PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 380-DEC. 23, 1943 WOMEN'S BUREAU Salaries and expenses: For an additional amount for salaries and expenses, Women's Bureau, fiscal year 1944, $50,000, including the objects under this head and items otherwise properly chargeable to the appropriations for contingent expenses, traveling expenses, and Ante, p. 498. printing and binding, in the Department of Labor Appropriation Act, 1944. NAVY DEPARTMENT OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY Claims for damages by collision with naval vessels: To pay claims for damages adjusted and determined by the Secretary of the Navy under the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to amend the Act authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to settle claims for damages to private property arising from collisions with naval vessels", 42Stat. 1066. approved December 28, 1922, as fully set forth in Senate Document Numbered 114 and House Document Numbered 314, Seventy-eighth Congress, $17,788.30 . Flight pay. Pay, subsistence, and transportation of naval personnel: The num- Ante p. 202. ber of officers above the rank of captain, who may receive flight pay during the fiscal year 1944, is increased from forty-five to sixty. BUREAU OF SUPPLIES AND ACCOUNTS Transfer of funds. Naval Stock Fund: For the purpose of increasing the capital of the "Naval Stock Fund", the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to transfer the sum of $750,000,000 from the appropriation Ante, p. 201. "Ordnance and Ordnance Stores, Navy, 1944", to the "Naval Stock Fund": Provided, That after June 30, 1944, the value of stock in the "Naval Stock Account" plus the outstanding obligations under the "Naval Stock Fund" shall not exceed $2,250,000,000 at any time. BUREAU OF YARDS AND DOCKS The Act entitled "An Act to provide benefits for the injury, dis- ability, death, or enemy detention of employees of contractors with 46 Stat. 1028 . the United States, and for other purposes", approved December 2, 1§1. ( - 1942 (42 U. S. C ., sec. 1701), is anended by adding: Enemy detention, (a) To the last paragraph of section 101 (b) (1) of such Act, after changing the final period therein to a colon, the following: "And provded further, That where such person is found to be missing from his place of employment, whether or not such person then actually was engaged in the course of his employment, under circumstances supporting an inference that his absence is due to the belligerent action of an enemy or is known to have been taken by an enemy as a prisoner, hostage, or otherwise, the amount of benefits to be credited to the account of such person under this subsection, and for the pur- poses of this subsection only, shall be 100 per centum of the average Limitation. weekly wages of such person, except that in computing such benefits such average weekly wages (a) shall not exceed the average weekly wages paid to civilian employees of the United States in the same or most similar occupation in the area nearest to the place of employ- ment where such person was last employed, and (b) shall not exceed the average weekly wages of such absent person at the time such Disbursements to absence began; and 70 per centum of such average weekly wage so dependents. determined shall be disbursed to the dependent or dependents of such person, irrespective of the limitations of section 9 of the Longshore- 4 ta. 1429. men's and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act, but should there be 33 U. s.C. 09 more than one such dependent, the distribution of such 70 per centum 626 [57 STAT.
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