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Tuition ments, e t c.

PUBLIC LAW 167-JULY 13, 1955

pay-

ROTC. Loyalty requirement.

Procurement o f U. S. products.

P a s s e n g e r automobiles.

B a k e r i e s, laundries, etc.

Grades 16-18. Temporary positions.

63 Stat. 963. 5 USC 1112. Ante, p. 179.

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expenditures are specifically authorized in other appropriations of the service concerned. SEC. 628. No appropriation contained in this Act shall be available for the payment of more than 75 per centum of charges of educational institutions for tuition or expenses for ojff-duty training of military personnel, nor for the payment of any part of tuition or expenses for such training for commissioned personnel who do not agree to remain on active duty for two years after completion of such training. SEC. 629. No part of the funds appropriated herein shall be expended for the support of any formally enrolled student in basic courses of the senior division, Reserve Officers Training Corps, who has not executed a certificate of loyalty or loyalty oath in such form as shall be prescribed by the Secretary of Defense. SEC. 630. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall be available for the procurement of any article of food, clothing, cotton, spun silk y a m for cartridge cloth (subject to the same conditions as apply to other commodities in this paragraph) or wool (whether in the form of fiber or yarn or contained in fabrics, materials, or manufactured articles) not grown, reprocessed, reused, or produced in the United States or its possessions, except to the extent that the Secretary of the Department concerned shall determine that a satisfactory quality and sufficient quantity of any articles of food or clothing or any form of cotton or wool grown, reprocessed, reused, or produced in the United States or its possessions cannot be procured as and when needed at United States market prices and except procurements outside the United States in support of combat operations, procurements by vessels in foreign waters and emergency procurements or procurements of perishable foods by establishments located outside the continental United States, except the Territories of Hawaii and Alaska, for the personnel attached thereto: Provided, That nothing herein shall preclude the procurement of foods manufactured or processed in the United States or its possessions: Provided further, That no funds herein appropriated shall be used for the payment of a price differential on contracts hereafter made for the purpose of relieving economic dislocations. SEC. 631. None of the funds appropriated in this Act shall be used for the purchase of passenger automobiles except for replacement: Provided, That the foregoing limitation shall not apply to the Army for sixteen vehicles, the Navy and Marine Corps for two hundred and fifty vehicles, and to the Air Force for seven hundred and fifty vehicles. SEC. 632. None of the funds appropriated in this Act shall be used for the construction, replacement, or reactivation of any bakery, laundry, or dry-cleaning facility in the United States, its Territories or possessions, as to which the Secretary of Defense does not certify in writing, giving his reasons therefor, that the services to be furnished by such facilities are not obtainable from commercial sources at reasonable rates. SEC. 633. In order more effectively to administer the funds appropriated to the Department of Defense, the President, to the extent he deems it necessary and appropriate in the interest of national defense, may authorize positions in the Department of Defense to be ]^laced temporarily in grades 16, 17, and 18 of the General Schedule of the Classification Act of 1949 in accordance with the procedures and standards of that Act, and such positions shall be additional to the number authorized by section 505 of that Act. Under authority herein, grades 16, 17, and 18 in the Department of Defense may be increased only to the extent that the total of such grades in the Department of Defense shall not exceed two hundred.

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