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116 Navy Department . Salaries . Secretary, Assistant, and civilian personnel in offices, etc ., desig- nated . Am eri can Eph em- eris, etc. Salaries limited to averag e rates under Classification Act . 5 U.S. C. §§ 661-674. Exc epti on . Proviso . Restriction not ap- plicable to clerical- mechanical service . No reduction in fixed salaries. 42 Stat.1490. Transfers without reduction . Payment under higher rate. If only one position in a grade. 7 5TH CONGRESS, 1ST SESSION-CH . 140-APRIL 27, 19 37 NA VY DEPARTMENT SALA RIES For compensation for personal services in the District of Columbia, as follows Office of the Secretary of the Navy : Secretary of the Navy, Assis tant S ecret ary of the Navy, and other pers onal servi ces, $189,130 . General Board, $12,560 . Naval examining and retiring boards, $10,580 . Compensation board, $6,840 . Office of Naval Records an d Library, $34,080 . Office of Judge Advocate General, $120,920 . Office of Chief of Naval Operations, $69,260 . Board of Inspection and Survey, $19,840 . Office of Director of Naval Communications, $130,000 . Office of Naval Intelligence, $72,250 . Burea u of Na vigatio n, $480 ,040 . Hydrographic Office, $408,000 . Nava l Obs ervato ry, i nclud ing $ 2,500 for p ay of comp uters on pi ecewor k in prepa ring for pu blica tion the A meric an Eph emeri s and Nautical Almanac and in improving the tables of the planets, moo n, and sta rs, $171,5 60 . Bureau of Engineering, $307,400 . Bureau of Construction and Repair, $347,479 . Bureau of Ordnance, $149,000 . Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $801,440 . Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, $83,720 . Bureau of Yards and Docks, $276,800 . Bureau of Aeronautics, $358,800 . In all, salaries, Navy Department, $4,049,699 . In expending appropriations or portions of appropriations con- tained in this Act, for the payment for personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, with the exception of the As sistant Sec retaries o f the Na vy, the av erage of t he salarie s of the t otal number of person s under any grade in any bureau, office, or other appropriation unit shall not at any time exceed the average of the compensation rates specified for the grade by such Act, as amended, and in grades in which only one position is allocated the salary of such position shall not exceed the average of the compensation rates for the grade, except that in unusually meritorious cases of one position in a grade advances may be made to rates higher than the average of the com- pensation rates of the grade but not more often than once in any fiscal year and then only to the next higher rate : Provided, That this restriction shall not apply (1) to grades 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the clerical- mechani cal service, or (2) t o require the reduct ion in sal ary of any person whose compensation was fixed as of July 1, 1924, in accordance with the rules of section 6 of such Act, (3) to require the reduction in salary of any person who is transferred from one position to another positi on in the same or d ifferent grade in t he same or a differ - ent bureau, of fice, or other appr opriation unit, (4) to prevent the pay - ment of a salary under any grade at a rate higher than the maximum rate of the grade when such higher rate is permitted by the Classi- fication Act of 1923, as amended, and is specifically authorized by other law, or (5) to reduce the compensation of any person in a grade in which only one position is allocated .