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 77TH CONG. , 1ST SESS.-CH. 86-MAY 6, 1941 [CHAPTER 86] AN ACT May 6, 1941 Making appropriations for the Navy Department and the naval service for the [H. R.3981] fiscal year ending June 30, 1942, and for other purposes. [Public Law 48] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not other- wise appropriated, for the Navy Department and the naval service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1942, namely: NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES For traveling expenses of civilian employees, including the travel of dependents of employees to and from navy yards or stations out- side the continental limits of the United States, and for the expenses of attendance, at home and abroad, upon meetings of technical, pro- fessional, scientific, and other similar organizations when, in the judgment of the Secretary of the Navy, such attendance would be of benefit in the conduct of the work of the Navy Department; for the part-time or intermittent employment in the District of Columbia or elsewhere of such experts and at such rates of compensation as may be contracted for by and in the discretion of the Secretary of the Navy; expenses of courts martial, purchase of law and reference books, expenses of prisoners and prisons, courts of inquiry, boards of investigations, examining boards, clerical assistance; witnesses' fees and traveling expenses; for promoting accident prevention and safety in shore establishments of the Navy, to be expended in the discretion of the Secretary of the Navy; newspapers and periodicals for the naval service; all advertising of the Navy Department and its bureaus (except advertising for recruits for the Bureau of Naviga- tion) ; costs of suits; relief of vessels in distress; recovery of valuables from shipwrecks; maintenance of attaches and observers abroad, including office rental and pay of employees, and not to exceed $900 for any one person for allowances for living quarters, including heat, fuel and light, as authorized by the Act approved June 26, 1930 (5 U. S . C . 118a); for contingencies for the Director of Naval Intelligence, to be expended in his discretion, not to exceed $2,000; the collection and classification of information; telephone, telegraph, and teletype rentals and tolls, telegrams, radiograms, and cablegrams; postage, foreign and domestic, and post-office box rentals; necessary expenses for interned persons and prisoners of war under the jurisdic- tion of the Navy Department, including funeral expenses for such interned persons or prisoners of war as may die while under such jurisdiction; payment of claims for damages as provided in the Act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year 1920, approved July 11, 1919 (34 U. S. C . 600); services 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; and other necessary and incidental expenses; in all, $3,450,000: Pro- vided, That no part of this or any other appropriation for the Navy Department or the Naval Establishment for the fiscal years 1941 and 1942, or of funds allotted to the Navy Department, shall be available after March 13, 1941, for any additional positions in the District of Columbia or elsewhere at rates of compensation in excess of $5,000 Naval Appropria- tion Act, 1942. Post, pp. 557, 670, 753, 814. Post, pp. 670, 814. Experts. Living quarters. 46 Stat. 818. Interned persons. Damage claims. 41 Stat. 132. Proisoi. Restriction on ad- ditional positions. 151 55 STAT.]

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