54 STAT.] 76TH CONG. , 3D SESS.-CH. 313 -JUNE 11, 1940 visiting merchant vessels, freight and express charges, telegrams, and other necessary expenses incurred in collecting the latest information for pilot charts, and for other purposes for which the offices were established, $11,380 ("A" item). For services of necessary employees at branch offices, $48,210 ("A" item). CONTINGENT AND MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES, NAVAL OBSERVATORY For professional and scientific books, books of reference, periodi- cals, engravings, photographs, and fixtures for the library; for apparatus and instruments, and for repairs of the same; for repairs to buildings (including quarters), fixtures, and fences; for cleaning, repair, and upkeep of grounds and roadsi furniture and furnishings for offices and quarters, gas, chemicals, paints, and stationery, includ- ing transmission of public documents through the Smithsonian exchange, foreign postage; plants, seeds, and fertilizers; for fuel, oil, grease, pipe, wire, and other materials needed for the maintenance and repair of boilers, engines, heating apparatus, electric lighting and power, and water supply; purchase and maintenance of teams; maintenance, repair, and operation of motortrucks and passenger automobiles, and of horse-drawn vehicles; telegraph and telephone service; and other absolutely necessary expenses, $29,000 ("A" item). SEC. 2. No part of any money appropriated by this Act shall be used for maintaining, driving, or operating any Government-owned motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle not used exclusively for official purposes; and "official purposes" shall not include the trans- portation of officers and employees between their domiciles and places of employment except in cases of medical officers on out-patient medical service and except in cases of officers and employees engaged in field work the character of whose duties makes such transportation necessary and then only as to such latter cases when the same is approved by the head of the Department. This section shall not apply to any motor vehicle for official use of the Secretary of the Navy, and no other persons connected with the Navy Department or the naval service, except the commander in chief of the United States Asiatic Fleet, Marine Corps officers serving with expedi- tionary forces in foreign countries, and medical officers on out-patient medical service, shall have a Government-owned motor vehicle assigned for their exclusive use. SEC. 3. When used in this Act, the words in parentheses ("A" item) and ("B" item) shall mean, respectively, "amounts for or relating to regular activities" and "amounts for or relating to activi- ties pursuant to Executive Order Numbered 8245, dated September 8, 1939", and when there is no such designation of an amount it shall be construed to be an "A" item; but such designations when combined for an appropriation or an amount limitation shall not be deemed to require separate administrative or fund accounting for each designation. SEC. 4. The portions of the appropriations contained herein and denominated as "B" items shall not be available for the employment other than temporarily of classified personal services. SEC. 5. The total amount used on an annual basis for administrative within-grade promotions for officers and employees under any appro- priation or other fund made available in this Act shall not exceed the amount determined by the Bureau of the Budget to be available for such purpose on the basis of the Budget estimate for such appropria- tion or fund exclusive of new money in any such Budget estimate for such administrative promotions. 291 Contingent and miscellaneous ex- penses. Government-owned motor vehicles. Use restricted to official business. Transportation be- tween domicile and place of employment. Exceptions. Definition of "A " Item and "B" item. Post, p. 25 . Use of "B" item funds. Administrative pro- motions, restriction.
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