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 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 130-MAY 29, 1945 [59 STAT. Estimates company bid Inductees, expenses. Canal Zone Citizenship ment for civi sonnel Employn Panamanian 48U.S.( note. 220 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 appre- ciable 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. to ac- SEC. 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. pay and 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. 'req- SEC. 108. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall ilian per- 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 "CentS of Panama: Provided, however, (1) That, notwithstanding the pro- . 1 1307 vision 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- withe5 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 of per- on the Canal Zone; (4) that in the selection of personnel for skilled, technical, administrative, clerical, supervisory, or executive positions, the controlling factors in filling these positions shall be efficiency, employ- experience, training, and education; (5) that all citizens of Panama tes. and the United States rendering skilled, technical, clerical, adminis- trative, 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 ity ofse United States plus 25 per centum; (6) this entire section shall apply only to persons employed in skilled, technical, clerical, administra- tive, executive, or supervisory positions on the Canal Zone directly or indirectly by any branch of the United States Government or by any corporation or company whose stock is owned wholly or in part nergen'c by the United States Government: Provided further, That the Presi- dent 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. lmit on SEC. 109. The Secretary is authorized where necessary to exceed the statutory limit on repairs and alterations to vessels during the fiscal year 1946. ie duty. SEC. 110. During the fiscal year 1946 all retired officers and enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps shall, when on active duty, receive full pay and allowances. Employees or more year ice. Selection sonnel. Hours of ment; pay ra Applicabil tion. Suspension pliance in en Statutory repairs, etc. Pay of re aonnel on act

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