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62 STAT.] 80TH CONG. , 2D SESS.-CH. 617-JUNE 24, 1948 charged with such expenses, proper adjustments to be made on the basis of final costs between applicable appropriations; payment of rewards, as authorized by law, for information leading to the dis- covery of missing naval property or the recovery thereof. SEC. 107. Appropriations in this Act shall be available for the pay of missing or captured civilian or naval personnel under the provisions of Public Law 490, approved March 7, 1942, as amended, and for that which accrued during prior years and was not paid, including accruals of pay authorized by law for retired and reserve officers, nurses, enlisted personnel, and family allowances. SEC. 108. During the fiscal year 1949 the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to procure services in accordance with section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a), but at rates for individuals not in excess of $50 per day. SEC. 109. Provisions of law prohibiting the payment of compensation to or employment of any person not a citizen of the United States shall not apply to personnel under the Naval Establishment during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1949. SEO. 110. The appropriations for the Department of the Navy and the naval service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1949, shall be avail- able for expenses in connection with the transfer to the United States of foreign vessels, including pay, subsistence, transportation, and repatri- ation of alien crews. SEC. 111 . None of the funds appropriated in this Act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1949, other than funds for which reimbursement is made hereunder, shall be available for any expenses for care, upkeep, repair, handling, and assistance in the sale of any property, material, or equipment subsequent to the date of a declaration of surplus cover- ing such property to a disposal agency, or, if procedures are prescribed whereby declarations of surplus are made at approximately the time of disposal or removal, subsequent to the date of notice by the owning agency to the disposal agency that property has been determined to be surplus and is subject to such procedures. With respect to all such expenses, disposal agencies shall provide reimbursement to the Navy, for credit to the appropriations from which such expenses would be normally paid and the Navy is authorized to apportion, obligate, and expend funds from the several appropriations involved in advance of the reimbursement thereto: Provided That reimbursement shall not be made for pay and allowances and subsistence of naval and Marine Corps personnel within the numbers appropriated for: Provided further, That advance payments based on the estimated expenses of the Department of the Navy may be made by any disposal agency: Pro- vided further,That in lieu of ascertaining the direct expenses and the applicable portion of the indirect expenses, the Department of the Navy and the disposal agencies may agree on any basis for determining such expenses as will equitably accomplish the purpose of this section. SEC. 112. No part of the appropriations made in this Act shall be available for contracts with any person, firm, or corporation to make or cause to be made with a stop watch or other time-measuring device a time study of any job of any employee within the Navy: nor shall any part of the appropriations made in this Act be available to pay any premiums or bonus or cash reward to any employee in addition to his regular wages, except for suggestions resulting in improvements or economy in the operation of any Government plant: and no moneys herein appropriated for the Naval Establishment or made available therefor shall be used or expended under contracts hereafter made for the repair, purchase, or acquirement, by or from any private contrac- tor, of any naval vessel, machinery, article, or articles that at the time of the proposed repair, purchase, or acquirement can be repaired, manu- factured, or produced in each or any of the Government naval ship- 595 Missing or captured personnel. 56 Stat. 143 . 50U.S.C.app. §o 1001-1017; Supp. I , §1001 et seq. 60 Stat. 810. Compensation to noncitizens. Transfer of foreign vessels, etc. Surplus property. Advance payments by disposal agency. Time-measuring de- vices, restriction. Cash rewards, etc. Work by private contractors, restric- tion.