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 PUBLIC LAWS-CHS. 233, 234-JUNE 3, 5, 1944 as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, shall assign customs officers and employees to duty at such times during the twenty-four hours of each day, including Sundays and holidays, as the Secretary of the Treasury in his discretion may determine to be necessary to facilitate the inspection and passage of such merchandise, baggage, Night, o dundy, or persons. Officers and employees assigned to such duty at night or compensation on Sunday or a holiday shall be paid compensation in accordance with existing law as interpreted by the United States Supreme Court in the case of the United States v. Howard C. Myers (320 U. S . 561); but all compensation payable to such customs officers and employees shall be paid by the United States without requiring any license, bond, obligation, financial undertaking, or payment in con- nection therewith on the part of any owner, operator, or agent of any such highway vehicle, bridge, tunnel, or ferry, or other person. As erry." used in this section, the term 'ferry' shall mean a passenger service operated with the use of vessels which arrive in the United States on regular schedules at intervals of at least once each hour during any period in which customs service is to be furnished without reim- bursement as above provided". etc., heretofore S- SEc. 2. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, ignd. compensa the extra compensation of customs officers and employees heretofore tion. assigned to the performance of inspectional services in connection with traffic over highways or toll bridges, through toll tunnels, or on ferries within the definition of the term "ferry" in section 1 of this Act on Sundays or holidays prior to the date of the enactment of this Act, l9u.S .c .0 2, 267. which is payable on the basis prescribed by the said section 5 of the Act of February 13, 1911, as amended, shall be payable by the United Refunds. States without reimbursement by the applicants for such services or any other person. Any reimbursement of compensation made payable Appropriation au- without reimbursement by this section which has accrued and been thorized. collected since January 6, 1941, shall be refunded. The necessary moneys to carry out the provisions of this Act are hereby authorized ompensationd to be appropriated from the general fund of the Treasury. ferences.atn SEC. 3. The United States Civil Service Commission is hereby byportto Congress directed to cause an investigation to be made and to report its recom- mendations to the Congress on or before the expiration of ninety days after the date of the enactment of this Act concerning differences between the compensation of customs officers and employees per- forming inspectional work and the compensation of other Federal Recommendat employees performing comparable work under comparable circum- stances, and to include in such report recommendations for the equali- zation of any differences found in such manner as will eliminate any necessity for the assignment of individual customs officers or employees to work regularly on seven days in any week. The Com- mission shall also include in such report recommendations with respect to the establishment of pay differentials for customs officers and employees who are required to work at nights or on Sundays and holidays in performance of the work to which they are regularly assigned. Approved June 3, 1944. [CHAPTER 234] Jne5,4 AN ACT [H. R. 35701 To provide for the partial construction of the Hungry Horse Dam on the South [Publc Law 329] Fork of the Flathead River in the State of Montana, and for other purposes. Hungry Horse Dam, Mont. Construction, etc., on South Fork of Flat- bead River. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled That for the pur- pose of irrigation and reclamation of arid lands, for controlling floods, 270 [58 STAT.

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