52 STAT.] 75TH CONG., 3D SESS.- CH. 175-APR. 26, 1938 BUREAU OF AERONAUTICS AVIATION, NAVY For aviation, as follows: For navigational, photographic, aerolog- ical, radio, and miscellaneous equipment, including repairs thereto, for use with aircraft built or building on June 30, 1938, $968,700; for maintenance, repair, and operation of aircraft factory, air sta- tions, fleet air bases, fleet and all other aviation activities, accident prevention, testing laboratories, for overhauling of planes, and for the purchase for aviation purposes only of special clothing, wearing apparel, and special equipment, $19,069,800, including not to exceed $50,000 for the procurement of helium, which sum of $50,000 shall be transferred to and made available to the Bureau of Mines on July 1, 1938, in addition to which sum the Bureau of Mines may use for helium-plant operation in the fiscal year 1939 the unexpended balance of funds transferred to it for such operation in the fiscal year 1938, and the Bureau may lease, after competition, surplus metal cylinders acquired for use as helium containers; for contin- uing experiments and development work on all types of aircraft, including the payment of part-time or intermittent employment in the District of Columbia or elsewhere of such scientists and tech- nicists as may be contracted for by the Secretary of the Navy, in his discretion, at a rate of pay not exceeding $20 per diem for any per- son so employed, $2,903,500; for new construction and procurement of aircraft and equipment, spare parts and accessories, $21,258,000, of which amount not to exceed $15,000,000 shall be available for the payment of obligations incurred under the contract authorization carried in the Navy Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1938; in all, $44,200,000, and the money herein specifically appropriated for "Aviation" shall be disbursed and accounted for in accordance with existing law and shall constitute one fund: Provided, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation for 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 Service of the Navy Department shall not exceed $1,716,520: Provided further, That in addition to the amount herein appropriated, the Secretary of the Navy may, prior to July 1, 1940, enter into contracts for the production and purchase of new airplanes and their equipment, spare parts and accessories, to an amount not in excess of $15,000,000: Provided further, That the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed, upon the request of the Secre- tary of the Navy, to transfer not to exceed in the aggregate $50,000 from this appropriation to the appropriations "Pay, subsistence, and transportation, Navy" and "Pay, Marine Corps" to cover authorized traveling expenses of officers and enlisted men in connection with flying new airplanes from contractor's works to assigned station or ship, including travel to contractor's works and return of personnel to stations of duty, and the amount so transferred shall be in addition to any limitations contained in the appropriations "Pay, subsistence, and transportation, Navy" and "Pay, Marine Corps": Provided fur- ther, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for main- tenance of more than six heavier-than-air stations on the coast of the continental United States: Provided further, That no part of this appropriation shall be used for the construction of a factory for the manufacture of airplanes: Provided further, That the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to consider, ascertain, adjust, determine, and pay out of this appropriation the amounts due on claims for Bureau of Aero- nautics. Designated avia- tion expenses. Post, p. 1142. Helium. Post, p. 329. Experiments and development work. New construction, etc. Incurred obliga- tions. Aggregate; account- ing. Provisos. Group IV (b) em- ployees. Contracts for new airplanes, etc. Transfer of sums for traveling expenses. Number of coast stations limited. Airplane factory construction forbid- den. Adjustment of damage claims.
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