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 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 269 -JUNE 22, 1944 (except advertising for recruits for the Bureau of Naval Personnel); costs of suits; maintenance of attaches and others abroad, including Living qnater office rental and pay of employees, and not to exceed $900 for any one person for allowances for living quarters, including heat, fuel, and 46tat.818. light, as authorized by the Act approved June 26, 1930 (5 U. S . C . 118a); contingencies for the Director of Naval Intelligence, to be expended in his discretion, not to exceed $2,000; collection and classi- fication of information pertaining to Naval Intelligence; telephone, telegraph, and teletype rentals and tolls (including not to exceed $300 for extension telephones between the telephone switchboards at the official stations of naval officials and the living quarters of such officials), telegrams, radiograms, and cablegrams for the Navy Depart- ment and the naval service; postage, foreign and domestic and post- abed ersnna office box rentals; microphotographic services; necessary expenses for interned persons and prisoners of war under the jurisdiction of the Navy Department, including funeral expenses for such interned per- sons or prisoners of war as may die while under such jurisdiction; Deil "-. payment of claims for damages as provided in the Act approved July 41 Sta 32. 34 U.S. a., upp. 11, 1919 (34 U. S . C . 600) and not to exceed $28,000 for the payment of mI,I60 note. claims of civilian employees of the Naval Establishment as provided 7 Stat. 582. in the Act approved October 27, 1943 (Public Law 176), which have 34U.S. ., SUpp. m. i Bs-w. not been or may be eligible for payment under the provisions of the Stat. 17. n Act approved March 27, 1942 (Public Law 506); necessary expenses I(Io 6b2."a for maintenance and operation of a security inspection force; and other necessary and incidental expenses; in all, $42,437,298: Pro- 80, 55tt;8 s5Stat. vrided, That the whole of the appropriation "Aviation, Navy, 1942", shall remain available until June 30, 1945, for the payment of obliga- tions incurred under contracts executed prior to June 30, 1942, the Pod,,p.312. provision in the appropriation "Aviation, Navy", contained in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding. CONTINGENT, NAVY For all emergencies and extraordinary expenses, exclusive of per- sonal services in the Navy Department or any of its subordinate bureaus or offices at the seat of government, arising at home or abroad, but impossible to be anticipated or classified, to be expended on the approval and authority of the Secretary, and for such purposes as he may deem proper, and his determination thereon shall be final and conclusive upon the accounting officers of the Government, and for examination of estimates for appropriations and of naval activi- ties in the field for any branch of the naval service, $160,000. Ante, p. 283; po t, NAVAL EMERGENCY FOND Not to exceed $5,000,000 of the unobligated balances as of June 30, 1944 of all appropriations made under this head since and including fiscal year 1941 are hereby amalgamated and continued available until June 30, 1945, for any naval object and purpose, whether or not provided for under other naval appropriations, which the Secretary may deem essential to the war effort. NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY For necessary work of the Naval Research Laboratory for the benefit of the naval service, operation and maintenance of a labora- tory, additions to equipment, maintenance of buildings and grounds, temporary employment of such scientific and technical civilian assist- ants as may become necessary at rates of pay not exceeding $25 per diem for any person so employed, and subscriptions to technical 302 [58 STAT.

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