PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 175-APR. 26, 1938 Estimates to ac- company bids. No part of the funds herein appropriated shall be available to pay a contractor upon any contract for a naval vessel entered into under authority of this Act unless, at the time of filing his bid, he shall also file the estimates upon which such bid was based. Navy Department. NAVY DEPARTMENT SALARIES Salaries. For compensation for personal services in the District of Columbia, as follows: Office of the See. Office of the Secretary of the Navy: Secretary of the Navy, Assist- tary, and other desig- nated offices, etc. ant Secretary of the Navy, and other personal services, $196,770. General Board, $12,560. Naval examining and retiring boards, $12,200. Compensation board, $6,840. Office of Naval Records and Library, $34,080. Office of Judge Advocate General, $122,000. Office of Chief of Naval Operations, $72,660, of which $600 shall be available immediately. Board of Inspection and Survey, $19,840. Office of Director of Naval Communications, $135,200. Office of Naval Intelligence, $79,180. Bureau of Navigation, $484,000. Hydrographic Office, $413,420. AmericanEpheme.r Naval Observatory, including $2,500 for pay of computers on piece work in preparing for publication the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac and in improving the tables of the planets, moon, and stars, $172,720. Bureau of Engineering, $307,400. Bureau of Construction and Repair, $347,479. Bureau of Ordnance, $149,000. Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $790,000. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, $87,580. Bureau of Yards and Docks, $274,600. Bureau of Aeronan- Bureau of Aeronautics, $358,800: Provided, That the services of tIrotisos. such additional technical and clerical personnel as the Secretary of construction aork;d conrstructt d ono d
- the Navy may deem necessary may be employed only in the Bureau
additional )prsonn.el, of Aeronautics in connection wit the design and construction of aircraft, to be paid fromn the appropriation "Aviation, Navy, 1939": Limitation on ex- Provided further, That the expenditures on this account for the fiscal penditure. year 1939 shall not exceed $50,000, and the Secretary of the Navy shall report to Congress in the Budget the number of persons so employed, their duties, and the amount paid to each. In all, salaries, Navy Department, $4,076,329. avleraes rates uo In expending appropriations or portions of appropriations con- Classification Act. tained in this Act, for the payment for personal services in the Dis- 5 U.S . C . §§661-674; Supp. lIi, § 673, trict of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, 67 'cepti. as amended, with the exception of the Assistant Secretaries of the Navy, the average of the salaries of the total number of persons 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 compensation rates of the grade but not more often than once in any fiscal year and then 244 [52 STAT.
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