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 72d CONGRESS. SESS. II. CH. 212. MARCH 3, 1933 . (d) The appropriations or portions of appropriations unexpended by reason of the operation of the amendments made in subsection (a) of this section shall not be used for any purpose, but shall be impounded and returned to the Treasury. (e) Each permanent specific annual appropriation available dur- ing the fiscal year ending June 30, 1934, is hereby reduced for that fiscal year by such estimated amount as the Director of the Bureau of the Budget may determine will be equivalent to the savings that will be effected in such appropriation by reason of the application of this section and section 7. SEC. 5. Effective the first day of the month next following the passage of this Act, in the application of Title I of Part II of the Legislative Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1933, and section 4 of this Act, in any case where the annual rate of compensation of any posi- tion is in excess of $1,000, the provisions reducing compensation shall not operate to reduce the total amount paid for any month to any incumbent of any such position unless the total amount earned by such incumbent m such month exceeds $83 .33 : Provided, That any such reduction made in any case where the total amount earned by any such incumbent in any month exceeds $83 .33 shall not operate to reduce the total amount to be paid to such incumbent for such month to less than $83 .33. SEC. 6. (a) Sections 103 and 215 of the Legislative Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1933, shall be held applicable to the officers and employees of The Panama Canal and Panama Railroad Company on the Isthmus of Panama, and to officers and employees of the United States (including enlisted personnel) holding official station outside the continental United States, only to the extent of depriving each of them of one month's leave of absence with pay during each of the fiscal years ending June 30, 1933, and June 30, 1934. (b) During the fiscal year 1934, deductions on account of legislative furlough shall be made each month from the compensation of each officer or employee subject to the furlough provisions of Title I of Part II of the Legislative Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1933, as continued by section 4 (a) of this Act, at the rate of 81/3 per centum per month re gardless of the number of day s of such furl ough actually taken by any such officer or employee in any month. SEC. 7. No administrative promotions in the civil branch of the United States Government or the government of the District of Columbia shall be made during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1934 : Pro vid ed, That the filling of a vacancy, when authorized by the President, by the appointment of an employee of a lower grade, shall not be construed as an administrative promotion, but no such appointment shall increase the compensation of such employee to a rate in excess of the minimum rate of the grade to which such employee is appointed, unless such minimum rate would require an actual reduction in compensation : Provided further, That, the resto- ration of employees to their former grades or their advancement to intermediate grades following reductions of compensation for disci- plinary reasons shall not be construed to be administrative promo- tions fr the purposes of this section. The provisions of this section shall not apply to commissioned, commissioned warrant, warrant, and enlisted personnel, and cadets, of the Coast Guard. SEC. 8. All officers and employees of the United States Government or of the government of the District of Columbia who had reached the retirement age prescribed for automatic separation from the service on or before July 1, 1932, and who were continued in active service for a period of less than thirty days after June 30, 1932, pursuant to an Executive order issued under authority of section 204 Reduction of annual appropriations. Limitation on reduc- tion of annual compen- sation. An te, p . 399. Prodao a. Average to be main- tained. Annual leave provi. sions. Deductions, legisla- tive furlough. Ante, p. 39 9. Ante, p. 404. 1515 Impounding of unex- pended balances. Administrative pro. motions. Provisos. Filling vacancy, not so co nstru ed. Comp ensa tion. Restoration to former grade. Coast Guard person- nel. Annuity of officers, etc., reaching retire- ment age on or before July 1, 1932.