53 STAT.]
76TH CONG. , IST SESS.-CH. 88 -APR. 26, 1939
Office of the Quartermaster General, $825,310.
Office of the Chief Signal Officer, $166,605.
Office of the Chief of Air Corps, $258,400.
Office of the Surgeon General, $289,960.
Office of Chief of Bureau of Insular Affairs, $66,480.
Office of Chief of Engineers, $139,620: Provided, That the services
of skilled draftsmen, civil engineers, and such other services
as the Secretary of War may deem necessary may be employed only
in the office of the Chief of Engineers, to carry into effect the various
appropriations for rivers and harbors and flood control, surveys, and
preparation for and the consideration of river and harbor and flood
control estimates and bills, to be paid from such appropriations:
Provided further, That the expenditures on this account for the fiscal
year 1940 shall not exceed $585,680; the Secretary of War shall each
year, in the Budget, report to Congress the number of persons so
employed, their duties, and the amount paid to each.
Office of Chief of Ordnance, $439,420: Provided, That the services
of such additional technical and clerical personnel as the Secretary
of War may deem necessary may be employed only in the office of
the Chief of Ordnance, to carry into effect the various appropriations
for development, manufacture, storage, and issue of ordnance and
ordnance stores, to be paid from such appropriations: Provided
further, That the expenditures on this account for the fiscal year 1940
shall not exceed $100,000, and the Secretary of War shall each year,
in the Budget, report to Congress the number of persons so employed,
their duties, and the amount paid to each.
Office of Chief of Chemical Warfare Service, $50,790.
Office of Chief of Infantry, $13,880.
Office of Chief of Cavalry, $11,100.
Office of Chief of Field Artillery, $5,040.
Office of Chief of Coast Artillery, $33,160.
Office of Chief of Chaplains, $8,240.
National Guard Bureau, War Department, $153,952.
In all, salaries, War Department, $5,026,885: Provided, That the
number of warrant officers and enlisted men on duty in the offices of
the Chiefs of Ordnance, Engineers, Coast Artillery, Field Artillery,
Cavalry, Infantry, and Chaplains on March 5, 1934, shall not be
increased, and in lieu of warrant officers and enlisted men whose
services in such offices shall have been terminated for any cause prior
to July 1, 1940, their places may be filled by civilians, for the pay
of whom, in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, as
amended, the appropriation "Pay of the Army" shall be available.
In expending appropriations or portions of appropriations con-
tained in this Act, for the payment for personal services in the Dis-
trict of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923,
as amended, with the exception of the Assistant Secretary of War,
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 unu-
sually 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
only to the next higher rate: Provided, That this restriction shall
not apply (1) to grades 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the clerical-mechanical
service, or (2) to require the reduction in salary of any person whose
compensation was fixed as of July 1, 1924, in accordance with the
Office of Chief of
Engineers.
Provisos.
Services of skilled
draftsmen, etc.
Maximum expendi-
tures, fiscal year 1940.
Report to Congress.
Office of Chief of
Ordnance.
Provisos.
Technical, etc., per-
sonnel.
Maximum expendi-
tures, fiscal year 1940.
Report to Congress.
Proviso.
No increase In cer-
tain details.
Civilians to fill va-
cancies.
5U.S .C . §§661-674;
Supp. IV, §§ 673, 673c.
Restriction on ex-
ceeding average sal-
aries.
5 U. 8. C . §661-674;
Supp. IV , 1i 673, 673c.
Exception.
Proso.
Restriction not ap-
plicable to certain
grades of clerical-
mechanical service.
No reduction in
fixed salaries.
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