An Act making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1956, and for other purposes
PL 84-157 (H.R.6042), enacted 07/13/1955

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SEC. 2. Section 2 of the Act of September 27, 1950 (ch. 1053, 64 
Stat. 1067), is amended by inserting before the final period a colon 
and the following proviso: ''''Provided^ That in the case of any such 
member receiving a pension, retirement pay, disability compensation, 
or retired pay from the Government of the United States by virtue 
of prior military service who is ordered to extended active duty for 
a period in excess of thirty days in time of war or national emergency 
and is found physically qualified to perform active duty, entitlement 
to the pension, retirement pay, disability compensation, or retired pay 
shall be suspended for the period of the extended active duty unless 
that compensation is greater than the compensation specified in clause 
(1) of this section. During the period of extended active duty the 
member shall receive the compensation for that duty specified in clause 
(1) of this section. Upon termination of the period of extended active 
duty the pension, retirement pay, disability compensation, or retired 
pay of the member shall be resumed and paid as provided by law. 
The 
suspension herein provided shall not operate to affect any other rights 
or benefits to which the member or his dependents may be entitled 
under this or any other provision of law." 
SEC. 3. Section 3 of the Act of September 27, 1950 (ch. 1053, 64 
Stat. 1067), is hereby amended by changing the comma after "1947" to 
a period and striking out the words "and shall terminate five years 
after the date of approval of this Act." 
SEC. 4. The term "disability allowance" is deleted from section 10 
of the Act of August 2, 1946 (60 Stat. 854), as amended, and from 
section 2 of the Act of September 27, 1950 (ch. 1053, 64 Stat. 1067). 
Approved July 12, 1955. 
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Public Law 157 
CHAPTER 358 
AN ACT 
Making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending 
June 30, 1956, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Rejyresentatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following 
sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not other-
wise appropriated, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1956, for mili-
tary functions administered by the Department of Defense, and for 
other purposes, namely: 
TITLE I 
OFFICE OF T H E SECEETARY OF DEFENSE 
July 13,1955 
[H. R. 6042] 
Department of 
Defense Appropri-
ation Act, 1956. 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary for the Oflice of the Secretary of Defense, 
including hire of passenger motor vehicles; and not to exceed $60,000 
for emergency and extraordinary expenses, to be expended under the 
direction of the Secretary of Defense for such purposes as he deems 
proper, and his determination thereon shall be final and conclusive; 
$12,250,000. 
OFFICE or PUBLIC AFFAIRS 
For salaries and expenses necessary for the Office of Public Affairs, 
$420,000. 
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TITLE I I 
INTERSERVICE ACTIVITIES 
CLAIMS 
For payment of claims by the Office of the Secretary of Defense, 
the Army (except as provided in appropriations for civil functions 
administered by the Department of the Army), Navy, Marine Corps, 
and Air Force, as authorized by law; claims (not to exceed $1,000 
in any one case) for damages to or loss of private property incident 
to the operation of Army and Air National Guard camps of instruc-
tion, either during the stay of units of said organizations at such 
camps or while en route thereto or therefrom; claims for damages 
arising under training contracts with carriers; and repayment of 
amounts determined by the Secretary of the Army, the Secretary of 
the Navy, or the Secretary of the Air Force, or officers designated by 
them, to have been erroneously collected from military and civilian 
personnel of the Departments of the Army, Navy, and Air Force or 
from States, Territories, or the District of Columbia, or members of 
National Guard units thereof; $11,930,000. 
CONTINGENCIES 
For emergencies and extraordinary expenses arising in the Depart-
ment of Defense, to be expended on the approval or authority of the 
Secretary of Defense and such expenses may be accounted for solely 
on his certificate that the expenditures were necessary for confidential 
gressionai co^ul military purposes, $40,000,000: Provided^ That a report of disburse-
ments under this item of appropriation shall be made quarterly to the 
Appropriations Committees of the Congress. 
EMERGENCY FUND 
For transfer by the Secretary of Defense, with the approval of 
the Bureau of the Budget, to any appropriation for military functions 
under the Department of Defense available for research and develop-
ment, to be merged with and to be available for the same purposes, and 
for the same time period, as the appropriation to which transferred, 
$35,000,000 and in addition not to exceed $50,000,000 to be used 
upon determination by the Secretary of Defense that such funds 
can be wisely, profitably, and practically used in the interest of 
national defense and to be derived by transfer from such appropria-
tions available to the Department of Defense for obligation during 
the current fiscal year as the Secretary of Defense may designate. 
RESERVE TOOLS AND FACILITIES 
For transfer by the Secretary of Defense, with the approval of the 
Director, Bureau of the Budget, to any appropriation for military 
functions under the Department of Defense available for procure-
ment, to be merged with and to be available for the same time period 
as the appropriations to which transferred, for mobilization reserve 
purposes, including purchase of machine tools; and construction and 
acquisition of production facilities, including land, buildings, and 
appurtenances therefor; $100,000,000. 
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RETIRED PAY 
For retired pay and retirement pay, as authorized by law, of military 
personnel on the retired lists of tne Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and 
the Air Force, including the reserve components thereof; retainer 
pay for personnel of the inactive Fleet Reserve, and payments under 
the Uniformed Services Contingency Option Act of 1953; $495,000,000. 
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COURT OF MILITARY APPEALS 
For salaries and expenses necessary for the Court of Military 
Appeals, $320,000. 
TITLE I I I 
DEPARTMENT OF T H E ARMY 
MILITARY PERSONNEL 
For pay, allowances, individual clothing, interest on deposits, and 
permanent change of station travel, for members of the Army on 
active duty (except those undergoing reserve training) ; expenses inci-
dent to movement of troop detachments, including rental of camp 
sites and procurement of utility and other services; expenses of appre-
hension and delivery of deserters, prisoners, and soldiers absent with-
out leave, including payment of rewards (not to exceed $25 in any one 
case), and costs of confinement of military prisoners in nonmilitary 
facilities; donations of not to exceed $25 to each prisoner upon each 
release from confinement in an Army prison (other than a disciplinary 
barracks) and to each person discharged for fraudulent enlistment; 
authorized issues of articles to prisoners, other than those in discipli- 
^ 
nary barracks; subsistence of enlisted personnel, selective service reg-
istrants called for induction and applicants for enlistment while held 
. 
under observation, and prisoners (except those at disciplinary bar-
racks), or reimbursement therefor while such personnel are sick in 
hospitals; and subsistence of supernumeraries necessitated by emer-
gent military circumstances; $3,679,095,000: Provided^ That section 
212 of the Act of June 30, 1932 (5 U. S. C. 59a), shall not apply to 
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retired military personnel on duty at the United States Soldiers' 
Home: Provided further^ That the duties of the librarian at the 
United States Military Academy may be performed by a retired officer 
detailed on active duty. 
