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 622 Employees with 15 years' service. Selection of personnel. Hours of employment; pay rates.

Applicability.

Suspension of compliance.

60 Stat. 810.

Informational and editorial functions.

Short title.

PUBLIC LAW 204—OCT. 24, 1951

[65 STAT.

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 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, experience, training, and education; (5) that all citizens of Panama and the United States rendering skilled, technical, clerical, administrative, 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 United States plus 25 per centum; (6) this entire section shall apply only to persons employed in skilled, technical, clerical, administrative, 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 by the United States Government: Provided further, That the President may suspend from time to time in whole or in part compliance with this section if he should deem such course to be in the public interest. SEC. 104. The Governor of the Canal Zone and the Chief of Engineers, Department of the Army, are authorized to employ services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 tJ. S. C. 55a), in amounts not exceeding $15,000 for the Canal Zone Government and not exceeding $150,000 for the Corps of Engineers, Department of the Army: Provided, That the rates for individuals shall not exceed $100 per diem. SEC. 105. No part of the money appropriated by this Act which is in excess of 75 per centum of the amount required to pay the compensation of all persons the budget estimates for personal services heretofore submitted to the Congress for the fiscal year 1952 contemplated would be employed by the Department of the Army from appropriations for civil functions during such fiscal year in the performance of— (1) functions performed by a person designated as an information specialist, information and editorial specialist, publications and information coordinator, press relations officer or counsel, photographer, radio expert, television expert, motion-picture expert, or publicity expert, or designated by any similar title, or (2) functions performed by persons who assist persons performing the functions described in (1) in drafting, preparing, editing, typing, duplicating, or disseminating public information publications or releases, radio or television scripts, magazine articles, photographs, motion pictures, and similar material, shall be available to pay the compensation of persons performing the functions described in (1) or (2). SEC. 106. This Act may be cited as the "Civil Functions Appropriation Act, 1952". Approved October 24, 1951. CHAPTER

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AN ACT October 24, 1951 [S. 355]

To adjust the salaries of postmasters, supervisors, and employees in the field service of the Post Office Department.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Qrfdes^and salaries. United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act entitled

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