An Act making appropriations for the National Security Council, the National Security Resources Board, and for military functions administered by the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1952, and for other purposes
PL 82-179 (H.R.5054), enacted 10/18/1951

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PUBLIC LAW 179—OCT. 18, 1951 
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Public Law 179 
CHAPTER 512 
AN ACT 
Making appropriations for the National Security Council, the National Security 
Resources Board, and for military functions administered by the Department 
of Defense for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1952, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
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 National Security Council, the National 
Security Resources Board, and for military functions administered by 
the Department of Defense, and for other purposes, for the fiscal 
year ending June 30, 1952, namely: 
TITLE I 
NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL 
Salaries and expenses: For expenses necessary for the National 
Security Council, including services as authorized by section 15 of the 
Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a), at rates not in excess of $50 
per diem for individuals; acceptance and utilization of voluntary and 
uncompensated services; and expenses of attendance at meetings con-
cerned with work related to the activity of the Council; $160,000. 
NATIONAL SECURITY RESOURCES BOARD 
Salaries and expenses: For expenses necessary for the National 
Security Resources Board; services as authorized by section 15 of the 
Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a), at rates for individuals not 
in excess of $50 per diem and contracts with temporary or part-time 
employees may be renewed annually; expenses of attendance at meet-
ings of organizations concerned with the work of the National Security 
Resources Board; hire of passenger motor vehicles; reimbursement of 
the General Services Administration for security guard services for 
protection of confidential files; not to exceed $8,000 for newspapers and 
periodicals; and not to exceed $10,000 for emergency and extraordi-
nary expenses, to be expended under the direction of the Chairman for 
such purposes as he deems proper, and his determination thereon shall 
be final and conclusive; $1,600,000. 
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 
MILITARY FUNCTIONS 
T I T L E I I 
October 18,1961 
[H. R. 5054} 
Department of De-
fense Appropriation 
Act, 1952. 
60 Stat. 810. 
60 Stat. 810. 
O m c E OF THE SECRETARY OF D E F E N S E 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary for the Office of the Secretary of Defense, 
the Armed Forces Policy Council, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the 
Joint Staff, the Munitions Board, and the Research and Development 
Board, including purchase (not to exceed five for replacement only, 
including one at not to exceed $4,500) and hire of passenger motor 
vehicles; and not to exceed $60,000 for emergency and extraordinary 
expenses, to be expended under the direction of the Secretaiy of 
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Defense for such purposes as he deems proper, and his determination 
thereon shall be final and conclusive; $14,100,000. 
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, 
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and Air Force, as authorized by law (5 U. S. C. 946; 28 U. S. C. 2672; 
Stat. 372,66;'55 Stat. 31 U. S. C. 222c, 222e, 223b, 223d, 224d; 34 U. S. C. 600; 35 U. S. C. 
&^t.foShS:'5Hi 91; 39 U. S. C. 135; 46 U. S. C. 797; Act of November 15, 1945, 59 
58 Stat. 726. 
Stat. 582) ; 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, as authorized by law, for damage to property of 
railroads under training contracts; and repayment of amounts deter-
mined 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, Terri-
tories, or the District of Columbia, or members of National Guard 
units thereof; $5,000,000. 
RETIRED PAT 
For retired pay and retirement pay, as authorized by law, of military 
personnel on the retired lists of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and 
the Air Force, including the reserve components thereof; and retainer 
pay for personnel of the inactive Fleet Reserve; $345,000,000: Pro-
vided, That no part of such sum shall be used to pay the retired or 
retirement pay of any commissioned member of the Regular Army, 
Navy, Marine Corps, or Air Force who is voluntarily retired after 
the date of enactment of this Act, unless such member was retired 
because of (1) being unfit to perform the duties of his office, rank, 
grade, or rating by reason of a physical disability incurred in line of 
duty, or (2) achieving the age at which retirement is required by law, 
or (3) whose application is approved in writing by the Secretary of 
Defense stating that the retirement is in the best interests of the 
service, or, is required to avoid cases of individual hardship. 
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 
military purposes, $75,000,000: Provided, That a report of disburse-
ments under this item of appropriation shall be made quarterly to the 
Appropriation 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 trans-
ferred, $90,000,000. 
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EXPANSION OB UNITED STATES AIR POWER 
For the purpose of providing continuous expansion of United 
States air power by providing additional construction of aircraft and 
related procurement, Department of the Navy, $333,000,000; and by 
providing additional aircraft and related procurement. Department 
of the Air Force, $667,000,000. 
DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY 
TITLE III 
O r F I C E OF T H E SECRETARY OF T H E A R M Y 
CONTINGENCIES OF THE 
ARMY 
For emergencies and military expenses arising in the Department 
of the Army or any of its subordinate bureaus or offices in the District 
of Columbia, or in the Army at large, but impossible to be anticipated 
or classified, including personal services; the actual and necessary ei^^aatries^ "^ ^^^ 
expenses or per diem in lieu thereof, as may be determined and 
approved by the Secretary of the Army, of military and civilian 
personnel in and under the Department of the Army on special duty 
in foreign countries; to be expended on the approval or authority of 
the Secretary of the Army, and for such purposes as he may deem 
proper, and his determination thereon shall be final and conclusive 
upon the accounting officers of the Government and payments from 
this appropriation may, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Army, 
be made on his certificate that the expenditures were necessary for 
confidential military purposes; $88,000,000. 
CIVILIAN RELIEF I N 
KOREA 
For an additional amount for "Civilian relief in Korea," $50,000,000. 
EXPEDITING PRODUCTION 
To enable the Secretary of the Army, without reference to section 
3734 of the Revised Statutes, as amended, and to section 1136 of the 267fi?ij^s.^. u r n 
Revised Statutes, as amended (except provisions thereof relating to 
title approval), to expedite the production of equipment and supplies 
for the Army for emergency national defense purposes, including all 
of the objects and purposes specified under each of the appropriations 
available to the Department of the Army during the current fiscal 
year, for procurement or production of equipment or supplies, for 
erection of structures, or for acquisition of land; the furnishing of 
Government-owned facilities at privately owned plants; the procure-
ment and training of civilian personnel in connection with the pro-
duction of equipment and material and the use and operation thereof, 
$1,000,000,000. 
