An Act making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1961, and for other purposes.
PL 86-601 (H.R.11998), enacted 07/07/1960

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[74 STAT. 
Public Law 86-601 
July 7, I960 
^'^ ACT 
[H. R. 11998] 
Making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending 
June 30, 1961, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hi/ the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
Difeifse'^*A^"%o- ^'^^^^^ Sttttcs of America in Congress assembled^ That the following 
priation Act, 1961! sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not other-
wise appropriated, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1961, for mili-
tary functions administered by the Department of Defense, and for 
other purposes, namely: 
TITLE I 
MILITARY 
PERSONNEL 
MILITARY PERSONNEL, ARMY 
For pay, allowances, individual clothing, subsistence, interest on 
deposits, gratuities, permanent change of station travel (including all 
expenses thereof for organizational movements), expenses of tem-
porary duty travel between permanent duty stations, for members of 
the Army on active duty (except those undergoing reserve training), 
expenses of apprehension and delivery of deserters, prisoners, and 
members absent without leave, including payment of rewards of 
not to exceed $25 in any one case, $3,247,548,000, and, in addition, 
$260,000,000, to be derived by transfer from the Army stock fund: 
Provided^ That no part of these funds shall be available for the pay 
and allowances of personnel assigned to departmental administration 
in excess of the number so assigned on December 31, 1959, 
MILITARY PERSONNEL, NAVY 
For pay, allowances, individual clothing, subsistence, interest on 
deposits, gratuities, permanent change of station travel (including 
all expenses thereof for organizational movements), expenses of tem-
porary duty travel between permanent duty stations, for members of 
the Navy on active duty (except those undergoing reserve training), 
midshipmen and aviation cadets, and expenses of apprehension and 
delivery of deserters, prisoners, and members absent without leave, 
including payment of rewards of not to exceed $25 in any one case, 
$2,508,244,000, and, in addition, $75,000,000, to be derived by transfer 
from the Navy stock fund: Provided, That no part of these funds 
shall be available for the pay and allowances of personnel assigned 
to departmental administration in excess of the number so assigned 
on December 31,1959. 
MILITARY PERSONNEL, MARINE CORPS 
For pay, allowances, individual clothing, subsistence, interest on 
deposits, gratuities, permanent cha-nge of station travel (including all 
expenses thereof for organizational movements), expenses of tempo-
rary duty travel between permanent duty stations, for members of the 
Marine Corps on active duty (except those undergoing reserve train-
ing) , and expenses of apprehension and delivery of deserters, prison-
ers, and members absent without leave, including payment of re-
wards of not to exceed $25 in any one case, $606,746,000, and, in addi-
tion, $500,000, to be derived by transfer from the Marine Corps stock 
fund: Provided, That no part of these funds shall be available for 
the pay and allowances of personnel assigned to departmental ad-
ministration in excess of the number so assigned on December 31,1959. 
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MILITARY PERSONNEL, AIR FORCE 
For pay, allowances, individual clothing, subsistence, interest on 
deposits, gratuities, permanent change of station travel (including 
all expenses thereof for organizational movements), expenses of tem-
porary duty travel between permanent duty stations, for members of 
the Air Force on active duty (except those undergoing reserve train-
ing), cadets and aviation cadets, and expenses of apprehension and 
delivery of deserters, prisoners, and members absent without leave, 
including payment of rewards of not to exceed $25 in any one case, 
$4,019,676,000, and, in addition, $30,000,000, to be derived by transfer 
from the Air Force stock fund: Provided^ That no part of these funds 
shall be available for the pay and allowances of personnel assigned 
to departmental administration in excess of the number so assigned 
on December 31,1959. 
EESERVE PERSONNEL, ARMY 
For pay, allowances, clothing, subsistence, gratuities, travel, and 
related expenses for personnel of the Army Reserve on active duty 
while undergoing reserve training, or while performing drills or equiv-
alent duty, and for members of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, 
as authorized by law, $233,998,000: Promded, That $35,000,000 of 
the funds provided in this appropriation shall be available only to 
meet the increased expenses necessary to maintain the Army Reserve 
at the strength provided for in this Act. 
RESERVE PERSONNEL, NAVY 
For pay, allowances, clothing, subsistence, gratuities, travel, and 
related expenses for personnel of the Naval Reserve on active duty 
while undergoing reserve training, or while performing drills or 
equivalent duty, regular and contract enrollees in the Naval Reserve 
Officers' Training Corps, and retainer pay, as authorized by law, 
$87,584,000. 
RESERVE PERSONNEL, MARINE CORPS 
For pay, allowances, clothing, subsistence, gratuities, travel, and 
related expenses for personnel of the Marine Corps Reserve and the 
Marine Corps platoon leaders class on active duty while undergoing 
reserve training, or while performing drills or equivalent duty, as 
authorized by law, $24,831,000. 
RESERVE PERSONNEL, AIR FORCE 
For pay, allowances, clothing, subsistence, gratuities, travel, and 
related expenses for personnel of the Air Force Reserve on active 
duty while undergoing reserve training or while performing drills 
or equivalent duty, and for members of the Air Reserve Officers' 
Training Corps, as authorized by law, $54,000,000. 
NATIONAL GUARD PERSONNEL, ARMY 
For pay, allowances, clothing, subsistence, gratuities, travel, and 
related expenses for personnel of the Army National Guard while 
on duty under section 265 of title 10, United States Code, or while 
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undergoing training or while performing drills or equivalent duty, 
as authorized by law, $230,277,000: Provided, That obligations may 
be incurred under this appropriation for the foregoing expenses for 
training of units designated for early deployment under mobiliza-
notes. 
