Public Law 79–130

AN ACT

Making appropriations for the Navy Department and the naval service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1946, 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 For traveling expenses of civilian employees, including travel of dependents of employees to and from navy yards or stations outside the continental limits of the United States; 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 (hereafter in this Act referred to as the Secretary), such attendance would be of benefit in the conduct of the work of the Navy Department; physical examinations by civilian physicians and in other than naval hospitals of civilian employees engaged in hazardous occupations; expenses of courts and boards; purchase of law and reference books; expenses of prisoners and prisons; clerical assistance; witnesses’ fees and traveling expenses; promoting accident prevention and safety in shore establishments of the Navy, to be expended in the discretion of the Secretary; newspapers and periodicals for the naval service; all advertising of the Navy Department and its bureaus (except advertising for recruits for the Bureau of Naval Personnel); costs of suits; maintenance of attachés and others abroad, including office rental and pay of employees, and not to exceed $900 for any one person for allowances for living quarters, including heat, fuel, and light, as authorized by the Act approved June 26, 1930 (5 U. S. C. 118a); contingencies for the Director of Naval Intelligence, to be expended in his discretion, not to exceed $2,000; collection and classification of information pertaining to Naval Intelligence; telephone, telegraph, and teletype rentals and tolls (including not to exceed $300 for extension telephones between the telephone switchboards at the official stations of naval officials and the living quarters of such officials), telegrams, radiograms, and cablegrams for the Navy Department and the naval service; postage, foreign and domestic and post-office box rentals; microphotographic services; 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 such jurisdiction; payment of claims for damages as provided in the Act approved July 11, 1919 (34 U. S. C. 600), and for the payment of claims of civilian employees of the Naval Establishment as provided in the Act approved October 27, 1943 (34 U. S. C. 984), which have not been or may be eligible for payment under the provisions of the Act approved March 27, 1942 (15 U. S. C. 606b–2); and other necessary and incidental expenses; in all, $40,500,000. contingent, navy For all emergencies and extraordinary expenses, exclusive of personal services in the Navy Department or any of its subordinate bureaus or offices at the seat of government, arising at home or abroad, but impossible to be anticipated or classified, to be expended on the approval and authority of the Secretary, and his determination shall be final and conclusive upon the accounting officers of the Government, and for examination of estimates for appropriations and of naval activities in the field for any branch of the naval service, $145,000. naval emergency fund For any naval object and purpose, whether or not provided for under other naval appropriations, which the Secretary may deem essential to the war effort, $4,000,000. naval research laboratory For research and other necessary work of the Naval Research Laboratory for the benefit of the naval service, operation and maintenance of a laboratory, additions to equipment, maintenance of buildings and grounds, temporary employment of such scientific and technical civilian assistants as may become necessary at rates of pay not exceeding $25 per diem for any person so employed; reference books and subscriptions to technical periodicals, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary, $4,390,000. operation and conservation of naval petroleum reserves To enable the Secretary to carry out the provisions contained in the Act approved June 4, 1920, as amended (34 U. S. C. 524), requiring him to explore, prospect, conserve, develop, use, and operate the naval petroleum reserves, and to drill and equip exploratory wells in Naval Petroleum Reserve Numbered 4, $1,185,000: Provided, That out of any sums appropriated for naval purposes by this Act, any portion thereof, not to exceed $10,000,000, shall be available to enable the Secretary to protect Naval Petroleum Reserve Numbered 1, by drilling wells and performing any work incident thereto: Provided further, That no part of the sum made available in the foregoing provision for the protection of Naval Petroleum Reserve Numbered 1 shall be expended if satisfactory agreement or agreements can be made with owners of land within or adjoining said Reserve Numbered 1 not to drill wells for the purpose of producing oil or gas. ocean and lake surveys, navy For hydrographic surveys, including pay of hydrographic surveyors, cartographic draftsmen, and recorders, and for purchase of nautical books, charts, and sailing directions, $125,000.

BUREAU OF NAVAL PERSONNEL training, education, and welfare, navy Naval War College: For maintenance, operation, and other necessary expenses of the Naval War College; services of a professor of international law, $2,000; services of lecturers, $2,000; library expenses, including purchase, binding, and repair of books and periodicals and subscriptions to newspapers and periodicals; and not exceeding $1,000 for contingencies of the president of the Naval War College to be expended in his discretion, $175,000; 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, $2,170,000; Newport, Rhode Island, $1,152,000; Great Lakes, Illinois, $5,700,000; Norfolk, Virginia, $630,000; Lake Seneca, New York, $1,000,000; Port Deposit, Maryland, $4,038,000; Fleet training: For trophies and badges for excellence in gunnery, target practice, communication, engineering exercises, and economy in fuel consumption, to be awarded under such rules as the Secretary may formulate; recording, classifying, compiling, and publishing the rules and results; establishment and maintenance of shooting galleries, target houses, targets, and ranges; hiring established ranges; entrance fees in matches for the rifle team, and special equipment therefor; $320,000; Instruction: For postgraduate instruction of officers in other than civil government and literature, including such amounts as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of the Act approved January 16, 1936 (34 U. S. C. 1073), and special instruction and education, including rental, maintenance, and operation of property for instruction purposes, and individual training of officers and enlisted personnel at home and abroad, including maintenance of students abroad, except aviation and submarine training otherwise appropriated for, $23,000,000: 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, the Corps of Civil Engineers, and officers assigned to engineering duty only, except present students and except such officers who are commissioned in such corps or have been assigned to engineering duty only 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: For libraries, including professional books, textbooks, and religious books for ships and shore stations not otherwise appropriated for, $2,877,196; Welfare and recreation: For welfare and recreation of the Navy, including periodicals and newspaper subscriptions, to be expended in the discretion of the Secretary, $15,124,000; Naval