NATIONAL BOARD FOR PROMOTION OF RIFLE PRACTICE, ARMY 
For necessary expenses of construction, equipment, and mainte-
nance of rifle ranges, the instruction of citizens in marksmanship, and 
promotion of rifle practice, in accordance with the Act of August 29, 
1916 (39 Stat. 643), and the provisions of law contained in 10 U. S. C. 
1184-1185 and 32 U. S. C. 181-186, including travel of rifle teams, 
military personnel and individuals attending regional, national, and 
international competitions, and not to exceed $18,000 for incidental 
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Travel expenses. 
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Participation by 
National Guard, etc. 
Rental of land. 
31 U. S. C. § 529. 
58 Stat. 8. 
expenses of the National Board, $130,000: Provided^ That travel 
expenses of civilian members of the National Board shall be paid in 
accordance with the Standardized Government Travel Kegulations, as 
amended. 
GENERAL STAFF 
FIELD EXERCISES 
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, required for the conduct 
of special field exercises, including participation therein by the 
National Guard and the Organized Reserves, and including personal 
services of temporary employees, expenses of troop movements and 
temporary duty travel of military and civilian personnel, in connection 
with special field exercises, including special combat training for small 
units, movement of materiel, maintenance and operation of structures 
and utilities, rental of land or purchase of options to rent land without 
reference to section 3648, Revised Statutes, and for use or repair of 
private property, $16,000,000. 
INTER-AMERICAN RELATIONS, DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY 
For expenses necessary to enable the Secretary of the Army to 
adopt such measures, appropriate to the functions and activities of 
the Department of the Army, as he may deem advisable, to promote 
better relations with the other American countries, including trans-
portation and subsistence expenses, while traveling in the Western 
Hemisphere, of Army officers and military students of the other 
American countries and Army officers of the United States, $388,000. 
FINANCE CORPS 
FINANCE SERVICE, ARMY 
For Finance Service, Army, to be accounted for as one fund, as 
follows— 
PAY OF THE ARMY 
For pay and allowances (except commuted rations for enlisted 
personnel) of cadets and all other personnel of the Army of the 
United States on active duty (other than personnel of the Reserve 
components, including the National Guard, on active duty while 
undergoing Reserve training); pay of civilian employees at military 
headquarters; interest on soldiers' deposits; payment of life insur-
ance premiums authorized by law; mustering-out payments, as 
authorized by the "Mustering-Out Payment Act of 1944", as amended 
(38 U. S. C. 691-691g), to persons who were or may be denied such 
payments because they were discharged from the Army to enter 
the United States Military Academy or the United States Naval 
Academy and subsequently were discharged from either Academy 
because of physical disability; expenses of military courts, boards 
and commissions; expenses of apprehension and delivery of deserters, 
escaped military prisoners, and soldiers absent without leave, 
including payment of rewards, in the discretion of the Secretary of 
the Army, not exceeding $25 in any one case, to civil officers and citi-
zens, costs of confinement of military prisoners in nonmilitary 
facilities, donations of not to exceed $25 to each civilian prisoner upon 
each release from an Army prison and each soldier discharged other-
wise than honorably upon each release from confinement under court-
martial sentence, and donations of not to exceed $10, as authorized 
by law, to each person discharged for fraudulent 
enlistment; 
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$3,297,07&,000: Provided, That section 212 of the Act of June 30, 
1932 (5 U. S. C. 59a), shall not apply to retired military personnel 
47Stat.406. 
on duty at the United States Soldiers' Home: Provided 
further, 
That the duties of librarian at the United States Military Academy 
may be performed by an officer of the Regular Army retired from 
active service, and detailed on active duty for that purpose: Provided 
further, That until July 1,1952, further collection by the Comptroller 
General of the United States or government accountable officers shall 
not be made on account of payments for accrued leave to enlisted mem-
bers discharged for the purpose of immediate reenlistment; 
TRAVEL OF THE ARMY 
For travel allowances and travel in kind, as authorized by law, 
for persons traveling in connection with the military activities of 
the Department of the Army, including rental of camp sites and the 
local procurement of communication service, fuel, light, water service, 
and other necessary supplies and services incident to individual or 
troop movements, including transportation of organizational equip-
ment and impedimenta; and for expenses, not otherwise provided for, 
incident to the transportation of authorized baggage of military and 
civilian personnel; $245,000,000: Provided, That other appropriations agItaft''other^ap|ro-
for the Department of the Arm^ shall be charged with such amounts priations. 
as may be required for travel m connection with development, pro-
curement, production, maintenance, or construction activities; and, 
with such exception, no other Army appropriation in this Act shall 
be available for any expense for or incident to travel of personnel 
of the Regular Army or civilian employees under the Department of 
the Army, except the appropriation "Contingencies of the Army" 
and the appropriations for Engineer Service, Army, the Army 
National Guard, the Organized Reserves, the Reserve Officers' Train-
ing Corps, the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice, 
and the appropriations "Special Field Exercises", and "Inter-Amer-
ican Relations, Department of the Army"; 
FINANCE SERVICE 
For compensation of field personnel of the Finance Corps, and 
services incident to financial management activities not otherwise 
provided for; payment of exchange fees and exchange losses incurred 
by disbursing officers or their agents; and losses in the accounts of 
Army disbursing officers in accordance with the Acts of December 13, S^u^'l^'c^^aoD 
1944 (31 U. S. C. 95a), December 23, 1944 (50 U. S. C. 1705-1707), 5§i705-i707;3iu.s!^5: 
and July 26,1947 (61 Stat. 493); $48,423,000. 
§ 9
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a note. 
QUARTERMASTER CORPS 
QUARTERMASTER SERVICE, ARMY 
For Quartermaster Service, Army, to be accounted for as one fund, 
as follows— 
WELFARE or ENUSTED MEN 
For the equipment and conduct of school, reading, lunch, and tief^etcf"**"*^ ^*''"'' 
amusement rooms, service clubs, chapels, gymnasiums, and libraries, 
including periodicals and other publications and subscriptions for 
newspapers, transportation of books and equipment for these services, 
rental of films, purchase of slides for and making repairs to moving-
picture outfits, and for similar and other recreational purposes at 
training and mobilization camps now established or which may be 
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hereafter established, including expenses for the entertainment and 
officers!'"''"°° °^ instruction of enlisted personnel, $20,000,000: Provided, That this 
appropriation shall be available for the instruction of officers on the 
same basis as enlisted men. 
