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77TH CONG. , 2D SESS.-CH. 46-FEB . 7 , 1942 fixtures; for books, periodicals, maps, models, and drawings; pur- chase and repair of fire engines; fire apparatus and plants, machinery; seeds and plants; tools and repairs of the same; stationery; furniture for Government buildings and offices at the academy, including fur- niture for midshipmen's rooms; coal and other fuels; oil and gas; attendance on light and power plants; cleaning and clearing up station and care of buildings; attendance on fires, lights, fire engines, fire apparatus, and plants, and telephone, telegraph, and clock sys- tems; incidental labor advertising, water tax, postage, telephones, telegrams, tolls, and ferriage; flags and awnings; packing boxes; services of employees assigned to group IV (b) and those performing similar services carried under native and alien schedules in the Schedule of Wages for Civil Employees in the Field Service of the Navy Department; and music and astronomical instruments, $1,351,455, of which amount $2,000 shall be available exclusively for the care of a collection of ship models. NAVAL HOME, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA For pay of employees, including employees assigned to group IV (b) and those performing similar services carried under native and alien schedules in the Schedule of Wages for Civil Employees in the Field Service of the Navy Department, $135,270; Maintenance: For water rent, heating, and lighting; cemetery, burial expenses, and headstones; general care and improvements of grounds, buildings, walls, and fences; repairs to power-plant equip- ment, implements, tools, and furniture, and purchase of the same; music in chapel and entertainment for beneficiaries; stationery, books, and periodicals; transportation of indigent and destitute beneficiaries to the Naval Home, and of sick and insane beneficiaries, their attend- ants and necessary subsistence for both, to and from other Govern- ment hospitals; employment of such beneficiaries in and about the Naval Home as may be authorized by the Secretary of the Navy, on the recommendation of the governor; support of beneficiaries and all other contingent expenses, including the maintenance, repair, and operation of two motor-propelled vehicles, and one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle to be used only for official purposes, $150,000; In all, Naval Home, $285,270. BUREAU OF SHIPS MAINTENANCE, BUREAU OF SHIPS Po, . 991. For designing hulls, machinery, and equipment of naval vessels, except armament; experimental, developmental, and research work; payment of part-time or intermittent employment in the District of Columbia, or elsewhere, of such scientists and technicists as may be contracted for by the Secretary of the Navy, in his discretion at a rate of pay not exceeding $25 per diem for any person so employed, and payment of the travel expenses of such persons if they be mem- bers of the Naval Reserve ordered to active duty; maintenance, repairs, renewal, and alterations of hulls, machinery, and equipment of naval vessels and yard and district craft except machinery and equipment under the cognizance of other bureaus; docking of vessels; maintenance and repair of defense installations on nonnaval vessels; salvage and salvage services for naval floating property; construction or acquisition and conversion of district and yard craft; charter and hire of vessels for auxiliary purposes when considered necessary by the Secretary of the Navy; equipage, appliances, supplies, materials, 56 STAT.]