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tion plans or for antiaircraft defense of the United States and Hawaii 
without regard to section 107 of title 32, United States Code: Provided 
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fuHhev^ That the Army National Guard shall be maintained at an 
average strength of not less than 400,000 for the fiscal year 1961: Pro-
vided^ further, That $31,700,000 of the funds provided in this appro-
priation shall be available only to meet the increased expenses neces-
sary to maintain the Army National Guard at the strength provided 
for in this Act. 
NATIONAL GUARD PERSONNEL, AIR FORCE 
For pay, allowances, clothing, subsistence, gratuities, travel, and 
related expenses for personnel of the Air National Guard on duty 
^g'OA^stat. 11, under sections 265, 8033, and 8496 of title 10, United States Code, or 
while undergoing training or while performing drills or equivalent 
duty, as authorized by law, $46,000,000: Provmed, That obligations 
may be incurred under this appropriation without regard to section 
107 of title 32, United States Code. 
RETIRED PAY, DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 
For retired pay and retirement pay, as authorized by law, of mili-
tary personnel on the retired lists of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, 
and the Air Force, including the reserve components thereof, retainer 
pay for personnel of the inactive Fleet IJeserve, and payments under 
67 Stat. 501. 
the Uniformed Services Contingency Option Act of 1953, $775,000,000. 
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TITLE I I 
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE 
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, ARMY 
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for the opera-
tion and maintenance of the Army, including administration; medical 
and dental care of personnel entitled thereto by law or regulation 
(including charges of private facilities for care of military personnel 
on duty or leave, except elective private treatment), and other meas-
ures 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; meals furnished under contract for selective service regis-
trants called for induction and applicants for enlistment while held 
under observation; subsistence of prisoners at disciplinary barracks, 
and of civilian employees as authorized by law; expenses of apprehen-
sion 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 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 $40 in cost, to be issued each person upon each release from 
confinement in an Army or contract prison and to each soldier dis-
charged for unsuitability, inaptitude, or 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; communica-
tions services, including construction of communication systems; maps 
and similar data for military purposes; military surveys and engineer-
ing planning; contracts for maintenance of reserve tools and facilities 
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for twelve months beginning at any time during the current fiscal 
year; repair of facilities; utility services for buildings erected at pri-
vate cost, as authorized by law (10 U.S.C. 4778), and buildings on 
7OA stat. 270. 
military reservations authorized by Army regulations to be used for a 
similar purpose; purchase of ambulances; hire of passenger motor 
vehicles; tuition and fees incident to training of military personnel at 
civilian institutions; field exercises and maneuvers, including pay-
ments in advance for rentals or options to rent land; expenses for the 
Reserve Officers' Training Corps and other units at educational insti-
tutions, as authorized by law; exchange fees, and losses in the accounts 
of disbursing officers or agents in accordance with law; expenses of 
inter-American cooperation, as authorized for the Navy by law (10 
U.S.C. 7208) for Latin-American cooperation; not to exceed $5,459,000 
70A stat. 443. 
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 certificate of necessity for confidential military 
purposes, and his determination shall be final and conclusive upon the 
accounting officers of the Government; $3,120,022,000: Provided^ 
That not to exceed $92,219,000 of this amount shall be available for 
departmental administration: Provided further^ That $18,100,000 of 
the funds provided in this appropriation shall be available only to 
meet the increased expenses necessary to maintain the Army Reserve 
at the strength provided for in this Act: Provided 
further^ That 
$20,440,000 of the funds provided in this appropriation shall be avail-
able only to meet the increased expenses necessary to maintain the 
Army National Guard at the strength provided for in this Act. 
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, NAVY 
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for the opera-
tion and maintenance of the Navy and the Marine Corps, including 
aircraft and vessels; modification of aircraft; design and alteration 
of vessels; training and education of members of the Navy; adminis-
tration ; procurement of military personnel; hire of passenger motor 
vehicles; not to exceed $40 per person for civilian clothing, including 
an overcoat when necessary, for enlisted personnel discharged for in-
aptitude, unsuitability, or otherwise than honorably; welfare and 
recreation; medals, awards, emblems, and other insignia; transporta-
tion of things (including transportation of household effects of civil-
ian employees); industrial mobilization; medical and dental care; 
care of the dead; lease of facilities; Latin-American cooperation; 
cha.rter and hire of vessels; relief of vessels in distress; maritime 
salvage services; military communications facilities on merchant ves-
sels; dissemination of scientific information; administration of 
patents, trademarks, copyrights; losses in exchange and in accounts of 
disbursing officers, as authorized by law; annuity premiums and re-
tirement benefits for civilian members of teaching services; tuition, 
allowances, and fees incident to training of military personnel at civil-
ian institutions; repair of facilities; departmental salaries; utility 
services for buildings erected at private cost as authorized by law 
(10 U.S.C. 7580), and buildings on military reservations authorized by 
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Navy regulations to be used for welfare and recreational purposes; 
conduct of schoolrooms, service clubs, chapels, and other instruction-
al, entertainment, and welfare expenses for the enlisted men; pro-
curement of services, special clothing, supplies, and equipment; instal-
lation of equipment in public or private plants; exploration, prospect-
ing, conservation, development, use, and operation of the Naval petro-
leum reserves, as authorized by law; not to exceed $12,686,000 for 
emergency and extraordinary expenses, as authorized by section 7202 
Ante, p. 99. 
Ante, p. 285. 
