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56 STAT.] 77TH CONG. , 2D SESS.-CH. 477-JULY 2, 1942 SEC. 5 . No part of any money appropriated by this Act shall be used for maintaining, driving, or operating any Government-owned motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle assigned for the exclusive use of persons other than the Secretary of War and medical officers on out-patient medical service. SEC. 6. No part of any appropriation made by this Act shall be used in any way to pay any expense in connection with the conduct, operation, or management of any post exchange, branch exchange, or subexchange within any State, Territory, or the District of Columbia, save and except for real assistance and convenience under such regu- lations as the Secretary of War may prescribe, to such personnel as are now or may be hereafter authorized by law and regulation to purchase subsistence stores or other Quartermaster supplies and to civilians employed or serving at military posts in supplying them with articles of small personal needs, not similar to those furnished by the Government: Provided, That the commanding officer of the post at which any such exchange is situated shall certify on the monthly report of the post exchange council that such exchange was, during the period covered by such report, operated in compliance with this section: Provided further, That at posts isolated from a convenient market the Secretary of War may broaden the nature of the articles to be sold. SEC. 7. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall be used directly or indirectly, except for temporary employment in case of emergency, for the payment of any civilian for services ren- dered by him on the Canal Zone while occupying a skilled, technical, clerical, administrative, executive, or supervisory position unless such person is a citizen of the United States of America or of the Republic of Panama: Provided, however, (1) That, notwithstanding the pro- vision in the Act approved August 11, 1939 (53 Stat. 1409), limiting employment in the above-mentioned positions to citizens of the United States from and after the date of the approval of said Act, citizens of Panama may be employed in such positions; (2) that at no time shall the number of Panamanian citizens employed in the above-men- tioned positions exceed the number of citizens of the United States so employed, if United States citizens are available in continental United States or on the Canal Zone; (3) that nothing in this Act shall prohibit the continued employment of any person who shall have rendered fifteen or more years of faithful and honorable service on the Canal Zone; (4) that in the selection of personnel for skilled, technical, administrative, clerical, supervisory, or executive positions, the controlling factors in filling these positions shall be efficiency, experience, training, and education; (5) that all citizens of Panama and the United States rendering skilled, technical, clerical, adminis- trative, executive, or supervisory service on the Canal Zone under the terms of this Act (a) shall normally be employed not more than forty hours per week; (b) may receive as compensation equal rates of pay based upon rates paid for similar employment in continental United States plus 25 per centum; (6) this entire section shall apply only to persons employed in skilled, technical, clerical, administrative, execu- tive, or supervisory positions on the Canal Zone directly or indirectly by any branch of the United States Government or by any corpora- tion or company whose stock is owned wholly or in part by the United States Government: Provided further, That the President may sus- pend from time to time in whole or in part compliance with this section in time of war or national emergency if he should deem such course to be in the public interest. SEC. 8 . Whenever, during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1943, the Secretary of War should deem it to be advantageous to the national Government ve- hicles, restriction. Post exchanges. Provisos. Certification on monthly reports. Isolated posts. Personal services, C. Z. , citizenship re- quirement; exception. Proews. Employment of Panamanian citizens. 48U.S.C.§1307 note. Limitation on num- ber. Employment after 15 years' srvice. Selection of person- nel. Hours of employ- ment. Rates of pay. Section applicable only to designated persons. Authority of Presi- dent to suspend com- pliance. 7F. R. 5101. Technical and pro- fessional personnel.