104 Bureau of Or d- nance. Procuring, etc., ord- nance and ordnance stores. Sch ools at des ig- nated stations . Proviso . Group IV (b) em- ployees . Bureau of Supplies and Ac counts . Pay of n aval pers on- nel . Officers. Aerial flights, increased pay restric- tion . Rent and subsist- ence . Retired officers. Hire of qu arters . Enlisted men . 75T H CONGRESS, 1ST SESSION-CH . 140 -AP RIL 27, 1 937 BUREAU OF ORD NANCE ORDNANCE AND ORDNANCE STORES, BUREAU OF ORDNANCE For procuring, producing, preserving, and handling ordnance mate- rial for the armament of ships ; for the purchase and manufacture of torpedoes and appliances ; for the purchase and manufacture of smokeless powder ; for fuel, material, and labor to be used in the general work under the cognizance of the Bureau of Ordnance ; for furniture at naval ammunition depots, torpedo stations, naval ord- nance plants, and proving grounds ; for technical books ; plant appli- ances as now defined by the "Navy Classification of Accounts"
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machinery and machine tools ; for accident prevention ; for experi- mental work in connection with the development of ordnance material for the Navy ; for maintenance of proving grounds, powder factory, torpedo stations, gun factory, ammunition depots, and naval ord- nance plants, and for target practice ; not to exceed $15,000 for minor improvements to buildings, grounds, and appurtenances of a char- acter which can be performed by regular station labor ; for payment of pa rt time or intermitt ent employm ent in the District of Columbi a, or elsewhere, of such scientists and technicists as may be contracted for by the Secretary of the Navy in his discretion at a rate of pay not exceeding $20 per diem for any person so employed ; for the maintenance, repair, and operation of horse-drawn and motor-pro- pelled freight and passenger-carrying vehicles, to be used only for official purposes at naval ammunition depots, naval proving grounds naval ordnance plants, and naval torpedo stations ; for the pay of chemists, clerical, drafting, inspection, and messenger service in navy yards, naval stations, naval ordnance plants, and naval ammunition depots, and for care and operation of schools at ordnance stations at Indianhead, Maryland ; Dahlgren, Virginia ; and South Charleston, West Virginia, $24,429 800 : Provided, 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 $1,380,000 . BUREAU OF SUPPLIES AND ACCOUNTS P AY, SU BSIST ENCE, AND TRANS PORTAT ION OF NAV AL PE RSONNE L Pay of naval personnel : For pay and allowances prescribed by law of officers on sea duty and other duty, and officers on waiting orders, pay-$34,762,731, including not to exceed $1,698,100 for increased pay for making aerial flights, no part of which shall be availab le for inc reased pay for makin g aerial f lights by any officer above the rank of captain, except not more than three officers of the rank of rear admiral, nor by nonflying officers or observers at a rate in exces s of $1,44 0 per annum , which sh all be the legal max imum rate as to such nonflying officers or observers ; rental allowance, $7,275,000 ; subsistence allowance, $4,358,427 ; in all, $46,396,158 ; officers on the retired list, $9,000,000 ; for hire of quarters for officers serving with troops where there are no public quarters belonging to the Govern- ment, and where there are not sufficient quarters possessed by the United S tates to a ccommodate them, and hire of qu arters for officers and enlisted men on sea duty at such times as they may be deprived of their quarters on board ship due to repairs or other conditions which may render them uninhabitable, $9,000 ; pay of enlisted men on the retired list, $7,600,000 ; interest on deposits by men, $3,000 ; pay of petty officers (not to exceed an average of eight thousand two hundred
