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 57 STAT.] 78TH CONG. , 1ST SESS.-CH. 147-JUNE 26, 1943 made in this Act be available to pay any premiums or bonus or cash reward to any employee in addition to his regular wages, except for suggestions resulting in improvements or economy in the opera- tion of any Government plant; and no moneys herein appropriated for the Naval Establishment or made available therefor shall be used or expended under contracts hereafter made for the repair, purchase, or acquirement, by or from any private contractor, of any naval ves- sel, machinery, article, or articles that at the time of the proposed repair, purchase, or acquirement can be repaired, manufactured, or produced in each 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, 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, be advantageous to the national defense. SEO. 106. No funds herein appropriated shall be available 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 available to the Navy Department and the naval service shall be available for the pay and other expenses of men inducted into the Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard in accordance with law. SEc. 108. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall be used directly or indirectly, except for temporary employment in case of emergency, for the payment of any civilian for services ren- dered 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, notwithstanding the provi- sion 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 conti- nental 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 faithful and honorable service on the Canal Zone; (4) that m the selection of personnel for skilled, technical, administrative, clerical, supervisory, 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 conti- nental United States plus 25 per centum; (6) this entire section shall apply only to persons employed in skilled, technical, clerical, admin- istrative, executive, or supervisory positions on the Canal Zone directly or indirectly by any branch of the United States Govern- ment or by any corporation or company whose stock is owned wholly or in part by the United States Government: Provided further, That the President may suspend, from time to time in whole or in part compliance with this section in time of war or national emergency if he should deem such course to be in the public interest. Work by private contractors, restric- tion.' Estimates to accom- pany bids. Inductees, pay and expenses. Canal Zone. Citizenship require- ment for civilian per- sonnel. Employment of Panamanian citizens. 48U..c.11307 note. Employees with 15 or more years of serv- ice. Selection of person- nel. Hours of employ- ment; pay rates. Applicability of sec- tion. Suspension of com- pliance in emergency. 8F. R.9175.

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