77TH CONG., 2D SESS.-CH. 46-FEB . 7, 1942 a per diem or per annum basis, except in pursuance of specific authorization contained in this title or hereafter granted: Provided further, That no part of this or any other appropriation for the Navy Department or the Naval Establishment for the fiscal year 1943, or of funds allotted to the Navy Department, shall be available for the employment of a greater number than fifteen thousand civilian officers and employees in the Navy Department proper, at Wash- ington, except in pursuance of specific appropriations as to numbers hereafter provided. CONTINGENT, NAVY For all emergencies and extraordinary expenses, exclusive of per- sonal services, in the Navy Department or any of its subordinate bureaus or offices at Washington, District of Columbia, arising at home or abroad, but impossible to be anticipated or classified, to be expended on the approval and authority of the Secretary of the Navy, and for such purposes as he may deem proper, and his determination thereon shall be final and conclusive upon the accounting officers of the Government, and for examination of estimates for appropriations and of naval activities in the field for any branch of the naval service, $175,000, of which $2,500 shall be available immediately. CARE OF LEPERS, AND SO FORTH, ISLAND OF GUAM Naval station, Island of Guam: For maintenance and care of lepers, special patients, and for other purposes, including cost of transfer of lepers from Guam to the island of Culion, in the Philippines, and their maintenance, $24,450; for educational purposes, $15,000; in all, $39,450. NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY For laboratory and research work and other necessary work of the Naval Research Laboratory for the benefit of the naval service, includ- ing services of employees assigned to group IV (b) and those per- forming similar services carried under native and alien schedules in the Schedule of Wages for Civil Employees in the Field Service of the Navy Department, operation and maintenance of a laboratory, additions to equipment necessary properly to carry on work in hand, maintenance of buildings and grounds, temporary employment of such scientific and technical civilian assistants as may become necessary at rates of pay not exceeding $25 per diem for any person so employed, and subscriptions to technical periodicals, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, $1,798,653: Provided,That the compensation of the position of senior head physicist shall be at the rate of $8,000 per annum so long as such position is held by the present incumbent. OPERATION AND CONSERVATION OF NAVAL PETROLEUM RESERVES To enable the Secretary of the Navy to carry out the provisions contained in the Act approved June 4,1920, as amended (34 U. S. C., Supp. IV, 524), requiring him to conserve, develop, use, and operate the naval petroleum reserves, $71,755, of which amount not to exceed $25,000 shall be available for employees assigned to group IV (b) and those performing similar services carried under native and alien schedules m the Schedule of Wages for Civil Employees in the Field Service of the Navy Department: Provided, That out of any sums appropriated for naval purposes by this Act, any portion thereof, not to exceed $10,000,000, shall be available to enable the Secretary of the Navy to protect Naval Petroleum Reserve Numbered 1, estab- Maximum number of employees, D. C. Post,p. 230 . PrIorao. Senior head physi- cist, pay. 41 Stat. 813. 34U. S.. . 524. Praiee. Protection of Re- serve No. 1 . 55 56 STAT.]
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