Jan. 28. 1944 PUBLIO LAWS-CHS. 5, Jen 8 1944 Feb. 3 , 1944 [58 STAT. taken, which projects have been specifically approved by the Secretary of the Navy, with approximate costs as indicated: Fleet facilities, $4,000,000; aviation facilities, $50,000,000; storage facilities, $23,000,000; ordnance facilities $92,000,000; personnel training and housing facilities, $92,260,000; shore radio facilities, $5,000,000; Naval Research Laboratory, $800,000; miscellaneous structures, $14,000,000: cost varance and Provided, That the approximate cost indicated for each of the classes limitationof projects enumerated above may, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Navy, be varied upward or downward, but the total cost shall tiReport of pst not exceed $281,060,000: Provided further, That prior to the acquisi- tion, by lease or otherwise, of any land under authority of this Act, the Secretary of the Navy shall report to the Senate and House Naval Affairs Committees all such prospective acquisitions: And provided contracts. further, That the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to enter into contracts under the appropriation "Public Works, Bureau of Yards and Docks", for public-works equipment, materials, and con- struction, including collateral public-works items, to the extent of the total cost hereby authorized and without regard to the provisions 41 U. . c.o . of section 3709, Revised Statutes. thdpron a- SEC. 2 . There is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any Post,p. 311. money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such sums as may be necessary to effectuate the purpose of this Act. Approved January 28, 1944. [CHAPTER 9] February 3, 1944 Is. 1543 IPublic Law 225] Mustering-Out Payment Act of 1944. Eligibility. Exceptions. Recipients ofcertain base pay. 56 Stat. 356 . 37 U. S. 0., Supp. IIl, 101. Retired status. Discharge on own initiative to accept employment. Air Corps Resere 10U.8.0., S B M1100. VyW&GStWd AN ACT To provide for mustering-out payments to members of the armed forces, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, each member of the armed forces who shall have been engaged in active service in the present war, and who is discharged or relieved from active service under honorable conditions on or after December 7, 1941, shall be eligible to receive mustering-out payment. (b) No mustering-out payment shall be made to- (1) any member of the armed forces who, at the time of discharge or relief from active service, is receiving base pay at a higher rate than the base pay of the third period as pre- scribed in section 1 of the Pay Readjustment Act of 1942, as amended; (2) any member of the armed forces who, at the time of discharge or relief from active service, is transferred or returned to the retired list with retirement pay or to a status in which he receives retirement pay; (3) any member of the armed forces for any active service performed prior to the date of his discharge or relief from active service on his own initiative to accept employment or, in the case of any member so relieved from active service, for any active service performed prior to the date of his discharge while in such inactive status, unless he has served outside the continental limits of the United States or in Alaska; (4) any Air Corps Reserve officer who is entitled to receive a lump-sum payment under section 2, as amended (55 Stat. 240), of the Act of June 16, 1936; (5) any member of the armed forces whose total period of service has been as a student detailed for training under (A) the
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