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of ^jj^je ][o^ Uiiited States Code, to be expended on the approval and 
authority of the Secretary and his determination shall be final and 
conclusive upon the accounting officers of the Government; $2,518,897,-
000, of which $995,000 shall be transferred to the appropriation 
"Salaries and expenses", Weather Bureau, Department of Commerce, 
fiscal year 1961, and $16,980,000 shall be transferred to the appropria-
tion "Operating expenses". Coast Guard, fiscal year 1961, for the op-
eration of ocean stations: Provided, That not to exceed $107,085,000 
of the funds provided in this appropriation shall be available for de-
partmental administration. 
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, MARINE CORPS 
For expenses, necessary for the operation and maintenance of the 
Marine Corps including equipment and facilities; procurement of 
military personnel; traming and education of regular and reserve 
personnel, including tuition and other costs incurred at civilian 
schools; welfare and recreation; utility services for buildings erected 
at private cost as authorized by law, and buildings on military reser-
vations authorized by Navy regulations to be used for welfare and 
recreational purposes; conduct of schoolrooms, service clubs, chapels, 
and other instructional, entertainment, and welfare expenses for the 
enlisted men; not to exceed $40 per person for civilian clothing, 
including an overcoat when necessary, for enlisted personnel dis-
charged for inaptitude or unsuitability or otherwise than honorably; 
procurement and manufacture of military supplies, equipment and 
clothing; hire of passenger motor vehicles; transportation of things; 
medals, awards, emblems and other insignia; losses in exchange and 
in accounts of disbursing officers, as authorized by law; operation of 
dispensaries and dental clinics; and departmental salaries; $174,686,-
000: Provided, That not to exceed $7,955,000 of this amount shall he 
available for departmental administration. 
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, AIR FORCE 
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for the opera-
tion, maintenance, and administration of the Air Force, including 
the Air Force Reserve and the Air Reserve Officers' Training Corps; 
operation, maintenance, and modification of aircraft and missiles; 
transportation of things; repair and maintenance of facilities; field 
printmg plants; hire of passenger motor vehicles; recruiting advertis-
ing expenses; training and instruction of military personnel of the 
Air Force, including tuition and related expenses; pay, allowances, 
and travel expenses of contract surgeons; utility services for build-
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jngs erected at private cost as authorized by law (10 U.S.C. 9778), 
and buildings on military reservations authorized by Air Force regu-
lations to be used for welfare and recreational purposes; rental of 
land or purchase of options to rent land without reference to section 
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3648, Revised Statutes, as amended, use or repair of private property, 
and other necessary expenses of combat maneuvers; civilian clothing 
not to exceed $40 in cost for each person upon each release from a 
military prison, each enlisted man discharged for unsuitability, inapti-
tude, or otherwise 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; au-
thorized issues of articles for use of applicants for enlistment and per-
sons in military custody; exchange fees, and losses or deficiencies in 
the accounts or disbursing officers and their agents, as authorized by 
law; care of the dead; chaplain and other welfare and morale sup-
plies and equipment; conduct of schoolrooms, service clubs, chapels, 
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and other instructional, entertainment, 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 as authorized for the Navy by sec-
tion 7208 of title 10, United States Code, for Latin-American co- 
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operation; industrial mobilization, including maintenance of reserve 
plants and equipment and procurement planning; special services by 
contract or otherwise; rations (including commutation thereof) for 
applicants for enlistment; and not to exceed $6,000,000 for emergen-
cies and extraordinary 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 account-
ing officers of the Government; $4,243,398,000, of which not to exceed 
$16,000,000 shall be available for the operation and maintenance of 
the Air Force Academy: Provided^ That not to exceed $91,379,000 
of the funds appropriated in this Act for the Air Force shall be 
available for departmental administration. 
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, ARMY NATIONAL GUARD 
For expenses of training, organizing, and administering the Army 
National Guard, including maintenance, operation, and repairs to 
structures and facilities; hire of passenger motor vehicles; 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. 709) may be such as is deemed necessary 
'°A stat. 6i4. 
by the Secretary of the Army; 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; supply-
ing and equipping the Army National Guard of the several States, 
Territories, and the District of Columbia, as authorized by law; and 
expenses of repair, modification, maintenance, and issue of supplies and 
equipment (including aircraft) ; $162,001,000: Provided^ That obli-
gations may be incurred under this appropriation for the foregoing 
expenses for training of units designated for early deployment under 
mobilization plans and for installation, maintenance, and operation of 
facilities for antiaircraft defense without regard to section 107 of title 
32, United States Code: Provided further^ That obligations not ex- 
70AStat. 599. 
ceeding $10,000 for each project may be incurred for extension, modi-
fication, and alteration of armory facilities, as authorized by chapter 
133, title 10, United States Code, as amended, when such changes to ^^^ use 2231 et 
facilities are made necessary by military requirements of the Federal 
Government. 
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, AIR NATIONAL GUARD 
For operation and maintenance of the Air National Guard, includ-
ing medical and hospital treatment and related expenses; establish-
ment, maintenance, operation, repair, and other necessary expenses 
of facilities for the training and administration of the Air National 
Guard, including repair of facilities, maintenance, operation and 
modification of aircraft; transportation of things; hire of passenger 
motor vehicles; supplies, materials, and equipment, as authorized by 
law for the Air National Guard of the several States, Territories, and 
the District of Columbia; and expenses incident to the maintenance 
and use of supplies, materials, and equipment, including such as may 
seq. 
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be furnished from stocks under tlie control of agencies of the Depart-
ment of Defense; travel expenses (other than mileage) on the same 
basis as authorized by law for Air National Guard personnel on active 
Federal duty, of Air National Guard commanders while inspecting 
units in compliance with National Guard regulations when specifically 
authorized by the Chief, National Guard Bureau; $187,291,000: 
Provided^ That the number of caretakers authorized to be employed 
under the provisions of law (32 U.S.C. 709) may be such as is deemed 
necessary by the Secretary of the Air Force and such caretakers may 
be employed without regard to their military rank as members of 
the Air National Guard: Provided 
further^ That obligations may 
be incurred under this appropriation without regard to section 107 
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of title 32, United States Code. 
