1 418 Proviso. Construction, etc ., first and alternate vessels at Government reards, facto ries, e tc ., required. Vol. 45, p . 1165; Vol . 48, p. 503. U.S.C.,p.1541. Contractors to fur- nish estimates . Navre Department . Salaries. Secretarre, Assistant, and civilian personnel in offi ces, e tc ., desig- nated. American Ephem- eris, etc . Salaries limited to average rates under Classification Act . Vol.42,p.1488; Vol . 45, p. 776 ; Vol .46,p. 1003 . U.S.C.,p.85. 74TH C ONGRESS . SESS. II. CH. 484. JU NE 3, 1936 . would not involve an appreciable increase in cost to the Government Provided, That nothing herein shall be construed as altering or rep ealing t he provi sos cont ained in the Act s to aut horize t he con- struction of certain naval vessels, approved February 13, 1929, and Mar ch 27, 1 934, whi ch provi de that the firs t and su cceeding alter- nate vessels in each category, except the fifteen-thousand-ton air- craft carrier, upon which work is undertaken, together with the main engines, armor, and armament shall be constructed or manu- factured in the Government navy yards, naval gun factories, naval ord nance pl ants, or arsenal s of the United States, except s uch ma- terial or parts as are not customarily manufactured in such Govern- ment plants . No part of the funds herein appropriated shall be available to pay a contr actor up on any c ontract for a na val vess el enter ed into under authority of this Act unless, at the time of filing his bid, he shall also file the estimates upon which such bid was based . NAVY DEPARTMENT SALARIES For c ompensat ion for personal service s in the Distric t of Col um- bia as foll ows Office of the Secretary of the Navy : Secretary of the Navy, As- sistant Secretary of the Navy, and other personal services, $173,330 . Gener al board , $12,56 0 . Naval examining and retiring boards, $10,600 . Compensation board, $6,840. Office of Naval Records and Library, $34,080 . Offic e of Jud ge Advoc ate Gene ral, $11 7,720 . Office of Chief of Naval Operations, $66,020 . Board of Inspection and Survey, $19,840 . Offic e of Dir ector of Naval C ommunica tions, $ 130,000 . Office of Naval Intelligence, $61,660 . Bureau of Navigation $473,320 . Hydrographic Office, 400,000 . Naval Observatory, including $2,500 for pay of computers on piece- work in preparing for publication the American Ephemeris and Nau tical Al manac an d in imp roving t he table s of the planets , moon, and stars, $171,140 . Bureau of Engineering, $307,400 . Bureau of Construction and Repair, $347,479 . Bureau of Ordnance, $149,000. Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $800,000. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, $83,720 . Bureau of Yards and Docks, $276,800 . Burea u of Aer onautics , $344,0 00 . In all, salaries, Navy Department, $3,985,509 . In expending appropriations or portions of appropriations con- tained in this Act, for the payment for personal services in the Dis- trict of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, with th e except ion of t he Assis tant Sec retaries of the Navy, the average of the salaries of the total number of persons und er any g rade in any bure au, offi ce, or o ther app ropriati on unit sha ll not a t any ti me excee d the av erage of the com pensatio n rates specified for the grade by such Act, as amended, and in grades in which only one position is allocated the salary of such position shall not exceed the average of the compensation rates for the grade, except that in unusually meritorious cases of one position in a grade advances may be made to rates higher than the average of the com- pensation rates of the grade but not more often than once in any
