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 54 STAT.] 76TH CONG. , 3D SESS.-CH. 313 -JUNE 11, 1940 special problems: Provided further, 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 $250,000, 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, as amended (34 U. S. C., Supp. IV, 524), requiring him to conserve, develop, use, and operate the naval petroleum reserves, $71,500 ("A" item), of which amount not to exceed $25,000 shall be available 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, 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 drill- ing wells and performing any work incident thereto, of which amount not to exceed $100,000 shall be available 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 ("A" item): Provided, That expen- ditures 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 civilian services; library expenses, including the purchase, binding, and repair of books and periodicals and subscriptions to newspapers and periodicals; and including contingencies of the president of the Naval War College, to be expended in his discretion, not exceeding $1,000; and for other necessary expenses, $131,300 ("A" item); Naval training stations: For maintenance, operation, and other necessary expenses, including repairs, improvements, and care of grounds of the naval training stations which follow: San Diego, California, $186,644 (composed of "A" item, $167,000, and "B" item, $19,644); Newport, Rhode Island, $205,930 (composed of "A" item, $158,000, and "B" item, $47,930); 267 Group IV (b) em- ployees. Conservation, oper- ation, etc. 41 Stat. 813. Post, p. 648. 34 U.S. C.. 524; Supp. V, § 524. Group IV (b) em- ployees. Proviss. Protective work on Reserve No. 1. 36 Stat. 847. Group IV (b) em- ployees. Agreement not to drill offset wells on adjoining lands. Operation, etc. Provslo. Limitation on ex- penditures. 48 Stat. 1227. 31 U. S. (. §72:c. Post, pp. 292, 295, 604, 875. Post, pp. 295, 875. Naval War College, maintenance, etc. Naval training sta- tions. Post, p . 295.

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