Reserve Officers’ Training Corps: For all expenses incident 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 March 4, 1925, as amended by the Act of August 6, 1937 (34 U. S. C. 821), $658,000: Provided, That uniforms and other equipment or material issued to the Naval Reserve Officers’ Training Corps in accordance with law may be furnished from surplus or reserve stocks of the Navy without payment under this appropriation, except for actual expenses incurred in the manufacture or issue; In all, training, education, and welfare, Navy, $56,844,196. miscellaneous expenses, bureau of naval personnel For all miscellaneous expenses, including supplies for seamen’s quarters; commissions, warrants, diplomas, discharges, good-conduct badges, medals, and identification tags, $90,000. naval reserve For all expenses not otherwise provided for, authorized by the “Naval Reserve Act of 1938”, as amended, and the “Naval Aviation Cadet Act of 1942” (56 Stat. 737), in connection with organizing, administering, recruiting, instructing, training, and drilling the Naval Reserve, including designing, purchasing, and engraving of medals and trophies; medical supplies and equipment; purchase, maintenance, and operation of ambulances; aviation matériel, equipment, and fuel in connection with aviation activities of the Naval and Marine Corps Reserve; maintenance and operation of floating equipment; rental, maintenance, and operation of such shore stations as may be required in connection with Naval Reserve activities; $138,000,000: Provided, That no appropriation in this Act shall be available for pay, allowances, travel, or other expenses of any officer or enlisted person 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 members of the Fleet Reserve, Fleet Marine Corps Reserve, or members on the honorary retired list of suchJReserve forces. naval academy Pay, Naval Academy: For pay of employees, professors, and instructors, including one professor as librarian, and such amounts as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of the Act approved January 16, 1936 (34 U. S. C. 1073), $1,549,000: Provided, That this appropriation shall not be available for the employment of more than fourteen masters and instructors in swordsmanship and physical training. Maintenance, Naval Academy: For all expenses necessary for maintenance and operation of the Naval Academy; expenses of lecturers and entertainment (not exceeding $3,000); expenses of the Board of Visitors to the Naval Academy; contingencies for the Superintendent of the Naval Academy (not exceeding $5,200) and for the Commandant of Midshipmen (not exceeding $1,200), to be expended in their respective discretions; reference books, newspapers, periodicals, apparatus, equipment, and necessary supplies; purchase without regard to section 3709, Revised Statutes, binding, and repairs of books for the library; $1,858,611, of which amount $2,000 shall be available exclusively for the care of a collection of ship models. naval home, philadelphia, pennsylvania For all salaries and expenses necessary for the maintenance and operation of the Naval Home and plot in cemetery, including burial expenses and headstones; music in chapel and entertainment for beneficiaries; transportation of indigent, destitute, sick, and insane beneficiaries and their attendants and necessary subsistence for both; employment and support of such beneficiaries; and maintenance, repair, and operation of one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle; $263,250. naval prison farms and prison personnel For operation, maintenance, and improvement of naval prison farms and welfare, recreation, and education of prison personnel, to be expended under such regulations as the Secretary may prescribe, $36,000: 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 SHIPS maintenance, bureau of ships For designing hulls, machinery, and equipment of naval vessels, except armament; experimental, developmental, and research work; payment on a strictly part-time or intermittent employment basis in the District of Columbia, or elsewhere, solely under the Bureau of Ships, of such scientists and technicists as may be contracted for by the Secretary, in his discretion, at a rate of pay not exceeding $25 per diem for any person so employed; maintenance, repairs, renewal, and alterations of hulls, machinery, and equipment of naval vessels, nonnaval vessels operated for naval requirements, and yard and district craft except machinery and equipment under the cognizance of other bureaus; docking of vessels; maritime salvage services and other purposes in connection therewith authorized by law; relief of vessels in distress; hire of lighters, tugs, and small craft; pay, subsistence, and incidental expenses of civilian crews temporarily employed on naval vessels; equipage, appliances, supplies, materials, and services, at home and abroad, under the cognizance of the Bureau of Ships; searchlights and fire-control equipment for antiaircraft defense at shore stations; maintenance and operation of the Naval Communication Service (including teletype), the experimental model basin, Carderock, Maryland, and the engineering experiment station, Annapolis, Maryland, including maintenance and equipment of buildings and grounds and appurtenances; purchase, installation, repair, and preservation of machine tools, plant appliances, and equipment (including furniture in industrial activities) in naval establishments or private plants; accident prevention; incidental expenses for naval vessels, navy yards and stations, and other activities under the cognizance of the Bureau of Ships, such as photographing, plans, stationery, drafting instruments and other materials; and technical books and publications for said Bureau; $2,790,000,000: Provided, 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, except for messes temporarily set up on shore for bachelor officers and officers attached to seagoing or district defense vessels, to aviation units based on seagoing vessels, to the fleet air bases, to the submarine bases, or to landing forces and expeditions.

BUREAU OF ORDNANCE ordnance and ordnance stores, navy For developing, procuring, producing, preserving, and handling ordnance supplies, material, and equipment for naval purposes; for essential equipment, facilities, machine tools, including replacements, and services at naval or private establishments to expedite the production of ordnance material; minor improvements (not to exceed $20,000 upon any building project of a permanent character), maintenance, operation, and other necessary expenses of naval ordnance shore activities; technical books and periodicals; maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled and other freight and passenger-carrying vehicles at such activities; target practice; payment on a strictly part-time or intermittent employment basis in the District of Columbia, or elsewhere, solely under the Bureau of Ordnance, of such scientists and technicists as may be contracted for by the Secretary in his discretion at a rate of pay not exceeding $25 per diem for any person so employed, and for care and operation of schools at four ordnance stations; $3,000,000,000. For an additional amount for “Ordnance and ordnance stores, Navy”, fiscal year 1945, including the objects and subject to the conditions applicable to the appropriations under this head in the Naval Appropriation Act, 1945, $180,000,000.

