Permanent type of construction, restric tion. Provisos. under the authority of this provision shall not exceed 6 per centum of the estimated cost of the contract, exclusive of the fee, as determined by the Secretary of the Navy. No part of the appropriations in this Act under the Navy Department shall be expended for a permanent type of construction at any shore establishment of any character acquired subsequently to the calendar year 1938, unless such establishment shall be designated by the Secretary of the Navy as a permanent establishment, and, in that event, a permanent type of construction shall be used only to meet such permanent requirements as the Secretary of the Navy may approve: Provided, That nothing herein shall prevent construction of a type sufficiently substantial for the use intended nor apply to construction projects now under contract or in progress: Maximum allow Provided further, That no part of such appropriation may be obligated for the construction of quarters, including heating and plumbing apparatus, wiring and fixtures, for greater amounts per unit than follow: Permanent construction: For commissioned officer, $10,000; for commissioned warrant or warrant officer, $7,500; for enlisted man, $6,000. Temporary construction: For commissioned officer, $7,500; for commissioned warrant or warrant officer, $5,000; for enlisted man, $3,500. ance, designated units. Ante, p. 168. Contracts. Ante, p. 262; post, pp. 680, 814. Ante, p. 42. Ante, p. 238. Ante, p. 171. Ante, p. 197. Conversion of merchant vessels for use as transports. : BUREAU OF AERONAUTICS For an additional amount for aviation, Navy, fiscal year 1942, including the objects and subject to the conditions specified under this head in the Navy Appropriation Act, 1942, $482,046,600; and in addition, the Secretary of the Navy may enter into contracts prior to July 1, 1942, for plant facilities to an amount not in excess of $10,000,000. NAVAL EMERGENCY FUND For the naval emergency fund, fiscal year 1942, including the objects and subject to the conditions specified under this head in title VI, Naval Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1941, $5,000,000. MARINE CORPS Expenses, Marine Band, diamond anniversary convention of the Grand Army of the Republic, Columbus, Ohio: For expenses of the United States Marine Band in attending the diamond anniversary convention of the Grand Army of the Republic at Columbus, Ohio, on September 14 to 19, inclusive, 1941, as authorized by the Act approved June 3, 1941, fiscal year 1942, $5,500, to be paid from the appropriation "General Expenses, Marine Corps", which is hereby made available for that purpose. INCREASE AND REPLACEMENT OF NAVAL VESSELS Construction and machinery: On account of objects heretofore authorized (and appropriated for in part), for the acquisition, conversion, or construction of five hundred and fifty thousand tons of auxiliary vessels authorized by the Act approved May 24, 1941 (Public Law 72, Seventy-seventh Congress), and for the acquisition and the conversion of merchant vessels for use by the War Department as transports to replace vessels transferred by the War Department to the Navy Department, $100,000,000, to be available for the foregoing purposes (including obligations heretofore incurred) and for obligations heretofore incurred under the head "Replacement of Naval Vessels, Construction and Machinery", and to remain available until expended. The last clause under the heading "Increase and Replacement of Naval Vessels", contained in the Naval Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1942 (Public Law 48, Seventy-seventh Congress), approved May 6, 1941, shall not apply to obligations under the appropriation "Armor, Armament and Ammunition" for alterations for improving the defense installations of vessels. NAVY DEPARTMENT (Salaries in the District of Columbia) The appropriations contained in the Naval Appropriation Act, 1942, shall be available for the employment of two additional employees (one special attorney in the Office of the Under Secretary of the Navy and one a special assistant in the Office of Budget and Reports) at a salary per annum in excess of $5,000 but not in excess of the appropriate rate established in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, as amended. The last proviso under the heading "Miscellaneous expenses" in the Naval Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1942 is amended to read as follows: "That no part of this or any other appropriation for the Navy Department or the Naval Establishment for the fiscal years 1941 and 1942, or the funds allotted to the Navy Department, shall be available for the employment of a greater number than ten thousand and five hundred civilian officers and employees in the Navy Department proper, at Washington, except in pursuance of specific appropriations as to numbers hereafter provided." The appropriations herein under the caption "Navy Departmentfiscal year 1942" may be cited as title II, Naval Appropriation Act, 1942. POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT (OUT OF THE POSTAL REVENUE) OFFICE OF THE POSTMASTER GENERAL Office of the Solicitor for the Post Office Department: For an additional amount for salaries, office of the Solicitor for the Post Office Department, fiscal year 1942, $15,000. Printing and binding: For an additional amount for printing and binding for the Post Office Department, and so forth, fiscal year 1941, including the same objects specified under this head in the Post Office Department Appropriation Act, 1941, $60,000. OFFICE OF THE FIRST ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GENERAL Compensation to postmasters: For an additional amount for compensation to postmasters, and so forth, fiscal year 1941, including the same objects and conditions specified under this head in the Post Office Department Appropriation Act, 1941, $300,000. Clerks, first- and second-class post offices: For an additional amount for compensation to clerks and employees at first- and second-class post offices, and so forth, fiscal year 1941, including the same objects specified under this head in the Post Office Department Appropriation Act, 1941, $9,300,000. Carfare and bicycle allowance: For an additional amount for carfare and bicycle allowance, including special-delivery carfare, fiscal year 1941, $60,000. City-delivery carriers: For an additional amount for pay of letter carriers, City Delivery Service, fiscal year 1941, $7,000,000. Improving defense installations. Ante, p. 172. Ante, p. 173. Employment of two additional employees. 