OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY Miscellaneous expenses, $6,250,000. BUREAU OF NAVAL PERSONNEL Training, education, and welfare, Navy: Naval War College, $29.000. Naval training stations: Norfolk, Virginia, $147,000. Lake Pend Oreille, Idaho, $1,700,000. Libraries, $353,000. Welfare and recreation, $1,991,000. In all, training, education, and welfare, Navy, $6,970,000. BUREAU OF SUPPLIES AND ACCOUNTS Maintenance, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, including packing, unpacking, and local handling, as authorized by law, of household goods and effects of civilian and naval personnel of the Naval Establishment, $158,000,000. BUREAU OF YARDS AND DOCKS Maintenance, Bureau of Yards and Docks, including the purchase of not to exceed one thousand additional motor-propelled, passengercarrying vehicles, including one at $3,500, $38,000,000. MARINE CORPS General expenses, Marine Corps, $51,639,000. CONTINGENT EXPENSES Contingent and miscellaneous expenses, Hydrographic Office, $1,300,000. REPAIR FACILITIES, NAVY In addition to contract authorizations heretofore granted, the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to enter into contracts for equipment and facilities of all kinds at either private or naval establishments for the repair and conversion of ships, under the appropriation "Repair facilities, Navy", in the amount of not to exceed $120,000,000, subject to authorization by other law: Provided, That the unobligated contract authorization and the unexpended balance, as of the last day of the month in which this Act is approved, of the appropriation "Construction of floating drydocks, Navy", and all outstanding obligations against that appropriation, for any purpose for which it was available, are hereby transferred to and combined with the contract authorizations and the appropriations, respectively, under this head, and such combined balances shall remain SEO. 202. The restrictions contained in appropriations or affecting appropriations or other funds, available during the fiscal year 1944, limiting the amounts which may be expended for personal services or for other purposes, are hereby waived to the extent necessary to meet the cost of overtime and additional compensation authorized by the Act of April 1, 1943 (Public Law 22), the Act of May 7, 1943 (Public Law 49), and by other legislation enacted during or applicable to the fiscal year 1944 authorizing overtime and additional compensation for civilian employees of the Government: Provided, That the head of any department, establishment, or agency is hereby authorized to allocate from the sum herein appropriated under any appropriation title administered by him to any subappropriation under such title such amount as may be necessary for the purposes of the section. SEC. 203. No part of any appropriation contained in this or any other Act shall be used to pay to regular, full-time civilian officers and employees, subject to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, whose basic compensation is determined on a daily or hourly basis, overtime compensation, pursuant to the joint resolution of December 22, 1942 (56 Stat. 1068), and the Act of May 7, 1943 (Public, Numbered 49, Seventy-eighth Congress), on any basis other than at the rate of one and one-half times the basic rate of payment for work actually performed by such officers and employees in excess of forty hours per week, without proration or the use of any formula which has been adopted to determine the daily compensation of per annum officers and employees; it being declared to be and to have been the true intent and meaning of the aforesaid enactments to provide for the payment of the overtime compensation of such employees only upon the basis herein described: Provided, That any overtime compensation in excess of the compensation so authorized under the above joint resolution and Act which has been paid in reliance upon, and in accordance with, any decision or decisions of the Comptroller General is hereby approved and the Comptroller General shall allow credit therefor in the accounts of the officers accountable therefor, and shall make no charges against any certifying officer because of certification of such excess overtime compensation: Provided further, That no claim. shall be considered by the General Accounting Office on account of any payment prohibited by this section. TITLE III-JUDGMENTS AND AUTHORIZED CLAIMS PROPERTY DAMAGE CLAIMS SEC. 301. a() For the payment of claims for damages to or losses of privately owned property adjusted and determined by the following respective departments and independent offices, under the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to provide a method for the settlement of claims arising against the Government of the United States in the sums not exceeding $1,000 in any one case", approved December 28, 1922 (31 U. S. C. 215), as fully set forth in House Document Numbered 471, Seventy-eighth Congress, as follows: (b) For the payment of claims for damages to or losses of privately owned property adjusted and determined by the following respective departments and independent establishments, under the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to provide a method for the settlement of claims arising against the Government of the United States in the sum not exceeding $1,000 in any one case", approved December 28, 1922 (31 U. S. Č. 215), as fully set forth in Senate Document Numbered 171, Seventy-eighth Congress, as follows: JUDGMENTS, UNITED STATES COURTS SEC. 302. (a) For the payment of the final judgments, including costs of suits, which have been rendered under the provisions of the Act of March 3, 1887, entitled "An Act to provide for the bringing of suits against the Government of the United States", as amended by section 297 of the Act of March 3, 1911 (28 U. S. C. 761), and which have been certified to the Seventy-eighth Congress in Senate Document Numbered 168, House Document Numbered 464, under the following agencies: In all, $20,980.51, together with such additional sum as may be necessary to pay costs and interest as specified in such judgments or as provided by law. (b) For the payment of the final judgments, including costs of suits, which have been rendered under the provisions of the Act of March 3, 1887, entitled "An Act to provide for the bringing of suits against the Government of the United States", as amended by section. 