Army vessels. 
Sales to oflicers, etc. 
Allowances. 
Prizes. 
SUBSISTENCE OF T H E ARMY 
For purchase of subsistence supplies for issue as rations to troops, 
including retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty, civil 
employees when entitled thereto, hospital matrons, applicants for 
enlistment while held under observation, general prisoners of war, 
and general prisoners at posts; ice for issue to organizations of enlisted 
men and for cooling drinking water and for preservation of stores; 
subsistence of the masters, officers, crews, and employees of Army 
vessels; meals for recruiting parties and applicants for enlistment 
while under observation; sales to officers, including members of the 
Officers' Reserve Corps while on active duty, and enlisted men of the 
Army; payment of allowances of commutation in lieu of rations 
to enlisted men as authorized by law; commuted rations for enlisted 
men, applicants for enlistment while held under observation, civilian 
employees who are entitled to subsistence at public expense, and gen-
eral prisoners while sick in hospitals, to be paid to the surgeon in 
charge; advertising; for subsistence of supernumeraries necessitated 
by emergent military circumstances; prizes to be established by the 
Secretary of the Army for enlisted men of the Army who graduate 
from the Army schools for bakers and cooks; and for other necessary 
expenses incident to the purchase, testing, care, preservation, issue, 
sale, and accounting for subsistence supplies for the Army; in all, 
Payment o
f sub- $603,309,000: Provided, That none of the funds appropriated in this 
title shall be used for the payment of any subsidy on agricultural or 
Procurement o
f f
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d other products: Provided further, That no part of this or any other 
duced in'iP. s!° ^
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° appropriation contained in this Act shall be available for the procure-
ment of any article of food or clothing not grown 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 
grown or produced in the United States or its possessions cannot be 
procured as and when needed at United States market prices and 
except procurements by vessels in foreign waters and emergency pro-
curements 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 
further, That nothing herein shall preclude the procurement of foods 
manufactured or processed in the United States or its possessions; 
REGULAR SUPPLIES OF THE ARMY 
For supplies, services, and other expenses, not otherwise provided 
for, incident to the design, development, procurement, manufacture, 
care, protection, alteration, repair, maintenance, installation, storage 
and issue of Quartermaster Corps supplies, materials, and equipment 
(exclusive of fixed installations in buildings otherwise provided for), 
including petroleum and other products, market reports and personal 
services; supplies and equipment for troops and general service 
schools; operation of field printing plants not otherwise provided for 
and contract printing and binding; purchase, subsistence, and care of 
animals required in connection with Army training and other activi-
ties; expenses incident to raising and harvesting forage on military 
reservations, including, when specifically authorized by the Secretary 
of the Army, the cost of irrigation; $465,000,000; 
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CLOTHING AND EQUIPAGE 
For cloth, woolens, materials, and for the purchase and manu-
facture of clothing for the Army, including retired enlisted men 
when ordered to active duty, for issue and for sale; commutation of 
clothing due enlisted men; altering and fitting clothing and washing 
and cleaning when necessary, including laundry work for enlisted 
men while patients in a hospital; operation of laundries, existing 
or now under construction, including purchase and repair of laundry 
machinery therefor; authorized issues of articles for use of general 
prisoners confined at military posts without pay or allowances, and 
for applicants for enlistment while held under observation; equip-
ment and repair of equipment of existing dry-cleaning plants, salvage 
and sorting storehouses, hat-repairing shops, shoe-repair shops, cloth-
ing-repair shops, and garbage-reduction works; equipage; issue of 
toilet kits to recruits upon their first enlistment; expenses of packing 
and handling and similar necessaries; citizens' outer clothing and 
an overcoat, when necessary, the cost of all not to exceed $30, to be 
issued each person upon each release from an Army prison, each 
soldier discharged otherwise than honorably, to each enlisted man 
convicted by civil court for an offense resulting in confinement in a 
penitentiary or other civil prison, and to each enlisted man ordered 
interned as an alien enemy, or, for the same reason, discharged without 
internment; $1,506,681,000: Provided^ That none of the funds appro-
priated in this Act, and none of the property procured therewith, shall 
be available for transfer to any working capital fund under clothing 
and equipage in the Department of the Army under section 405 (d) 
of the National Security Act, as amended. 
63 Stat. 588. 
5 U. S. C. § 172d. 
INCIDENTAL EXPENSES OF THE ARMY 
Postage; incidental expenses of recruiting; for activities of chap-
lains (excluding ritual garments and personal services) ; for tests 
and experimental and development work and scientific research, not 
otherwise provided for, including that to be performed by the 
Bureau of Standards for the Quartermaster Corps; for inspection 
service and instruction furnished by the Department of Agriculture 
which may be transferred in advance; for such additional expendi-
tures as are necessary and authorized by law in the movements and 
operation of the Army and at military posts, and not expressly 
assigned to any other departments; for burial of the dead as author-
ized by Acts of May 17, 1938 (10 U. S. C. 916-916d), and July 8, 
1940 (5 U. S. C. 103a), including remains of personnel of the Army 
of the United States who die while on active duty, including travel 
allowances of attendants accompanying remains, communication 
service, transportation of remains, and acquisition by lease or other-
wise of temporary burial sites; $193,000,000: Provided^ That expendi-
tures of appropriations contained in this Act for public informational 
activities of the Department of Defense shall not exceed $10,950,000 
including pay and allowances of military personnel assigned to such 
activities: Provided 
further^ That none of the funds appropriated 
in this Act shall be used for expenditure in connection with recruit-
ment advertising including sponsorship of radio and television shows 
by the Department of the Army, the Department of the Navy, or the 
Department of the Air Force. 
Recruiting. 
Tests, research, etc. 
Burial expenses. 
52 Stat. 398. 
54 Stat. 743. 
Recruitment adver-
tising. 
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TRANSPORTATION 
CORPS 
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Charges against 
other appropriations. 
Transfer of vessels. 
