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 52 STAT.] 75TH CONG. , 3D SESS.- CH. 175--APR. 26, 1938 the Secretary of the Navy, in his discretion, at a rate of pay not exceeding $20 per diem for any persons so employed; in all, $24,637,000, and, in addition, $500,000 of the appropriation "Engineer- ing, Bureau of Engineering, 1938," such amount of such appropria- tion being hereby reappropriated, and of the total of such amounts $400,000 shall be available immediately: Provided,That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation for 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 shall not exceed $1,960,000. BUREAU OF CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR For designing naval vessels, including services, instruments, appa- ratus, and materials necessary for experimental and research work; payment of part-time or intermittent employment in the District of Columbia, or elsewhere, of such scientists and technicists as may be contracted for by the Secretary of the Navy, in his discretion, at a rate of pay not exceeding $20 per diem for any person so employed; maintenance, repairs, and alterations of vessels; care and preserva- tion of vessels out of commission; docking of vessels; salvage and salvage services for naval floating property; construction and repair of district and yard craft; purchase and manufacture of equipage, appliances, supplies, and materials at home and abroad as required for the maintenance, repair, alteration, and operation of naval vessels and district and yard craft; carrying on work of the experimental model basin and wind tunnel; tools and appliances for all purposes in navy yards and naval stations; labor in navy yards and naval stations and elsewhere at home and abroad; accident prevention; pay of classified field force, including employees in material inspection and superintending constructors' offices; incidental expenses at navy yards and naval stations and in material inspection and superintending con- structors' offices such as photographing, technical and professional books and magazines, plans, stationery, drafting instruments, and other materials, $21,544,590: Provided, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation for 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 shall not exceed $1,890,000. BUREAU OF ORDNANCE ORDNANCE AND ORDNANCE STORES, BUREAU OF ORDNANCE For procuring, producing, preserving, and handling ordnance mate- rial for the armament of ships; for the purchase and manufacture of torpedoes and appliances; for the purchase and manufacture of smokeless powder; for fuel, material, and labor to be used in the general work under the cognizance of the Bureau of Ordnance; for furniture at naval ammunition depots, torpedo stations, naval ord- nance plants, and proving grounds; for technical books; plant appli- ances as now defined by the "Navy Classification of Accounts"; for machinery and machine tools; for accident prevention; for experi- mental work in connection with the development of ordnance mate- rial for the Navy; for maintenance of proving grounds, powder fac- tory, torpedo stations, gun factory, ammunition depots, and naval ordnance plants, and for target practice; not to exceed $15,000 for minor improvements to buildings, grounds, and appurtenances of a character which can be performed by regular station labor; for pay- ment of part-time or intermittent employment in the District of 231 Amount reappropri- ated. 50Stat. 102. Proviso. Group IV (b) em- ployees. Bureau of Construc- tion and Repair. Designing of naval vessels, etc. Post, p. 1140. Maintenance, etc., of vessels. Equipage, supplies, etc. Field force. Proviso. Group IV (b) em- ployees, etc. Bureau of Ordnance. Ordnance and ord- nance stores. Procuring, preserv- ing, etc. Fuel, material, and labor. Experimental work. Scientists, etc.

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