PUBLIC LAWS-OH. 149-MAY 25, 1939 Maintenance. Employment of beneficiaries. Repairs, preserva- tion of machinery, etc. Exceptions. Equipage, supplies, etc. Field force. Annapolis, Md. , e n- gineering experiment station. Contracts. Proviso. Group IV (b) em- ployees. schedules in the Schedule of Wages for Civil Employees in the Field Service of the Navy Department shall not exceed $13,800; Maintenance: For water rent, heating, and lighting; cemetery, burial expenses, and headstones; general care and improvements of grounds, buildings, walls, and fences; repairs to power-plant equip- ment, implements, tools, and furniture, and purchase of the same; music in chapel and entertainment for beneficiaries; stationery, books, and periodicals; transportation of indigent and destitute beneficiaries to the Naval Home, and of sick and insane beneficiaries, their attend- ants and necessary subsistence for both, to and from other Govern- ment hospitals; employment of such beneficiaries in and about the Naval Home as may be authorized by the Secretary of the Navy, on the recommendation of the governor; support of beneficiaries and all other contingent expenses, including the maintenance, repair, and operation of two motor-propelled vehicles, and one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle to be used only for official purposes, $99,880; In all, Naval Home, $200,000. BUREAU OF ENGINEERING ENGINEERING For repairs, preservation, and renewal of machinery, auxiliary machinery, and boilers of naval vessels, yard craft, and ships' boats, distilling and refrigerating apparatus; repairs, preservation, and renewals of electric interior and exterior signal communications and all electrical appliances of whatsoever nature on board naval vessels, ex- cept range finders, battle order and range transmitters and indicators, and motors and their controlling apparatus used to operate machinery belonging to other bureaus; searchlights and fire-control equipments for antiaircraft defense at shore stations; maintenance and operation of coast signal service; equipage, supplies, and materials under the cognizance of the Bureau required for the maintenance and operation of naval vessels, yard craft, and ships' boats; purchase, installation, repair, and preservation of machinery, tools, and appliances in navy yards and stations, accident prevention, pay of classified field force under the Bureau; incidental expenses for naval vessels, navy yards, and stations, inspectors' offices, the engineering experiment station, such as photographing, technical books and periodicals, stationery, and instruments; services, instruments, machines and auxiliaries, apparatus and supplies, and technical books and periodicals necessary to carry on experimental and research work; maintenance and equip- ment of buildings and grounds at the engineering experiment station, Annapolis, Maryland; payment of part-time or intermittent employ- ment in the District of Columbia 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 persons so employed, and payment of the travel expenses of such per- sons if they be members of the Naval Reserve ordered to active duty; in all, $26,317,500, and, in addition, the Secretary of the Navy may enter into contracts prior to July 1, 1940, for the procurement of tools to an amount not in excess of $1,035,800, and his action in so doing shall be deemed a contractual obligation of the Federal Government for the payment of the cost thereof: 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 $2,000,000. 764 [53 STAT.
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