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 53 STAT.] 76TH CONG., 1ST SESS. -CH. 149-MAY 25, 1939 NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY For laboratory and research work and other necessary work of the Naval Research Laboratory for the benefit of the naval service, including operation and maintenance of a laboratory, additions to equipment necessary properly to carry on work in hand, maintenance of buildings and grounds, temporary employment of such scientific and technical civilian assistants as may become necessary, and sub- scriptions to technical periodicals, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, $370,000: Provided, That $60,000 of this appropriation shall be available for the temporary employment of civilian scientists and technicists required on special problems: Provided further, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation for employees assigned to group IV (b) and those performing simi- lar 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 $135,000, in addition to the amount authorized by the preceding proviso. OPERATION AND CONSERVATION OF NAVAL PETROLEUM RESERVES To enable the Secretary of the Navy to carry out the provisions contained in the Act approved June 4, 1920 (34 U. S. C. 524), requir- ing him to conserve, develop, use, and operate the naval petroleum reserves, $70,000, of which amount not to exceed $20,000 shall be available for employees assigned to group IV (b) and those perform- ing similar services carried under native and alien schedules in the Schedule of Wages for Civil Employees in the Field Service of the Navy Department: 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 of the Navy to protect Naval Petroleum Reserve Numbered 1, established by Executive order of September 2, 1912, pursuant to the Act of June 25, 1910 (43 U. S . C . 141-143), by drilling wells and performing any work inci- dent thereto, of which amount not to exceed $100,000 shall be avail- able 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: Provided further, That no part of the sum made available for the protection of this property shall be expended if a satisfactory agreement can be made with adjoining landowners not to drill offset wells for the purpose of producing oil. NAVAL PRISON FARMS AND PRISON PERSONNEL For the operation, maintenance, and improvement of naval prison farms and for the welfare, recreation, and education of prison per- sonnel, to be expended under such regulations as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe, $12,000: 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 NAVIGATION TRAINING, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE, NAVY Naval War College: For maintenance and operation, including repairs, improvements and care of grounds; services of a professor of international law, $2,000; services of lecturers, $2,000; and other 759 Laboratory and re- search work. Provisos. Temporary employ- ment of scientists, etc. Group IV (b) em- ployees. Conservation, oper- ation, etc. 41 Stat. 813. 34U. .C.C 524. Group IV (b) em- ployees. Provisos. Protective work on Reserve No. 1. 36 Stat. 847. 43U.S.(.§§141- 143. Group IV (b) em- ployees. Agreement with ad- joining landowners not to drill offset wells. Operation, etc. Proviso. Limitation on ex- penditures. 48 Stat. 1227. 31 U. S. C. S725c. Naval War College, maintenance, etc.

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