PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 86-MAY 6, 1941 and ammunition, and services of 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 54 stat. 287. Service of the Navy Department, $442,000,000, and, in addition, the unexpended balance on June 30, 1941, of the appropriation "Replace- ment of naval vessels, armor, armament, and ammunition" is hereby reappropriated and made available for the purposes of this para- Proi.so graph, all to remain available until expended: Provided, That the pended balance. unexpended balance as of June 30, 1941, of the appropriation under the head "Alterations to naval vessels" and all outstanding obligations against such appropriation for any purpose for which it was available are transferred on July 1, 1941, to the appropriation "Increase and replacement of naval vessels", divided between the heads "Construc- tion and machinery" and "Armor, armament, and ammunition" in such proportion as the Secretary of the Navy shall determine. Restriction on use Neither the appropriation "Increase and replacement of naval of funds for certain ships ert vessels, construction and machinery", nor the appropriation "Increase Postp. 559. and replacement of naval vessels, armor, armament, and ammuni- tion", shall be available for obligation for any purpose as to ships delivered or acquired prior to July 1, 1940, nor as to any ship delivered or acquired subsequently to such date after twelve months shall have elapsed from delivery or acquisition date. GENERAL PROVISIONS Letters patent. The appropriations made in this Act for the purchase or manu- facture of equipment or material or of a particular class of equip- ment or material shall be available for the purchase of letters patent, applications for letters patent, licenses under letters patent, and applications for letters patent that pertain to such equipment or material for which the appropriations are made. Dundeptmenttalueo f No part of any appropriation made for the Navy shall be expended for any of the purposes herein provided for on account of the Navy Department in the District of Columbia, including personal services of civilians and of enlisted men of the Navy, except as expressly ProBisoa . authorized by law: Provided, That there may be detailed to the Detail~ to Bureau of Navigation, etc. Bureau of Navigation not to exceed at any one time twenty-five enlisted men of the Navy and to the Office of the Chief of Naval Disetayls to Naval Operations, twelve enlisted men of the Navy: Provided further, That enlisted men detailed to the Naval Dispensary, the Office of Naval Intelligence, and the Radio Communication Service shall not be regarded as detailed to the Navy Department in the District of Columbia. Restriction on use No part of the appropriations made in this Act shall be available vices. for the salary or pay of any officer, manager, superintendent, fore- man, or other person or persons having charge of the work of any employee of the United States Government while making or causing to be made with a stop watch or other time-measuring device a time study of any job of any such employee between the starting and completion thereof, or of the movements of any such employee while Cash reward. engaged upon such work; nor shall any part of the appropriations made in this Act be available to pay any premiums or bonus or cash reward to any employee in addition to his regular wages, except for suggestions resulting in improvements or economy in the opera- epaeirs, etect. , by tion of any Government plant; and no part of the moneys herein private contractors,
no pat moneys restriction, appropriated for the Naval Establishment or herein made available therefor shall be used or expended under contracts hereafter made for the repair, purchase, or acquirement, by or from any private contactor, of any naval vessel, machinery, article, or articles that [55 STAT.
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