42 Stat. 1488. 5 U. S. C. §§ 661-674. Post, p. 613. Ante, p. 152; post, p. 753. Maximum number of employees, D. C. Citation of caption. Ante, p. 227. 54 Stat. 71. 54 Stat. 72. 54 Stat. 73. Special-delivery fees: For an additional amount for fees to specialdelivery messengers, fiscal year 1941, $825,000. OFFICE OF THE SECOND ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GENERAL Star-route service: For an additional amount for inland transportation by star routes (excepting service in Alaska), including temporary service to newly established offices, fiscal year 1941, $25,000. Powerboat service: For an additional amount for inland transportation by steamboat or other powerboat routes, including ship, steamboat, and way letters, fiscal year 1941, $70,000. Railroad transportation and mail-messenger service: For an additional amount for inland transportation by railroad routes, and so forth, fiscal year 1941, including the objects and conditions specified in the Post Office Department Appropriation Act, 1941, $7,100,000. Railway Mail Service, salaries: For an additional amount for Railway Mail Service, salaries, and so forth, fiscal year 1941, including the same objects specified under this head in the Post Office Department Appropriation Act, 1941, $1,400,000. Railway postal clerks, travel allowance: For an additional amount for travel allowance to railway postal clerks and substitute railway postal clerks, fiscal year 1941, $18,000. Balances due foreign countries: For an additional amount for balances due foreign countries, fiscal year 1941 and prior years, $425,000. Domestic Air Mail Service: For an additional amount for the inland transportation of mail by aircraft, and so forth, including the same objects and conditions specified under this head in the Post Office Department Appropriation Acts for the fiscal years that follow: For 1940, $36,103; For 1942, $445,957. Foreign air-mail transportation: For an additional amount for transportation of foreign mails by aircraft, as authorized by law, fiscal year 1942, $864,191. OFFICE OF THE THIRD ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GENERAL Manufacture and distribution of stamps and stamped paper: For an additional amount for manufacture and distribution of stamps and stamped paper, fiscal year 1941, including the same objects and conditions specified under this head in the Post Office Department Appropriation Act, 1941, $700,000. OFFICE OF THE FOURTH ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GENERAL Operating supplies, public buildings: For an additional amount for operating supplies, public buildings, fiscal year 1941, including the same objects and conditions specified under this head in the Post Office Department Appropriation Act, 1941, $75,000. Furniture, carpets, and safes, public buildings: For an additional amount for furniture, carpets, and safes, public buildings, fiscal year 1941, including the same objects and conditions specified under this head in the Post Office Department Appropriation Act, 1941, $25,000. DEPARTMENT OF STATE FOREIGN INTERCOURSE Cost of living allowances, Foreign Service: For additional amounts for the appropriations "Cost of living allowances, Foreign Service", Department of State, for the following fiscal years: For 1941, $160,000; For 1942, $120,000. Miscellaneous salaries and allowances, Foreign Service: For an additional amount for "Miscellaneous salaries and allowances, Foreign Service", fiscal year 1942, including the objects specified under this head in the Department of State Appropriation Act, 1942, $9,000. Contingent expenses, Foreign Service: For an additional amount for "Contingent expenses, Foreign Service", fiscal year 1942, including the objects specified under this head in the Department of State Appropriation Act, 1942, $91,500: Provided, That the limitation of $40,000 on the amount which may be expended during the fiscal year 1942 for reimbursement of appropriations for the Navy Department for the purposes specified in the last proviso contained under this head in the Department of State Appropriation Act for 1942 is increased to $80,000. CONTRIBUTIONS, QUOTAS, AND SO FORTH Inter-American Coffee Board: For an additional amount for United States contributions to international commissions, congresses, and bureaus, fiscal year 1942, to meet the contribution of the United States to the Inter-American Coffee Board under the Inter-American Coffee Agreement, signed at Washington, District of Columbia, November 28, 1940, $6,000, to remain available until September 30, 1941. Second Inter-American Travel Congress: For the expenses of participation by the Government of the United States in the Second Inter-American Travel Congress, to be held at Mexico City, Mexico, in 1941, including personal services in the District of Columbia or elsewhere; travel expenses; communication services; stenographic reporting, translating, and other services by contract if deemed necessary, without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (41 U. S. C. 5); local transportation; equipment; transportation of things; rent; printing and binding; entertainment; official cards; purchase of newspapers, periodicals, books, and documents; stationery; and such other expenses as may be authorized by the Secretary of State, including the reimbursement of other appropriations from which payments may have been made for any of the purposes herein specified, fiscal year 1942, $3,500. Ante, p. 269. Ante, p. 269. Ante, p. 270. Ante, p. 271. Ante, p. 133; post, p. 754. 