MAINTENANCE AND OPERATIONS 
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for the main-
tenance and operation of the Army, including administration and 
rentals at the seat of government; medical and dental care of person-
nel entitled thereto by law or regulation (including charges of private 
facilities for care of military personnel on duty or leave, except elec-
tive private treatment), and other measures necessary to protect the 
health of the Army; care of the dead; chaplains' activities; awards 
and medals; welfare and recreation; information and educational 
services for the Armed Forces; recruiting expenses; subsistence of 
prisoners at disciplinary barracks, and of civilian employees as au- . 
thorized by law; expenses of apprehension and delivery of prisoners 
escaped from disciplinary barracks, including payment of rewards 
not exceeding $25 in any one case, and expenses of confinement of such 
prisoners in nonmilitary facilities; donations of not to exceed $25 to 
each prisoner upon each release from confinement in a disciplinary 
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barracks; military courts, boards, and commissions; authorized issues 
of articles for use of applicants for enlistment and persons in military 
custody; civilian clothing, not to exceed $30 in cost, to be issued each 
person upon each release from confinement in an Army prison and to 
each soldier discharged otherwise than honorably, or sentenced by a 
civil court to confinement in a civil prison, or interned or discharged 
as an alien enemy; transportation services; communications services, 
including construction of communication systems; maps and similar 
data for military purposes; military surveys and engineering plan-
ning; contracts for maintenance of reserve tools and facilities for 
twelve months beginning at any time during the current fiscal year; 
alteration, extension, and repair of structures and property; acquisi-
tion of lands (not exceeding $5,000 for any one parcel), easements, 
rights-of-way, and similar interests in land, and, in administering the 
provisions of 43 U. S. C. 315q, rentals may be paid in advance; utility 
services for buildings erected at private cost, as authorized by law 
(10 U. S. C. 1346), and buildings on military reservations authorized 
by Army regulations to be used for a similar purpose; purchase of 
ambulances; hire of passenger motor vehicles; tuition and fees inci-
dent to training of military personnel at civilian institutions; field 
exercises and maneuvers, including payments in advance for rentals 
or options to rent land; expenses for the Keserve Officers' Training 
Corps and other units at educational institutions, as authorized by law; 
exchange fees, and losses in the accounts of disbursing officers or 
agents in accordance with law; expenses of inter-American coopera-
60 Stat. 858. 
|JQJJ^ ^S authorizcd for the Navy by law (5 U. S. C. 421f) for Latin-
American cooperation; not to exceed $6,266,000 for emergencies and 
extraordinary expenses, to be expended on the approval or authority 
of the Secretary of the Army, and payments may be made on his cer-
tificate of necessity for confidential military purposes, and his deter-
mination shall be final and conclusive upon the accounting officers 
of the Government; $2,831,019,000: Provided, That during the fiscal 
year 1956 the maintenance, operation, and availability of the Army-
Navy Hospital at Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas, and the 
Murphy General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, to meet require-
ments of the military and naval forces shall be continued. 
MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, ARMY EESERVE FORCES 
For construction, acquisition, expansion, rehabilitation and conver-
sion of facilities for the training and administration of the reserve 
components, including contributions therefor, as authorized by the 
50use 881 note, j ^ ^ ^ ^f September 11, 1950 (64 Stat. 829), without regard to sections 
use "fgi 267?' *^ 11^^ *^^ 3734, Revised Statutes, as amended, and land and interests 
therein may be acquired and construction prosecuted, thereon prior to 
the approval of title by the Attorney General as required by section 
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355 of ^jjg Revised Statutes, as amended; and hire of passenger motor 
vehicles; $31,611,000, to remain available until expended: 
Provided, 
That funds under this head shall be available, without regard to the 
75 per centum restriction on contributions contained in section 4 ( d ) 
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of the Act of September 11,1950, for construction, alteration, improve-
ment, and expansion of facilities made necessary by the conversion, 
redesignation, or reorganization of National Guard units, required 
for Federal purposes, and in an amount not exceeding $5,000,000 for 
construction of buildings and facilities other than armories. 
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RESERVE PERSONNEL 
For pay, allowances, clothing, subsistence, transportation, travel 
and related expenses, as authorized by law, for personnel of the Army 
lieserve while on active duty under section 252 of the Armed Forces 
Reserve Act of 1952, or undergoing Reserve training or while per- 
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forming drills or equivalent duty, and for members of the Reserve 
Officers' Training Corps; subsistence for members of the Army 
Reserve for drills of eight or more hours' duration in any one calendar 
day; $141,589,000. 
ARMY NATIONAL GUARD 
For pay, allowances, clothing, subsistence, transportation, and 
travel, as authorized by law, for personnel of the Army National 
Guard while on duty under section 252 of the Armed Forces Reserve 
Act of 1952, or while undergoing training or while performing drills 
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or equivalent duties; expenses of training, organizing and administer-
ing the Army National Guard, including maintenance, operation, and 
alterations to structures and facilities; hire of passenger motor vehi-
cles ; personal services in the National Guard Bureau and services of 
personnel of the National Guard employed as civilians without regard 
to their military rank, and the number of caretakers authorized to be 
employed under provisions of law (32 U. S. C. 42) may be such as is 
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deemed necessary by the Secretary of the Army; subsistence for 
officers attending drills of eight or more hours duration in any one 
calendar day; travel expenses (other than mileage), as authorized by 
law for Army personnel on active duty, for Army National Guard 
division, regimental, and battalion commanders while inspecting units 
in compliance with National Guard regulations when specifically 
authorized by the Chief, National Guard Bureau; supplying and 
equipping the Army National Guard of the several States, Territories, 
and the District of Columbia, as authorized by law; and expenses ci 
repair, modification, maintenance, and issue of supplies and equip-
ment (including aircraft); $308,239,000: Provided, That obligations 
may b^ incurred under this appropriation for installation, mainte-
nance, and operation of facilities for antiaircraft defense without 
regard to section 67 of the National Defense Act. 
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RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT 
For expenses necessary for basic and applied scientific research and 
development, including maintenance, rehabilitation, lease and opera-
tion of facilities and equipment, as authorized by law, $333,000,000, 
to remain available until expended. 
NATIONAL BOARD FOR THE PROMOTION OF RIFLE PRACTICE, ARMY 
For necessary expenses of construction, equipment and maintenance 
of rifle ranges, the instruction of citizens in marksmanship, and pro-
motion of rifle practice, in accordance with law, including travel of 
rifle teams, niilitary personnel, and individuals attending regional, 
national, and international competitions, and not to exceed $18,000 for 
incidental expenses of the National Board, $400,000: Provided, 
That 
travel expenses of civilian members of the National Board shall be 
paid in accordance with the Standardized Government Travel Regu-
lations, as amended. 
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ALASKA COMMUNICATION SYSTEM 
For expenses necessary for the operation, maintenance, and 
improvement of the Alaska Communication System, including pur-
chase (not to exceed two for replacement only) and hire of passenger 
motor vehicles, $5,000,000, to remain available until the close of the 
fiscal year 1957, and, in addition, not to exceed 15 per centum of the 
current fiscal year receipts of the Alaska Communication System may 
be merged with and used for the purposes of this appropriation. 
REDUCTION IN APPROPRIATION 
ARMY STOCK FUND 
The amount available in the Army Stock Fund is hereby reduced by 
$700,000,000, of which sum $400,000,000 shall be covered into the Treas-
ury immediately upon approval of this Act, and $300,000,000 shall 
be covered into the Treasury no later than December 31, 1955. 
TITLE IV 
DEPARTMENT OF T H E NAVY 
MILITARY PERSONNEL, NAVY 
For pay, allowances, subsistence, interest on deposits, gratuities, 
clothing, permanent change of station travel (including expenses of 
temporary duty between permanent duty stations), training duty 
travel of midshipmen paid hereunder, and transportation of depend-
ents, household effects, and privately owned automobiles, as authorized 
by law, for regular and reserve personnel on active duty (except those 
on active duty while undergoing reserve training), midshipmen at 
the Naval Academy, and aviation cadets, $2,486,109,900. 
RESERVE PERSONNEL, NAVY 
For pay, allowances, clothing, subsistence, gratuities, and travel, 
as authorized by law, for personnel of the Naval Reserve on active 
duty while undergoing reserve training, or while performing drills or 
equivalent duty, regular and contract enroUees in the Naval Reserve 
Officers' Training Corps, and retainer pay authorized by the Act of 
60 Stat. 1060. 
August 13,1946 (34 U. S. C. 1020h), $91,811,000. 