TRANSPORTATION SERVICE, ARMY 
For expenses necessary for the transportation of Army supplies, 
equipment, funds of the Army, including packing, crating, and 
unpacking; maintenance and operation of transportation facilities and 
installations, including the purchase, construction, alteration, opera-
tion, lease, repair, development, and maintenance of and research in 
transportation equipment, including boats, vessels, and railroad equip-
ment ; procurement of supplies and equipment; communication serv-
ice ; maps, wharfage, tolls, ferriage, drayage, and cartage; conducting 
instruction in Army transportation activities; $968,515,000: Provided^ 
That during the current fiscal year the cost of transportation from 
point of origin to the first point of storage or consumption of supplies, 
equipment, and material in connection with the manufacturing and 
purchasing activities of the Quartermaster Corps may be charged to 
the appropriations from which such supplies, equipment, and material 
are procured: Provided further^ That vessels under the jurisdiction 
of the Department of Commerce, 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 
of such agencies upon the request of the head of one agency and the 
approval of the agency having jurisdiction of the vessels concerned. 
SIGNAL CORPS 
Telegraph systems, 
etc. 
Vehicles. 
Telephone appara-
tus. 
Telegraph lines., 
Electrical 
installa-
tions. 
Experimental inves-
tigation, etc. 
Aircraft warning 
service systems. 
SIGNAL SERVICE OF THE ARMY 
Purchase, equipment, operation, installation, and repair of mili-
tary telegraph, telephone, radio, cable, signaling, and aircraft warn-
ing systems; signal equipment and stores, heliographs, signal lanterns, 
flags, and other necessary instruments; wind vanes, barometers, 
anemometers, thermometers, and other meteorological instruments; 
photographic and cinematographic work performed for the Army 
by the Signal Corps; motor-driven and other vehicles for technical 
and official purposes in connection with the construction, operation, 
and maintenance of communication or signaling systems, and supplies 
for their operation and maintenance; maps for use of the Signal 
Corps and in the office of the Chief Signal Officer; telephone apparatus, 
including rental and payment for commercial, exchange, message, 
trunk-line, long-distance, and leased-line telephone service, excepting 
telephone service for the various bureaus in the District of Columbia, 
and the rental of commercial telegraph lines and equipment, and their 
operation, at or connecting any Army facility, including payment for 
official individual telegraph messages transmitted over commercial 
lines; electrical installations and maintenance thereof, electric time 
service, fire control and direction apparatus, and materiel for Field 
Artillery; supplies," general repairs, reserve supplies, and other 
expenses connected with the collection and transmitting of informa-
tion for the Army by telegraph or otherwise; experimental investiga-
tion, research, purchase, and development, or improvements in appa-
ratus, and maintenance of signaling and accessories thereto, including 
machines, instruments, and other equipment for laboratory and repair 
purposes; lease, alteration, and repair of such buildings required for 
storing or guarding Signal Corps supplies, equipment, and personnel 
when not otherwise provided for, including the introduction of water, 
electric light and power, sewerage, grading, roads and walks, and 
other equipment required; for all expenses, not otherwise provided 
for, incident to the preparation of plans, and construction, purchase, 
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installation, equipment, maintenance, repair, and operation of air-
craft warning service systems, and their accessories, including pur-
chase of lands and rights-of-way, acquisition of leaseholds and other 
interests therein, and temporary use thereof; $1,213,707,000. 
ALASKA COMMUNICATION SYSTEM 
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE 
For expenses necessary for the operation, maintenance, and improve-
ment of the Alaska Communication System, including purchase (not 
to exceed one) and hire of passenger motor vehicles, $4,176,000, to 
remain available until the close of the fiscal year 1953, 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. 
CONSTRUCTION 
For construction, installation, and equipment of temporary or 
permanent public works, including buildings, facilities, appurte-
nances and utilities, at stations of the Alaska Communication System, 
as authorized by Act of October 27, 1949 (Public Law 414), without 
regard to sections 1136 and 3734, Revised Statutes, as amended, 
including hire of passenger motor vehicles; $1,400,000, to remain avail-
able until expended: Provided^ That this appropriation shall not be 
available for construction of family quarters at (1) an average cost 
in excess of $24,000 for construction, including but not limited to, 
kitchen range, refrigerator, telephone, architectural and engineering 
services, and all contingencies; nor at (2) a cost per family unit 
in excess of $5,000, for site development and outside utilities, including 
architectural and engineering services therefor and all contingencies. 
MEDICAL SERVICE 
63 Stat. 934. 
10 U. S. C. § 1339; 
40 U. S. C. §§ 259, 267. 
MEDICAL AND HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT 
For the manufacture and purchase of medical and hospital sup-
plies for military posts, camps, hospitals, hospital ships and trans-
ports, and supplies required for mosquito destruction in and about 
military posts in the Canal Zone; operation of the Army Medical 
Library and Museum under the direct supervision of the Surgeon 
General; purchase of veterinary supplies and hire of veterinary sur-
geons ; expenses of medical supply depots and maintenance of branch 
depots; medical care and treatment of patients when entitled thereto 
by law, regulation, or contract, including their care, treatment, and 
subsistence in private hospitals, whether on duty or on furlough or 
on leave of absence except when elective medical treatment has been 
obtained by such personnel in civilian hospitals or from civilian 
physicians or dentists; medical care and treatment of authorized 
personnel of any country whose defense the President deems vital to 
the defense of the United States when such care and treatment can-
not be obtained from medical units of their own country; care and 
treatment of epidemic and contagious diseases in the Army or at 
military posts or stations, including measures to prevent the spread 
thereof; pay of internes; pay of civilian physicians employed to 
examine physically applicants for enlistment and enlisted men and 
to render other professional services from time to time under proper 
authority; payment of express companies and local 
transfers 
employed directly by the Medical Service for the transportation of 
76100 O - 52 (PT. I) - 30 
Care and treatment 
of patients. 
Epidemic and con-
tagious diseases. 
Internes; civilian 
physicians. 
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Army a n d N a v y 
Hospital, Hot Springs, 
Ark. 
Equipment, etc. 
Engineer School. 