54 Stat. 262. Alaskan International Highway Commission: For expenses of the Alaskan International Highway Commission, created by Act of May 31, 1938 (52 Stat. 590), and extended by Public Act 585, approved June 11, 1940, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, without regard to civil-service and classification laws; prec. § 321. stenographic, translating, and other services, by contract if deemed necessary, without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (41 U. S. C. 5); communication service; rent; travel expenses; local transportation; transportation of things; purchase of necessary books, documents, newspapers, periodicals, and maps; stationery; equipment; official cards; entertainment; printing and binding; reconnaissance survey; and such other expenses as the President shall deem proper in the fulfillment of the duty of the Commission, including the reimbursement of other appropriations from which payments may have been made for any of the purposes herein specified, and also including the United States share of necessary joint expenses of the two Governments, fiscal year 1942, $4,000: Provided, That the unexpended balance of the appropriation "Alaskan International Highway Commission" made in the First Supplemental Civil Functions Appropriation Act, 1941, approved October 9, 1940, is continued available for the purposes herein specified until June 30, 1942, including obligations chargeable against the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1941. 278941°-42—PT. I-36 Proviso. 54 Stat. 1044. 53 Stat. 573. 54 Stat. 651. Fourth Pan-American Highway Congress: For the expenses of participation by the Government of the United States in the Fourth Pan-American Highway Congress, to be held at Mexico City, Mexico, in 1941, including personal services in the District of Columbia or elsewhere; travel expenses; communication services; stenographic reporting, translating, and other services by contract if deemed necessary, without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (41 U. S. C. 5); local transportation; equipment; transportation of things; rent; printing and binding; entertainment; official cards; purchase of newspapers, periodicals, books and documents; stationery; and such other expenses as may be authorized by the Secretary of State, including the reimbursement of other appropriations from which payments may have been made for any of the purposes herein specified, fiscal year 1942, $6,500. Agrarian Claims Commission, United States and Mexico: For expenses of participation by the United States in the settlement of claims of citizens of the United States against the Government of Mexico on account of expropriations of agrarian properties since August 30, 1927, as authorized by and in accordance with the Act of April 10, 1939, fiscal year 1942, $15,000, together with the unexpended balances of the appropriations made available for this purpose in the Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1940, including obligations chargeable against the appropriations for this purpose for the fiscal year 1941. International Committee on Political Refugees: The unexpended balance of the appropriation "International Committee on Political Refugees" contained in the Urgent Deficiency and Supplemental 52 Stat. 1147; 53 Appropriation Act, fiscal years 1939 and 1940, and continued avail Stat. 988. 54 Stat. 651. 54 Stat. 651. 53 Stat. 896. Ante, p. 72. 54 Stat. 652. 49 Stat. 1099. 38 U. S. C. §§ 686688b. able to June 30, 1941, by the Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1940, is continued available for the same purposes until June 30, 1942, including obligations chargeable against the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1941. Meeting of Treasury Representatives, Quito, Ecuador: The unexpended balance of the appropriation "Meeting of Treasury Representatives, Quito, Ecuador", contained in the Second Deficiency Appropriation Act for 1940, approved June 27, 1940, is continued available for the same purposes until June 30, 1942, including obligations chargeable against the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1941. Eighth American Scientific Congress: The unexpended balance of the appropriation "Eighth American Scientific Congress", contained in the Department of State Appropriation Act for 1940, is continued available for the same purposes until June 30, 1942, including obligations chargeable against the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year 1941. TREASURY DEPARTMENT OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY Foreign-owned property control: For an additional amount for "Salaries and expenses, Foreign-owned property control," fiscal year 1941, including the same objects specified under this head in the Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1940, $38,000. Administrative expenses, Adjusted Compensation Payment Act: For transfer to the Post Office Department to cover registry fees and postage on mailings of bonds, issued under the provisions of the Adjusted Compensation Payment Act of 1936, fiscal year 1941, $10,500. |