act.

SEC. 11. If any provision of this Act or the application of such provision to any circumstance shall be held invalid, the validity of the remainder of the Act and the applicability of such provision to other circumstances shall not be affected thereby. Approved, March 11, 1941.

[CHAPTER 12]

AN ACT

Appropriations au

thorized.
Post, pp. 53, 745.

Receipts.

Availability.

Protection of patent rights.

Purchases abroad.

Rules and regula tions.

Use of U. S. land and naval forces.

Separability clause.

March 14, 1941 [H. R. 2110] [Public Law 12]

Florida.
Conveyance of cer-

ized.

To authorize the Secretary of the Navy to convey certain lands situated in Duval and Brevard Counties, Florida, to the State of Florida for highway purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, authorized to convey to the tain lands to, authorState of Florida for highway purposes, upon such terms and conditions as he may prescribe, all right, title, and interest of the United States of America in and to two strips of land, one within. the boundaries of the naval air station, Jacksonville, Duval County, Florida, being a strip two hundred feet wide, and the other within the boundaries of the naval air station, Banana River, Brevard County, Florida, being a strip of land one hundred feet wide.

278941° 42-PT. I- -3

March 17, 1941 [H. R. 3617]

[Public Law 13]

tal National Defense

Appropriation Act,

SEO. 2. That if any part of the areas which may be conveyed to the State of Florida pursuant to the provisions of this Act shall cease to be maintained for highway uses, such part shall revert to the United States.

SEC. 3. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved.

Approved, March 14, 1941.

[CHAPTER 16]

AN ACT

Making deficiency and supplemental appropriations for the Army and Navy for the national defense for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1941, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Fourth Supplemen- United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Army and Navy for the national defense for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1941, and for other purposes, namely:

1941.

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54 Stat. 360; post, p. 125.

Construction, etc.

54 Stat. 360, 967.

TITLE I-WAR DEPARTMENT-MILITARY ACTIVITIES

QUARTERMASTER CORPS

MILITARY POSTS

Construction of buildings, utilities, and appurtenances at military posts: For an additional amount for construction of buildings, utilities, and appurtenances at military posts, including the purposes and objects and subject to the limitations and conditions specified under this appropriation in the Military Appropriation Act, 1941, as amended by the Third Supplemental National Defense Appropriation Acquisition of land. Act, 1941; and including the acquisition of land, rights pertaining thereto, leasehold and other interests therein, not to exceed $15,202,466, and temporary use thereof, without regard to the provisions of sections 355, 1136, and 3648, Revised Statutes, as amended (10 U. S. C. 1339; 40 U. S. C. 255; 31 U. S. C. 529); and the purchase, operation, maintenance, and repair of passenger-carrying vehicles; fiscal year 1941, $675,283,000, to remain available until expended, of which not to exceed $8,455,000 shall be for payments under contracts authorized under this head in the Military Appropriation Acts for the fiscal years 1940 and 1941.

Payments under

contracts.

53 Stat. 602; 54 Stat.

360.

54 Stat. 362; post, p. 126.

54 Stat. 363.

Citation of title.

Title VI, Naval Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1941.

54 Stat. 265; post,

pp. 128, 556.

BARRACKS AND QUARTERS

Barracks and quarters: For an additional amount for barracks and quarters, fiscal year 1941, $18,238,000, to remain available until June 30, 1942.

CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR OF HOSPITALS

Construction and repair of hospitals: For an additional amount for construction and repair of hospitals, fiscal year 1941, $1,597,000, to remain available until June 30, 1942.

This title may be cited as "Title V, Military Appropriation Act, 1941"

TITLE II-NAVY DEPARTMENT

For additional amounts for appropriations for the Navy Department and the naval service, fiscal year 1941, to be supplemental and in addition to the appropriations in the Naval Appropriation Act

for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1941, including the objects and subject to the limitations and conditions specified therein, excepting the limitations suspended by the Act approved June 28, 1940 (Public, Numbered 671, Seventy-sixth Congress), and except as otherwise provided herein, as follows:

NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY

Miscellaneous expenses, Navy, including the expenses of naval observers and not to exceed $50,000 for the temporary employment of persons or organizations by contract or otherwise without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes, or the classification laws, or section 5 of the Act of April 6, 1914 (38 Stat. 335), $461,750.

