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PUBLIC LAW 3 7 5 - J U N E 5, 1952

Provided further, That this section shall not affect the availability of funds for compensation of personnel employed, by contract, pursuant to section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U.S.C. 55a), or other similar authority, or of employees whose rates of pay are fixed in accordance with prevailing local wage rates upon recommendation of wage boards or other similar authority: Provided further, That (1) the position of Administrative Assistant Secretary of the Treasury established by Reorganization Plan Numbered 26 of 1950, the position of Administrative Assistant Attorney General established by Reorganization Plan Numbered 2 of 1950, the position of Administrative Assistant Secretary of the Interior established by Reorganization Plan Numbered 3 of 1950, the position of Administrative Assistant Secretary of Commerce established by Reorganization Plan Numbered 5 of 1950, and the position of Administrative Assistant Secretary of Labor established by Reorganization Plan Numbered 6 of 1950, shall be filled without reference to section 1310 of Public Law 253 of the Eighty-second Congress, as amended, shall be subject to the Classification Act of 1949, as amended, shall be placed in the highest grade set forth in the general schedule of such Act without regard to section 505 (b) of such Act, as amended, and shall be in addition to the number of positions authorized to be placed in such grade under such section, and (2) in the case of any other position for which compensation is expressly established by law at a rate equal to the rate payable prior to the enactment of Public Law 201, Eighty-second Congress, under the highest grade of the Classification Act of 1949, the rate of compensation shall hereafter be equal to the rate payable for such grade under said Public Law 201. Except where specifically increased or decreased elsewhere in this Act, the restrictions contained within appropriations, or provisions affecting appropriations or other funds, available during the fiscal year 1952, limiting the amounts which may be expended for personal services, or for specified types of personal services, or for other purposes involving personal services, or amounts which may be transferred between appropriations or authorizations available for or involving such services, are hereby increased to the extent necessary to meet increased pay costs authorized by Public Laws 201 and 204, approved October 24, 1951, and Public Law 207, approved October 25, 1951, and comparable pay increases granted by administrative action pursuant to law. CHAPTER XII CLAIMS FOR DAMAGES, AUDITED CLAIMS, A N D JUEXiMENTS

For payment of claims for damages as settled and determined by departments and agencies in accord with law, audited claims certified to be due by the General Accounting Office, and judgments rendered against the United States by United States district courts and the United States Court of Claims, as set forth in House Document Numbered 471, Eighty-second Congress, and Senate Document Numbered 108, Eighty-second Congress, $6,490,662, together with such amounts as may be necessary to pay interest (as and when sj^ecified in such judgments or in certain of the settlements of the General Accounting Office or provided by law) and such additional sums due to increases in rates of exchange as may be necessary to pay claims in foreign currency: Provided, That no judgment herein appropriated for shall be paid until it shall have become final and conclusive against the United States by failure of the parties to appeal or otherwise: Provided further, That, unless otherwise specifically required by law c-r by the judgment, payment of interest wherever appropriated for

60 Stat. 810.

64 Stat. 1280. 5 USC 133Z-15 note.

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65 Stat. 612.

65 Stat. 612, 622, 636.

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