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STAT.]

PUBLIC LAW

357-MAY

11, 1954

cedures prescribed by section 505 of the Classification Act of 1949, but without regard to the numerical limitations contained therein, one position under the United States section of said Joint Board of Engineers may hereafter be placed in grade GS-16 in the General Schedule established by that Act: Provided further, That with the exception of certain necessary preliminary expenses, no part of these funds shall be obligated until agreement has been entered into, by the United States Government and the United States entity authorized to construct the power works in the International Rapids section of the Saint Lawrence Eiver, providing for the reimbursement of the expenditures (including necessary preliminary expenses) of the United States section of this Board by the construction entity.

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CHAPTER X DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE OFFICE or THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE CLAIMS

Not to exceed $2,500,000 may be transferred to the appropriation granted under this head for the fiscal year 1954, from the appropriation "Military personnel, Marine Corps, 1954".

^7 Stat. 336. 67 Stat. 342.

RETIRED P A Y

Not to exceed an additional $12,000,000 may be transferred to the appropriation granted under this head for the fiscal year 1954, from the appropriation "Military personnel, Marine Corps, 1954". DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY AUDITED CLAIMS

Applicable current appropriations of the Department of the Navy shall be available for the payment of claims certified by the Comptroller General to be otherwise due, in the amounts stated below, from the following appropriations: "Maintenance, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts", fiscal year 1943, $7,670.41. "Pay, subsistence, and transportation of Naval personnel", fiscal year 1943, $12,051.48. "Transportation of things. Navy", fiscal year 1948, $6,173.70. CHAPTER X I CLAIMS FOR DAMAGES, AUDITED CLAIMS, AND JUDGMENTS

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 Senate Document Numbered 110, Eighty-third Congress, $1,553,745, together with such amounts as may be necessary to pay interest (as and when specified 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

eystat. 337,342.

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