PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 258-JULY 1, 1939
July 1, 1939
[H. R. 6791]
[Public, No. 164]
Supplemental Mil-
itary Appropriation
Act, 1940.
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[CHAPTER 258]
AN ACT
Making additional appropriations for the Military Establishment for the fiscal
year ending June 30, 1940, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following
sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not other-
wise appropriated, for the Military Establishment for the fiscal year
ending June 30, 1940, and for other purposes, namely:
SALARIES, WAR DEPARTMENT
Personal services.
For compensation for temporary personal services in the District
of Columbia, fiscal year 1940, as follows:
Office of Secretary of War, $28,923.
Office of Chief of Staff, $21,505.
Adjutant General's Office, $97,942.
Office of the Judge Advocate General, $9,967.
Office of the Chief of Finance, $29,095.
Office of the Quartermaster General, $10,422.
Office of the Chief Signal Officer, $33,964.
Office of the Chief of Air Corps, $52,153.
Office of the Surgeon General, $14,610.
In all, $298,581.
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In expending appropriations or portions of appropriations con-
ries.
tained in this Act, for the payment for personal services in the
S7;supp.iv, 667 District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of
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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
Exception.
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
Proviso.
only to the next higher rate: Provided, That this restriction shall not
Restrction not a\),
licable to certain apply (1) to grades 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the clerical-mechanical service,
rades of clerical-me-
hanical service.
or (2) to require the reduction in salary of any person whose com-
No reduction in pensation was fixed as of July 1, 1924, in accordance with the rules
xed salaries.
42 tat. 1490.
of section 6 of such Act, (3) to require the reduction in salary of any
Transferwithoutre- person who is transferred from one position to another position in
uction.
the same or different grade in the same or a different bureau, office,
nigher rates per- 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,
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postion 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.
Department contin.
gent expenses.
Ante, p. 694.
Printing and bind.
ing.
Ante, p. 594.
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY
CONTINGENT EXPENSES, WAR DEPARTMENT
For an additional amount for contingent expenses, War Depart-
ment, fiscal year 1940, comprising the same objects specified under
this head in the Military Appropriation Act, 1940, $110,750.
PRINTING AND BINDING, WAR DEPARTMENT
For an additional amount for printing and binding for the War
Department, except such as may be otherwise provided for in accord-
ance with existing law, fiscal year 1940, $63,645.
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