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PUBLIC LAW 137—AUG. 31, 1951

system where that fee is at a rate in excess of $45,000 per annum: Provided further, That no part of the foregoing appropriation shall be used for any new construction project until after the Commission shall have notified all architects and engineers involved that the plans for such project should be purely utilitarian and without unnecessary refinements. C IV I L SERVICE COMMISSION Salaries and expenses: For necessary expenses, including not to exceed $28,000 for services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C 55a); not to exceed $10,000 for medical examinations performed for veterans by private physicians on a fee basis; travel expenses of examiners acting under the direction of the Commission, and expenses of examinations and investigations held in Washington and elsewhere; payment in advance for library membership in societies whose publications are available to members only or to members at a price lower than to the general public; not to exceed $65,000 for performing the duties imposed upon the Commission by the Act of July 19, 1940 (54 Stat. 767); reimbursement of the General Services Administration for security guard services for protection of confidential files; and not to exceed $5,000 for actuarial services by contract, without regard to section 3709, Revised Statutes, as amended; $17,500,000: Provided, That no details from any executive department or independent establishment in the District of Columbia or elsewhere to the Commission's central office in Washington or to any of its regional offices shall be made during the current fiscal year, but this shall not affect the making of details for service as members of the boards of examiners outside the immediate offices of the Commission in Washington or of the regional directors, nor shall it affect the making of details of persons qualified to serve as expert examiners on special subjects: Provided further, That the Civil Service Commission shall have power in case of emergency to transfer or detail any of its employees to or from its office or field force: Provided further, That members of the Loyalty Review Board in Washington and of the regional loyalty boards in the field may be paid actual transportation expenses, and per diem in lieu of subsistence authorized by the Travel Expense Act of 1949 while traveling on official business away from their homes or regular places of business, and while en route to and from and at the place where their services are to be performed: Provided further, That nothing in section 281 or 283 of title 18, United States Code, or in section 190 of the Revised Statutes (5 U.S.C. 99) shall be deemed to apply to any person because of his appointment for part-time or intermittent service as a member of the Loyalty Review Board or a regional loyalty board in the Civil Service Commission: Provided further, That not to exceed $575,000 of this appropriation shall be available for travel expenses. No part of the appropriations herein made to the Civil Service Commission shall be available for the salaries and expenses of the Legal Examining Unit in the Examining and Personnel Utilization Division of the Commission, established pursuant to Executive Order Numbered 9358 of July 1, 1943, or for the compensation or expenses of any member of a board of examiners (1) who has not made affidavit ^ that he has not appeared in any agency proceeding within the preceding two years, and will not thereafter while a board member appear in any agency proceeding, as a party, or in behalf of a party to the proceeding, before an agency in which an applicant is employed who has been rated or will be rated by such member: or (2) who, after making such affidavit, has rated an applicant who at the time of the rating 76100 O - 52 (PT. I) - 20

60 Stat. 810.

5 U. 8. C. §§ 118i, llSk-llSn.

41 U.S.C. §5.

Emergency transfer or detail.

Loyalty Review Board.

63 Stat. 166. 5 U.S.C. § 83.5 note.

62 Stat. 097.

Legal E x a m i n i n g Unit.

3 CFR, 1943 Supp., p. 30. C o m p e n s a t i o n of certain board members.

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