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52 STAT.] 75TH CONG., 3 D SESS.-CH. 175-APR? 26, 1938 Neither the appropriation "Replacement of naval vessels, construc- tion, and machinery", nor the appropriation "Replacement of naval vessels, armor, armament, and ammunition", shall be available for obligation for any purpose as to ships commissioned prior to July 1, 1937, nor as to any ship commissioned subsequent to such date after twelve months shall have elapsed from commissioning date. The appropriations made in this Act for the purchase or manu- facture of equipment or material or of a particular class of equipment or material shall be available for the purchase of letters patent, appli- cations for letters patent, licenses under letters patent and applica- tions for letters patent that pertain to such equipment or material for which the appropriations are made. No part of any appropriation made for the Navy shall be expended for any of the purposes herein provided for on account of the Navy Department in the District of Columbia, including personal services of civilians and of enlisted men of the Navy, except as herein expressly authorized: Provided, That there may be detailed to the Bureau of Navigation not to exceed at any one time seven enlisted men of the Navy: Provided further, That enlisted men detailed to the Navy Dispensary and the Radio Communication Service shall not be regarded as detailed to the Navy Department in the District of Columbia. No part of the appropriations made in this Act shall be available for the salary or pay of any officer, manager, superintendent, fore- man, or other person or persons having charge of the work of any employee of the United States Government while making or causing to be made with a stop watch or other time-measuring device a time study of any job of any such employee between the starting and com- pletion thereof, or of the movements of any such employee while engaged upon such work; nor shall any part of the appropriations made in this Act be available to pay any premiums or bonus or cash reward to any employee in addition to his regular wages, except for suggestions resulting in improvements or economy in the operation of any Government plant; and no part of the moneys herein appro- priated for the Naval Establishment or herein made available there- for shall be used or expended under contracts hereafter made for the repair, purchase, or acquirement, by or from any private contractor, of any naval vessel, machinery, article, or articles that at the time of the proposed repair, purchase, or acquirement can be repaired, manufactured, or produced in each or any of the Government navy yards or arsenals of the United States, when time and facilities per- mit, and when, in the judgment of the Secretary of the Navy, such repair, purchase, acquirement, or production would not involve an appreciable increase in cost to the Government, except when the repair, purchase, or acquirement, by or from any private contractor, would, in the opinion of the Secretary of the Navy, be advantageous to the national defense: Provided, That nothing herein shall be con- strued as altering or repealing the provisos contained in the Acts to authorize the construction of certain naval vessels, approved Febru- ary 13, 1929 and March 272 1934, which provide that the first and succeeding alternate vessels in each category, except the fifteen-thou- sand-ton aircraft carrier, upon which work is undertaken, together with the main engines, armor, and armament, shall be constructed or manufactured in the Government navy yards, naval gun factories, naval ordnance plants, or arsenals of the United States, except such material or parts as are not customarily manufactured in such Gov- ernment plants. 243 Designated appro- priations not available for ships commis- sioned prior to July 1, 1937. Purchase of letters patent, etc. Department use limited. Provisos. Details to Bureau of Navigation. Designated services not regarded as de- tails. No pay to officer, etc., using time-meas - uring device on work of employee. Cash rewards pro- hibited; exception. Repairs, etc., other than at navy yards, etc., restricted. Exception. Proviso. Construction, first and alternate vessels at Government yards, factories, etc. 45 Stat. 1165; 48 Stat. 603. 34U. .C.§495.