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 55 STAT.] 77TH CONG., IST SESS.-CHS. 26, 30-MAR. 23, 27, 1941 facilities, $2,500,000; bombproofing communication centers, bomb- proofed shelters for personnel, and recreation facilities, $650,000. Eleventh Naval District: High frequency strategic direction finder station, including acquisition of land, $80,000. Fourteenth Naval District: Bombproofing communication centers, bombproof shelters for personnel, quarters for officers, and recrea- tion facilities, $2,300,000. Fifteenth Naval District: Bombproofing communication centers, bombproof shelters for personnel, quarters for officers and recreation facilities, $1,340,000. Naval radio station, Bainbridge Island, Washington: Radio trans- mitting station including buildings and accessories, $350,000. The provisions of section 4 of the Act approved April 25, 1939 (53 Stat. 590-592), shall be applicable to all public works and public utilities projects authorized by this Act, regardless of location: Provided, That the fixed fee to be paid the contractor as a result of any contract hereafter entered into under the authority of the above- mentioned Act shall not exceed 6 per centum of the estimated cost of the contract, exclusive of the fee, as determined by the Secretary of the Navy: Provided further, That the fact that any contract authorized by this or any other Act is entered into without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, or upon a cost-plus-a-fixed-fee basis or otherwise without advertising for proposals, shall not be construed to render inapplicable the provisions of the Act of March 3, 1931, as amended by the Act of August 30, 1935 (49 Stat. 1011; U. S . C., title 40, sec. 276 (a)), if such Act would otherwise be applicable to such contract. The provisions of section 8 (a) of the Act approved June 28, 1940 (Public, Numbered 671, Seventy-sixth Congress), shall be appli- cable to naval public works projects authorized by this and all prior Acts. The acquisition of necessary land is hereby authorized in connec- tion with such of the projects provided in this Act as are enumer- ated in this paragraph, namely: (a) Navy Yards-Boston, Massa- chusetts (housing and messing facilities for crews of ships undergoing overhaul, and so forth), New York, New York, and Pearl Harbor, Hawaii; (b) naval stations-Guam and Key West, Florida; (c) submarine bases-Charlotte Amalie, Virgin Islands, and New London, Connecticut; (d) naval air stations--Unalaska, Alaska; Alameda, California; and Corpus Christi, Texas; (e) naval districts-Tenth and Fourteenth; (f) fleet operating facilities (security of fleet anchor- age, Vieques, Puerto Rico); (g) general (underground fuel storage); (h) naval net depots; (i) medical supply depot, Brooklyn, New York; (j) naval radio station, Bainbridge Island, Washington; and (k) Marine barracks at Parris Island, Pearl Harbor, Quantico, and San Diego. The acquisition of such land shall be a part of the amount fixed for each respective project by this Act. Approved, March 23, 1941, 12 noon. [CHAPTER 30] AN ACT Making supplemental appropriations for the national defense to provide aid to the government of any country whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the United States, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That to enable the President, through such departments or agencies of the Government as he may designate, to carry out the provisions of An Act to Promote the Defense of the United States, approved March 11, 1941, and for 53 Eleventh Naval District. Fourteenth Naval District. Fifteenth Naval District. Bainbridge Island, Wash. Cost-plus-a -fixed-fee contracts. Provisos. 41 U. S .C.C.. 46 Stat. 1494. Increase of cost lim- itation. 34 Stat. 680 . 41 U. S.C., prec. § note. Acquisition of land for designated proj- ects. March 27, 1941 [H. R. 4050] [Public Law 231 Defense Aid Sup- plemental Appropria- tion Act, 1941. Ante, p. 31; post, p. 745.

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