BUREAU OF NAVIGATION

Training, education, and welfare, Navy:

Naval Training Station, San Diego, California, $167,000;
Naval Training Station, Norfolk, Virginia, $174,512;

Fleet training, $71,000;

Instruction, $29,603;

Libraries, $28,952;

Welfare and recreation, $250,000;

In all, training, education, and welfare, Navy, $721,067.
Pay, Naval Academy: For pay of other employees, $10,090.
Maintenance and repairs, Naval Academy, $56,500.

BUREAU OF SHIPS

Maintenance, Bureau of Ships, including charter and hire of vessels for auxiliary purposes when considered necessary by the Secretary of the Navy, $49,325,000, and, in addition, the Secretary of the Navy may enter into contracts for the objects under this appropriation prior to July 1, 1941, to an amount not in excess of $49,355,000.

BUREAU OF ORDNANCE

Ordnance and ordnance stores, Navy, $64,000,000.

BUREAU OF SUPPLIES AND ACCOUNTS

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Provisos.
Detail to officers'

Pay, subsistence, and transportation, Navy, including subsistence of members of the Fleet Reserve and retired enlisted men in naval hospitals, furlough rations, one additional officer above the rank of captain in a flight pay status, and transportation of dependents of retired and Reserve officers and of retired and Reserve enlisted men (of grades entitled to transportation for dependents in the Regular Navy) when ordered to active duty (other than training) and upon release therefrom, $46,833,012: Provided, That the number of enlisted men who may be detailed to duty in officers' quarters on shore is quarters. hereby increased to one hundred: Provided further, That the limitation on the amount which may be paid to officers of the Regular Navy for making aerial flights is hereby increased to $2,075,845: And provided further, That service of enlisted men of the Navy with fleet aircraft only shall be considered the equivalent of service aboard a vessel of the Navy in full commission for appointment as midshipmen. Maintenance, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, including transfer of household goods and effects of civilian personnel as provided by the Act of October 10, 1940 (Public, Numbered 839), and regulations

Aerial flights.

Service with fleet aircraft, equivalence.

54 Stat. 277.

54 Stat. 1105.
5 U. S. C. § 73c-1.

54 Stat. 273.

54 Stat. 278; post, pp. 128, 556.

54 Stat. 279; post, pp. 49, 128.

54 Stat. 280; post, p. 128.

Boston, Mass.

Charleston, 8. C.

Mare Island, Calif.

New York, N. Y.

Norfolk, Va.

Pearl Harbor, T. H.

Philadelphia, Pa.

Puget Sound, Wash.

Washington, D. C.

Guam.

Guantanamo, Cuba.

Key West, Fla.

promulgated thereunder, and of naval personnel as provided by law and regulations, $2,600,000.

Clothing and small stores fund: For purchase of clothing and small stores for issue to the naval service, to be added to the "Clothing and small stores fund", $7,000,000.

BUREAU OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY

Medical Department, Navy, $826,543.
Care of the dead, Navy, $11,731.

BUREAU OF YARDS AND DOCKS

Maintenance, Bureau of Yards and Docks, including the purchase of forty motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles at a cost not to exceed $600 each, and ten motorbusses at a cost not to exceed $4,500 each, $2,586,000.

Public Works, Bureau of Yards and Docks: Toward the following public works and public utilities projects, at a cost not to exceed the amount stated for each project, respectively, $169,415,000, which amount, together with unexpended balances of appropriations herein and heretofore made under this head, shall be disbursed and accounted for in accordance with existing law and shall constitute one fund:

Navy Yard, Boston, Massachusetts: Additional ship repair facilities, including buildings and accessories, South Boston, $3,090,000. Navy Yard, Boston, Massachusetts: Housing and messing facilities for crews of ships undergoing overhaul, repair and fitting out, and acquisition of land, $285,000.

Navy Yard, Charleston, South Carolina: Housing and messing facilities for crews of ships undergoing overhaul, repair and fitting out, and quarters for officers, $522,500.

Navy Yard, Mare Island, California: Housing and messing facilities for crews of ships undergoing overhaul, repair and fitting out, and improvement of water supply, $1,010,000.

Navy Yard, New York, New York: Housing and messing facilities for crews of ships undergoing overhaul, repair and fitting out, and acquisition of land, $464,500.

Navy Yard, Norfolk, Virginia: Housing and messing facilities for crews of ships undergoing overhaul, repair and fitting out, and quarters for officers, $587,500.

