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 54 STAT.] 76TH CONG. , 3D SESS.-CH. 313 -JUNE 11, 1940 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 members 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; acquisition and conversion or construc- tion 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; inci- dental expenses at navy yards and naval stations and in material inspection and superintending constructors' offices such as photo- graphing, technical and professional books and magazines, plans, stationery, drafting instruments, and other materials $33,008,100 (composed of "A" item, $30,280,300 and "B" item, $2,727,800), of which amount $2,000,000 ("B" item) shall be immediately available: 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 $1,875,500 (composed of "A" item, $1,655,000, and "B" item, $220,500). BUREAU OF ORDNANCE ORDNANCE AND ORDNANCE STORES, NAVY 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 smoke- less 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, and periodicals; plant appliances 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 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 Secre- tary 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 expenses of such persons if they be members of the Naval Reserve ordered to active duty; for the maintenance, repair, and operation of horse-drawn and motor-propelled freight and passenger-carrying vehicles, to be used only for official purposes at naval ammunition depots, naval proving grounds, naval ordnance plants, and naval torpedo stations; for the pay of chemists, clerical, drafting, inspection, and messenger service in navy yards, naval stations, naval ordnance 273 Maintenance, etc., of vessels. Equipage, supplies, etc. Field force. Provo. Group IV (b) em- ployees. Post, pp. 293, 296, 605, 876, 972. Post, pp. 293, 296, 605, 876, 972. Procuring, preserv- ing, etc. Fuel, material, and labor. Experimental work Scientists, etc. Vehicles. 193470--41-PT. I-- -18

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