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PUBLIC LAWS-CHS. 194, 195-MAY 11, 1938 Payment; deposit into Treasury. Use of receipts, fiscal year 1936. ProFisos. Disposition of col- lections, July 1, 1936, and thereafter. Appropriations au- thorized to cover de- ficiencies. Payment due if ordered and reporting for duty. Regulation of vary- ing working hours. May 11, 1938 [H. R. 9286] [Public, No. 6041 overtime extends beyond 5 o'clock postmeridian (but not to exceed two and one-half days' pay for the full period from 5 o'clock post- meridian to 8 o'clock antemeridian) and two additional days' pay for Sunday or holiday duty. The said extra compensation for over- time services shall be paid by the master, owner, or agent of such vessel to the local United States collector of customs or his repre- sentative who shall deposit such collection into the Treasury of the United States to an appropriately designated receipt account. The amount of the receipts so covered during the fiscal year 1936 is hereby authorized to be appropriated and made available for pay- ment of extra compensation for overtime services to the several employees entitled thereto according to rates fixed therefor by the Secretary of Commerce: Provided, That effective July 1, 1936, and thereafter, the amounts of such collections received by the said col- lector of customs or his representative shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts; and the payments of such extra compensation to the several employees entitled thereto shall be made from the annual appropriations for salaries and expenses of the Bureau: Providedfurther, That to the extent that the annual appro- priations, which are hereby authorized to be made from the general fund of the Treasury, are insufficient, there are hereby authorized to be appropriated from the general fund of the Treasury such addi- tional amounts as may be necessary, to the extent that the amounts of such receipts are in excess of the amounts appropriated: Provided further, That such extra compensation shall be paid if such officers or employees have been ordered to report for duty and have so reported, whether the actual inspection of the vessel or her equip- ment, or the supplying, or signing on, or discharging crews takes place or not: And provided further, That in those ports where cus- tomary working hours are other than those hereinabove mentioned, the local inspectors of steam vessels, United States shipping com- missioners, or collectors of customs, as the case may be, are vested with authority to regulate the hours of such employees so as to agree with prevailing working hours in said ports, but nothing contained in this proviso shall be construed in any manner to alter the length of a working day for the local inspectors, their assistants, the United States shipping commissioners and their deputies and assistants, or customs officers and em)ployees, or the overtime pay herein fixed." Approved, May 11, 1938. [CHAPTER 195] AN ACT To extend the time for completing the construction of a bridge across the Ohio River at or near Cairo, Illinois. Ohio River. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Time extended for United States of America in Congress assembled, That the time for bridging, at Cairo, I. completing the construction of the bridge across the Ohio River at or near Cairo, Illinois, authorized to be built by the Cairo Bridge Com- st4at 1. T5; 49 mission by the Act of Congress approved April 13, 1934, and hereto- commencement of fore extended by the Act of Congress approved April 12, 1935, is construction recog- hereby further extended one ear from April 13, 1938. It is hereby ze. recognized that construction has been heretofore commenced under the provisions of and in accordance with said Act approved April Amendment. 13, 1934, as extended. SEC. 2 . The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved. Approved, May 11, 1938. 346 [52 STAT.