BUREAU OF SUPPLIES AND ACCOUNTS pay and subsistence of naval personnel For pay and allowances and subsistence prescribed by law for naval personnel, including reserves on active duty— Pay and allowances: Officers, active duty, no part of which shall be available for increased pay for making aerial flights, by more than ninety-one officers above the rank of captain nor by nonflying officers or observers at rates in excess of those prescribed by law for the Army, which shall be the legal maximum rates as to such nonflying officers or observers; midshipmen; officers, retired, inactive; enlisted personnel, active, including cash prizes for men for excellence in gunnery, target practice, communication, engineering competition and additional pay for duty as messmen; enlisted men, retired, inactive; men of the Fleet Reserve, inactive; nurses, female, active; nurses, female, retired, inactive; six months’ death gratuity, officers, nurses, and enlisted personnel; cash allowances for uniforms for officers; clothing furnished annually to enlisted personnel and issued in kind to members of the Navy Nurse Corps, or cash in lieu thereof; civilian clothing, including an overcoat when necessary, the cost of all not to exceed $30 per person to enlisted personnel given discharges for bad conduct, undesirability, unsuitability, or inaptitude; reimbursement in kind or in cash as authorized by law to persons in the naval service, for personal property lost, destroyed, or damaged; including reimbursement, under rules prescribed by the Secretary, of naval personnel who furnish from their personal stock subsistence and clothing to shipwrecked and destitute persons; purchase of medals, crosses, bars, emblems, and other insignia; miscellaneous items, including hire of quarters for officers serving with troops where sufficient quarters are not possessed by the United States to accommodate them; rent of quarters for members of the Nurse Corps; and hire of quarters for naval personnel, comparable to quarters assignable on a capital ship, as authorized by the Secretary to meet emergency conditions, including officers and men on sea duty at such times as they may be deprived of their quarters on board ship due to repairs or other conditions which may render them uninhabitable: Provided, That under this authorization no funds may be expended for the hire of quarters for occupancy by the dependents of officers or enlisted personnel; interest on deposits by enlisted personnel; losses in the accounts of Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard officers certified under the Act of July 11, 1919 (31 U. S. C. 105), and the Act of June 10, 1921 (31 U. S. C. 104), and payments in settlement of claims under the Act of January 2, 1942 (31 U. S. C. 224d); total pay and allowances, $6,061,770,000: Provided, That, except for the public quarters occupied by the Chief 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, aviation units based on seagoing vessels (including officers’ messes at naval air stations), submarine bases, overseas bases (including Alaska), mobile hospitals, landing forces and expeditions, and such bachelor officers’ quarters and messes as may be specifically designated by the Secretary and, in addition, not to exceed three hundred in number at such other places as shall be designated by the Secretary, 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 voluntary employment in any such capacity of a retired enlisted man or a transferred member of the Fleet Reserve without additional expense to the Government, nor the sale of meals to officers by general messes on shore as regulated by detailed instructions from the Navy Department; Subsistence: For provisions for messes, subsistence in messes, commuted rations, including commuted rations for enlisted personnel on leave at 65 cents per diem, and other subsistence in kind; midshipmen’s rations at 85 cents per diem; subsistence in kind in hospital messes of female nurses, hospital corpsmen, and other enlisted personnel on duty in hospitals, active duty enlisted personnel, active and inactive retired enlisted personnel and members of the Fleet Reserve when sick and in hospitals, credited, when applicable, to the appropriation “Medical Department, Navy”, at the rate of 80 cents per ration; subsistence of supernumeraries on naval vessels because of war conditions, including expenses heretofore incurred for such purpose; subsistence of Navy and Marine Corps general courts-martial prisoners undergoing imprisonment; money allowances for subsistence and quarters of enlisted personnel when not furnished quarters or subsistence in kind, and for enlisted personnel absent from messes on temporary duty not involving travel (during which time all other subsistence shall be stopped); total subsistence, $674,457,000; In all, for pay and subsistence of naval personnel, $6,736,227,000, and the money herein specifically appropriated for “Pay and subsistence, Navy”, shall be disbursed and accounted for in accordance with existing law and shall constitute one fund: Provided, That hereafter additional commissioned, warranted, appointed, enlisted, and civilian personnel of the Medical Department of the Navy, required for the care of patients of the United States Veterans Administration in naval hospitals, may be employed in addition to the numbers annually appropriated for: Provided further, That during the present emergency qualified enlisted men of the Navy, Naval Reserve, and Marine Corps may be appointed to the Naval Academy after nine months of service. transportation and recruiting naval personnel Transportation and recruiting: For mileage and actual and necessary expenses and per diem in lieu of subsistence as authorized by law to officers and nurses while traveling under orders, including expenses when on duty with traveling recruiting parties, and the cost of a compartment or such other accommodations as may be authorized by the Secretary for security when secret documents are transported by officer messenger or when valuable naval property is transported as hand baggage by personnel of the Naval Establishment, and expenses of attendance, at home and abroad, upon meetings of technical, professional, scientific, and other similar organizations when, in the judgment of the Secretary, such attendance would be of benefit in the conduct of the work of the Navy Department; for mileage at 5 cents per mile to midshipmen entering the Naval Academy while proceeding from their homes to the Naval Academy for examination and appointment, and for transportation of midshipmen, including reimbursement of traveling expenses, while traveling under orders after appointment, and transportation in kind and subsistence to discharged midshipmen; travel allowance or transportation and subsistence of enlisted personnel upon discharge, including enlisted personnel discharged on medical survey to their homes if residents of the United States; transportation of enlisted personnel and applicants for enlistment at home and abroad and insane super-numerary patients to hospitals, all with subsistence and transfers en route or cash in lieu thereof; expenses of funeral escorts of naval personnel and apprehension and delivery of deserters and stragglers, and for railway, steamship, and airway guides and expenses incident to transportation; transportation of dependents of officers and enlisted personnel, including those of retired and Reserve officers, and of retired and Reserve enlisted personnel of grades entitled to transportation of dependents in the Regular Navy when ordered to active duty (other than training) and upon release therefrom; for actual expenses of officers and midshipmen while on shore-patrol duty, including the hire of automobiles when necessary for the use of the shore-patrol detachment; for all necessary expenses for recruiting for the naval service, including lodging and subsistence of applicants, rent of rendezvous and expenses of maintaining the same, and advertising for and obtaining men; total transportation, $262,885,000: Provided, That the Secretary, in prescribing per diem rates of allowance in accordance with law, is hereby authorized to prescribe such per diem, whether or not orders are given to officers for travel to be performed repeatedly between two or more places in the same vicinity and without regard to the length of time away from their designated posts of duty under such orders, and also the actual and necessary expenses or per diem in lieu thereof as he may determine and approve for naval personnel on special duty in foreign countries, including per diem allowances, not exceeding $7, to naval personnel of, or under training for, the Naval Air Transport Service while on such duty or training away from their permanent stations. maintenance, bureau of supplies and accounts For equipage, supplies, and services under the cognizance of the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, including scientific investigations, commissions, interest, and exchange; ferriage and bridge tolls, including streetcar fares; rent of buildings and offices not in navy yards for naval purposes, not otherwise provided for, and for other Government agencies as necessitated by their vacation of Government-owned property for naval use; accident prevention; services of civilian employees under the cognizance of the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts; payment on a strictly part-time or intermittent employment basis in the District of Columbia or elsewhere, solely under the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, of such specialists as may be contracted for by the Secretary, at a rate of pay not exceeding $25 per diem for any person so employed; packing, unpacking, and local handling, as authorized by law, of household goods and effects of civilian and naval personnel of the Naval Establishment; ice and mechanical devices for cooling drinking water on shore (except at naval hospitals and shops at industrial navy yards); $503,347,800: Provided, That without 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: Provided further, That during the fiscal year 1946 the dependents and household effects of such personnel of the Naval Establishment on duty at stations outside the continental limits of the United States, and in Alaska, as may be determined upon by the Secretary, may, prior to the issuance of orders for the relief of such personnel from their stations, be moved (including packing and unpacking of household effects) to such locations in continental United States as may be selected by the Secretary, by the use of either Government or commercial means of transportation, and later from such locations to the duty stations to which such personnel may be ordered, and current appropriations of the Naval Establishment available for travel and transportation may be used for this purpose. transportation of things For transportation of things (as defined by Budget-Treasury Regulation Numbered 1) pertaining to the Navy (excluding Marine Corps and Coast Guard), $550,000,000. fuel, navy For coal and other fuel for submarine bases and steamers’ and ships’ use, including expenses of 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 expense of transportation and storage of both; $250,000,000. naval procurement fund During the fiscal year ending June 30, 1946, advances by check or warrant and reimbursements to the Naval Procurement Fund from naval appropriations may be made on the basis of the estimated cost of a project without further accounting distribution of expenditures to the individual appropriations involved.

