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75T H CONGRESS, 1ST SESS ION-- CH . 140-APRIL 27, 1 937 [CHAPTER 140] April 27, 1937
AN ACT [H. R. 5232]
Ma king app rop riat ions for the Navy Department and the naval service for the [Public, No . 54]
fiscal year ending June 30, 1938, and for other purposes . Be it enacted by the Senate and House o f Representatives o f the Uni ted S tates o f America in Congress assembled, That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not other- wise appropriated, for the Navy Department and the naval service for th e fiscal ye ar ending J une 30, 193 8, namely Navy Department and naval service ap- propriations far fiscal year 1938 . Naval Establish- ment . Secr eta ry's off ice . Mis cell ane ous ex- penses . Experts. Courts martial, etc . Accident preven- tion, sho re establ ish- ments. Living quarters, etc . 46 Stat . 818 . 5U.S.C.§118a. Damage claims . 41 Stat. 132. 34U.S.C.§600. Provisos . R estr ict ion on use in certain naval dis- tricts . Group IV (b) em- ployees . NA VAL ESTAB LISH MENT OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY MI SCELLANEOUS EXPENSES For traveling expenses of civilian employees, including not to exceed $5,000 for the expenses of attendance, at home and abroad, upon meetings of technical, professional, scientific, and other similar organizations when, in the judgment of the Secretary of the Navy, such attendance would be of benefit in the conduct of the work of the Navy Department ; not to exceed $2,000 for the part-time or inter- mittent employment in the District of Columbia or elsewhere of such experts and at such rates of compensation as may be contracted for by and in the discretion of the Secretary of the Navy ; expenses of courts martial, purchase of law and reference books, expenses of prisoners and prisons, courts of inquiry, boards of investigation, examining boards, clerical assistance ; witnesses' fees and traveling expenses ; not to exceed $15,000 for promoting accident prevention and safety in shore establishments of the Navy, to be expended in the discretion of the Secretary of the Navy ; newspapers and periodicals for the naval service ; all advertising of the Navy Department and its bureaus (except advertising for recruits for the Bureau of Naviga- tion) ; costs of suits ; relief of vessels in distress ; recovery of valuables from shipwrecks ; maintenance of attaches abroad, including office rental and pay of employees, and not to exceed $12,000 in the aggre- gate or $900 for any one person for allowances for living quarters, including heat, fuel, and light, as authorized by the Act approved June 26, 1930 (U . S . C., title 5, sec. 118a) ; the collection and classi- fication of information ; not to exceed $195,000 for telephone, tele- graph, and teletype rentals and tolls, telegrams, radiograms, and cablegrams ; postage, foreign and domestic, and post-office box rentals ; necessary expenses for interned persons and prisoners of war under the jurisdiction of the Navy Department, including funeral expenses for such interned persons or prisoners of war as may die while under such jurisdiction ; payment of claims for damages as provided in the Act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year 1920, approved July 11, 1919 (U . S . C . title 34, sec . 600) ; and other necessary and incidental expenses ; in all, $1,241,780 : Provided, That no part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall be available for the expense of any naval district in which there may be an active navy yard, naval training station, or naval operating base, unless the commandant of the naval district shall be also the commandant of one of such establishments : Provided further, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation for employees assigned to group IV (b) and those performing similar services carried under native and alien schedules in the Schedule of Wages for Civil Employees in the Field Service of the Navy Department shall not exceed $515,000 .
