Public Law 77–444

AN ACT

Making additional appropriations for the Navy Department and the naval service for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1941, 1942, and 1943, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT office of the secretary Miscellaneous expenses, Navy, 1942: 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), $75,000, of which amount $65,000 shall be available for the payment of obligations incurred since January 28, 1942. bureau of naval personnel Training, education, and welfare, Navy, 1943: Naval training stations: For maintenance, operation, and other necessary expenses, including services of 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, repairs, improvements, and care of grounds of the naval training stations which follow: At Lake Pend Oreille, Idaho, $1,575,000; At Lake Seneca, New York, $825,000; Port Deposit, Maryland, $1,640,000, of which $40,000 shall be immediately available; Welfare and recreation, Navy: For an additional amount for “Welfare and recreation, Navy”, including the objects specified under this head in the Naval Appropriation Act, 1943, and the necessary hire and use of buildings and grounds, $2,600,000, of which $400,000 shall be immediately available; In all, training, education, and welfare, Navy, $6,640,000. Naval Reserve, 1942, $8,300,000. bureau of ships Defense installations on merchant vessels, $15,000,000, to remain available until expended. bureau of supplies and accounts Pay, subsistence, and transportation, Navy, 1942: Pay of naval personnel, $17,021,944; Subsistence of naval personnel, $1,848,292; Naval Reserve personnel on active duty, $94,324,504; In all, $113,194,740. The funds appropriated under this head for the fiscal years 1942 and 1943 shall be available for losses in the accounts of Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard officers certified under the Act of June 11, 1919 (31 U. S. C. 105), and for payments in settlement of claims under Public, 393, approved January 2, 1942. Maintenance, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts: Fiscal year 1941, $650,000; Fiscal year 1942, $13,000,000; Clothing and small stores fund. $32,760,000; Naval supply account fund, $200,000,000; Fuel and transportation, Navy, 1942. $10,000,000. bureau of medicine and surgery Medical Department, Navy. 1943, $21,800,000. bureau of aeronautics Aviation. Navy, 1942: The contract authorization under this head for the fiscal year 1942 is hereby increased from $650,000,000 to $800,000,000, of which total not to exceed $210,000,000 is and shall be available for plant facilities in public or private plants, and the unobligated portion of said total contract authorization as of June 30, 1942, is hereby made available until June 30, 1943. marine corps Pay, Marine Corps Pay of officers, active list, 1942, $240,000; Pay of enlisted men, active list, 1942, $1,935,000; In all, to be accounted for as one fund, $2,175,000. General Expenses, Marine Corps Clothing, 1943, $32,000,000; Military supplies and equipment, 1943, $101,000,000; In all, to be accounted for as one fund, $133,000,000. increase and replacement of naval vessels In addition to the objects specified under the heads “Construction and machinery” and “Armor, armament, and ammunition” in the Naval Appropriation Act, 1943, said appropriations shall be immediately available for the construction of 200,000 tons of combatant ships, as authorized by Public, 551, approved May 13, 1942. In addition to the objects specified under the heads “Construction and machinery” and “Armor, armament, and ammunition” in the Naval Appropriation Act, 1943, such appropriations shall be immediately available for the acquisition, conversion, or construction of not to exceed 1,000,000 additional tons of auxiliary vessels, subject to authorization thereof by other law. coast guard (navy) For additional amounts for appropriations for the Coast Guard, fiscal year 1942, including the objects specified under the respective heads in the Treasury and Post Office Departments Appropriation Act, 1942, as follows: Pay and allowances, Coast Guard (Navy), $1,190,000: Provided, That existing limitations with respect to the detail of personnel to officers’ quarters and messes ashore shall not apply to the Coast Guard Academy, the Coast Guard Yard, the New London Base, Coast Guard and merchant marine officers’ training stations, and in addition, not to exceed ninety-five in number at such stations as shall be designated by the Commandant of the Coast Guard with the approval of the Secretary of the Navy; General expenses, Coast Guard (Navy), $4,110,000: Provided, That existing limitations with respect to the furnishing of equipment for officers' messes ashore shall not apply to the Coast Guard Academy, the Coast Guard Yard, Coast Guard bases, and Coast Guard and merchant marine officers’ training stations; Construction of vessels and shore facilities, Coast Guard (Navy), $45,180,000. Maritime training fund, 1943: For all expenses necessary for the training of personnel for the merchant marine, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, printing and binding, and the purchase, exchange, maintenance, and repair of motor-propel led passenger-carrying vehicles of the station-wagon, carry-all, and bus types, $48,000,000. The Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to prescribe per diem rates of allowance for officers of the Coast Guard as authorized for officers of the Navy and Marine Corps. naval emergency fund The appropriation under this heading contained in Public Law 528, approved April 28, 1942, shall be available for the payments authorized in Public Law 490, approved March 7, 1942, on account of civil employees of the naval establishment missing, missing in action, interned in a neutral country, or captured by an enemy. general provisions Not to exceed the indicated amounts of the appropriations contained in the Naval Appropriation Act, 1942, are hereby continued available until June 30, 1943, as follows: Maintenance, Bureau of Ships, $350,000,000; Ordnance and ordnance stores, $534,700,000; Aviation, Navy, $1,068,000,000; General expenses, Coast Guard, $2,920,500; Maritime training fund, Coast Guard (for the purchase of training ships for merchant marine personnel), $5,000,000. The Secretary of the Navy is authorized to employ two additional employees at salaries per annum in excess of $5,000, but not in excess of the appropriate rates established in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, as amended. Naval appropriations for the fiscal year 1943 shall be available for the purchase of outfits for messes temporarily set up on shore in bachelor officers’ quarters. Appropriations in this Act for the fiscal years 1942 and 1943 shall constitute and may be cited as “Title VIII, Naval Appropriation Act, 1942”, and ’ “Title II, Naval Appropriation Act, 1943”, respectively.

Approved, June 23, 1942.