BUREAU OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY medical department For equipment, supplies, maintenance, and operation of Medical Department activities ashore and afloat, including repairs, minor extensions, and improvements of buildings and grounds thereof (not to exceed $20,000 upon any building project of a permanent character), and compensation of employees; tolls and ferriage; necessary instruction of personnel, including equipment; issuance of medical bulletins and information; laundry supplies and services; maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-propelled busses; care of the dead as authorized by law, including transportation; purchase of technical books and stationery; optical supplies for naval personnel under regulations prescribed by the Secretary; and other necessary expenses, including care, maintenance, and treatment of patients in naval and other hospitals, as provided by regulation; $120,000,000. The appropriation “Medical Department”, for the fiscal year 1946 shall be available for the manufacture or production of products by patients in naval hospitals and other naval medical facilities incident to their convalescence and rehabilitation, and ownership thereof shall be vested in the patients manufacturing or producing such products, except that the ownership of such items manufactured or produced specifically for the use of a naval hospital or other naval medical facility shall be vested in the Government and such items shall be accounted for and disposed of accordingly.

BUREAU OF YARDS AND DOCKS maintenance, bureau of yards and docks For the labor, materials, supplies, and facilities necessary for the general maintenance of activities and properties under the cognizance of the Bureau of Yards and Docks, including accident prevention; contingent expenses and minor extensions and improvements of public works at navy yards and stations; purchase of five hundred passenger automobiles, and purchase of motortruck chassis with station-wagon type bodies and motorbusses, maintenance, repair, rental outside continental United States (not exceeding $5,000), and operation of passenger-carrying vehicles for the Navy Department and the Naval Establishment not otherwise provided for; payment on a strictly part-time or intermittent employment basis in the District of Columbia, or elsewhere, solely under the Bureau of Yards and Docks, of such engineers, architects, and technicists as may be contracted for by the Secretary, in his discretion, at a rate of pay not to exceed $25 per diem for any person so employed, $144,000,000; for expenses of operation and maintenance of housing projects maintained and operated as such by the Navy Department and developed under the provisions of the Acts of June 28, 1940 (54 Stat. 676); September 9, 1940 (54 Stat. 872); October 14, 1940 (54 Stat. 1125); March 1, 1941 (55 Stat. 14); May 24, 1941 (55 Stat. 197); and December 17, 1941 (55 Stat. 810), including utilities, roads, walks, and accessories, and expenses found necessary in the disposition of any such property or the removal of temporary housing, $6,000,000; in all, $150,000,000. public works, bureau of yards and docks For public works and public utilities, Bureau of Yards and Docks, including the acquisition of necessary land, $1,589,231,400, which, together with the unexpended balances of appropriations heretofore made under this head, shall be finally accounted for as one fund, which fund shall be available for continuing or completing the construction of any project heretofore authorized or undertaken thereunder, for acquisition or construction of temporary or emergency buildings and facilities at localities within or without the United States, needed by the Navy and specifically approved by the Secretary, including collateral public works items, projects for personal services (including group IV (b) personnel), and other expenses, and payment on a strictly part-time or intermittent employment basis in the District of Columbia or elsewhere, solely under the Bureau of Yards and Docks, of scientists, technicists, and other personnel, at not to exceed $25 per diem. The Secretary of the Navy is authorized, in accordance with the provisions of the Act approved March 1, 1945 (Public Law 13), to enter into contracts for public-works equipment, materials, and construction, including collateral public-works items and the acquisition of land, in the amount of not to exceed $974,008,413 and without regard to the provisions of section 3709, Revised Statutes: Provided, That $986,000,000 of the foregoing appropriation and contractual authorization shall apply exclusively to advance base construction, material, and equipment authorized in such Act approved March 1, 1945 (Public Law 13), and $1,500,000 for field house at United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, including acquisition of land and accessories, as authorized by law. No part of the appropriations or contract authorization in this Act under the Navy Department shall be used for a permanent type of construction at any shore establishment of any character acquired subsequent to the calendar year 1938, unless such establishment shall be designated by the Secretary 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 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: Provided further, That no part of such appropriations or contract authorization may be used 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. The fixed fee to be paid the contractor as a result of any contract hereafter entered into under this appropriation or contract authorization shall not exceed 4 per centum of the estimated cost of the contract, exclusive of the fee, as determined by the Secretary.

BUREAU OF AERONAUTICS aviation, navy For aviation, as follows: For new construction and procurement of aircraft and equipment, spare parts and accessories, including expansions of and facilities in public or private plants, $799,128,500; for replacement of navigational and radio equipment for aircraft in service, aerological, photographic, and miscellaneous equipment, including repairs thereto, $168,808,200; for maintenance, repair, and operation of aircraft factory, air stations, fleet and all other aviation activities, accident prevention, testing laboratories, overhauling of planes, technical books and periodicals for use in the Bureau of Aeronautics and field, outfits for aviation messes, the purchase for aviation purposes only of special clothing, wearing apparel, and special equipment, and for care and operation of a school at one air station for the children of commissioned, enlisted, and civilian personnel of the Navy, $1,431,840,800; for continuing experiments and development work on all types of aircraft, including the payment on a strictly part-time or intermittent employment basis in the District of Columbia or elsewhere, solely under the Bureau of Aeronautics, of such scientists and technicists as may be contracted for by the Secretary, in his discretion, at a rate of pay not exceeding $25 per diem for any person so employed, $81,272,500; in all, $2,481,050,000: Provided, That the unobligated portion of the contract authorization under “Aviation, Navy, 1945” shall remain available until June 30, 1946, and in addition to the amounts herein provided, the Secretary may, prior to July 1, 1946, enter into contracts for new construction and procurement of aircraft and equipment, spare parts and accessories, to an amount not in excess of $425,000,000: Provided further, That the appropriation “Aviation, Navy, 1943”, shall remain available until June 30, 1946, for the payment of obligations incurred under contracts executed on or before June 30, 1943: Provided further, That the Secretary 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 $1,000.