NAVY PERSONNEL, GENERAL EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary for general training, education and admin* 
istration of regular and reserve personnel, including tuition, cash 
book allowances of not to exceed $50 for each Naval Aviation College 
program student, and other costs incurred at civilian schools, general 
training aids and devices, procurement of military personnel, and 
authorized annuity premiums and retirement benefits for civilian 
members of teaching staffs; maintenance and operation of Navy 
training and personnel facilities, including the Naval Academy, Naval 
Postgraduate School, Naval War College, Naval Home, Navy train-
ing schools and facilities, disciplinary barracks, and retraining 
commands; rent; hire of motor vehicles; not to exceed $30 per person 
for civilian clothing, including an overcoat when necessary, for en-
listed personnel discharged otherwise than honorably; welfare and 
recreation; medals and other awards; and departmental salaries; 
$83,000,000. 
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MILITARY PEESONNEL, MARINE CORPS 
For pay, allowances, subsistence, interest on deposits, gratuities, 
clothing, permanent change of station travel (including expenses of 
temporary duty between permanent duty stations), and transportation 
of dependents, household effects, and privately owned automobiles, as 
authorized by law, for regular and reserve personnel on active duty 
(except those on active duty while undergoing reserve training), 
$650,244,000. 
RESERVE PERSONNEL, MARINE CORPS 
For pay, allowances, clothing, subsistence, gratuities, and travel, 
as authorized by law, for personnel of the Marine Corps Reserve 
and the Marine Corps platoon leaders class on active duty while 
undergoing reserve trainmg, or while performing drills or equivalent 
duty, $20,606,000. 
MARINE CORPS PROCUREMENT 
For expenses necessary for the procurement, manufacture, and mod-
ification of armament, ammunition, military equipment and vehicles 
for the Marine Corps, including purchase of passenger motor vehicles; 
$290,190,000, to remain available until expended. 
MARINE CORPS TROOPS AND FACILITIES 
For necessary expenses of troops and facilities of the Marine Corps 
not otherwise provided for, including maintenance and operation of 
equipment and facilities, and procurement of military personnel; 
training and education of regular and reserve personnel, including 
tuition and other costs incurred at civilian schools; welfare an& 
recreation; not to exceed $30 per person for civilian clothing, including 
an overcoat when necessary, for enlisted personnel discharged other-
wise than honorably; procurement and manufacture of military sup-
plies, equipment and clothing; hire of passenger motor vehicles; 
transportation of things; industrial mobilization; rent; medals, 
awards, emblems and other insignia; care of the dead; and depart-
mental salaries; $181,605,000. 
AIRCRAFT AND RELATED PROCUREMENT 
For construction, procurement, and modernization of aircraft and 
equipment, including ordnance, spare parts, and accessories therefor; 
specialized equipment; expansion of public and not to exceed $10,000,-
000 for expansion of private plants, including the land necessary 
therefor, without regard to section 3734, Revised Statutes, as amended, 
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and such land, and interests therein, may be acquired and construction 
prosecuted thereon prior to approval of title by the Attorney General 
as required by section 355, Revised Statutes, as amended; procure- ^
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ment and installation of equipment in public or private plants; and 
departmental salaries necessary for the purposes of this appropria-
tion; $905,602,000, to remain available until expended: 
Provided, 
That the unexpended balances of funds appropriated for communica-
tion, navigation, and detection equipment for air operations under the 
head "Aircraft and Facilities" which, as originally passed by the Con-
gress, were available for expenditure on June 30, 1955, are hereby 
transferred to and merged with this appropriation. 
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AIRCRAFT AND FACILITIES 
For expenses necessary for maintenance, operation, and modifica-
tion of aircraft; maintenance, operation, and lease of air stations and 
facilities, testing laboratories, fleet and other aviation activities; pro-
curement of services, supplies, special clothing, tools, materials, and 
equipment, including rescue boats; industrial mobilization; aerological 
services, supplies, and equipment for the Navy and Marine Corps; 
and departmental salaries; $809,632,000: Provided, That $725,000 of 
the foregoing amount shall be transferred to the appropriation "Sal-
aries and expenses, Weather Bureau, Department of Commerce", fiscal 
year 1956. 
SHIPBUILDING AND CONVERSION 
For expenses necessary for the construction, acquisition, or con-
version of vessels as authorized by law, including armor and armament 
therefor, plant equipment, appliances, and machine tools, and installa-
tion thereof in public or private plants; procurement, production, and 
modernization of electronic ec^uipment and material for ships; pro-
curement of critical long lead time components and designs for vessels 
to be constructed or converted in the future; expansion of public and 
private plants, including land necessary therefor, without regard to 
40 use 259, 267. gectiou 3734, Eevised Statutes, as amended, and such land, and inter-
ests therein, may be acquired and construction prosecuted thereon 
prior to approval of title by the Attorney General as required by 
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* section 355, Revised Statutes, as amended; and departmental salaries 
necessary for the purposes of this appropriation; $1,387,634,000, to 
remain available until expended: Provided, That, exclusive of elec-
tronic equipment and material, the total of obligations incurred under 
the heads "Shipbuilding and Conversion" and "Ordnance for Ship-
building and Conversion", including those incurred against reim-
bursements credited to these appropriations pursuant to section 403 
63 Stat. 717. 
(b) of the Mutual Assistance Act of 1949, as amended (22 U. S. C. 
1574 (b)), and section 522 of the Mutual Security Act of 1954 (68 
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gtat. 855), shall not exceed $5,709,690,000: Provided further. 
That 
the unexpended balances of funds appropriated for communication, 
navigation, and detection equipment for ships under the head "Ships 
and Facilities" which, as originally passed by the Congress, were 
available for expenditure on June 30, 1955, are hereby transferred to 
and merged with this appropriation. 
SHIPS AND FACILITIES 
For expenses necessary for design, maintenance, operation, and 
alteration of vessels; maintenance and operation of facilities; pro-
curement of plant equipment, appliances, and machine tools, and 
installation thereof in public or private plants; procurement of equip-
ment, supplies, special clothing and services; installation, mainte-
nance, and removal of ships' ordnance; lease of facilities and docks; 
charter and hire of vessels; relief of vessels in distress; maritime 
salvage services; industrial mobilization; and departmental salaries; 
$779,685,000, of which $16,240,000 shall be transferred to the appro-
priation "Coast Guard Operating Expenses, 1956" for the operation 
of ocean stations. 
CONSTRUCTION OF SHIPS 
The limit on the total of obligations which may be incurred under 
this head for construction, conversion, or replacement, approved after 
July 17, 1947, is reduced from "$1,251,861,000" to "$1,243,289,000", 
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and the authority to enter into contracts heretofore granted under 
this head is reduced by the sum of $8,572,000. 
PROCUREMENT OF ORDNANCE AND AMMUNITION 
For expenses necessary for the production and procurement of 
Navy ordnance and ammunition (except ordnance for new aircraft, 
new ships, and ships authorized for conversion); expansion of public 
and private plants, including land necessary therefor, without regard 
to section 3734, Revised Statutes, as amended, and such land, and 
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interests therein, may be acquired and construction prosecuted thereon 
prior to approval of title by the Attorney General as required by 
section 355, Revised Statutes, as amended; and procurement of plant 
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equipment, appliances, and machine tools, and installation thereof in 
public or private plants; $185,842,000, to remain available until 
expended: Provided, That such sums as may be determined by the 
Secretary of the Navy, with the approval of the Secretary of Defense 
and the Bureau of the Budget, of the unexpended balances of funds 
appropriated for the foregoing purposes under the head "Ordnance 
and Facilities" which, as originally passed by the Congress, were 
available for expenditure on June 30, 1955, are hereby transferred to 
and merged with this appropriation. 
