PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 149-MAY 25, 1939 American Ephem- eris, etc. Bureau of Aero- nautics. Provisos. Aircraft design and construction work. Limitation on ex- penditure. Salaries limited to average rates under Classification Act. 5 U.S . C. §§ 661-674; Supp. IV, § 673, 673c. Exception. Proriso. Restriction not ap- plicable to clerical- mechanical service. No reduction in fixed salaries. 5 U. . C.§666. Transfer without re- duction. Payment under higher rate. If only one position in a grade. Contingent expen- ses. Compensation board, $7,040. Office of Naval Records and Library, $34,360. Office of Judge Advocate General, $126,620. Office of Chief of Naval Operations, $76,500. Board of Inspection and Survey, $20,560. Office of Director of Naval Communications, $142,000. Office of Naval Intelligence, $80,000. Bureau of Navigation, $494,000. Hydrographic Office, $417,000. Naval Observatory, including $2,500 for pay of computers on piece- work in preparing for publication the American Ephemeris and Nau- tical Almanac and in improving the tables of the planets, moon, and stars, $178,120. Bureau of Engineering, $310,480. Bureau of Construction and Repair, $347,479. Bureau of Ordnance, $150,000. Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $812,680. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, $102,270. Bureau of Yards and Docks, $276,000. Bureau of Aeronautics, $360,400: Provided, That the services of technical and clerical personnel may be employed only in the Bureau of Aeronautics in connection with the design and construction of air- craft, to be paid from the appropriation "Aviation, Navy, 1940": Provided further, That the expenditures on this account for the fiscal year 1940 shall not exceed $89,400. In all, salaries, Navy Department, $4,162,659. In expending appropriations or portions of appropriations con- tained in this Act, f ththe 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 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 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 compensa- tion was fixed as of Jul 1, 1924, in accordance with the rules of section 6 of such Act, (3) to require the reduction in salary of any person who is transferred from one position to another position in the same or different grade in the same or a different bureau, office, or other appropriation unit, (4) to prevent the payment of a salary under any grade at a rate higher than the maximum rate of the grade when such higher rate is permitted by the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, and is specifically authorized by other law, or (5) to reduce the compensation of any person in a grade in which only one position is allocated. CONTINGENT EXPENSES For professional and technical books and periodicals, lawbooks, and necessary reference books, including city directories, railway guides, freight, passenger, and express tariff books and photostating, for 780 [53 STAT.
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