MARINE CORPS pay, marine corps Pay of officers: For pay and allowances prescribed by law for all officers on active duty—pay and allowances, $113,377,100, including $12,008,800 for increased pay for making aerial flights, none of which shall be available for increased pay for making aerial flights by nonflying officers or observers at rates in excess of those prescribed by law for the Army, which shall be the legal maximum rates as to such nonflying officers or observers; subsistence allowance, $17,348,200; rental allowance, $24,555,700; in all, $155,281,000; For pay of officers prescribed by law on the retired list, not on active duty, $1,650,000; Pay of enlisted personnel: For pay and allowances of all enlisted personnel and musicians on active duty as prescribed by law; expenses of clerks of the Marine Corps traveling under orders, including not to exceed $250 for expenses of attendance upon meetings of technical, professional, scientific, and other organizations, when, in the judgment of the Secretary, such attendance would be of benefit in the conduct of the work of the Marine Corps; additional compensation for enlisted personnel of the Marine Corps qualified as expert riflemen, sharpshooters, marksmen, aircraft machine gunners, or regularly detailed as gun captains, gun pointers, messmen; interest on deposits by enlisted personnel, post-exchange debts of deserters, and of personnel discharged or sentenced to terms of imprisonment while in debt to the United States, under such rules as the Secretary may prescribe; authorized travel allowance of discharged enlisted personnel; prizes for excellence in gunnery exercises, target practices, and communication competitions; pay of enlisted personnel designated as Navy mail clerks and assistant Navy mail clerks both afloat and ashore; and for gratuities to enlisted personnel discharged not under honorable conditions—pay and allowances, $574,935,000; allowance for lodging and subsistence, $11,069,000; in all, $586,004,000; For pay and allowances prescribed by law of enlisted personnel on the retired list, not on active duty, $1,657,000; For pay and allowances of personnel of the Marine Corps Reserve not on active duty, $38,000; For mileage, actual and necessary expenses, and per diem in lieu of subsistence as authorized by law to officers traveling under orders without troops, $7,000,000; In all, $751,630,000, and the money herein specifically appropriated 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 force, marine corps Pay of civil force: For personal services at the seat of government, as follows: Offices of the Commandant of the Marine Corps and the Director of Personnel, Marine Corps, $281,600; Office of the Paymaster General of the Marine Corps, $79,800; Office of the Quartermaster General of the Marine Corps, $334,000; in all, $695,400. general expenses, marine corps For all necessary expenses for the authorized 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 personnel, recruits and recruiting parties, and applicants for enlistment; cash allowance for lodging and subsistence to enlisted personnel traveling on duty; ice, ice machines and their maintenance; $108,422,000; For clothing for enlisted personnel and for civilian clothing, including an overcoat when necessary, the cost of all not to exceed $30 per person to enlisted personnel given discharges for bad conduct, undesirability, unsuitability, or inaptitude, $132,469,000; For fuel, heat, light, and power, including sales to officers, $5,640,000; For military supplies and equipment, including their purchase, repair, preservation, and handling; recreational, school, educational, library, musical, amusement, field sport and gymnasium supplies, equipment, services, and incidental expenses; purchase and marking of prizes for excellence in gunnery and rifle practice, good-conduct badges, medals, and buttons awarded to officers and enlisted personnel by the Government for conspicuous, gallant, and special service; rental and maintenance of target ranges and entrance fees for competitions; $244,544,000; For transportation of troops and applicants for enlistment, including cash in lieu of ferriage and transfers en route, toilet kits for issue to recruits upon their first enlistment and other incidental expenses of the recruiting service; and transportation for dependents of officers and enlisted personnel; $26,424,000; For repairs and improvements to barracks, quarters, and other public buildings at posts and stations; leasing and improvement of buildings at such places as the public exigencies require; and erection of temporary buildings upon approval of the Secretary at a total cost of not to exceed $70,000 during the year; $4,000,000; For forage and stabling of public animals and the authorized number of officers’ horses, $75,000; For miscellaneous supplies, material, equipment, personal and other services, and other incidental expenses for the Marine Corps not otherwise provided for; purchase and repair of furniture and fixtures; and purchase (not to exceed thirty in addition to motortruck chassis with station-wagon type bodies, motorbusses, and motorcycles) and repair of passenger-carrying and other vehicles, including parts; veterinary services, shoeing, and medicines for public animals and the authorized number of officers’ horses; purchase of mounts and horse equipment for all officers below the grade of major required to be mounted; books, newspapers, and periodicals; printing and binding; packing and crating of officers’ allowance of baggage; funeral expenses of officers, enlisted personnel, accepted applicants for enlistment, and retired officers on active duty, including transportation of their bodies, arms, and wearing apparel from the place of demise to their homes in the United States; construction, operation, and maintenance of laundries; and care and operation of schools at Marine Corps posts; $77,193,000; In all, $598,767,000, to be accounted for as one fund, and of such sum $50,000,000 shall be immediately available.

INCREASE AND REPLACEMENT OF NAVAL VESSELS Construction and machinery: On account of hulls and outfits of vessels and machinery of vessels heretofore authorized (and appropriated for in part); on account of the acquisition, conversion, alteration, and repair of vessels heretofore authorized (and appropriated for in part); and for the replacement of combatant vessels as authorized by the Act of July 9, 1942; for necessary tools, equipment, and facilities in public or private plants for shipbuilding; $2,270,000,000, and, in addition, $80,000,000 by transfer from the appropriation “Increase and replacement of naval vessels, emergency construction”, to be immediately available and to remain available until expended: Provided, That, of the appropriations made available by this Act under the head of “Increase and replacement of naval vessels”, there shall be available such sums as the Secretary 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, subject to the limitations hereinafter established, owing to the construction of vessels which have been or hereafter may be authorized. Armor, armament, and ammunition: Toward the armor, armament, and ammunition for vessels hereinbefore described under the head of “Construction and machinery”, including the necessary machine tools, equipment, land, and facilities for existing or additional public or private plants for the production of armor, armament, and ammunition, $600,000,000, to remain available until expended. Emergency construction: The unexpended balance on June 30, 1945, of appropriations under this heading shall be available until December 31, 1946, for expenditure only in liquidation of obligations incurred prior to July 1, 1945. repair facilities, navy Repair facilities, Navy, $40,000,000, toward contract authorizations heretofore granted, to remain available until used.