NATIONAL BOAED FOR THE PROMOTION OF RIFLE PRACTICE, 
ARMY 
For the necessary expenses of construction, equipment, and main-
tenance of rifle ranges, the instruction of citizens in marksmanship, 
and promotion of rifle practice, in accordance with law, including 
travel of rifle teams, military personnel, and individuals attending 
regional, national, and international competitions, and not to exceed 
$21,000 for incidental expenses of the National Board, $501,000: Pro-
vided^ That travel expenses of civilian members of the National Board 
shall be paid in accordance with the Standardized Government Travel 
Regulations, as amended. 
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, ALASKA COMMUNICATION 
SYSTEM, ARMY 
For expenses necessary for the operation, maintenance, and im-
provement of the Alaska Communication System, $7,000,000, 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 and charges for station agent 
agreements may be paid from receipts of the Alaska Communication 
System. 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES, SECRETARY OF DEFENSE 
For expenses necessary for the Office of the Secretary of Defense, 
including purchase (not to exceed five for replacement only, including 
two at not to exceed $2,900 each) and hire of passenger motor ve-
hicles ; and not to exceed $60,000 for emergency and extraordii:iary ex-
penses, 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; $18,975,000. 
CONTINGENCIES, DEPARTMENT or 
DEFENSE 
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 
gresTonai*°c o°^ military purposes, $15,000,000: Provided, That a report of disburse-
mittees. 
meuts uuder this item of appropriation shall be made quarterly to 
the Appropriations Committees of the Congress. 
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CLAIMS, DEPARTMENT or DEFENSE 
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 Corj)S, 
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 instruction, 
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; $16,575,000. 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES, COURT OF MILITARY APPEALS 
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 
For salaries and expenses necessary for the Court of Military Ap-
peals, $425,000. 
TITLE I I I 
PROCUREMENT 
PROCUREMENT OF EQUIPMENT AND MISSILES, ARMY 
For expenses necessary for the procurement, manufacture, and 
modification of missiles, armament, ammunition, equipment, vehicles, 
vessels, and aircraft for the Army and the Reserve Officers' Training 
Corps; purchase of not to exceed one thousand two hundred and 
eig'hty-seven passenger motor vehicles for replacement only (including 
twenty at not to exceed $2,900 each); expenses which in the discre-
tion of the Secretary of the Army are necessary in providing facilities 
for production of equipment and supplies for national defense pur-
poses, including construction, and the furnishing of Government-
owned facilities and equipment at privately owned plants; and ammu-
nition for military salutes at institutions to which issue of weapons 
for salutes is authorized; $1,495,352,000, to remain available until 
expended. 
PROCUREMENT OF AIRCRAFT AND MISSILES, NAVY 
For construction, procurement, production, modification, and mod-
ernization of aircraft, missiles, equipment, including ordnance, spare 
parts, and accessories therefor; specialized equipment; expansion of 
public and private plants, including the land necessary therefor, with-
out regard to section 3734, Revised Statutes, as amended, and such 
4ousc 259,267. 
lands, and interests therein, may be acquired, and construction prose-
cuted thereon prior to approval of title by the Attorney General as 
required by section 355, Revised Statutes, as amended; and procure- 
so use i7s. 
ment and installation of equipment, appliances, and machine tools in 
public or private plants; $2,141,760,000, to remain available until 
expended: Provided^ That during the current fiscal year there may 
be merged with this appropriation such amounts of the unobligated 
balances of appropriations previously granted for "Aircraft and 
related procurement" and "Procurement of ordnance and ammuni-
tion", as the Secretary of Defense may determine to be necessary for 
the accomplishment of the programs tor which this appropriation is 
made. 
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SHIPBUILDING AND CONVERSION, NAVY 
For expenses necessary for the construction, acquisition, or conver-
sion of vessels as authorized by law, including armor and armament 
therefor, plant equipment, appliances, and machine tools, and instal-
lation thereof in public or private plants; procurement of critical 
long leadtime components and designs for vessels to be constructed 
or converted in the future; and expansion of public and private plants, 
including land necessary therefor, without regard to section 3734, 
40 use 259,267, Revised Statutes, as amended, 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 
50 use 175. 
Statutes, as amended; $2,316,360,000, to remain available until ex-
pended. 
OTHER PROCUREMENT, NAVY 
For procurement, production, and modernization of support equip-
ment, and materials not otherwise provided for; Navy ordnance and 
ammunition (except ordnance for new aircraft, new ships, and ships 
authorized for conversion); purchase of not to exceed one thousand 
and forty-five passenger motor vehicles (including ten at not to ex-
ceed $2,900 each) for replacement only; expansion of public and 
private plants, including the land necessary therefor, without regard 
40 use 259,267. ^^ sectiou 3734, Revised Statutes, as amended, and such lands, and 
interests therein, may be acquired, and construction prosecuted thereon 
prior to approval of title by the Attorney General as required by 
50 use 175. 
section 355, Revised Statutes, as.amended; and procurement and 
installation of equipment, appliances, and machine tools in public or 
private plants; $420,980,000, to remain available until expended: 
Provided^ That during the current fiscal year there may be merged 
with this appropriation such amounts of the unobligated balances 
of appropriations previously granted for "Aircraft and related pro-
curement", "Procurement of ordnance and ammunition", and "Ship-
building and conversion", as the Secretary of Defense may determine 
to be necessary for the accomplishment of the programs for which 
this appropriation is made. 