62 Stat. 277. 
32 Stat. 282. 
medical and hospital supplies, including bidders' samples and water 
for analysis; supply of Army and Navy Hospital at Hot Springs, 
Arkansas; advertising, and other necessary miscellaneous expenses 
of the Medical Service, including tuition and fees of military and 
civilian personnel at civilian educational institutions; $269,580,000, 
CORPS OF ENGINEERS 
ENGINEER SERVICE, ARMY 
For expenses necessary for the procurement, manufacture, mainte-
nance, and issue of utilities, engineer supplies, materials, and equip-
ment; procurement, preparation, and reproduction of maps and 
similar data for military purposes; military surveys, engineering 
planning, and investigation and design; expenses incident to military 
and training operations, including operation of the Engineer School; 
travel and transportation; rentals, at the seat of Government or else-
where, maintenance, installation, alteration, repair, protection, and 
operation of buildings, grounds, and other facilities, including appur-
tenances thereto; administration of real estate, acquisition of lands, 
easements, rights-of-way, or other similar interests in and temporary 
use of lands, and, in administering the provisions of 43 U. S. C. 315q, 
rentals may be paid in advance; payment of deficiency judgments 
and interest thereon arising out of condemnation proceedings; 
relocation of utilities not otherwise provided for; utility services 
for buildings erected at private cost, as authorized by law (10 U. S. C. 
1346), and buildings on military reservations authorized by Depart-
ment of the Army regulations to be used for a similar purpose; 
and expenses of packing, crating, unpacking, and uncrating of sup-
plies, materials, equipment, and baggage not otherwise provided for; 
$1,166,049,000. 
MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, ARMY 
For an additional amount for "Military construction. Army," to 
remain available until expended, $48,363,700, for liquidation of obli-
gations incurred pursuant to authority heretofore granted under this 
head to enter into contracts. 
ORDNANCE CORPS 
Instruction, etc. 
ORDNANCE SERVICE AND SUPPLIES, ARMY 
For manufacture, procurement, storage, and issue, including 
research, planning, design, development, inspection, test, alteration, 
maintenance, repair, and handling of ordnance material and aircraft, 
together with the machinery, supplies, and services necessary thereto; 
supplies and services in connection with the general work of the 
Ordnance Corps, comprising police and office duties, rents, tolls, fuel, 
light, water, advertising, stationery, typewriting and computing 
machines, including their exchange, and furniture, tools, and 
instruments of service; instruction, training, and other incidental 
expenses of the ordnance service; purchase and hire of passenger 
motor vehicles; ammunition for military salutes at Government 
establishments and institutions to which the issues of arms for 
salutes are authorized; services, material, tools, and appliances for 
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433 
operation of the testing machines and chemical laboratory in con-
nection therewith; publications for libraries of the Ordnance Corps, 
Publications. 
including the Ordnance Office; $8,076,056,430. 
CHEMICAL CORPS 
CHEMICAL SERVICE, ARMY 
For purchase, manufacture, and test of chemical agents and toxic 
substances, incendiary materials and munitions, gas masks, or other 
offensive or defensive materials or appliances required for chemical 
purposes, investigations, research, design, experimentation, and opera-
tion, purchase of chemicals, special scientific and technical apparatus 
and instruments, including services connected therewith; maintenance 
and repair of plants, buildings, and equipment, and the machinery 
therefor; receiving, storing, and issuing of supplies, comprising police 
and office duties, rents, tolls, fuels, gasoline, lubricants, paints and 
oils, rope and cordage, light, water, advertising, stationery, typewrit-
ing and computing machines including their exchange, office furniture, 
tools, and instruments; incidental expenses; libraries of the Chemical 
Corps; expenses incidental to the organization, training, and equip-
ment of special gas troops not otherwise provided for, including the 
training of the Army in Chemical Corps activities, both offensive 
and defensive, together with the necessary schools, tactical demon-
strations, and maneuvers; expenses of chemical projectile filling plants 
and proving grounds, including maintenance of rail transportation, 
repairs, alterations, accessories, building and repairing butts and 
targets, clearing and grading ranges; $122,560,000. 
Chemical agents, 
etc. 
Plant maintenano; 
etc. 
Special gas troops. 
Chemical Corps ac-
ARMY TRAINING 
For miscellanous supplies, material, equipment, and services, tuition 
and other incidental expenses, not otherwise provided for, essential in 
conducting instruction in service schools and elsewhere; contingencies 
for the Commandant of the National War College, to be expended in 
his discretion (not exceeding $1,000) ; purchase, repair, and cleaning 
of uniforms for guards at the National War College; operation of 
the Office, Chief, Army Field Forces, subordinate commands, instal-
lations, and boards, not otherwise provided for, $22,300,000. 
UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY 
Instruction in serv-
ice schools. 
National War Col-
lege. 
MAINTENANCE AND OPERATION 
For text and reference books for instruction; increase and expense 
of library; office equipment and supplies; stationery, blank books, 
forms, diplomas for graduates; expense of lectures; apparatus, equip-
ment, supplies, and materials for purpose of instruction and athletics, 
and maintenance and repair thereof; musical instruments and mainte-
nance of band; care and maintenance of organ; equipment for cadet 
mess; postage, telephones, and telegrams; freight and expressage; for 
commutation of rations to the cadet mess for civilians employed and 
subsisted at cadet mess in the same amount as deducted from each 
civilian's pay for said rations; expenses, including not to exceed 
$95,000 for contingencies, incident to the observance of the Sesqui-
centennial of the Military Academy; contingencies for Superintendent 
of the Military Academy (not exceeding $5,200) and for the Com-
Sesquicentennial ex-
penses. 
Contingent fimds. 
434 
PUBLIC LAW 179—OCT. 18, 1951 
[65 STAT. 
Liquidation of in-
debtedness of certain 
cadets. 
mandant of Cadets (not exceeding $1^00), to be expended in their 
respective discretions; expenses of the members of the Board of Visi-
tors (not exceeding $1,500); contingent fund, to be expended under 
the direction of the Academic Board (not exceeding $1,000); improve-
ment, repair, and maintenance of buildings and grounds (including 
roads, walls, and fences); shooting galleries and ranges; cooking, 
heating, and lighting apparatus and fixtures and operation and main-
tenance thereof; maintenance of water, sewer, and plumbing systems; 
maintenance of and repairs to cadet camp; fire-extinguishing appa-
ratus; machinery and tools and repairs of same; policing buildings 
and grounds; furniture, refrigerators, and lockers for Government-
owned buildings at the Academy and repair and maintenance thereof; 
fuel for heat, light, and power; and other necessary incidental expenses 
in the discretion of the superintendent; in all, $6,305,000: Provided^ 
That not to exceed $3,750 of this amount shall be available to liquidate 
the indebtedness of cadets separated from the service for any reason 
duringtheir first year, who at the time of their separation are in debt 
to the Treasurer of the United States Military Academy. 
