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 77TH CONG., 2D SESS.-CH. 46-FEB. 7, 1942 or any of the Government navy yards or arsenals of the United States, when time and facilities permit, and when, in the judgment of the Secretary of the Navy, such repair, purchase, acquirement, or production would not involve an appreciable increase in cost to the Government, except when the repair, purchase, or acquirement, by or from any private contractor, would, in the opinion of the Secretary of the Navy, be advantageous to the national defense. SEC. 106. No part of the funds herein appropriated shall be avail- able to pay a contractor upon any contract for a naval vessel entered into under authority of this Act unless, at the time of filing his bid, he shall also file the estimates upon which such bid was based. SEC. 107. The appropriations contained in this Act shall be avail- able for the pay and other expenses of not to exceed two hundred thousand men inducted into the naval forces and twenty thousand into the Marine Corps under the provisions of the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940. SEO. 108. No part of any money appropriated by this Act shall be used for maintaining, driving, or operating any Government-owned motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle not used exclusively for official purposes; and "official purposes" shall not include the trans- portation of officers and employees between their domiciles and places of employment except in cases of medical officers on out-patient med- ical service and except in cases of officers and employees engaged in field work the character of whose duties makes such transportation necessary and then only as to such latter cases when the same is approved by the head of the Department. This section shall not apply to any motor vehicle for official use of the Secretary of the Navy, and no other persons connected with the Navy Department or the naval service, except the commander in chief of the United States Asiatic Fleet, Marine Corps officers serving with expeditionary forces in foreign countries, and medical officers on out-patient medical serv- ice, shall have a Government-owned motor vehicle assigned for their exclusive use. SEC. 109. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall be used directly or indirectly, except for temporary employ- ment 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 citizens 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 faith- ful 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; 77 Estimates to ac- company bids. Selectees, naval service and Marine Corps. 54 Stat. 885. 50 U. S. C., app. §§ 301-318; Supp. , §§ 302-315 . Post, pp. 369, 386, 724 1018. Government-owned vehicles, use restrict- ed. "Official purposes." Canal Zone. Citizenship require- ment, civilian per- sonnel. Provisos. Employment of Panamanian citizens. 48U..C.. 1307 note. Employees with 15 or more years of serv- ice. Selection of person- nel. Hours of employ- ment, pay rates. 56 STAT.]

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