ORDNANCE AND FACILITIES 
For expenses necessary for inspection, testing, modification, alter-
ation, preservation, and handling of ordnance and ammunition; 
maintenance of ordnance (except installation, maintenance, and 
removal of ships' ordnance, and line maintenance of ordnance installed 
in aircraft); maintenance and operation of ordnance facilities; 
procurement of equipment, supplies, special clothing and services; 
procurement of plant equipment, appliances, and machine tools, and 
installation thereof in naval plants; lease of facilities; industrial 
mobilization; and departmental salaries; $182,889,000. 
ORDNANCE FOR NEW CONSTRUCTION (LIQUIDATION OF CONTRACT 
AUTHORIZATION ) 
For liquidation of obligations incurred pursuant to authority here-
tofore granted under this head, $28,000,000, to remain available until 
expended: Provided, That this amount may be disbursed through the 
appropriation "Ordnance for New Construction, Navy*'. 
MEDICAL CARE 
For expenses necessary for maintenance and operation of naval 
hospitals, medical centers, clinics, schools, and other medical activ-
ities ; technical medical support of the supply system and other naval 
activities; procurement of ambulances, medical and dental supplies, 
equipment and services; rent; instruction of medical personnel in 
naval hospitals, naval schools, and civilian schools; industrial mobili-
zation ; care of the dead; and departmental salaries; $62,494,556. 
QYVIL ENGINEERING 
For expenses necessary for maintenance and operation of district 
public works offices, public works centers, construction battalion cen-
ters, defense housing projects, other civil engineering facilities, and 
shore activities not otherwise provided for; procurement of services, 
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note. 
60 Stat. 853. 
supplies, and equipment for the foregoing activities; purchase and 
hire of passenger motor vehicles; engineering services; industrial 
mobilization; and departmental salaries; $120,069,700. 
MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, NAVAL EESERVE FORCES 
For construction, acquisition, expansion, rehabilitation and conver-
sion of facilities for the training and administration of the reserve 
components of the Navy and Marine Corps, including contributions 
therefor, as authorized by the Act of Sej)tember 11, 1950 (64 Stat. 
829), without regard to section 3734, Kevised Statutes, as amended, 
and land and interests therein may be acc^uired and construction pros-
ecuted thereon prior to the apj)roval of title by the Attorney General 
as required by section 355, Revised Statutes, as amended; $28,061,400, 
to remain available until expended. 
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT 
For expenses necessary for basic and applied scientific research and 
development, including maintenance, rehaoilitation, lease, and opera-
tion of facilities and equipment, as authorized by law, $431,933,000, 
to remain available until expended. 
SERVICE-WIDE SUPPLY AND FINANCE 
For expenses necessary for maintenance and operation of service-
wide supply and finance activities, including supply depots and cen-
ters, area provision supply and purchasing offices, supply demand con-
trol points, fleet fueling facilities, overseas air cargo terminals, 
regional accounting and disbursing offices, the material catalog office, 
and other service-wide supply and finance facilities, as designated by 
the Secretary; procurement of supplies, services, special clothing, and 
equipment; rent; transportation of household effects of civilian 
employees; industrial mobilization; losses in exchange and in the 
accounts of disbursing officers, as authorized by law; and departmental 
salaries; $295,600,000. 
SERVICE-WIDE OPERATIONS 
For expenses necessary for maintenance and operation of the Naval 
Observatory, the Hydrographic Office, Service-wide Communications, 
Naval Records Centers, Naval District Headquarters (except training 
officers), River Commands, the cost inspection service, and other serv-
ice-wide operations and functions not otherwise provided for; pro-
curement of supplies^ services and equipment for activities financed 
hereunder; cryptographic equipment; Latin-American cooperation; 
not to exceed $9,177,000 for emergencies and extraordinary expenses 
as authorized by section 6 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 
419c), to be expended on the approval and authority of the Secretary, 
and his determination shall be final and conclusive upon the account-
ing officers of the Government; and departmental salaries; $94,320,000. 
NAVAL PETROLEUM RESERVES 
For expenses necessary for exploration, prospecting, conservation, 
development, use, and operation of the naval petroleum reserves, as 
authorized by law, $2,851,000. 
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EEDUCTIONS IN APPROPRIATIONS 
The amounts available in the several funds named below are hereby 
reduced by the respective sums indicated, such sums to be covered into 
the Treasury immediately upon approval of this Act: 
Navy Stock Fund, $429,000,000; 
Marine Corps Stock Fund, $25,000,000; 
Navy Industrial Fund, $40,000,000. 
TITLE V 
DEPAKTMENT OF T H E AIR FORCE 
AlRCRAFr AND RELATED PROCUREMENT 
For construction, procurement, and modification of aircraft and 
equipment, armor and armament, spare parts and accessories therefor; 
specialized equipment; expansion of public and private plants. Gov-
ernment-owned equipment and installation thereof in such plants, 
erection of structures, and acquisition of land without regard to sec-
tion 1136, Revised Statutes, as amended, for the foregoing and other 
purposes, and such land, and interests therein, may be acquired and 
construction prosecuted thereon prior to the approval of title by the 
Attorney General as required by section 355, Revised Statutes, as note."^*^ ^^^ ""^ 
amended; industrial mobilization, including maintenance of reserve 
plants and equipment and procurement planning; and other expenses 
necessary for the foregoing purposes, including rents and transporta-
tion of things; $6,306,000,000, to remain available until expended. 
MAJOR PROCUREMENT OTHER THAN AIRCRAFT 
For procurement of supplies, materials, and equipment, and spare 
parts therefor, not otherwise provided for; electronic and communi-
cation equipment; and the purchase of passenger motor vehicles; 
$349,862,600, to remain available until expended. 
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT 
For expenses necessary for basic and applied scientific research and 
development, including maintenance, rehabilitation, lease and opera-
tion of facilities and equipment, as authorized by law, $570,000,000, 
to remain available until expended. 
MAINTENANCE AND OPERATIONS 
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for the mainte-
nance, operation, and administration of the activities of the Air 
Force, including the Air Force Reserve and the Air Reserve Officei's' 
Training Corps; maintenance, operation, and modification of aircraft; 
transportation of things; rents at the seat of government and else-
where, and in administering the provisions of 43 U. S. C. 315q 
se stat. 654. 
payments of rents may be made in advance; repair of facilities; field 
printing plants; procurement of ambulances; hire of passenger 
motor vehicles; recruiting advertising expenses; training and instruc-
tion of military personnel of the Air Force, including tuition and 
related expenses; pay, allowances, and travel expenses of contract 
surgeons; utility services for buildings erected at private cost as 
authorized by law (10 U. S. C. 1346), and buildings on military 
32 stat. 282. 
reservations authorized by Air Force regulations to be used for 
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[69 STAT. 
welfare and recreational purposes; rental of land or purchase of 
31 use 529. 
options to rent land without reference to section 3648, Revised Stat-
utes, as amended, use or repair of private property, and other neces-
sary expenses of combat maneuvers: organizational clothing and 
equipage; civilian clothing not to exceed $30 in cost for each person 
upon each release from a military prison, each enlisted man dis-
charged other than honorably, each enlisted man sentenced by a civil 
court to confinement in a civil prison, and each enlisted man interned, 
or discharged without internment as an alien enemy; authorized 
issues of articles for use of applicants for enlistment and persons in 
military custody; payment of exchange fees and exchange losses 
incurred by Air Force disbursing officers or their agents; losses in 
the accounts of Air Force disbursing officers as authorized by law 
58stau800.^921. (3^ u . S. C. 95a; 50 U. S. C. 1705-1707) ; care of the dead; chaplain 
1705-1707. 
' and other welfare and morale supplies and equipment; conduct of 
schoolrooms, service clubs, chapels, and other instructional, enter-
tainment, and welfare expenses for enlisted men and patients not 
otherwise provided for; awards and decorations; expenses of courts, 
boards and commissions; expenses for inter-American cooperation 
60 Stat. 858. 
^s authoHzed for the Navy by the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 IT. S. C. 
