63 STAT.]
81T CONG., IST SESS. -CH. 787-OCT. 29, 1949
the number of Panamanian citizens employed in the above-mentioned
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 con-
trolling 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, administrative,
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, executive, or
supervisory positions on the Canal Zone directly or indirectly by any
branch of the United States Government or by any corporation or
company whose stock is owned wholly or in part by the United States
Government: Providedfurther, That the President may suspend from
time to time in whole or in part compliance with this section if he
should deem such course to be in the public interest.
SEC. 630. The powers and duties vested in the Secretaries of the
Army and the Navy with respect to civil-service employees of their
Departments by section 3 of the Act of December 17, 1942 (56 Stat.
1053), shall, during the current fiscal year, be vested also in the
Secretary of Defense with respect to civil-service employees of all
agencies of the National Military Establishment other than the Depart-
ment of the Army, Navy, and Air Force, and in the Secretary of the
Air Force with respect to civil-service employees of the Department
of the Air Force. The provisions of section 6 of the Act of August 24,
1912 (37 Stat. 555), shall not apply to any civil-service employees with
regard to whom the powers granted in this section are exercised:
Provided, That nothing in this section shall repeal or modify any
existing powers and duties of the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary
of the Navy, the Secretary of the Army or the Secretary of the Air
Force under section 3 of the Act of December 17, 1942 (56 Stat.
1053).
SEC. 631. No funds herein appropriated shall be available to pay
for the services or support of personnel enlisted after enactment of
this Appropriation Act under the provisions of section 4 (g) of the
Selective Service Act of 1948 (Public Law 759, Eightieth Congress).
SEC. 632. (a) Insofar as practicable, the Secretary of Defense shall
assist American small business to participate equitably in the fur-
nishing of commodities and services financed with funds appropriated
under this Act by making available or causing to be made available
to suppliers in the United States, and particularly to small independ-
ent enterprises, information, as far in advance as possible, with
respect to purchases proposed to be financed with funds appropriated
under this Act, and by making available or causing to be made avail-
able to purchasing and contracting agencies of the National Military
Establishment information as to commodities and services produced
and furnished by small independent enterprises in the United States,
and by otherwise helping to give small business an opportunity to
participate in the furnishing of commodities and services financed with
funds appropriated by this Act.
(b) The Secretary shall appoint or assign a special assistant to a
advise and assist him in carrying out the foreging subsection (a).
Spedal assistant to
Bertary.
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Employees with 15
or more years of serv-
ice.
Selection of person-
nel.
Hours of employ-
ment; pay rates.
Applicability of seo-
tion.
Suspension of com-
pliance.
Civil-service em-
ployees.
6 U.S.C . § 662 note.
6 U. S. C., Supp.II,
652.
One-year enlist-
ments.
62 Stat. 608.
50 U.S.C. Supp. II
app. 44 (4g.
Assstance to Ameri-
can small business.
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