COAST GUARD Office of Commandant: For personal services at the seat of government, $1,680,000; Pay and allowances: For pay and allowances prescribed by law for commissioned officers, cadets, warrant officers, petty officers, and other enlisted personnel, active and retired, temporary cooks, surfmen, substitute surf men, and three civilian instructors; retired pay for certain members of the former Life Saving Service authorized by the Act approved April 14, 1930 (14 U. S. C. 178a); not exceeding $10,000 for cash prizes for men for excellence in boatmanship, gunnery, target practice, and engineering competitions; transportation of dependents of Coast Guard personnel on active duty and retired and Reserve officers and of retired and Reserve enlisted personnel, of grades entitled to transportation of dependents in the Regular Coast Guard, when ordered to active duty (other than training) and upon relief therefrom; carrying out the provisions of the Act of June 4, 1920 (34 U. S. C. 943); not to exceed $15,000 for cost of special instruction, including books, laboratory equipment and fees, school supplies, and maintenance of students; motion-picture and other equipment for instructional purposes; rations or commutation thereof for cadets, petty officers, and other enlisted personnel, mileage and expenses allowed by law for officers, including per diem rates of allowance, and the Secretary is hereby authorized to prescribe per diem rates of allowance for Public Health Service officers detailed to the Coast Guard as authorized for Coast Guard officers; traveling expenses of other persons traveling on duty under orders from the Navy Department, including transportation of cadets, enlisted personnel, and applicants for enlistment, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof, and traveling expenses for the examinations authorized by the Act entitled “An Act to provide for retirement for disability in the Lighthouse Service”, approved March 4, 1925 (33 U. S. C. 765); transportation in kind and subsistence to discharged cadets; uniforms, accouterments and equipment for officers and cadets, and the appropriation reimbursed, as provided by law (14 U. S. C. 30); clothing for enlisted personnel authorized by law; civilian clothing, including an overcoat when necessary, the cost of all not to exceed $30 per person to enlisted personnel given discharges for bad conduct, undesirability, unsuitability, or inaptitude; reimbursement in kind or in cash as authorized by law to persons in the naval service for personal property lost, destroyed, or damaged; actual expenses of officers and cadets and quarters and subsistence of enlisted personnel on shore patrol, emergency shore detail and other detached duty, or cash in lieu thereof; hire of quarters for officers serving with troops where sufficient quarters are not possessed by the United States to accommodate them; hire of quarters for Coast Guard personnel comparable to quarters assignable on a capital ship of the Navy, as authorized by the Secretary to meet emergency conditions, including officers and men on sea duty at such times as they may be deprived of their quarters on board ship due to repairs or other conditions which may render them uninhabitable: Provided, That under this authorization no funds may be expended for the hire of quarters for occupancy by the dependents of officers or enlisted personnel; expenses of recruiting for the Coast Guard, rent of rendezvous, and expenses of maintaining the same; advertising for and obtaining enlisted personnel and applicants for appointment as cadets; in-service training of enlisted personnel, including textbooks, school supplies, and correspondence courses; transfer of household goods and effects of Coast Guard and Coast Guard Reserve personnel on active duty and when ordered to active duty and upon relief therefrom, and the transfer of household goods and effects of deceased Coast Guard and Coast Guard Reserve personnel who die while on active duty, as prescribed by law and regulations; transportation on Government-owned vessels of privately owned automobiles of Coast Guard personnel upon change of station; purchase of provisions for sale to Coast Guard personnel at isolated stations, and the appropriation reimbursed; and including not to exceed $470,400 for recreation, amusement, comfort, contentment, and health of the enlisted personnel of the Coast Guard, to be expended in the discretion of the Secretary; apprehension and delivery of deserters and stragglers; $393,737,800: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be used for increased pay for making aerial flights by nonflying officers or observers at rates in excess of those prescribed by law for the Army, which shall be the legal maximum rates as to such nonflying officers or observers: Provided further, That money accruing from commutation of rations of enlisted personnel commuted for the benefit of any mess may be paid on proper voucher to the officer in charge of such mess: Provided further, 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, Coast Guard bases, Coast Guard air stations, Coast Guard training stations, and, in addition, not to exceed one hundred in number at such stations as shall be designated by the Commandant of the Coast Guard with the approval of the Secretary; General expenses, Coast Guard: For all expenses necessary for the operation and maintenance of the Coast Guard ashore and afloat, except as specifically provided for in other appropriations, including personal services at the seat of government and elsewhere; newspapers, reference books and periodicals, and library books for field units and headquarters; printing and binding; purchase (not exceeding twenty-seven for replacement only), and maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; improvement of property for Coast Guard purposes, including rental, purchase, or use of additional land where necessary and the purchase of land for beacons, day-marks, and fog signals; rations and provisions, or commutation thereof, for working parties in the field, officers and crews of light vessels and tenders, and officials and other authorized persons of the Coast Guard on duty on board such tenders or vessels, but money accruing from commutation of rations and provisions for the above-named persons on board tenders and light vessels or in working parties in the field may be paid on proper voucher to the person having charge of the mess of such vessel or party; subsistence and clothing for shipwrecked and destitute persons, including reimbursement, under rules prescribed by the Secretary, of Coast Guard personnel who furnish from their personal stock subsistence and clothing to such persons; not to exceed $2,500 for contingencies for the Superintendent, United States Coast Guard Academy, to be expended in his discretion; payment of rewards for the apprehension and conviction, or for information helpful therein, of persons found interfering in violation of law with aids to navigation maintained by the Coast Guard; $62,285,000: 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, Coast Guard air stations, Coast Guard training stations, Coast Guard depots, messes temporarily set up on shore for officers attached to seagoing vessels, and such bachelor officers’ quarters and messes as may be specifically designated by the Secretary; Civilian employees, Coast Guard: For compensation of civilian employees in the field, including per diem labor, but excluding personnel provided for in the appropriation “General expenses, Coast Guard”, $2,414,000; Establishing and improving aids to navigation: For establishing and improving aids to navigation and other works, and for all expenditures directly relating thereto, $790,000; Acquisition of vessels and shore facilities: For the purchase or construction of a replacement lightship and its equipment; the construction and repair of shore facilities, not to exceed $46,000; and for restoring leased property and reserve boats; in all, $3,833,907; Retired pay, former Lighthouse Service, Coast Guard: For retired pay of certain officers and employees entitled thereto by virtue of former employment in the Lighthouse Service engaged in the field service or on vessels of the Coast Guard, except persons continuously employed in district offices and shops, $980,000; Salaries, Merchant Marine Inspection, Coast Guard: For personal services at the seat of government, $369,000; Salaries and expenses, Merchant Marine Inspection, Coast Guard: For all expenses necessary to provide and operate such motorboats and employ such persons as may be necessary for the enforcement of laws relating to navigation and inspection of vessels, boarding of vessels, and counting of passengers on excursion boats to prevent overcrowding, including fees to witnesses; materials, supplies, equipment, and services, including rent and janitor service; purchase and repair of instruments; plans and specifications; insignia, braid, and chin straps; coats, caps, and aprons for stewards’ departments on vessels; and other incidental expenses of field offices, including contract stenographic reporting services at the seat of government and elsewhere; $1,918,000; Total, Coast Guard, $468,007,707.

