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 53 STAT.] 76TH CONG. , 1ST SESS. - CH. 149-MAY 25, 1939 BUREAU OF CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR 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 $25 per diem for any person so employed, and payment of the travel expenses of such persons if they be mem- bers of the Naval Reserve ordered to active duty; maintenance, repairs, and alterations of vessels; care and preservation 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, sup- plies, and materials at home and abroad as required for the mainte- nance, 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 con- structors' offices; incidental expenses at navy yards and naval stations and in material inspection and superintending constructors' offices such as photographing, technical and professional books and maga- zines, plans, stationery, drafting instruments, and other materials, $24,422,500, and, in addition, the Secretary of the Navy may enter into contracts prior to July 1, 1940, for the procurement of tools to an amount not in excess of $1,035,800, and his action in so doing shall be deemed a contractual obligation of the Federal Government for the payment of the cost thereof: 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 $1,655,000. BUREAU OF ORDNANCE ORDNANCE AND ORDNANCE STORES, NAVY For procuring, producing, preserving, and handling ordnance material for the armament of ships; for the purchase and manufac- ture 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 ordnance plants, and proving grounds; for technical books; plant appliances as now defined by the "Navy Classification of Accounts"; for machin- ery and machine tools; for accident prevention; for experimental work in connection with the development of ordnance material for the Navy; for maintenance of proving grounds, powder factory, torpedo stations, gun factory, ammunition depots, and naval ordnance plants, and for target practice; not to exceed $20,000 for minor improve- ments to buildings, grounds, and appurtenances of a character which can be performed by regular station labor; for 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, and payment of the travel Designing of naval vessels, etc. Maintenance, etc., of vessels. Equipage, supplies, etc. Field force. Contracts. Proriso. Groip IV (b) em- ployees. Procuring, preserv- ing, etc. Fuel, material, and labor. Experimental work. Scientists, etc.

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