PROCUREMENT, MARINE CORPS 
For expenses necessary for the procurement, manufacture, and 
modification of missiles, armament, ammunition, military equipment, 
and vehicles for the Marine Corps, including purchase of not to ex-
ceed eighteen passenger motor vehicles which shall be for replacement 
only, $91,180,000, to remain available until expended. 
AIRCRAFT PROCUREMENT, AIR FORCE 
For construction, procurement, and modification of aircraft, and 
equipment, including armor and armament, specialized ground han-
dling equipment, and training devices, spare parts, and accessories 
therefor; specialized equipment; expansion of public and private 
plants. Government-owned equipment and installation thereof in such 
plants, erection of structures, and acquisition of land without regard to 
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sectiou 9774 of title 10, United States Code, for the foregoing pur-
poses, and such land, and interests therein may be acquired and con-
struction prosecuted thereon prior to the approval of title by the At-
50 use 175. 
torney General as required by section 355, Revised Statutes, as amend-
ed ; reserve plant and equipment layaway; and other expenses neces-
sary for the foregoing purposes, including rents and transportation 
of things; $3,251,449,000, to remain available until expended: Pro-
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vided, That during the current fiscal year there may be merged with 
this appropriation such amounts of the unobligated balances of ap-
propriations previously granted for "Aircraft, missiles, and related 
procurement", and "Procurement other than aircraft and missiles", 
as the Secretary of Defense may determine to be necessary for the ac-
complishment of the programs for which this appropriation is made. 
AIRLIFT MODERNIZATION 
For development, construction, procurement, production, and modi-
fication of transport aircraft, including spare parts and accessories 
therefor; and procurement and installation of equipment, appliances, 
and machine tools in public or private plants; $310,788,000, to remain 
available until expended: Provided, That no part of the funds pro-
vided in this paragraph shall be available for the procurement of 
aircraft for assignment to scheduled passenger service. 
MISSILE PROCUREMENT, AIR FORCE 
For construction, procurement, and modification of missiles, rock-
ets, and related equipment, including spare parts and accessories 
therefor, ground handling equipment, and training devices; expan-
sion of public and private plants. Government-owned equipment 
and installation thereof in such plants, erection of structures, and 
acquisition of land without regard to section 9774 of title 10, United 
States Code, for the foregoing purposes, and such land, and interests 
^^^ stat. sso. 
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 amended; reserve plant and equipment lay- 
^^ use 175. 
away; and other expenses necessary for the foregoing purposes, includ-
ing rents and transportation of things; $2,615,120,000, to remain avail-
able until expended: Provided, 
That during the current fiscal year 
there may be merged with this appropriation such amounts of unobli-
gated balances of appropriations previously granted for "Aircraft, 
missiles, and related procurement. Air Force", and "Procurement 
other than aircraft and missiles. Air Force", as the Secretary of 
Defense may determine to be necessary for the accomplishment of the 
programs for which this appropriation is made. 
OTHER PROCUREMENT, AIR FORCE 
For procurement and modification of equipment (including ground 
guidance and electronic control equipment, and ground electronic and 
communication equipment), and supplies, materials, and spare parts 
therefor, not otherwise provided for; the purchase of not to exceed 
three thousand three hundred and five passenger motor vehicles, for 
replacement only, including ten at not to exceed $2,900 each; and ex-
pansion of public and private plants. Government-owned equipment 
and installation thereof in such plants, erection of structures, and ac-
quisition of land, without regard to section 9774 of title 10, United 
States Code, for the foregoing purposes, and such land, and interests 
70A stat. 590. 
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 amended; $877,171,000, to remain available 
so use 175. 
until expended: Provided, That during the current fiscal year there 
may be merged with this appropriation such amounts of unobligated 
balances of appropriations previously granted for "Procurement other 
than aircraft and missiles", as the Secretary of Defense may determine 
to be necessary for the accomplishment of the programs for which 
this appropriation is made. 
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[74 STAT. 
T I T L E I V 
EESEAKCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST, AND 
EVALUATION 
KESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST, AND EVALUATION, ARMY 
For expenses necessary for basic and applied scientific research, 
development, test, and evaluation, including maintenance, rehabilita-
tion, lease, and operation of facilities and equipment, as authorized by 
law, $1,041,286,000, to remain available until expended: Provided^ 
That during the current fiscal year there may be merged with this 
appropriation such amounts of the unexpended balances of appropri-
ations heretofore made available for research, development, test, and 
evaluation, as the Secretary of Defense may determine to be necessary 
for the accomplishment of the programs for which this appropriation 
is made. 
KESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST, AND EVALUATION, NAVY 
For expenses necessary for basic and applied scientific research, de-
velopment, test, and evaluation, including maintenance, rehabilitation, 
lease, and operation of facilities and equipment, as authorized by law, 
$1,218,624,000, to remain available until expended: Provided^ That 
during the current fiscal year there may be merged with this appro-
priation such amounts of the unexpended balances of appropriations 
heretofore made available for research, development, test, and evalu-
ation, as the Secretary of Defense may determine to be necessary for 
the accomplishment of the programs for which this appropriation is 
made. 
KESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST, AND EVALUATION, AIR FORCE 
For expenses necessary for basic and applied scientific research, 
development, test, and evaluation, including maintenance, rehabili-
tation, lease, and operation of facilities and equipment, as authorized 
by law, $1,552,863,000, to remain available until expended: Provided^ 
That during the current fiscal year there may be merged with this 
appropriation such amounts of the unexpended balances of appropri-
ations heretofore made available for research, development, test, and 
evaluation, as the Secretary of Defense may determine to be neces-
sary for the accomplishment of the programs for which this appro-
priation is made: Provided further^ That no part of this appropria-
tion shall be used for construction, maintenance, or rental of missile 
testing facilities until the fullest practical use is made of testing facil-
ities and equipment at existing installations or those now under 
construction. 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES, ADVANCED KESEARCH PROJECTS AGENCY, 
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 
For expenses necessary for such advanced research projects as may 
be designated and determined by the Secretary of Defense, pursuant 
to law, $215,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided^ 
That such amounts as may be determined by the Secretary of Defense 
to have been made available for related programs in other appropria-
tions available to the Department of Defense during the current fiscal 
year may be transferred to and merged with this appropriation to be 
available for the same purposes and time period: Provided 
further^ 
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That such amounts of this appropriation as may be determined by the 
Secretary of Defense may be transferred to carry out the purposes of 
advanced research to those appropriations for military functions 
under the Department of Defense which are being utilized for related 
programs, to be merged with and to be available for the same time 
period as the appropriation to which transferred. 
EMERGENCY FUND, DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 
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, development, 
test, and evaluation, or procurement or production related thereto, 
to be merged with and to be available for the same purposes, and 
for the same time period, as the appropriation to which transferred, 
$150,000,000, and, m addition, not to exceed $150,000,000, 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 appropriations 
available to the Department of Defense for obligation during the 
current fiscal year as the Secretary of Defense may designate: 
Provided^ That any appropriations transferred shall not exceed 7 
per centum of the appropriation from which transferred. 
TITLE V 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
SEC. 501. During the current fiscal year, the Secretary of Defense 
and the Secretaries of the Army, Navy, and Air Force, 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), under regula-
tions prescribed by the Secretary of Defense, and to pay in connection 
therewith travel expenses of individuals, including actual transporta-
tion 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. 502. During the current fiscal year, provisions of law pro-
hibiting 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. 503. 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; reimburse-
ment of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for expenses in connec-
tion with investigation of defense contractor personnel; and all neces-
sary expenses, at the seat of Government of the United States of 
America or elsewhere, in connection with 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 depart-
E Xpert s 
sultants. 
60 Stat. 810. 
Noncitlzens. 
A v a i l ability of 
appropriations. 
Restrictions. 
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[74 ST A T . 
63 Stat. 954. 
5 u s e 1071 note. 
Prisoners of war, 
etc. 
Land ac qui s i-
tion. 
72 Stat. 1459. 
Schooling for de-
pendents. 
64 Stat. 1100. 
70A Stat. 442. 
Occupied areas. 
70A Stat, 444. 
Deficiency judg-
ments. 
56 Stat. 654. 
Articles for pris-
oners, etc. 
47 Stat, 406. 
A s s i s t ance to 
small business. 
ments and agencies of tlie 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 receiving, 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 Classifi-
cation Act of 1949, as amended. 
SEC, 504. Any appropriation available to the Army, Navy, or the 
Air Force 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 Army, Navy, or 
Air Force custody whose status is determined by the Secretary con-
cerned to be similar to prisoners of war, and persons detained in such 
custody pursuant to Presidential proclamation. 
SEC. 505. Appropriations available to the Department of Defense 
for the current fiscal year for maintenance or construction shall be 
available for acquisition of land as authorized by section 2672 of title 
10, United States Code. 
SEC, 506, 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 minor dependents of military and civilian 
personnel of the Department of Defense residing on military or naval 
installations or stationed in foreign countries, as authorized for the 
Navy by section 7204 of title 10, United States Code, in amounts not 
exceeding an average of $275 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 section 7209(a) of title 10, United States Code, for in-
formation leading to the discovery of missing naval property or the 
recovery thereof; (d) for payment of deficiency judgments and in-
terests thereon arising out of condemnation proceedings; (e) for 
payment of rentals at the seat of Government or elsewhere, and, in 
administering the provisions of 43 U.S.C. 315q, rentals may be paid 
in advance. 
SEC. 507. Appropriations for the Department of Defense for the 
current fiscal year shall be available for: (a) donations of not to exceed 
$25 to each prisoner upon each release from confinement in military 
or contract prison (except disciplinary barracks) and to each person 
discharged for fraudulent enlistment; (b) authorized issues of arti-
cles to prisoners (except those in disciplinary barracks) ; (c) sub-
sistance of selective service registrants called for induction, applicants 
for enlistment while held under observation, prisoners (except those 
in disciplinary barracks), and supernumeraries when necessitated by 
emergent military circumstances; (d) reimbursement for subsistence 
of enlisted personnel while sick in hospitals; and (e) expenses of 
prisoners confined in nonmilitary facilities: Provided^ That section 
212 of the Act of June 30, 1932 (5 U.S.C. 59a), shall not apply to 
retired military personnel on duty at the United States Soldiers' 
Home. 
SEC. 508. 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 inde-
pendent enterprises, information, as far in advance as possible, with 
respect to purchases proposed to be financed with funds appropriated 
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351 
under this Act, and by making available or causing to be made avail-
able 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 otherwise helping to give small business an opportunity to partici-
pate in the furnishing of commodities and services financed with 
funds appropriated by this Act. 
SEC. 509. No appropriation contained in this Act shall be available 
for expenses of operation of messes (other than organized messes the 
operating expenses of whicih are financed principally from nonappro-
priated funds) at which meals are sold to officers or civilians except 
imder 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 allow-
ance 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 made in 
cash or by deductions from the pay of civilian employees. 
