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 SEVENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. SEss. II. Ca. 201. 1930 . 247 This appropriation shall be disbursed by the United States Vtter- to De appropriati ons t t ons of al. ans' Bureau, and such portion thereof as may be necessary shall be allotted from time to time to the Public Health Service, and the War, N avy, a nd Int erior Depar tments, and trans ferred to th eir credit for dis bursement by them for the purposes set f orth in the foregoing paragraph. No part of this appropriation shall be expended for the purchase of any site for a new hospital, for or toward the construction of any new hospital, or for the purchase of any hospital ; and not more than $3,500,000 of this appropriation may be used to alter, improve, or provide facilities in the several hospitals under the jurisdiction of the United States Veterans' Bureau so as to furnish adequate accom- modations for its beneficiaries either by contract or by the hire of temporary empl oyees and the purchase of materials. The allotments made to the Public Health Service, War, Navy, and Interior Departments shall be available for expenditure for care and treatment of beneficiaries of the United States Veterans' Bureau, and for necessary minor repairs and improvements of existing facili- ties, under the various headings of appropriations made to said departments as may be neces sary. Adjusted service certificate fund : For an amount necessary under sectio n 505 of the Worl d War Adjust ed Com pensa tion A ct of May 19, 1924 (U . S . C ., title 38, sees . 645-647), to provide for the payment of the face value of each adjusted service certificate in twenty years from its date or on the prior death of the veteran, $112,000,000, to remain available until expended. For military and naval insurance accruing during the fiscal year 1II 5 rltaa 1931 or in prior fiscal years, $120,000 .000. Additional hospital, Hospital facilities and services : For carrying out the provisions dispensary facilities cc and service. of the Act entitled An Act to authorize an appropriation to provide Executing provisions additional hospital, domiciliary, and out-patient dispensary facilities of Act for. for persons entitled to hospitalization under the World War u.°'S.. C, Su pp M iv, Veterans' Act, 1924, as amended, and for other purposes," approved -p- Ant c, p.53. May 23, 1928 (U . S . C., Supp . III, title 38, sees. 438a-438e), Post, p . 1550 . ava il- $2,000,000, to be immediately available and to remain available until abimmediat ely a vad- expended . To tal, Uni ted Stat es V eter ans' Bur eau, $51 1,22 5,00 0 . Personal services in SEC . 2. In expending appropriations or portions of appropriations, the Distric t of Colum . contained in this Act, for the payment for personal services in the his - Rest ricti on o nexce ed- District of Co lumbia in acc ordance with the Classifica tion Act of ing average salaries . 1923, as amended (U. S. C., title 5, sees. 661-673 ; U. S. C., Supp. III, 45`, 1746, p .14 88, V ol . sec . 673), the average of the salaries of the total number of persons Iv p s25 .,p .65,Supp - under any grad e in any bure au, office or other appropr iation unit Post, p.1003. shall not at any time exceed the average of the compensation rates specified for the grade by such Act as amended, and in grades in which only one position is allocated the salary of such position shall not exceed the average of the compensation rates for the grade except that in unusually meritorious cases of one, position in a grade advances may be made to rates higher than the average of the compensation rates of the grade but not more often than once in any fiscal year and then only to the next higher rate : Provid ed, That this restriction shall not apply (1) to grades 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the clerical-mechanical service, or (2 to require the reduction in salary of any person whose compensation was fixed as of July 1, 1924, in accordance with the rules of section 6 of such Act, (3) to require the reduction in salary of any person who is transferred from one position to another position in the same or different grade in the same or a different bureau, office, or other appropriation unit, or (4) to prevent the payment of a salary under any grade at a rate higher than the maximum rate of the grade when such higher rate is Use for new hospital sites, hospitals, etc ., forbidden . Improving facilities allowed . Expenditures fr om allotments to other agencies . Adjusted service cer . tificate fund . Payment of. Vol. 43, p. 128; Vol. 44, p 826 . U.S.C .,p . 1232; Supp. IV, p . 540 . and na val If only one position in a grade . Allowance in unusu- ally meritorious cases . Prorisio. Restriction not ap- plicable to clerical-me- chanical service . No reduction in fixed salary. Vol.42,p. 1490. U.S.C,p.66. Transfers to another position w ithout re- duction. Higher salary rates allowed.

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