Navy Yard, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii: Housing and messing facilities for crews of ships undergoing overhaul, repair and fitting out, improvement of water supply, bombproofed break-down power supply, extension of storage facilities, and acquisition of land, $6,827,000. Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Housing and messing facilities for crews of ships undergoing overhaul, repair, and fitting out, $407,500.

Navy Yard, Puget Sound, Washington: Housing and messing facilities for crews of ships undergoing overhaul, repair and fitting out, and extension of storage facilities, $625,000.

Navy Yard, Washington, District of Columbia: Additional ordnance manufacturing facilities, $960,000.

Naval station, Guam: Fleet operating facilities, additional power, recreational facilities, bombproofed shelters for communication and personnel, and acquisition of land, $4,700,000.

Naval station, Guantanamo, Cuba: Additional fleet operating facilities, bombproofed shelters for communication and personnel, and limited ship-repair facilities, $5,747,500.

Naval station, Key West, Florida: Additional submarine and surface-craft operating and repair facilities, including housing and messing facilities for ships' crews, and acquisition of land, $1,517,500.

Naval station, Tutuila, Samoa: Expansion of naval station facilities, including buildings and accessories, and the development of defense facilities, including housing, landplane and seaplane operating facilities, and acquisition of land, $8,100,000.

Naval operating base, Balboa, Canal Zone: Fleet operating and repair facilities, including buildings and accessories, Balboa and Cristobal, $2,765,000.

Submarine operating facilities, Balboa, Canal Zone: Additional submarine operating facilities, including buildings and accessories, piers, and dredging, $1,855,000.

Submarine base, Charlotte Amalie, Virgin Islands: Additional submarine operating facilities, including buildings and accessories, and acquisition of land, $1,270,000.

Submarine base, Coco Solo, Canal Zone: Additional submarine operating facilities, including buildings and accessories, $1,010,000. Submarine base, New London, Connecticut: Additional submarine operating and training facilities, including buildings and accessories, and acquisition of land, $755,000.

Submarine base, Kodiak, Alaska: Submarine operating and limited repair facilities, including piers and buildings and accessories, $4,002,000.

Submarine base, Midway Island: Submarine operating and limited repair facilities, including piers and buildings and accessories, $4,115,000.

Submarine base, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii: Storehouse and housing for submarine training devices, $125,000.

Destroyer base, San Diego, California: Submarine operating facilities, including buildings and accessories, and the development of north water front for handling landing boats, $1,405,000.

Naval air station, Sitka, Alaska: Surface craft berthing facilities, including extension of pier, dredging, and storage facilities, $592,000. Naval air station, Unalaska, Alaska: Surface craft berthing facilities, including piers and storehouse, and acquisition of land, $1,050,000.

Tenth Naval District, San Juan, Puerto Rico: Surface craft operating facilities, including buildings and accessories, berthing, and housing for personnel, and acquisition of land, $737,500.

Naval air station, Corpus Christi, Texas: Surface craft housing, messing and recreation facilities, $173,000.

Naval air station, Jacksonville, Florida: Surface craft housing, messing and recreational facilities, $173,000.

Tutuila, Samoa.

Balboa, C. Z.

Charlotte Amalie, V. I.

Coco Solo, C. Z.

New London, Conn.

Kodiak, Alaska.

Midway Island.

Pearl Harbor, T. H.

San Diego, Calif.

Sitka, Alaska.

Unalaska, Alaska.

San Juan, P. R.

Corpus Christi, Tex.

Jacksonville, Fla.

Vieques, Puerto Rican area.

Fleet operating facilities Security of fleet anchorage. Vieques, inques Puerto Rican area: Protected fleet anchorage, including breakwaters, dredging, development of limited repair facilities, buildings and accessories, and acquisition of land, $35,000,000.

Naval air station, Alameda, California: Additional aviation facilities, including buildings and accessories, and acquisition of land, $3,499,000.

Naval air station, Anacostia, District of Columbia: Additional aviation facilities, including buildings and accessories, $1,250,000. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland: Additional aviation facilities, $95,000.

Model testing basin, Carderock, Maryland: Wind tunnel building and accessories, $500,000.

Naval air station, Charleston, South Carolina: Additional aviation facilities, including buildings and accessories and equipment, $950,000. Naval air station, Coco Solo, Canal Zone: Additional aviation facilities, including buildings and accessories, $450,000.

Alameda, Calif.

Anacostia, D. C.

Annapolis, Md.

Carderock, Md.

Charleston, S. C.

Coco Solo, C. Z.

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