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 63 STAT.] 81ST CONG. , 1ST SESS.-CHS. 332, 333 -JULY 13, 14, 1949 more than six positions, each such position being established to effec- tuate those research and development functions, relating to the national defense, military and naval medicine, and any and all other activities of the National Military Establishment which requires the services of specially qualified scientific or professional personnel. "(b) The Chairman of the National Advisory Committee for Aero- nautics is authorized to establish and fix the compensation for, in the headquarters and research stations of the National Advisory Com- mittee for Aeronautics, not to exceed ten positions in the professional and scientific service, each such position being established in order to enable the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics to secure and retain the services of specially qualified personnel necessary in the discharge of the duty of the committee to supervise and direct the scientific study of the problems of flight with a view to their practical solution. "(c) The rates of compensation for positions established pursuant to the provisions of this Act shall not be less than $10,000 per annum nor more than $15,000 per annum and shall be subject to the approval of the Civil Service Commission." SEC. 2 . Section 3 of such Act of August 1, 1947, as amended, is hereby amended to read as follows: "SEC. 3 . The Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics shall submit to the Congress, not later than December 31 of each year, a report setting forth the number of positions established pursuant to this Act in the National Military Establishment and in the headquarters and research stations of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, respectively, during that calendar year, and the name, rate of compensation, and description of the qualifications of each incumbent, together with a statement of the functions performed by each. In any instance where the Secretary or the Chairman, respectively, may consider full public report on these items detrimental to the national security, he is authorized to omit such items from his annual report and, in lieu thereof, to present such information in executive sessions of such com- mittees of the Senate and House of Representatives as the presiding officers of those bodies shall designate." Approved July 13, 1949. [CHAPTER 333] AN ACT Relating to the payment of fees, expenses, and costs of jurors. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the second, third, and fourth paragraphs of section 1871 of title 28 of the United States Code, entitled "Judiciary and Judicial Procedures", are hereby amended to read as follows: "For actual attendance at the place of trial or hearing and for the time necessarily occupied in going to and from such place at the beginning and end of such service or at any time during the same, $7 per day, except that any juror required to attend more than thirty days in hearing one case may be paid in the discretion and upon the certification of the trial judge a per diem fee not exceeding $10 for each day in excess of thirty days he is required to hear such case. "For the distance necessarily traveled to and from a juror's resi- dence by the shortest practicable route in going to and returning from the place of service at the beginning and at the end of the term of service and for all additional necessary daily transportation expense, 411 National Advisory Committee for Aero- nautics. Rates of compensa- tion. 61 Stat. 715. 6U.S . C., Supp. II, 171r. ReportstoCongress. Jul 14,1949 {. 10421 [Public Law 168] 62 Stat. 953. 28 U. 8. C., Supp. II, § 1871. Ante, p. 103. Jurors' fees, ex- penses, and costs.

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