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 55 STAT.] 77TH CONG. , 1ST SESS.-CH. 271-JULY 1, 1941 [CHAPTER 271] AN ACT Making appropriations for the government of the District of Columbia and other activities chargeable in whole or in part against the revenues of such District for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1942, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in order to defray the expenses of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1942, any revenue (not including the proportionate share of the United States in any revenue arising as the result of the expenditure of appropriations made for the fiscal year 1924 and prior fiscal years) now required by law to be credited to the District of Columbia and the United States in the same proportion that each contributed to the activity or source from whence such revenue was derived shall be credited wholly to the District of Columbia, and, in addition, $6,000,000 is appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be advanced July 1, 1941, and all of the remainder out of the combined revenues of the District of Columbia, namely: July 1, 1941 [H. R. 5049] [Public Law 1481 District of Colum- bia Appropriation Act, 1942. GENERAL EXPENSES EXECUTIVE OFFICE For personal services, $95,140, plus so much as may be necessary to compensate the Engineer Commissioner at such rate in grade 8 of the professional and scientific service of the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, as may be determined by the Board of Com- missioners, and including $7,000 for examination of estimates of appropriations and for other purposes without reference to the Clas- sification Act of 1923, as amended, or civil-service requirements: Provided, That in expending appropriations or portions of appro- priations contained in this Act for the payment of personal services in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, with the exception of the two civilian Commissioners, the average of the salaries of the total number of persons under any grade in any bureau, office, or other appropriation unit shall not at any time exceed the average of the compensation rates specified for the grade by such Act, as amended, and in grades in which only one position is allo- cated the salary of such position shall not exceed the average of the compensation rates for the grade, except that in unusually meritorious cases of one position in a grade advances may be made to rates higher than the average of the compensation rates of the grade, but not more often than once in any fiscal year and then only to the next higher grade: Providedfurther, That this restriction shall not apply (1) to grades 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the clerical-mechanical service; (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; (3) to require the reduction in salary of any person who is transferred from one position to another posi- tion in the same or different grade in the same or a different bureau, office, or other appropriation unit; (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 ony one position is allocated. Purchasing division: For personal services, $52,235. Post, p. 835. Provisos. Salary restriction. 42 Stat. 1488 . 5U.S.. § 661-674. Post, p. 613. Restriction not ap- plicable in designated cases. 42 Stat. 1490. 5U. S. C. s668. Post, p. 835. 499

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