CIVILIAN COMPONENTS 
Training, etc. 
Medical treatment, 
etc. 
Travel expenses. 
Attendance at mili-
tary service schools. 
ARMY NATIONAL GUARD 
For expenses necessary for equipping, maintaining, operating and 
training the Army National Guard, including expenses of camps, air-
fields, storage facilities, buildings, structures, rifle ranges, and facili-
ties, the purchase (not to exceed one hundred) and hire of passenger 
motor vehicles for official use only, and the modification, repair, 
maintenance and operation of airplanes; transportation of things; 
personal services in the National Guard Bureau and services of per-
sonnel of the Army National Guard employed as civilians (without 
regard to their military rank) necessary for the care, maintenance, 
modification and repair of materials and equipment, for Federal 
property and custodial accounting work, and for administrative and 
such other duties as may be required; medical and hospital treatment 
of members of the Army National Guard who suffer injury or contract 
disease in line of duty and other expenses connected therewith as 
authorized by law; pay at a rate not less than $2,400 per annum and 
travel of property and disbursing officers for the United States; 
travel expenses (other than mileage), at the same rates as authorized 
by law for Army National Guard personnel on active Federal duty, 
of Army National Guard division and regimental commanders while 
inspecting units in compliance with National Guard regulations when 
specifically authorized by the Chief, National Guard Bureau; attend-
ance of Army National Guard personnel at military service schools; 
drill pay of the Army National Guard; subsistence for drills of eight 
or more hours duration in any one calendar day; expenses of tem-
porary duty travel of personnel of the Regular Army in connection 
with activities of the Army National Guard; procurement and issue 
to the Army National Guard of the several States, Territories, and the 
District of Columbia of military equipment and supplies, as provided 
by law, including motor-propelled vehicles and airplanes; and expenses 
of repair, modification, issue, maintenance and use of supplies, mate-
rial and equipment, and such property may be furnished from Army 
stocks without reimbursement subject to recall for Army require-
65 STAT.] 
PUBLIC LAW 179—OCT. 18, 1951 
435 
ments; $202,982,000, to remain available until June 30, 1953: Pro-
vided^ That the number of caretakers authorized to be employed for 
any one unit or pool under the provisions of section 90 of the National 
Defense Act of June 3, 1916, as amended, may be such as is deemed 
necessary by the Secretary of the Army. 
Caretakers. 
54 Stat. 1154. 
32 U. S. C. § 42 and 
note. 
ORGANIZED RESERVES 
For pay, allowances, clothing, subsistence, and transportation 
(including mileage, actual and necessary expenses, or per diem in lieu 
thereof), and medical and hospital treatment and related expenses, 
as authorized by law, for personnel of the Organized Reserve Corps 
while on active duty undergoing Reserve training or while performing 
drills or equivalent duty; maintenance, operation, rental, repair, and 
other necessary expenses of facilities for the training and administra-
tion of the Organized Reserve Corps; expenses of temporary-duty 
travel in connection with activities of the Organized Reserve Corps; 
transportation of things; purchase (not to exceed two hundred) and 
hire of passenger motor vehicles and aircraft; supplies, services, 
materiel, and equipment, not otherwise provided for, necessary to 
train and equip the Organized Reserve Corps; and expenses of modi-
fication, issue, maintenance, and use of supplies, materiel, and equip-
ment, which may be furnished without reimbursement from Army 
stocks; $104,810,000 to remain available until June 30,1953. 
ARMY RESERVE OFFICERS 
TRAINING CORPS 
For expenses necessary for the operation of the Reserve Officers' 
Training Corps, as authorized by law, including procurement, main-
tenance, transportation, and issue of supplies and equipment; pay, 
subsistence, allowances, transportation 
(including mileage), and 
medical and hospital treatment and related expenses for members of 
the Reserve Officers' Training Corps as authorized by law; hire of 
passenger motor vehicles; maintenance and operation of facilities; 
establishment and maintenance of camps; cleaning and laundrying 
of uniforms and clothing at camps; expenses of temporary duty 
travel in connection with activities of the Reserve Officers' Training 
Corps; expenses for institutions as authorized by section 1225, Revised 
Statutes, as amended, and section 55c of the National Defense Act, as 
amended (34 U. S. C. 1129; 10 U. S. C. 1180, 1181); expenses of 
modification, issue, maintenance, and Use of supplies, materials, and 
equipment, which may be furnished without reimbursement from 
Army stocks; to remain available until June 30, 1953, $27,141,000. 
Supplies, etc. 
10 U. S. C. { 1182a. 
41 Stat. 780. 
MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, ARMY CIVILIAN COMPONENTS 
For construction, acquisition, expansion, rehabilitation and con-
version of facilities for the training and administraton of the reserve 
components, including contributions therefor, as authorized by the 
Act of September 11, 1950 (64 Stat. 829), without regard to sections 
1136 and 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 sec-
tion 355 of the Revised Statutes, as amended; hire of passenger motor 
vehicles; $24,000,000, to remain available until expended. 
60 U. 
note. 
10 U. 
40 U.S. 
S. C. h 1
3
8
1 
S. C. \ 1339; 
C. §§ 259,2(}7. 
33U. S. C. §733aQd 
note. 
436 
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[65 STAT. 
DEPARTMENTAL SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
SALARIES, DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY 
For compensation for personal services in the Department of the 
Army proper, to be accounted for as one fund, as follows: 
Office of Secretary of the Army: Secretary of the Army, Under 
Secretary of the Army, Assistant Secretaries of the Army, and 
other personal services, $3,723,400. 
Office of Chief of Staff, $9,500,000; 
Adjutant General's Office, $16,500,000; 
Office of the Inspector General, $259,000; 
Office of the Judge Advocate General, $743,000; 
Office of the Chief of Finance, $1,540,500; 
Office of the Quartermaster General, $9,875,000; 
Office of the Chief of Transportation, $4,024,000; 
Office of the Chief Signal Officer, $3,750,000; 
Office of the Provost Marshal General, $245,000; 
Office of the Surgeon General, $3,100,000; 
Office of Chief of Engineers, $5,400,000; 
Office of Chief of Ordnance, $6,750,000; 
Office of Chief, Chemical Corps, $1,500,000; 
Office of Chief of Chaplains, $170,000. 
