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522 Percentage reduction for 1935 . For portion of 1934 . Deficiencies may be incurred to meet differ- ences in payments . Vol . 34, p. 49, waived . Awe, p. 13. Appropriation of nec- essary funds . Salaries, etc ., govern- ment of the District of of Columbia . We ekly compensa- tion of mechanics, etc ., to be reestablished . Proviso . Hours of employ - ment. Ante, p. 16 . Automatic promo- tions suspended . Certain related sec- tions of Legislative Act of 1933 continued . Vol. 47, p. 403. 73d C ONGRESS . SESS . II . CH. 102. MARCH 28, 1934 . such sections 12, 13, and 18 with respect to the fiscal year ending June 30, 1935, the percentage of reduction shall be the percentage ap plicab le to office rs an d empl oyees of th e Fede ral Go vernme nt generally . In the application of such sections 12, 13, and 18 with respe ct to the por tion of the fi scal year 193 4 beginning F ebruary 1, 1934, and ending June 30, 1934, the percentage of reduction shall be the percentage applicable to officers and employees of the Federal Government generally . (d) Notwithstanding the provisions of the antideficiency Acts, deficiencies in their respective appropriations made during the se cond s ession of th e Sev enty-t hird C ongre ss and avail able f or obligation during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1935, may be incurred during such fiscal year by any executive department or independent establishment and the municipal government of the District of Columbia, upon written order of the President specifying the amount of the deficiency which may be incurred, and by the leg islative bran ch of the Gov ernment and th e agencies cu stomarily considered a part of such branch ; but such deficiencies may be incurred only to the extent necessary to enable the payment to officers and employees of such activities of sums for which the available appropriation is inadequate by reason of a diminution in the perce ntage of redu ction of compe nsation in pu rsuance of ac tion of the President under the provisions of section 3 of title II of such Act of March 20, 1939, as continued for the fiscal year 1935 . (e) There is hereby appropriated so much as may be necessary for the payment of sums due, and payable out of the Treasury of the United States, by reason of the diminution under this title in the percentage of reduction of compensation, and other amendments to existing laws made hereby ; and limitations on amounts for personal services are hereby respectively increased in proportion to the increase in appropriations for personal services made in this subsection . In the case of officers and employees of the municipal government of the District of Columbia, such sums shall be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia and the Treasury of the United States in the manner prescribed by the District of Columbia Appropriation Acts for the respective fiscal years . SEC . 2 3 . Th e week ly com pensa tion, minus any ge neral perce nt- age reduction wh ich may be pr escribed by Ac t of Congress , for the several trades and occupations, which is set by wage boards or other wag e-fixing auth orities, shal l be reestabli shed and main tained at rates not lower than necessary to restore the full weekly earnings of such employees in accordance with the full-time weekly earnings under the respective wage schedules in effect on June 1, 1932 : Pro- vided,, That the regular hours of labor shall not be more than forty per week ; and all overtime shall be compensated for at the rate of not less than time and one half . SEC . 24. Title II of the Act entitled "An Act to maintain the credit of the United States Government ", approved March 20, 1933, is amended b i nserting at t he end thereo f the followin g : "SEC . 10 . (a) The following sections, as amended, of Part II of the Legislative Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1933, are hereby con- tinued in full force and effect during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1935 : Sections 201 (suspending automatic increases in compensa- tion), 203 (prohibiting filling of vacancies), 206 (except subsection (a) thereof) (reducing travel allowances), 214 (authorizing tem- porary assignments in the Postal Service), 315 (restricting transfer of noncivilian personnel), 317 (authorizing transfers of appropria- tions), and 323 (reducing jurors' and witnesses' fees) .