421f) for Latin-American cooperation; and special services by con-
tract or otherwise; not to exceed $8,000,000 for emergencies and ex-
traordinary expenses, to be expended on the approval or authority of 
the Secretary of the Air Force, and payments may be made on his 
certificate of necessity for confidential military purposes, and his 
determination shall be final and conclusive upon the accounting officei-s 
of the Government; $3,597,496,570: Provided^ That not to exceed 
$55,000,000 of the appropriation "Maintenance and operations. Air 
Force, 1953" shall remain available until expended solely for the 
liquidation of obligations heretofore incurred against such appropria-
tion for assist take-off units and armaments. 
MILITARY PERSONNEL 
For pay, allowances, clothing, subsistence, transportation, interest 
on deposits of enlisted personnel, and travel in kind for cadets and 
permanent change of station travel for all other personnel of the 
Air Force of the United States on active duty including duty under 
10 use ii^' 
section 5, National Defense Act, as amended, or section 252 of the 
li Stat. 496. 
Armed Forces Reserve Act of 1952 (50 U. S. C. 1003) (other than 
personnel of the reserve components, including the Air National 
Guard, on active duty while undergoing Reserve training), includ-
ing commutation of quarters, subsistence supplies for issue as rations 
to enlisted personnel, and clothing allowances, as authorized by law; 
and, in connection with personnel paid from this appropriation, for 
rental of camp sites and local procurement of utility services and 
other necessary expenses incident to individual or troop movements 
(including packing and unpacking and transportation of organiza-
tional equipment); ice, meals for recruiting parties, monetary allow-
ances for liquid coffee for troops when supplied cooked or travel 
I'ations, and commutation of rations, as authorized by law, to enlisted 
personnel, including those sick in hospitals; transportation, as author-
ized by law, of dependents, baggage, and household effects of personnel 
paid from this appropriation; rations for applicants for enlistment, 
prisoners of war, and general prisoners; subsistence supplies for resale, 
as authorized by law; commutation of rations, as authorized by regu-
lations, to applicants for enlistment and general prisoners while sick in 
hospitals; subsistence of supernumeraries necessitated by emergent 
military circumstances; expenses of apprehension and delivery of 
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313 
deserters, prisoners, and members of the Air Force absent without 
leave, including payment of rewards (not to exceed $25 in any one 
case); confinement of military prisoners in nonmilitary facilities; and 
donations of not to exceed $25 to each civilian prisoner upon each 
release from a military prison, to each enlisted man discharged other-
wise than honorably upon each release from confinement under court-
martial sentence, and to each person discharged for fraudulent 
enlistment; $3,680,650,000. 
RESERVE PERSONNEL 
For pay, allowances, clothing, subsistence, and travel for personnel 
of the Air Force Reserve and the Air Reserve Officers' Training 
Corps, while on active duty undergoing Reserve training or while 
performing drills or equivalent duty, as authorized by law; and the 
procurement and issue of uniforms to institutions necessary for the 
training of the Air Reserve Officers' Training Corps, as authorized by 
law; $43,563,000. 
AIR NATIONAL GUARD 
For pay, allowances, clothing, subsistence, transportation (includ-
ing mileage, actual and necessary expenses, or per diem in lieu 
thereof), medical and hospital treatment and related expenses, for 
members of the Air National Guard while undergoing Reserve train-
ing or while performing drills or equivalent duty, including officers on 
duty under sections 5 and 81, National Defense Act, as amended, and 
io^^*c**38-^°3^2 
section 252 of the Armed Forces Reserve Act of 1952 (50 U. S. C. 1003), use 66, iri-iVe. 
as authorized by law; travel expenses (other than mileage) on the 
so tree looi. 
same basis as authorized by law for Air National Guard personnel on 
active Federal duty, of Air National Guard commanders while inspect-
ing units in compliance with National Guard regulations when spe-
cifically authorized by the Chief, National Guard Bureau; establish-
ment, maintenance, operation, repair, and other necessary expenses of 
facilities for the training and administration of the Air National 
Guard, including construction of facilities, and additions, extensions, 
alterations, improvements, and rehabilitation of existing facilities, as 
authorized by the Act of September 11, 1950 (Public Law 783); 
f^^^sc'slfnote. 
maintenance, operation, and modification of aircraft; transportation 
of things; purchase and hire of passenger motor vehicles; procure-
ment and issue to the Air National Guard of the several States, Ter-
ritories, and the District of Columbia of supplies, materials, and 
equipment, as authorized by law; and expenses incident to the main-
tenance and use of supplies, materials, and equipment, including such 
as may be furnished from stocks under the control of agencies of the 
Department of Defense; $192,191,000: Provided, That the number of 
caretakers authorized to be employed under the provisions of law 
(32 U. S. C. 42) may be such as is deemed necessary by the Secretary ^^^ ^'34.^°*' '^ 
of the Air Force. 
R E D U C T I O N S I N AprROPRiATioNS 
AIR FORCE STOCK FUND 
The amount available in the Air Force Stock Fund is hereby 
reduced by $300,000,000, such sum to be covered into the Treasury 
immediately upon approval of this Act. 
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AIR FORCE INDUSTRIAL 
FUND 
[69 ST A T . 
The amount available in the Air Force Industrial Fund is hereby 
reduced by $155,000,000, such sum to be covered into the Treasury 
immediately upon approval of this Act. 
T I T L E VI 
Experts or con-
sultants. 
60 Stat. 810. 
of 
A d v a n c e 
public sQoneys. 
31 u s e 529. 
Noncitizens. 
D e t a i l e d per^ 
sonnal. 
A v a i l ability of 
appropriations. 
T u i t i o n 
p a y -
m e n t s , etc., re-
striction. 
63 Stat. 954. 
5 u s e 1071 note. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
SEC. 601. During the current fiscal year, the Secretary of Defense 
and the Secretaries of the Air Force, Army, and Navy, respectively, 
if they should deem it advantageous to the national defense, and if in 
their opinions, the existing facilities of the Department of Defense 
are inadequate, are 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, and to pay in connection 
therewith travel expenses of individuals, including actual transpor-
tation and per diem in lieu of subsistence while traveling from their 
homes or places of business to official duty station and return as may 
be authorized by law: Provided^ That such contracts may be renewed 
annually. 
SEC. 602. Hereafter, section 3648, Revised Statutes, shall not apply 
in the case of payments made from appropriations to the Department 
of Defense, (1) to payments made in compliance with the laws of 
forei^ countries or their ministerial regulations, (2) to payments for 
rent m such countries for such periods as may be necessary to accord 
with local custom, or (3) to payments made for tuition. 
SEC. 603. During the current fiscal year, provisions of law prohib-
iting the payment of compensation to, or employment of, any person 
not a citizen of the United States shall not apply to personnel of the 
Department of Defense. 
SEC. 604. Hereafter, such military and naval personnel as may be 
detailed for duty with agencies not a part of the Department of 
Defense on a reimbursement basis may oe employed in addition to 
the numbers otherwise authorized and appropriated for. 
SEC. 605. Appropriations contained in this Act shall be available 
for insurance of official motor vehicles in foreign countries, when 
required by laws of such countries; payments in advance of expenses 
determined by the investigating officer to be necessary and in accord 
with local custom for conducting investigations in foreign countries 
incident to matters relating to the activities of the department con-
cerned; reimbursement of General Services Administration 
for 
security guard services for protection of confidential files; and all 
necessary expenses, at the seat of government of the United States of 
America or elsewhere, in connection with (1) instruction and training, 
including tuition, specifically approved by the Secretary of the 
Department concerned and not otherwise provided for, of civilian 
employees, and (2) communication and other services and supplies as 
may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act: Provided^ 
That no appropriation contained in this Act, and no funds available 
from prior appropriations to component departments and agencies of 
the Department of Defense, shall be used to pay tuition or to make 
other payments to educational institutions in connection with the 
instruction or training of file clerks, stenographers, and typists receiv-
ing, or prospective file clerks, stenographers, and typists who will 
receive compensation at a rate below the minimum rate of pay for 
positions allocated to grade GS-5 under the Classification Act of 1949, 
as amended. 