NAVY DEPARTMENT salaries For compensation for personal services at the seat of government, as follows: Office of the Secretary of the Navy: Secretary of the Navy, Under Secretary of the Navy, Assistant Secretaries of the Navy, and other personal services, including Executive Officer, not to exceed $7,000, $393,500; General Board, $13,000; Naval examining and retiring boards, $16,000; Office of Naval Records and Library, $39,700; Office of Judge Advocate General, $125,900; Office of Chief of Naval Operations, $206,000; Board of Inspection and Survey, $23,600; Office of Director of Naval Communications, $144,400; Office of Naval Intelligence, $158,500; Bureau of Naval Personnel, $678,500; Hydrographic Office, $570,000; Naval Observatory, including $2,500 for pay of computers on piece work, $210,000; Bureau of Ships, $650,400; Bureau of Ordnance, $152,900; Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $1,015,000; Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, $183,300; Bureau of Yards and Docks, $281,200; Bureau of Aeronautics, $425,300: Provided, That the services of technical and clerical personnel may be employed only in the Bureau of Aeronautics in connection with the design and construction of aircraft, to be paid from the appropriation “Aviation, Navy, 1946”; In all, salaries, Navy Department, $5,287,200. contingent expenses For technical reference and lawbooks, periodicals, and photostating for Department library; 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 Powers of Europe; stationery, furniture, newspapers, plans, drawings, and drawing materials; purchase, maintenance, repair, and operation of motortrucks; and other necessary expenses of the Navy Department and its various bureaus and offices, $320,000, and, in addition, not to exceed $5,500,000 of appropriations contained in this Act for the Naval Establishment: Provided, That it shall not be lawful to expend, unless otherwise specifically provided by law, 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 Naval Establishment executed at the Government Printing Office, $863,000, and, in addition, not to exceed $18,500,000 of appropriations contained in this Act for the Naval Establishment. contingent and miscellaneous expenses, hydrographic office For all necessary expenses (except salaries) for the maintenance and operation of the Hydrographic Office at the seat of government and for all necessary salaries and expenses for the branch offices, including purchase and printing of nautical books, charts, and sailing directions; modernization, care, and repair of lithographic presses and machinery; pilot and aeronautical charts, reference books and periodicals, $3,790,000. contingent and miscellaneous expenses, naval observatory For professional and scientific books, books of reference, periodicals, engravings, photographs, and fixtures for the library; apparatus and instruments, and repairs of the same; repairs to buildings (including quarters), fixtures, and fences; 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; materials needed for the maintenance and repair of boilers, engines, heating apparatus, electric lighting and power, and water supply; maintenance, repair, and operation of passenger automobiles; rental of tabulating and other mechanical equipment; and other necessary expenses, $48,500. general provisions Sec. 102. The appropriations made in this Act for the purchase or manufacture of equipment or material or of a particular class of equipment or material shall be available for the purchase of letters patent, applications for letters patent, and licenses under letters patent and applications for letters patent that pertain to such equipment or material for which the appropriations are made. Sec. 103. No part of any appropriation made for the Navy shall be expended for any of the purposes herein provided for on account of the Navy Department at the seat of government, including personal services of civilians, except as expressly authorized by law. Sec. 104. Such number of enlisted personnel as may be approved by the Secretary may be detailed to duty in the Navy Department at the seat of government and Marine Corps and Coast Guard headquarters, excepting from such number, as far as practicable, enlisted personnel qualified for combat service. Sec. 105. No part of the appropriations made in this Act shall be available for the salary or pay of any officer, manager, superintendent, foreman, or other person or persons having charge of the work of any employee of the United States Government while making or causing to be made with a stop watch or other time-measuring device a time study of any job of any such employee between the starting and completion thereof, or of the movements of any such employee while engaged upon such work; nor shall any part of the appropriations 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 moneys herein appropriated for the Naval Establishment or 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, such repair, purchase, acquirement, or production would not involve an appreciable increase in cost to the Government, except when the repair, purchase, or acquirement, by or from any private contractor, would, in the opinion of the Secretary, be advantageous to the national defense. Sec. 106. No funds herein appropriated shall be available to pay 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. Sec. 107. The appropriations available to the Navy Department and the naval service shall be available for the pay and other expenses of men inducted into the Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard in accordance with law. Sec. 108. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall be used directly or indirectly, except for temporary employment in case of emergency, for the payment of any civilian for services rendered by him on the Canal Zone while occupying a skilled, technical, clerical, administrative, executive, or supervisory position unless such person is a citizen of the United States of America or of the Republic of Panama: Provided, however, (1) That, notwithstanding the provision in the Act approved August 11, 1939 (53 Stat. 1409), limiting employment in the above-mentioned positions to citizens of the United States from and after the date of the approval of said Act, citizens of Panama may be employed in such positions; (2) that at no time shall the number of Panamanian citizens employed in the above-mentioned positions exceed the number of citizens of the United States so employed, if United States citizens are available in continental United States or on the Canal Zone; (3) that nothing in this Act shall prohibit the continued employment of any person who shall have rendered fifteen or more years of faithful and honorable service on the Canal Zone; (4) that in the selection of personnel for skilled, technical, administrative, clerical, supervisory, or executive positions, the controlling factors in filling these positions shall be efficiency, experience, training, and education; (5) that all citizens of Panama and the United States rendering skilled, technical, clerical, administrative, executive, or supervisory service on the Canal Zone under the terms of this Act (a) shall normally be employed not more than forty hours per week; (b) may receive as compensation equal rates of pay based upon rates paid for similar employment in continental United States plus 25 per centum; (6) this entire section shall apply only to persons employed in skilled, technical, clerical, administrative, executive, or supervisory positions on the Canal Zone directly or indirectly by any branch of the United States Government or by any corporation or company whose stock is owned wholly or in part by the United States Government: Provided further, That the President may suspend, from time to time in whole or in part, compliance with this section in time of war or national emergency if he should deem such course to be in the public interest. Sec. 109. The Secretary is authorized where necessary to exceed the statutory limit on repairs and alterations to vessels during the fiscal year 1946. Sec. 110. During the fiscal year 1946 all retired officers and enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps shall, when on active duty, receive full pay and allowances. Sec. 111. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall be used to pay the salary or wages of any person who advocates, or who is a member of an organization that advocates, the overthrow of the Government of the United States by force or violence: Provided, That for the purposes hereof an affidavit shall be considered prima facie evidence that the person making the affidavit does not advocate, and is not a member of an organization that advocates, the overthrow of the Government of the United States by force or violence: Provided further, That any person who advocates, or who is a member of an organization that advocates, the overthrow of the Government of the United States by force or violence and accepts employment the salary or wages for which are paid from any appropriation in this Act shall be guilty of a felony and, upon conviction, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both: Provided further, That the above penalty clause shall be in addition to, and not in substitution for, any other provisions of existing law. Sec. 112. No part of any money appropriated herein or included under any contract authority herein granted shall be expended for the payment of any commission on any land purchase contract in excess of 2 per centum of the purchase price. Sec. 113. The Secretary is authorized to employ additional civil personnel in the Navy Department at the seat of government, and to provide out of any appropriations available for the Naval Establishment for their salaries: Provided, That the average number of all civil personnel in the Navy Department at the seat of government, excluding the Marine Corps and the Coast Guard, shall not exceed seventeen thousand. Sec. 114. The appropriations for the Naval Establishment for the fiscal year 1946 shall be available for providing transportation of naval and civilian personnel between their domiciles and places of employment as authorized by law; carrying out the provisions of Executive Order Numbered 9112 of March 26, 1942, Public Law 395, approved July 1, 1944, and Public Law 457, approved October 3, 1944; 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; payment of employment at the seat of government or elsewhere for a period not to exceed the duration of the war of such specialists as may be contracted for by the Secretary, at a rate of pay not exceeding $25 per diem for any person so employed (no appropriation for the Navy Department or the Naval Establishment shall be available during the fiscal year 1946, except funds transferred or made available to other executive agencies for use for naval purposes, for the employment of persons for the performance of service in other than the Navy Department or elsewhere than under the Navy Department, except (1) employees who had been employed by and performing service under the Navy Department for three months or more immediately prior to their detail for service elsewhere and (2) employees now or hereafter detailed and assigned pursuant to the lawful authority of the Secretary of the Navy to any committee of the Congress operating under resolution duly authorizing such assignment); payment, upon approval of the Secretary, of claims, not in excess of $1,000 in any one case, for causes other than personal injury or death, resulting from the administration or operation of the naval service during the existing national emergency and not cognizable under other law; pay of commissioned medical officers who are graduates of reputable schools of osteopathy; actual and necessary expenses or per diem in lieu thereof, as may be determined and approved by the Secretary, of civilian personnel in and under the Naval Establishment on special duty in foreign countries; expenses authorized in Public Law 99, approved June 29, 1943; expenses including those heretofore incurred in connection with the administration by the Navy of occupied areas; expenses including those heretofore incurred incident to the operation by the Navy of private plants taken over at the direction of the President, and the Secretary may designate any naval appropriation to be charged with such expenses, proper adjustments to be made on the basis of final costs between applicable appropriations; and payment of rewards to civilian officers or employees and other persons in civil life for suggestions resulting in improvement or economy in manufacturing process or plant or naval material as authorized by the Act of July 1, 1918 (5 U. S. C. 416), and for suggestions resulting in efficiency or economy in the operation or administration of the Navy Department and the Naval Establishment. Sec. 115. Appropriations in this Act for pay of personnel shall be available, in lieu of the appropriation “Foreign Service Pay Adjustment” contained in the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, for payments to authorized naval and civilian personnel in and under the Naval Establishment due to the appreciation of foreign currencies, as provided by the Act of March 26, 1934, as amended (5 U. S. C. 118c), and for every object and purpose specified therein. Sec. 116. Appropriations available for the fiscal year 1946 for travel expenses of civilian inspectors of the Navy Department shall be available for reimbursement, at not to exceed 3 cents per mile, for travel performed by such employees in privately owned automobiles within the limits of their official stations. Sec. 117. Funds available for heat and light for public quarters occupied by personnel of the Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard for the fiscal year 1946 shall be available for furnishing water and for operating mechanical refrigerators in such quarters. Sec. 118. Appropriations in this Act shall be available for the pay of missing or captured civilian or naval personnel under the provisions of Public Law 490, approved March 7, 1942, as amended, and for that which accrued during fiscal year 1945 or prior years and was not paid, including accruals of pay authorized by law for retired and Reserve officers, nurses, enlisted personnel, and family allowances. Sec. 119. The authority contained in section 103 of the Second Supplemental National Defense Appropriation Act, 1943, is hereby extended to and made applicable to the appropriations for the naval service made subsequent to such Act and contained in this Act without any increase in the amount limitation fixed in such section: Provided, That “information and services” authorized to be rendered by the Act of March 11, 1941 (Public 11), need not be connected with the procurement or disposition of any defense article. Sec. 120. For the fiscal year 1946 occupancy of emergency housing facilities under the jurisdiction of the Navy Department or the National Housing Agency, on a rental basis, by personnel of the services mentioned in the title of the Pay Readjustment Act of 1942, or by their dependents, shall not deprive such personnel of money allowances for rental of quarters. Sec. 121. This Act may be cited as the “Naval Appropriation Act, 1946”.

Approved May 29, 1945.