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PUBLIC LAW 88-426-AUG. 14, 1964

[78 STAT.

" (a) There shall be ten classes of Foreign Service staff officers and employees, referred to hereafter as staff officers and employees. The per annum salaries of such staff officers and employees within each class shall be as follows: "Class 1_. Class 2.. Class 3. Class 4.. Class 5.. Class 6.. Class 7.. Class 8-. Class 9.. Class 10

$14,860 $15,375 $15,890 $16,405 $16,920 $17,435 $17,950 $18,465 $18,980 12,075 12,495 12,915 13,335 13,755 14,175 14,595 15,015 15,435 9,945 10,290 10,635 10,980 11,325 11,670 12,015 12,360 12,705 8,295 8,580 8,865 9,150 9,435 9,720 10,005 10,290 10,575 7,480 7,735 7,990 8,245 8,500 8,755 9,010 9,266 9,620 6,755 6,980 7,205 7,430 7,655 7,880 8,105 8,330 8,555 6,205 6,410 6,615 6,820 7,025 7,230 7,435 7,640 7,846 5,490 5,675 5,860 6,045 6,230 6,415 6,600 6,785 6,970 6,010 5,175 6,340 5,505 6,670 5,835 6,000 6,166 6,330 4,480 4,630 4,780 4,930 6,080 6,230 5,380 6,530 5,680

$19,495 15,855 13,050 10,860 9,775 8,780 8,050 7,156 6,495 6,830"

SEC. 121. Foreign Service officers, Eeserve officers, and Foreign Service staff officers and employees who are entitled to receive basic compensation irmnediately prior to the effective date of this section at one of the rates provided by section 412 or 415 of the Foreign Service Act of 1946, shall receive basic compensation, on and after such effective date, at the rate of their class determined to be appropriate by the Secretary of State. AGRICULTURAL

Ante, p. 400.

STABILIZATION

A N D CONSERVATION EMPLOYEES

COMMITTEE

SEC. 122. The rates of compensation of persons employed by the county committees established pursuant to section 8(b) of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act (16 U.S.C. 590h(b)) shall be increased by amounts equal, as nearly as may be practicable, to the increases provided by section 102 of this Act for corresponding rates of compensation in the appropriate schedule or scale of pay. MISCELLANEOUS

Former U.S. Presidents.

COUNTY

PROVISIONS

S E C 123. Section 504 of the Federal Salary Eeform Act of 1962 (76 Stat. 842; 5 U.S.C. 1173) is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection: " (d) The rate of basic compensation, established under this section, and received by any officer or employee immediately prior to the effective date of a statutory increase in the compensation schedules of the salary systems specified in subsection (a) shall be initially adjusted on the effective date of such new compensation schedules in accordance with conversion rules and regulations prescribed by the President or by such agency or agencies as he may designate." S E C 124. Subsection (b) of the first section of the Act entitled "An Act to provide retirement, clerical assistants, and free mailing privileges to former Presidents of the United States, and for other purposes", approved August 25, 1958 (72 Stat. 838; 3 U.S.C. note fol. 102), is amended by striking out "$50,000" and inserting in lieu thereof "$65,000". ABSORPTION

O F COSTS

S E C 125. (a) The cost of not less than 10 per centum of the aggregate amount of the increases in compensation provided by this title for the fiscal year 1965 shall be absorbed by the departments, agencies, establishments, and corporations in the executive branch; and no amount beyond the additional sum for such compensation increases proposed in the budget for the fiscal year 1965 is authorized to be appropriated by any provision of this Act. The total amount of such absorption shall be allocated by the Bureau of the Budget among such

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