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SEC. 606. Any appropriation available to the Air Force, Army, or 
the Navy may, under such regulations as the Secretary concerned may 
prescribe, be used for expenses incident to the maintenance, pay, and 
allowances of prisoners of war, other persons in Air Force, Army, or 
Navy custody whose status is determined by the Secretary concerned 
to be similar to prisoners of war, and persons detained in such custody 
pursuant to Presidential proclamation. 
SEC. 607. Appropriations available to the Department of Defense 
for the current fiscal year for construction or maintenance shall be 
available for minor construction (except family quarters), conver-
sion of and extensions to existing structures, and improvements, at 
facilities of the Department concerned, but the cost of any project 
authorized under this section which is not otherwise authorized shall 
not exceed the following cost limitations, but only one allotment shall 
be made for any one project or unit: (a) any such project determined 
by the Secretary of Defense to be urgently required in the interests of 
national defense, $200,000; (b) any such project determined by the 
Secretary of the Department concerned to be urgentlv required in 
the interests of national defense, $50,000; and (c) any other such proj-
ect, $25,000: Provided, That the cost limitations of this section shall 
not apply to amounts authorized to be expended for emergency 
expenses on the approval of the Secretary concerned: Provided 
fur-
ther, That the cost of converting existing structures to family quar-
ters pursuant to the authority contained in this section shall not 
exceed $50,000 during the current fiscal year at any single facility of 
the Department concerned. 
SEC. 608. During the current fiscal year, appropriations otherwise 
available for construction of family quarters for personnel shall not 
be obligated for such construction at a cost per family unit in excess of 
$20,000 on housing units for generals or equivalent; $18,000 on hous-
ing units for colonels or equivalent; $16,000 on housing units for 
majors and lieutenant colonels, or equivalent; $14,000 on housing units 
for second lieutenants, lieutenants, captains, and warrant officers, or 
equivalent; or $12,000 on housing units for enlisted personnel, except 
that when such units are constructed outside the continental United 
States or in Alaska, the average cost per unit of all such units shall 
not exceed $25,850 and in no event shall the individual cost exceed 
$35,000, except units for the Alaska Communication System the indi-
vidual cost oi which shall not exceed $40,000. 
SEC. 609. Appropriations for the Department of Defense for the 
current fiscal year shall be available, (a) except as authorized by the 
Act of September 30, 1950 (20 U. S. C. 236-244), for primary and 
secondary schooling for dependents of military and civilian personnel 
of the Department of Defense residing on military or naval installa-
tions or stationed in foreign countries, as authorized for the Navy by 
section 13 of the Act of August 2,1946 (5 U. S. C. 421d) in amounts 
not exceeding an average of $240 per student, when the Secretary of 
the Department concerned finds that schools, if any, available in the 
locality, are unable to provide adequately for the education of such 
dependents; (b) for expenses in connection with administration of 
occupied areas; (c) for payment of rewards as authorized for the 
Navy by the Act of August 2, 1946, for information leading to the 
discovery of missing naval property or the recovery thereof; (d) 
for payment of deficiency judgments and interest thereon arising out 
of condemnation proceedings. 
SEC. 610. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall 
be used directly or indirectly except for temporary employment in 
case of emergency, for the payment of any civilian for services 
rendered by him on the Canal Zone while occupying a skilled, technical, 
Prisoners of war, 
etc. 
Minor 
construc-
tion. 
Cost limitation. 
E m e r g e n c y ex-
penses. 
Family quarters. 
S c h o o l i n g for 
dependents. 
64 Stat. 1100. 
60 Stat. 854. 
Occupied areas. 
Rewards, Navy. 
60 Stat. 858. 
5 u s e 42 If. 
Payment of Judg-
ments. 
Canal Zone. 
Citizenship re-
quirements. 
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[69 ST A T . 
Panamanian cit-
izens. 
4 8 u s e 
1 3 0 7 
note. 
Employee 
w i t h 
15 or more years of 
service. 
Hours of employ-
ment; pay rate. 
S u s p e n B ion of 
compliance. 
A 8 s i s t a nee to 
A m e r i c a n small 
business. 
Mess operations. 
T r a v e l - ata tus 
rate. 
clerical, administrative, executive, or supervisory position unless such 
person is a citizen of the United States of America or the Republic of 
Fdinsimsi: Provided, however, (1) That, notwithstanding the provision 
in the Act approved August 11,1939 (53 Stat. 1409), limiting employ-
ment in the above-mentioned positions to citizens of the United 
States from and after the date of approval of said Act, citizens of 
Panama may be employed in such positions; (2) that at no time shall 
the number of Panamanian citizens employed in the above-mentioned 
positions exceed the number of citizens of the United States so em-
gloyed, if United States citizens are available in continental United 
tates or on the Canal Zone; (3) that nothing in this Act shall pro-
hibit 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: Provided 
further, 
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. 611. Insofar as practicable, the Secretary of Defense shall 
assist American small business to participate equitably in the furnish-
ing 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 available to 
purchasing and contracting agencies of the Department of Defense 
information as to commodities and services produced and furnished 
by small independent enterprises in the United States, and by other-
wise helping to give small Dusiness an opportunity to participate in 
the furnishing of commodities and services financed with funds appro-
priated by this Act. 
SEC. 612. No appropriation contained in this Act shall be available 
for expenses of operation of messes (other than organized messes the 
operating expenses of which are financed principally from nonappro-
priated funds) at which meals are sold to officers or civilians except 
under regulations approved by the Secretary of Defense, which shall 
(except under unusual or extraordinary circumstances) establish rates 
for such meals sufficient to provide reimbursement of operating 
expenses and food costs to the appropriations concerned: 
Provided, 
That officers and civilians in a travel status receiving a per diem 
allowance in lieu of subsistence shall be charged at the rate of not 
less than $2.25 per day: Provided further. That for the purposes of 
this section payments for meals at the rates established hereunder 
may be mad!e in cash or by deductions from the pay of civilian 
employees. 
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317 
SEC. 613. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall 
be available until expended unless expressly so provided elsewhere in 
this or some other appropriation Act. 
SEC. 614. Hereafter, no part of any appropriation to the Depart-
ment of Defense shall be available for or on account of the supply or 
replacement of table linen, dishes, glassware, silver, and kitchen uten-
sils for use in the residences or quarters of officers on shore (other 
than for field messes, messes temporarily set up on shore for bachelor 
officers and officers attached to seagoing or district defense vessels, to 
aviation units based on seagoing vessels, to the fleet air bases, to the 
submarine bases, or to landing forces and expeditions), except in 
accordance with regulations approved by the Secretary of Defense, 
which shall provide for uniform practices among all of the services. 
SEO. 615. Not more than $31,000,000 of the amounts received during 
the current fiscal year by the Department of Defense as proceeds from 
the sale of scrap or salvage materials, shall be available during the 
current fiscal year for expenses of transportation, demilitarization, 
and other preparation for sale or salvage of military supplies, equip-
ment, and materiel: Provided^ That a report of receipts and disburse-
ments under this limitation shall be made quarterly to the Committees 
on Appropriations of the Congress: Provided further^ That no funds 
available to agencies of the Department of Defense shall be used for 
the operation, acquisition or construction of new facilities or equip-
ment for new facilities in the continental limits of the United States 
for metal scrap baling or shearing or for melting or sweating alumi-
num scrap unless the Secretary of Defense or an Assistant Secretary 
of Defense designated by him determines, with respect to each facility 
involved, that the operation of such facility is in the national interest. 