SEC. 5iO. 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. 511. Appropriations of the Department of Defense available 
for operation and maintenance, may be reimbursed during the current 
fiscal year for all expenses involved in the preparation for disposal 
and for the disposal of military supplies, equipment, and materiel, 
and for all expenses of production of lumber or timber products pur-
suant to section 2665 of title 10, United States Code, from amounts 
received as proceeds from the sale of any such property: Provided^ 
That a report of receipts and disbursements 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, acquisi-
tion, or construction of new facilities or equipment for new facilities 
in the continental limits of the United States for metal scrap baling 
or shearing or for melting or sweating aluminum 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. 512. (a) During the current fiscal year, the President may 
exempt appropriations, fund, and contract authorizations, available 
for military functions under the Department of Defense, from the 
provisions of subsection (c) of section 3679 of the Revised Statutes, as 
amended, w^henever he deems such action to he necessary in the interest 
of national defense. 
(b) Upon determination by the President that such action is neces-
sary, the Secretary of Defense is authorized to provide for the cost of 
an airborne alert as an excepted expense in accordance with the pro-
visions of R.S. 3732 (41 U.S.C 11). 
SEC. 513. 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 control 
of such commissary stores, except as authorized under regulations 
Mess operations. 
T ra V e 1-s t atus 
rate. 
70A Stat. 149. 
Report to con-
gressional 
c o mr 
mittees. 
Metal 
s c r a p 
baling, etc. 
Exempt ion au-
thorization. 
31 u s e 665. 
C o m m i s s a r y 
stores. 
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Proficiency 
ing. 
fly-
Flight pay for 
certain officers. 
72 Stat. 124, 125. 
37 use 235. 
H o 
goods u s e h o 1 d 
Transfer of ves-
sels. 
Legal training. 
Obligated funds, 
1961. 
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 ex-
tent necessary to furnish sufficient gross revenue from sales of com-
missary stores to make such reimbursement: Provided, That under 
such regulations 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 
appropriation 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 nor-
mally procured from commissary stores are not otherwise available 
at a reasonable distance and a reasonable price in satisfactory quality 
and quantity to the military and civilian employees of the Depart-
ment of Defense. 
SEC. 514. 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 juris-
diction 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 without regard 
to any provision of law or Executive order prescribing minimum flight 
requirements, such regulations may provide for the payment of 
flight pay at the rates prescribed in section 204(b) of the Career Com-
pensation Act of 1949 (63 Stat. 802) as amended, to certain members 
of the Armed Forces otherwise entitled to receive flight pay during the 
current fiscal year (1) who have held aeronautical ratings or designa-
tions for not less than twenty years, or (2) whose particular assign-
ment outside the United States or in Alaska makes it impractical to 
participate in regular aerial flights. 
SEC. 515. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall 
be available for expense of transportation, packing, crating, tem-
porary 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 to 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. 516. 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 juris-
diction of the vessels concerned. 
SEC. 517. 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 this limitation shall not 
apply to the off-duty training of military personnel as prescribed by 
section 521 of this Act. 
SEC. 518. Not more than 20 per centum of the appropriations in this 
Act which are limited for obligation during the current fiscal year 
shall be obligated during the last two months of the fiscal year: 
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353 
Provided, That this section shall not apply to obligations for support 
of active duty training of civilian components or summer camp train-
ing of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps. 
SEC. 519. During the current fiscal year 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 agen-
cies 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 property, services, and commodities from foreign 
countries for the use of the United States in accordance with mutual 
defense agreements or occupational arrangements and such agencies 
may use tne same for the support of the United States forces in such 
areas, without specific appropriation therefor: Provided, That with-
in 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 commodities received during 
such quarter. 
SEC. 520. During the current fiscal year, appropriations available 
to the Department of Defense for research and development may be 
used for the purposes of section 2353 of title 10, United States Code, 
and for purposes related to research and development for which ex-
penditures are specifically authorized in other appropriations of the 
service concerned. 
SEC. 521. No appropriation contained in this Act shall be avail-
able for the payment of more than 75 per centum of charges of educa-
tional institutions for tuition or expenses for off-duty training of 
military personnel, nor for the payment of any part of tuition or ex-
penses for such training for commissioned personnel who do not agree 
to remain on active duty for two years after completion of such 
training. 
SEC. 522. No part of the funds appropriated herein shall be ex-
pended 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. 523. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall 
be available for the procurement of any article of food, clothing, 
cotton, spun silk yarn for cartridge cloth, or wool (whether in the 
form of fiber or yarn or contained in fabrics, materials, or manu-
factured 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 satisfactory 
quality and sufficient quantity of any articles of food or clothing or 
any form of cotton, spun silk yarn for cartridge cloth, 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 procurements outside the United States in support of com-
bat operations, procurements by vessels in foreign waters and emer-
gency procurements or procurements of perishable foods by establish-
ments located outside the United States for the personnel attached 
thereto: Provided, That nothing herein shall preclude the procurement 
of foods manufactured or processed in the United States or its posses-
sions : Provided further, That no funds herein appropriated shall be 
A c c e p t ance of 
property from foi^ 
eign countries. 
Reports 
to con-
gressional 
com-
mittees and Budget 
Bureau. 
Research and de-
velopment. 
70A Stat. 134. 
T u i t i o n 
ments, etc. 
ROTC. 
Loyalty require-
ment, 
v 
Procurement 
of 
products, 
restric-
tion. 
48232 0-61-23 
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[74 S T A T . 
Bakeries, 
dries, etc. 
lavin-
Air mail. 
Foreign 
ters. 
66 Stat. 622. 
Fijrnishings. 
Uniforms. 
68 Stat. 1114. 
P r o m o t i o n 
rifle practice. 
of 
Legislative liai-
son activities. 
