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 55 STAT.] 77TH CONG., 1ST SESS.-CH. 266 -JULY 1, 1941 SEC. 29. None of the funds appropriated by this joint resolution shall be used for the manufacture, purchase, or construction of any naval vessel, any armament, munitions, or implement of war, for military or naval forces, and no funds herein appropriated or author- ized shall be diverted or allocated to any other department or bureau for such purpose. SEC. 30. No part of the funds made available in this joint resolu- tion shall be loaned or granted, except pursuant to an obligation incurred prior to the date of the enactment of this joint resolution, to any State, or any of its political subdivisions or agencies, for the purpose of carrying out or assisting in carrying out any program or project of constructing, rebuilding, repairing, or replanning its penal or reformatory institutions, unless the President shall find that the projects to be financed with such loan or grant will not cause or promote competition of the products of convict labor with the prod- ucts of free labor. SEC. 31. In expending appropriations or portions of appropria- tions, contained in this joint resolution, for the payment for per- sonal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, the average of the salaries of the total number of persons under any grade in any appropriation unit herein shall not at any time exceed the average of the com- pensation rates specified for the grade by such Act, as amended and in grades in which only one position is allocated, the salary of such position shall not exceed the average of the compensation rates for the grade: Provided, That this restriction shall not apply (1) to grades 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the clerical-mechanical service, or (2) to require the reduction in salary of any person whose compensation was fixed as of July 1, 1924, in accordance with the rules of section 6 of such Act, or (3) to require the reduction in salary of any person who is transferred from one position to another position in the same or different grade in the same or a different bureau, office, or other appropriation unit, or (4) to prevent the payment of a salary under any grade at a rate higher than the maximum rate of the grade when such higher rate is permitted by the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, and is specifically authorized by other law, or (5) to reduce the compensation of any person in a grade in which only one position is allocated. SEC. 32. Any Administrator or other officer named to have general supervision at the seat of government over the program and work contemplated under the appropriations contained in this joint resolu- tion and receiving a salary of $5,000 or more per annum from such appropriations, and any State or regional administrator receiving a salary of $5,000 or more per annum from such appropriations (except persons now serving as such under other law) shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate: Provided, That the provisions of section 1761 of the Revised Statutes shall not apply to any such appointee and the salary of any person so appointed shall not be increased for a period of six months after confirmation. SEC. 33. The Work Projects Administration shall continue to maintain in each State an Office of State Administrator for such State. SEC. 34. There is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the fiscal year 1942, the sum of $25,000,000, to be used by the Secretary of Agriculture for the purpose of effectuating the provisions of section 32 of the Act entitled "An Act to amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act, and for other 407 Restriction on use of funds for naval or military purposes. Restriction on con- struction, etc., of penal institutions. Exception. Salary restriction. 42 Stat. 1488 . 5U.8. . §§661-674. Port, p. 613. Proviso. Restriction not ap plicable in designated cases. 42 Stat. 1490. 5U.S.C. §666. Appointment of des- iginated administra- tors. Proviso. Recess appointees. 5U.S.C.§56. State Administra tors. Disposal of surplus commodities. Pot, P. 437.

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