SEC. 616. During the current fiscal year, the President may exempt 
appropriations, funds, and contract authorizations, available for mili-
tary functions under the Department of Defense, from the provisions 
of subsection (c) of section 3679 of the Revised Statutes, as amended, 
whenever he deems such action to be necessary in the interest of 
national defense. 
SEC. 617. No appropriation contained in this Act shall be available 
in connection with the operation of commissary stores of the agencies 
of the Department of Defense for the cost of purchase (including 
commercial transportation in the United States to the place of sale but 
excluding all transportation outside the United States) and main-
tenance of operating equipment and supplies, and for the actual or 
estimated cost of utilities as may be furnished by the Government and 
of shrinkage, spoilage, and pilferage of merchandise under the con-
trol of such commissary stores, except as authorized under regulations 
promulgated by the Secretaries of the military departments concerned, 
with the approval of the Secretary of Defense, which regulations shall 
provide for reimbursement therefor to the appropriations concerned 
and, notwithstanding any other provision of law, shall provide for the 
adjustment of the sales prices in such commissary stores to the extent 
necessary to furnish sufficient gross revenue from sales of commissary 
stores to make such reimbursement: Provided,^ That under such regu-
lations as may be issued pursuant to this section all utilities may be 
furnished without cost to the commissary stores outside the continental 
United States and in Alaska: Provided further^ That no appropria-
tion contained in this Act shall be available in connection with the 
operation of commissary stores within the continental United States 
unless the Secretary of Defense has certified that items normally pro-
cured from commissary stores are not otherwise available at a reason-
able distance and a reasonable price in satisfactory quality and quan-
tity to the military and civilian employees of the Department of 
Defense. 
A v a i l abiUty olt 
appropriations. 
Tableware, etc., 
in officers' quar-
ters. 
P r o c e o ds from 
sale of scrap. 
Report. 
Metal scrap bal" 
ing, etc. 
Exenr^tion from 
apportionment. 
31 u s e 665. 
C o m m i s s a r y 
stores. 
Restriction. 
318 
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[e9 STAT. 
s t r i k e or over-
throw o f Govern-
tnent. 
Affidavit. 
Penalty. 
C i v i l i a n 
em-
ployee ceiling. 
Exception. 
Proficiency fly-
ing. 
F l i g h t pay for 
certain officers. 
63 Stat. 810. 
37 u s e 235. 
SEC. 618. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall 
be used to pay the salary or wages of any person who engages in a 
strike against the Government of the United States or who is a member 
of an organization of Government employees that asserts the right to 
strike against the Government of the United States, or who advocates, 
or is a member of an organization that advocates, the overthrow of 
the Government of the United States by force or violence: Provided^ 
That for the purposes hereof an affidavit shall be considered prima 
facie evidence that the person making the affidavit has not contrary to 
the provisions of this section engaged in a strike against the Govern-
ment of the United States, is not a member of an organization of Gov-
ernment employees that asserts the right to strike against the Govern-
ment of the United States, or that such person does not advocate, and 
is not a member of an organization that advocates, the overthrow of 
the Government of the United States by force or violence: Provided 
further^ That any person who engages in a strike against the Govern-
ment of the United States or who is a member of an organization of 
Government employees that asserts the right to strike against the 
Government of the United States, or who advocates, or who is a 
member of an organization that advocates, the overthrow of the 
Government of the United States by force or violence and accepts 
employment the salary or wages for which are paid from any appro-
priation contained in this Act shall be guilty of a felony and, upon 
conviction, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned for not 
more than one year, or both: Provided further, That the above penalty 
clause shall be in addition to, and not in substitution for, any other 
provisions of existing law. 
SEC. 619. No funds appropriated in title I, III, IV, and V of this 
Act shall be used for the payment in excess of 475,000 full-time 
graded civilian employees (including (a) the full-time equivalent of 
part-time employment, (b) persons who are described as "consultants" 
or who are compensated on a "when actually employed" basis if such 
persons are employed on a contract basis or are paid on a per diem 
basis, and (c) persons employed without compensation if they are 
reimbursed for expenses) at any one time during the current fiscal 
year: Provided, That whenever, in the opinion of the Secretary of the 
Military Department concerned, the direct substitution of civilian 
personnel for an equivalent or greater number of military personnel 
will result in economy without adverse effect upon national defense, 
such substitution may l^ Ticcomplished without regard to the fore-
going limitation, and such funds as may be required to accomplish the 
substitution may be transferred from the appropriate military per-
sonnel appropriation to, and merged with, the appropriation charged 
with compensation of such civilian personnel. 
SEC. 620. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, executive 
order, or regulation, no part of the appropriations in this Act shall be 
available for any expenses of operating aircraft under the jurisdiction 
of the Armed Forces for the purpose of proficiency flying except in 
accordance with the regulations issued by the Secretaries of the 
Departments concerned and approved by the Secretary of Defense 
which shall establish proficiency standards and maximum and mini-
mum flying hours for this purpose: Provided, That during the fiscal 
3'^ear, without regard to any provision of law or executive order pre-
scribing minimum flight requirements, such regulations may provide 
for the payment of flight pay at the rates prescribed in section 204 (b) 
of the Career Compensation Act of 1949 (63 Stat. 802) to certain 
officers of the Armed Forces otherwise entitled to receive flight pay 
(1) who have held aeronautical ratings or designations for not less 
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319 
than twenty years, or (2) whose particular assignment outside the 
United States makes it impractical to participate in regular aerial 
flights. 
SEC. 621. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall 
be available for expense of transportation, packing, crating, tempo-
rary storage, drayage, and unpacking of household goods and personal 
effects in excess of eleven thousand pounds net in any one shipment: 
Provided^ That the limitations imposed herein shall not be applicable 
in the case of members transferred to or serving in stations outside 
the continental United States or in Alaska under orders relieving them 
from a duty station within the United States prior to July 10, 1952, 
and who are returned fo the United States under orders relieving 
them from a duty station beyond the United States or in Alaska on 
or after July 1, 1953. 
SEC. 622. Vessels under the jurisdiction of the Department of Com-
merce, the Department of the Army, the Department of the Air 
Force, or the Department of the Navy may be transferred or otherwise 
made available without reimbursement to any such agencies upon 
the request of the head of one agency and the approval of the agency 
having jurisdiction of the vessels concerned. 
SEC. 623. None of the funds provided in this Act shall be available 
for training in any legal profession nor for the payment of tuition 
for training in such profession: Provided^ That nothing contained in 
this Act shall prohibit persons now attending law courses from com-
pleting same: Provided further^ That this limitation shall not apply 
to the off-duty training of military personnel as prescribed by section 
628 of this Act. 
SEC. 624. Funds provided in this Act for public information and 
public relations shall not exceed $3,270,000. 
SEC. 625. Not more than 20 per centum of the appropriations in thi^ 
Act which are limited for obligation during fiscal year 1956 shall be 
obligated during the last two months of the fiscal year: Provided^ 
That this section shall not apply to obligations for support of active 
duty training of civilian components or summer camp training of the 
Reserve Officers Training Corps. 
SEC. 626. During the fiscal year 1956, the agencies of the Depart-
ment of Defense may accept the use of real property from foreign 
countries for the United States in accordance with mutual defense 
agreements or occupational arrangements and may accept services 
furnished by foreign countries as reciprocal international courtesies 
or as services customarily made available without charge; and such 
agencies may use the same for the support of the United States forces 
in such areas without specific appropriation therefor. 