Civil 
riers. 
used for the payment of a price differential on contracts hereafter 
made for the purpose of relieving economic dislocations: Provided^ 
however^ That none of the funds appropriated in this Act shall be 
used except that, so far as practicable, all contracts shall be awarded 
on a competitive basis to the lowest responsible bidder. 
SEC. 524. 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 
reasonable rates. 
SEC. 525. 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 transpor-
tation of military mail between the United States and foreign 
countries. 
SEC. 526. 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 assignment 
as public quarters to military personnel of the Department of Defense. 
SEC. 527. Appropriations contained in this Act shall be available 
for the purchase of household furnishings and automobiles from 
military and civilian personnel on duty outside the continental United 
States, for the purpose of resale at cost to incoming personnel, and 
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. 528. During the current fiscal year appropriations available to 
the Department of Defense for pay of civilian employees shall be avail-
able for uniforms, or allowances therefor, as authorized by the Act 
of September 1,1954, as amended (5 U.S.C. 2131). 
SEC. 529. During the current fiscal year, the Secretary of Defense 
shall, upon requisition of the National Board for the Promotion of 
Rifle Practice, and without reimbursement, transfer from agencies of 
the Department of Defense to the Board ammunition from stock or 
which has been procured for the purpose in such amounts as he may 
determine. 
Such appropriations of the Department of Defense available for 
obligation during the current fiscal year as may be designated by 
the Secretary of Defense shall be available for the travel expenses of 
military and naval personnel, including the reserve components, and 
members of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps attending regional, 
national, or international rifle matches. 
SEC. 530. Funds provided in this Act for congressional liaison ac-
tivities of the Department of the Army, the Department of the Navy, 
the Department of the Air Force, and the Office of the Secretary of 
Defense shall not exceed $950,000: Provided^ That this amount shall 
be available for apportionment to the Department of the Army, the 
Department of the Navy, the Department of the Air Force, and the 
Office of the Secretary of Defense as determined by the Secretary of 
Defense. 
SEC. 531. Of the funds made available by this Act for the services 
of the Military Air Transport Service, $80,000,000 shall be available 
only for procurement of commercial air transportation service from 
carriers participating in the Civil Reserve Air Fleet program; and the 
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355 
Motor 
v e h i c l e 
hire. 
T r a v e l 
penses. 
Secretary of Defense shall utilize the services of such carriers which 
qualify as small businesses to the fullest extent found practicable: 
Provided, That the Secretary of Defense shall specify in such pro-
curement, performance characteristics for aircraft to be used based 
upon modern aircraft operated by the civil airfleet. 
SEC. 532. Not to exceed $9,000,000 of the funds made available in 
this Act for the purpose shall be available for the hire of motor 
vehicles. 
SEC. 533. Not to exceed $677,854,000 of the funds made available in 
this Act shall be available for travel expenses in connection with tem-
porary duty and permanent change of station of civilian and military 
personnel of the Department of Defense. 
SEC. 534. Effective January 1, 1961, no part of any appropriation 
contained in this Act shall be used to provide flight pay at the rates 
prescribed in section 204(b) of the Career Compensation Act of 1949 
(6S Stat. 802), as amended, for more than 99,046 officers (other than 
Reserve officers on active duty for training and officers receiving flight 
pay pursuant to section 514 of this Act and flying student officers). 
SEC. 535. During the current fiscal year, the Secretary of Defense, 
should he deem it advantageous to the national defense to accelerate 
any strategic or tactical missile or satellite program, may transfer 
under the authority and terms of the Emergency Fund, an additional 
$150,000,000 for the acceleration of such missile or satellite program 
or programs: Provided^ That the transfer authority made available 
under the terms of the Emergency Fund appropriation contained in 
this Act is hereby broadened to meet the requirements of this section: 
Provided further, 
That the Secretary of Defense shall notify the co^grVs^sl""^" *° 
Appropriations Committees of the Congress promptly of all transfers 
made pursuant to this authority. 
SEC. 536. This Act may be cited as the "Department of Defense 
Appropriation Act, 1961". 
Approved July 7, 1960. 
Limitation. 
72 Stat. 124, 125. 
Transfer of funds 
for m i s s i l e pro-
gram. 
Short title. 
Public Law 86-602 
AN ACT 
To authorize the Secretary of the Navy to transfer to the Massachusetts Port 
Authority, an instrumentality of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, certain 
lands and improvements thereon comprising a portion of the so-called E Street 
Annex, South Boston Annex, Boston Naval Shipyard, in South Boston, Massa-
chusetts, in exchange for certain other lands. 
July 7, I960 
[H. R. 5888] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary 
of the Navj^ is authorized to conv&y to the Massachusetts Port Au-
thority, an instrumentality of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 
subject to the terms and conditions hereinafter in this Act expressly 
stated, and to such other terms and conditions as the said Secretary 
of the Navy shall deem to be in the public interest, all the right, title, 
and interest of the United States in and to that portion of the property 
known as E Street Annex, South Boston Annex, Boston Naval Ship-
yard, in South Boston, Massachusetts, including the improvements 
thereon, and described as follows: 
Beginning at a point, said point being the intersection of the east-
erly side line of E Street, and the northerly side line of West First 
Street, thence running north 40 degrees 59 minutes 00 seconds east 
by the easterly side of said E Street, a distance of 1,325.78 feet to a 
point, thence turning and running south 49 degrees 01 minutes 00 
seconds east a distance of 206.25 feet to a point bounded by land of 
United States of America (United States Naval Station), thence 
M a s s a chusetts 
Port Authority. 
Transferor land.