Total expenditures of funds appropriated by this paragraph shall 
be limited to 95 per centum of the total amount appropriated by this 
paragraph. 
(X>NTINGENT EXPENSES, DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY 
For miscellaneous expenses at the seat of government, $30,000,000, 
DEPARTMENT OF T H E NAVY 
TITLE IV 
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), and trans-
portation of dependents, as authorized by law, for regular and reserve 
personnel on active duty (except those on active duty while under-
going reserve training), $2,456,475,000. 
MILITARY PERSONNEL, NAVAL RESERVE 
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, $62,718,000. 
MILITARY PERSONNEL, OFFICER CANDIDATES 
For pay, allowances, clothing, subsistence, and travel, as authorized 
by law, for officer candidates, including midshipmen at the Naval 
Academy, aviation midshipmen, aviation cadets, regular and contract 
enrollees in the Naval Reserve Officers' Training Corps, and Reserve 
officer candidates; and retainer pay authorized by the Act of August 
60 Stat. 1060. 
13, 1946 (34 U. S. C. 1020h), to remain available until June 30, 1953; 
$19,348,000. 
65 STAT.] 
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NAVY PERSONNEL, GENERAL EXPENSES 
437 
Navy training. 
Welfare, etc. 
For expenses necessary for general training, education and adminis- c^je e^^^ram'stu-
tration of regular and reserve personnel, including tuition, cash book dents. 
allowances of not to exceed $50 for each Naval Aviation College pro-
gram 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 train-
ing and personnel facilities, including the Naval Academy, Naval 
Postgraduate School, Naval War College, Naval Home, Navy training 
schools and facilities, disciplinary barracks, and retraining com-
mands ; rent; hire of motor vehicles; not to exceed $30 per person for 
civilian clothing, including an overcoat when necessary, for enlisted 
personnel discharged otherwise than honorably; welfare and recrea-
tion; medals and other awards; research and development; and 
departmental salaries; $97,570,000. 
MILITARY PERSONNEL, 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 transporta-
tion of dependents, as authorized by law, for regular and reserve 
personnel on active duty (except those on active duty while undergo-
ing reserve training), $565,459,000. 
MILITARY PERSONNEL, MARINE CORPS RESERVE 
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 training, or while performing drills or equivalent 
duty, $15,145,000. 
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 and recrea-
tion ; not to exceed $30 per person for civilian clothing, including an 
overcoat when necessary, for enlisted personnel discharged otherwise 
than honorably; research and development; procurement and manu-
facture of ordnance, ammunition, and other military supplies, equip-
ment and clothing; purchase and 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; $1,018,120,000. 
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; research and development; indus-
trial mobilization; aerological services, supplies, and equipment for 
Civilian schools. 
Care of the dead. 
Procurement of sup-
plies, etc. 
438 
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[65 STAT. 
the Navy and Marine Corps; and departmental salaries; $923,393,000: 
ijiquidation o
f con- Provided, That the unexpended balance of the appropriation for 
"62 stat^m^^' 
"Aviation, Navy, 1949" shall remain available until June 30,1952, for 
the liquidation of contract obligations incurred thereunder during the 
fiscal year 1949 for aircraft equipment and research and development. 
CONSTRUCTION OF AIRCRAFT AND RELATED PROCUREMENT 
For construction, procurement, and modernization of aircraft and 
equipment, including ordnance, spare parts, and accessories therefor; 
expansion of public and not to exceed $100,000,000 for expansion of 
private plants, including the land necessary therefor, without regard 
_
^
4
o u. s. c. §
§ 2
5
9
, ^
Q section 3734, 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 
110^^'^"^'*^^^*'^*^ section 355, Revised Statutes, ^s amended; procurement and installa-
tion of equipment in public or private plants; and departmental 
salaries necessary for the purposes of this appropriation, to remain 
li aSs^^"°° ''^ ''^' available until expended, $4,000,000,000, of which $450,000,000 is for 
iga ions. 
liquidation of obligations incurred under authority heretofore granted 
to enter into contracts for the foregoing purposes. 
SHIPS AND FACILITIES 
For expenses necessary for design, maintenance, operation, and 
a^uanTOs*et°c^'^^^°* 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, including subsistence 
and other expenses of civilian crews of vessels; installation, main-
tenance, and removal of ships' ordnance; lease of facilities and docks; 
charter and hire of vessels; relief of vessels in distress; maritime 
salvage services; research and development; industrial mobilization; 
and departmental salaries; $1,537,452,000. 
CONSTRUCTION OF SHIPS 
For an additional amount for "Construction of Ships," to remain 
available until expended, $77,353,000, of which $55,961,000 is for 
liquidation of obligations incurred pursuant to authority heretofore 
granted under this head: Provided, 
That the total of obligations 
incurred under this head for construction, conversion, or replace-
ment, approved after July 17, 1947, shall not exceed $1,085,663,000. 
SHIPBUILDING AND CONVERSION 
''"'^*":, 
For expenses necessary for the construction, acquisition, or con-
version of vessels as authorized by the Act of March 10, 1951 (Public 
yinie.p.4. 
L a ^ 3), or otherwise authorized by law, including plant equipment, 
appliances, and machine tools, and installation thereof in public or 
private plants, and departmental salaries necessary for the purposes 
of this appropriation, $1,343,297,000, to remain available until ex-
pended : Provided, That the amount heretofore appropriated under the 
head "Construction of ships" for the purposes of the Act of March 
10,1951, is hereby transferred to and merged with this appropriation: 
Provided further, That the total of obligations incurred for the fore-
going purposes shall not exceed $1,480,297,000. 
65 STAT.] 
PUBLIC LAW 179—OCT. 18, 1951 
439 
ORDNANCE AND FAOIIITIES 
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); alteration, preserva-
tion, 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 or private plants; lease of facilities; research and 
development; industrial mobilization; and departmental salaries; 
$1,335,668,000. 
ORDNANCE FOR NEW CONSTRUCTION 
For an additional amount for "Ordnance for new construction," 
to remain available until expended, $52,445,000, for liquidation of 
obligations incurred pursuant to authority heretofore granted under 
this head. 
ORDNANCE FOR SHIPBUILDING AND CONVERSION 
For expenses necessary for the construction and procurement of 
armor and armament for vessels provided for in the appropriation 
"Shipbuilding and conversion," including plant equipment, appliances, 
and machine tools, and installation thereof in public or private plants, 
and departmental salaries necessary for the purposes of this appro-
priation, $431,390,000, to remain available until expended: Pr&vvded^ 
That the total of obligations incurred under this head shall not exceed 
$431,390,000. 