In addition to the foregoing, agencies of the Department of Defense 
may accept real ])roperty, services, and commodities from foreign 
countries for the use of the United States in accordance with mutual 
defense agreements or occu])ational arrangements and such agencies 
may use the same for the support of tlie ITnited States forces in such 
areas without specific appropriation therefor: Provided^ That within 
thirty days after the end of each quarter the Secretary of Defense 
shall render to the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and 
the House of Representatives and to the Bureau of the Budget a full 
report of such property, supplies, and connnodities received during 
such quarter. 
SEC. 627. During the current fiscal year, appropriations available 
to the Department of Defense for research and development may be 
used for the purposes of section 4 of the Act of July 16,1952 (66 Stat. 
725), and for purposes related to research and development for which 
H o u s 
e h o l < l 
goods. 
NonappUcability. 
Transfer of ves-
sels. 
Legal training. 
Public 
informa* 
tlon, etc. 
Obligated funds, 
1956. 
e pt a 
p r o p e r t y , 
e t c , , 
from foreign coun" 
tries. 
Reports to Con-
gress and Budget 
Bureau. 
Research and de-
velopment. 
5USC235e,475J„ 
628e. 
320 
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[69 ST A T . 
T u i t i o n 
p a y -
ments, etc. 
ROTC. 
Loyalty require-
ment. 
Procurement 
o f 
U.S. products. 
Passenger auto-
mobiles. 
Bakeries, laun-
dries, etc. 
Grades 16-18. 
Temporary posi-
tions. 
63 Stat. 963. 
5 u s e 1112. 
Ante, p. 179. 
expenditures are specifically authorized in other appropriations of 
the service concerned. 
SEC. 628. No appropriation contained in this Act shall be available 
for the payment of more than 75 per centum of charges of educational 
institutions for tuition or expenses for ojff-duty training of military 
personnel, nor for the payment of any part of tuition or expenses for 
such training for commissioned personnel who do not agree to remain 
on active duty for two years after completion of such training. 
SEC. 629. No part of the funds appropriated herein shall be expended 
for the support of any formally enrolled student in basic courses of 
the senior division, Reserve Officers Training Corps, who has not 
executed a certificate of loyalty or loyalty oath in such form as shall 
be prescribed by the Secretary of Defense. 
SEC. 630. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall 
be available for the procurement of any article of food, clothing, 
cotton, spun silk yam for cartridge cloth (subject to the same condi-
tions as apply to other commodities in this paragraph) or wool 
(whether in the form of fiber or yarn or contained in fabrics, materials, 
or manufactured articles) not grown, reprocessed, reused, or produced 
in the United States or its possessions, except to the extent that the 
Secretary of the Department concerned shall determine that a satis-
factory quality and sufficient quantity of any articles of food or cloth-
ing or any form of cotton or wool grown, reprocessed, reused, or 
produced in the United States or its possessions cannot be procured as 
and when needed at United States market prices and except procure-
ments outside the United States in support of combat operations, pro-
curements by vessels in foreign waters and emergency procurements or 
procurements of perishable foods by establishments located outside 
the continental United States, except the Territories of Hawaii and 
Alaska, for the personnel attached thereto: Provided, That nothing 
herein shall preclude the procurement of foods manufactured or proc-
essed in the United States or its possessions: Provided further, That 
no funds herein appropriated shall be used for the payment of a price 
differential on contracts hereafter made for the purpose of relieving 
economic dislocations. 
SEC. 631. None of the funds appropriated in this Act shall be used 
for the purchase of passenger automobiles except for replacement: 
Provided, That the foregoing limitation shall not apply to the Army 
for sixteen vehicles, the Navy and Marine Corps for two hundred and 
fifty vehicles, and to the Air Force for seven hundred and fifty vehicles. 
SEC. 632. None of the funds appropriated in this Act shall be used 
for the construction, replacement, or reactivation of any bakery, 
laundry, or dry-cleaning facility in the United States, its Territories 
or possessions, as to which the Secretary of Defense does not certify 
in writing, giving his reasons therefor, that the services to be furnished 
by such facilities are not obtainable from commercial sources at rea-
sonable rates. 
SEC. 633. In order more effectively to administer the funds appro-
priated to the Department of Defense, the President, to the extent he 
deems it necessary and appropriate in the interest of national defense, 
may authorize positions in the Department of Defense to be ]^laced 
temporarily in grades 16, 17, and 18 of the General Schedule of the 
Classification Act of 1949 in accordance with the procedures and stand-
ards of that Act, and such positions shall be additional to the number 
authorized by section 505 of that Act. 
Under authority herein, grades 
16, 17, and 18 in the Department of Defense may be increased only to 
the extent that the total of such grades in the Department of Defense 
shall not exceed two hundred. 
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321 
SEC. 634. During the current fiscal year, appropriations of the De-
partment of Defense shall be available for reimbursement to the Post 
Office Department for payment of costs of commercial air transporta-
tion of military mail between the United States and foreign countries. 
SEC. 635. Appropriations of the Department of Defense available 
for the payment of rental allowances shall be available for the leasing 
of quarters in foreign countries constructed under the authority of 
section 302 of Public Law 534, approved July 14, 1952, for assign-
ment as public quarters to military personnel of the Department of 
Defense. 
SEC. 636. Appropriations contained in this Act shall be available 
for providing furnishings, without charge, in other than public quar-
ters occupied by military or civilian personnel of the Department of 
Defense on duty outside the continental United States or in Alaska, 
upon a determination, under regulations approved by the Secretary 
of Defense, that such action is advantageous to the Government. 
SEC. 637. During the current fiscal year, appropriations available 
to the Department of Defense for pay of civilian employees shall be 
available for uniforms, or allowances therefor, as authorized by the 
Act of September 1,1954 (68 Stat. 1114). 
SEC. 638. No part of the funds appropriated in this Act may be used 
for the disposal or transfer by contract or otherwise of work that has 
been for a period of three years or more performed by civilian person-
nel of the Department of Defense unless justified to the Appropriations 
Committees of the Senate and House of Representatives, at least ninety-
days in advance of such disposal or transfer, that its discontinuance 
is economically sound and the work is capable of performance by a 
contractor without danger to the national security: Provided^ That no 
such disposal or transfer shall be made if disapproved by either com-
mittee within the ninety-day period by written notice to the Secretary 
of Defense. 
SEC. 639. This Act may be cited as the "Department of Defense 
Appropriation Act, 1956". 
Approved July 13, 1955. 
M i l i t a r y 
mail 
costs. 
Foreign quarters. 
66 Stat. 622. 
Furnishings. 
Uniforms. 
5 u s e 2131 note. 
Contract restric-
tion. 
Short title. 
Public Law 158 
CHAPTER 359 
AN ACT 
To amend section 2 of the Act of January 27,1905 (33 Stat. 616), as amended (48 
U. S. C, 1952 edition, sec. 322). 
July 14. 1955 
[H.R. 245] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the third sen-
tence of section 2 of the Act of January 27, 1905 (33 Stat. 616), as 
amended (48 U. S. C, 1952 edition, sec. 322), is further amended to 
read as follows: "The Secretary of the Interior, or such officer, or offi-
cers as may be designated by him, shall, upon his own motion or upon 
petition, locate, lay out, construct, and maintain roads, trails, and 
bridges from any point on the navigable waters of Alaska to and 
through any town, mining or other industrial camp or settlement, or 
between and through any such town, camps, or settlements therein, if 
in his judgment such roads, trails, or bridges are needed and will be 
of pernianent value for the development of Alaska: Provided, 
That 
within incorporated towns only roads and bridges which are desig-
nated by the Secretary of the Interior as part of the through highway 
system of the Territory of Alaska may be constructed under this 
section: Provided fwrther, That no roads or bridges within incorpo-
rated towns shall be maintained under this section." 
Approved July 14, 1955. 
Alaska. 
Roads and trails. 
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