PUBLIC LAWS-CHS. 266, 267-JULY 1, 1941 79s. S.C 12. G purposes", approved August 24, 1935, as amended, such sum to be in addition to any funds appropriated by such section 32 and to be subject to all the provisions of law relating to the expenditure of such funds. Approved, July 1, 1941. [CHAPTER 267] July 1941 AN ACT [H. R. 3735] Making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year [Public Law 144] ending June 30, 1942, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the cuartmre ApprpriaA- United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following tion Act, 1942. sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not other- wise appropriated, for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1942, namely: t, pp.5 , 749. COFFICE OF THE SECRETARY Post, p. 831 . SALARIES For the Secretary of Agriculture, Under Secretary of Agriculture, Assistant Secretary, and for other personal services m the District of Salary restriction. Columbia, and elsewhere, $609,424: Provided, That in expending appropriations or portions of appropriations contained in this Act for the payment of personal services in the District of Columbia in accord- 42 St. 488.66ance with the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, with the exception 5 U. S.C. §§661- 674. of the Assistant Secretary, the average of the salaries of the total num- Post,P . 613. ber of persons under any grade in any bureau, office, or other appro- priation unit shall not at any time exceed the average of the compensa- tion 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 Restriction not ae- only to the next higher rate: Provided further That this restriction icases. 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 rules 2Stat. 1490. 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 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 com- pensation of any person in a grade in which only one position is allo- Stenographic re- cated: Providedfurther, That the Secretary of Agriculture is author- ized to contract for stenographic reporting services, and the appropri- ations made in this Act shall be available for such purposes: Provided Options to purchase further,That the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to expend from appropriations available for the purchase of lands not to exceed $1 for each option to purchase any particular tract or tracts .ofland: Pro- llowantces for liv- vided further, That not to exceed $25,000 of the appropriations avail- able for salaries and expenses of officers and employees of the Depart- ment of Agriculture permanently stationed in foreign countries may be used for payment of allowances for living quarters, including heat, 4 Stat. 818. fuel, and light, as authorized by the Act approved Junle 26, 1930 (5 408 [55 STAT.
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