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 75TH CONG., 3D SESS.-C1H. 175--APR. 26, 193S only to the next higher rate: Provided,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 com- pensation 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, (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 permitted by the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, and is specifically authorized by other law, or (5) to reduce the compensation of any person in a grade in which only one position is allocated. CONTINGENT EXPENSES For professional and technical books and periodicals, lawbooks, and necessary reference books, including city directories, railway guides, freight, passenger, and express tariff books and photostating, for Department library; for purchase of photographs, maps, docu- ments, 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; for stationery, furniture, newspapers, plans, drawings, and drawing materials; purchase and exchange of motortrucks or motor-delivery wagons, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor- trucks or motor-delivery wagons; garage rent; streetcar fares; freight, expressage, postage, typewriters, and computing machines, and other absolutely necessary expenses of the Navy Department and its various bureaus and offices, $115,000; it shall not be lawful to expend, unless otherwise specifically provided herein, for any of the offices or bureaus of the Navy Department in the District of Colum- bia, 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, $530,000 including not exceeding $117,120 for the Hydrographic Office and $2,800 for the Naval Reserve Officers' Training Corps. PRINTING HISTORICAL AND NAVAL DOCUMENTS For continuing the printing of historical and naval documents including composition, clerical copying in the Navy Department and other preparatory work, in accordance with the provisions of the appropriation made for the commencement of this work as contained in the Naval Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1935, $12,000, together with the unexpended balance for this purpose for the fiscal year 1938: Provided, That nothing in such Act shall preclude the Public Printer from furnishing one hundred and fifty copies of each volume published to the Library of Congress. CONTINGENT AND MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES, HYDROGRAPHIC OFFICE For purchase and printing of nautical books, charts, and sailing directions, copper plates, steel plates, chart paper, packing boxes, chart portfolios, electrotyping copper plates, cleaning copper plates; tools, instruments, power, and material for drawing, engraving, and printing; materials for and mounting charts; reduction of charts by photography; photolithographing charts for immediate use; transfer of photolithographic and other charts to copper; purchase Proviso. Restriction not ap- plicable to c!erical- mechanical service. No reduction in fixed salaries. 42 Stat. 1490. Transfers without reduction. Payment under higher rate. If only one position in a grade. Contingent expenses. Naval records of World War. Naval service appro- priations not to be used for Department expenses; exception. Printing and bind- ing. Historical and naval documents. 48 Stat. 414. Unexpended bal- ance reappropriated. 50 Stat. 117. Proviso. Copies to Library of Congress. Hydrographic Office. Contingent and mis- cellaneous expenses. Charts, etc. 245 52 STAT.]

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