297 of the Act of March 3, 1911 (28 U. S. C. 761), and the Merchant Marine Act of 1936, as amended (46 U. S. C. 1242), and which have been certified to the Seventy-eighth Congress in House Document Numbered 460 under the War Shipping Administration, $5,985, together with such additional sum as may be necessary to pay costs and interest as specified in such judgments or as provided by law. (c) For the payment of judgments, including cost of suits rendered against the Government of the United States by United States district courts under the provisions of an Act entitled "An Act authorizing suits against the United States in admiralty for damages caused by and salvage services rendered to public vessels belonging to the United States, and for other purposes", approved March 3, 1925 (46 U. S. C. 781-789), and which was certified to the Seventy-eighth Congress in House Document Numbered 463 under the following agencies: Navy Department, $32,969.12; War Department, $14,648.12; In all, $47,617.24, together with such additional sum as may be necessary to pay costs and interest as and where specified in such judgments. or as provided by law. (e) None of the judgments contained under this caption shall be paid until the right of appeal shall have expired except such as have become final and conclusive against the United States by failure of the parties to appeal or otherwise. (f) Payment of interest wherever provided for judgments contained in this Act shall not in any case continue for more than thirty days after the date of approval of this Act. JUDGMENTS, UNITED STATES COURT OF CLAIMS SEC. 303. (a) For payment of the judgments rendered by the Court of Claims and reported to the Seventy-eighth Congress in Senate Document Numbered 174, and House Document Numbered 458, under the following agencies, namely: In all, $535,957.43, together with such additional sum as may be necessary to pay interest or costs as and where specified in such judgments. (c) None of the judgments contained under this caption shall be paid until the right of appeal shall have expired, except such as have become final and conclusive against the United States by failure of the parties to appeal or otherwise. AUDITED CLAIMS SEC. 304. (a) For the payment of the following claims, certified to be due by the General Accounting Office under appropriations the balances of which have been carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section 5 of the Act of June 20, 1874 (31 U. S. C. 713), and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year 1941 and prior years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under section 2 of the Act of July 7, 1884 (5 U. S. C. 266), as fully set forth in House Document Numbered 470, Seventy-eighth Congress, there is appropriated as follows: * Department of Labor: For traveling expenses, Department of Labor, $221.12. Navy Department: For miscellaneous expenses, Navy, $258.59. For Naval Research Laboratory, $4,750. For Naval Reserve, $2,471.07. For Naval Reserve officers' training corps, $3.67. For contingent and miscellaneous expenses, Naval Observatory, $200. For engineering, Bureau of Engineering, $62,866.60. For engineering, Navy, $36,444.71. For maintenance, Bureau of Ships, $859,200.30. For ordnance and ordnance stores, Navy, $501,028.23. For pay, subsistence, and transportation, Navy, $29,714.87. For Foreign Service pay adjustment, appreciation of foreign currencies (Navy), $57.80. For care of the dead, Navy, $4.18. For maintenance, Bureau of Yards and Docks, $474. For pay and allowances, Coast Guard (Navy), $296.36. For fuel and water, Coast Guard (Navy), $14. For outfits, Coast Guard (Navy), $31,486. For rebuilding and repairing stations, and so forth, Coast Guard (Navy), $21,424.31. For civilian employees, Coast Guard (Navy), $561.04. For general expenses, Coast Guard (Navy), $6,274.82. For salaries, lighthouse vessels, Coast Guard (Navy), $1,044.81, For retired pay, lighthouse service, Coast Guard (Navy), $178.05. For retired pay, former lighthouse service, Coast Guard (Navy), $427.32. For aviation, Navy, $954,421.50. For pay, Marine Corps, $1,005.49. For general expenses, Marine Corps, $1,190.38. Total audited claims, section 304 (a), $2,761,776.10, together with such additional sum due to increases in rates of exchange as may be necessary to pay claims in the foreign currency and interest as specified in certain of the settlements of the General Accounting Office. (b) For the payment of the following claims, certified to be due. by the General Accounting Office under appropriations the balances of which have been carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section 5 of the Act of June 20, 1874 (31 U. S. C. 713), and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year 1941 and prior years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under section 2 of the Act of July 7, 1884 (5 U. S. C. 266), as fully set forth in Senate Document Numbered 173, Seventy-eighth Congress, there is appropriated as follows: * * * * * Navy Department: For general expenses, Marine Corps, $8,366,25. For maintenance, Bureau of Ships, $63,319.62. For general expenses, Coast Guard (Navy), $25.32. For aviation, Navy, $42,862.61. For foreign-service pay adjustment, appreciation of foreign currencies (Navy), $25. For maintenance, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $1,032.24. For Naval Reserve, $2,832.14. For engineering, Navy, $5,711.54. For maintenance, Bureau of Yards and Docks, $6 831.75. For ordnance and ordnance stores, Navy, $215,985.58. For ordnance and ordnance stores, Bureau of Ordnance, $399.93. For pay, subsistence, and transportation, Navy, $2,203.33. |