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 292 Canal Zone. Personal services on, citizenship require- ment after May 1, 1941; exception. Provisos. Employment of Panamanian citizens. 48 U. . C., Supp. V, i 1307. Restriction on num- ber. Persons with 15 or more years of service. Selection of per- sonnel. Honrs of employ- ment; rates of pay. Provisions applica- ble only to certain persons. Suspension of com- pliance in time of war, etc. Ante, p. 265. PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 313-JUNE 11, 1940 [54 STAT. SEc. 6. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall be used directly or indirectly after May 1, 1941, except for temporary employment in case of emergency, for the payment of any civilian for services rendered by him on the Canal Zone while occupying a skilled, technical, clerical, administrative, executive, or supervisory position unless such person is a citizen of the United States of America or of the Republic of Panama: Provided, however, (1) That, notwith- standing the provision in the Act approved August 11, 1939 (53 Stat. 1409), limiting employment in the above-mentioned positions to citizens of the United States from and after the date of the approval of said Act, citizens of Panama may be employed in such positions; (2) that at no time shall the number of Panamanian citizens employed in the above-mentioned positions exceed the number of citi- zens of the United States so employed, if United States citizens are available in continental United States or on the Canal Zone; (3) that nothing in this Act shall prohibit the continued employment of any person who shall have rendered fifteen or more years of faithful and honorable service on the Canal Zone; (4) that in the selection of personnel for skilled, technical, administrative, clerical, super- visory, or executive positions, the controlling factors in filling these positions shall be efficiency, experience, training, and education; (5) that all citizens of Panama and the United States rendering skilled, technical clerical, administrative, executive, or supervisory service on the Canal Zone under the terms of this Act (a) shall normally be employed not more than forty hours per week; (b) may receive as compensation equal rates of pay based upon rates paid for similar employment in continental United States plus 25 per centum; (6) this entire section shall apply only to persons employed in skilled, technical, clerical, administrative, executive, or supervisory positions on the Canal Zone directly or indirectly by any branch of the United States Government or by any corporation or company whose stock is owned wholly or in part by the United States Government: Provided further, That the President may suspend compliance with this section in time of war or national emergency if he should deem such course to be in the public interest. TITLE II-EMERGENCY NATIONAL DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS Ante, p. 205. Miscellaneous ex- penses. Ante, p. 265. Ante, p. 267. Naval Reserve. Ante, pp. 265, 270. Group IV (b) em- ployees. OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY Miscellaneous expenses: For an additional amount for miscella- neous expenses comprising the same objects specified under this head in title I of this Act, $256,700, of which there shall be available not to exceed $200,000 for collection of information, $10,000 for promoting accident prevention and safety in shore establishments of the Navy, and $25,000 in the aggregate or $900 for any one person for allowances for civil employees in attaches' offices. BUREAU OF NAVIGATION NAVAL RESERVE For an additional amount for the Naval Reserve, comprising the same objects specified under this head in title I of this Act, $3,425,000, of which not to exceed $34,560 shall be available for the pay of 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.

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