INCREASE AND REPLACEMENT OP NAVAL VESSELS 
CONSTRUCTION AND MACHINERY 
For an additional amount for "Construction and machinery", includ-
ing, during the current fiscal year, personal services in the Bureau 
of Ships necessary for the purposes of this appropriation, $45,000,000. 
ARMOR, ARMAMENT, AND AMMUNITION 
For an additional amount for "Armor, armament, and ammunition," 
including, during the current fiscal year, personal services in the 
Bureau of Ordnance necessary for the purposes of this appropriation, 
$12,656,000. 
MEDICAL CARE 
For expenses necessary for maintenance and operation of naval 
hospitals, medical centers, clinics, schools, research facilities, the 
medical supply system, and other medical activities; procurement of 
ambulances, medical and dental supplies, equipment and services; rent; 
instruction of medical personnel in naval hospitals, naval medical 
schools, and civilian schools; research and development; industrial 
mobilization; 
care 
of 
the 
dead; 
and 
departmental 
salaries; 
$135,770,000. 
CIVIL ENGINEERING 
For expenses necessary for maintenance and operation of district 
public works offices, public works centers, advance base depots, con-
struction battalion centers, defense housing projects, other civil engi-
440 
PUBLIC LAW 179—OCT. 18, 1951 
[65 STAT. 
neering facilities, and shore activities not otherwise provided for; pro-
curement of services, supplies and equipment for the foregoing activi-
ties; purchase and hire of passenger motor vehicles; research and 
development; engineering services; industrial mobilization; and 
departmental salaries; $196,488,000. 
PUBLIC WORKS 
For an additional amount for "Public works", to remain available 
poK'i^^'"' ^^^' ^^^^^ expended, $51,657,000, of which $1,243,000 shall be used for 
construction, installation, or repair of sewage facilities at the naval 
base, Newport, Rhode Island, and the remainder shall be available 
for liquidation of obligations incurred pursuant to authority here-
tofore granted under this head to enter into contracts. 
FACILITIES 
For expenses necessary for acquisition, construction, and installa-
tion of production facilities and equipment, and test facilities and 
equipment (other than those for research and development), including 
the land necessary therefor, without regard to section 3734, Revised 
4
0 u. s. c. §
§ 259, Statutes, as amended, 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 
33U. s. e.§733and Statutes, as amended, such amounts as may be determined by the 
Secretary of the Navy, and approved by the Secretary of Defense 
and the Bureau of the Budget, and said amounts shall be derived 
by transfer from any appropriations available to the Department 
of the Navy, during the fiscal year 1952, for procurement of equip-
ment for installation or use in private plants: Provided, 
That the 
total amount so transferred shall not exceed $100,000,000. 
RESEARCH 
For conduct and encouragement of research and development, not 
otherwise provided for; dissemination of scientific information; 
administration of patents, trade-marks, and copyrights; maintenance 
and operation of research and development facilities; development, 
installation, and maintenance of special devices (including specialized 
housing therefor) ; procurement of supplies, services, and equipment; 
departmental salaries; and other expenses necessary in carrying out 
60 Stat. 779. 
the Act of August 1, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 475), to remain available until 
expended, $69,698,000. 
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, clothing depots, market and purchasing offices, supply demand 
control points, fleet fueling facilities, overseas air cargo terminals, 
regional accounting and disbursing offices, the material catalog office, 
the cost inspection service, and other service-wide supply and finance 
^Procurement o
f sup- facilities, as designated by the Secretary; procurement of supplies, 
intra-Navy trans- services. Special clothiug, and equipment; rent; intra-Navy transpor-
tation of things, all transportation of Navy stock fund material, 
and transportation of household effects; research and development; 
industrial mobilization; losses in exchange and in the accounts of 
disbursing officers, as authorized by law; and departmental salaries; 
$485,102,000. 
portation. 
65 STAT.] 
PUBLIC LAW 179—OCT. 18, 1951 
441 
NAVY STOCK FUND 
For additional working capital for the Navy stock fund, established 
pursuant to the National Security Act Amendments of 1949, 
$450,000,000. 
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 
and public works offices). River Commands, and other service-wide 
operations and functions not otherwise provided for; procurement of 
supplies, services and equipment for activities financed hereunder; 
Latin-American cooperation; not to exceed $42,127,000 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 accounting officers of the Government; and 
departmental salaries; $150,779,000. 
OPERATION AND CONSERVATION or 
NAVAL PETROLEUM RESERVES 
For expenses necessary for exploration, prospecting, conservation, 
development, use, and operation of the naval petroleum reserves, as 
authorized by law, $11,908,000. 
DEPARTMENT OF T H E AIR FORCE 
TITLE V 
63 Stat. 578. 
5 U. S. C. § 171 note. 
Latin-American co-
operation. 
60 Stat. 853. 
AIRCRAFT AND RELATFJ) 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 
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; to remain available until expended; $11,215,800,000, 
of which $625,000,000 is for payment of obligations incurred under 
authority heretofore granted to enter into contracts for the foregoing 
purposes: Provided^ That the unexpended balances of the appropria-
tions granted under the head "Air Corps, Army," 1948, and "General 
expenses, U. S. Air Force," 1949, shall remain available until June 
30, 1952, for the payment of obligations incurred thereunder prior to 
July 1,1948, and July 1,1949, respectively. 
10 U. 8. 
33 U. S. 
note. 
C. § 1339. 
C. 5 733 and 
Payment of obliga-
tions. 
61 Stat. 
62 Stat. 
559. 
648. 
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, 
$1,775,000,000, to remain available until expended. 
442 
PUBLIC LAW 179—OCT. 18, 1951 
[65 STAT. 
64 Stat. 1221. 
5 U. 8. C. § 171x. 
Ante, p. 48. 
ACQUISITION AND CONSTRUCTION OF REAL PROPERTY 
For the continuation of the construction of four projects author-
ized by Public Law 910, Eighty-first Congress, approved January 6, 
1951, and Public Law 43, Eighty-second Congress, approved May 
31, 1951, to remain available until expended, $187,300,000, of which 
$85,000,000 is for liquidation of obligations incurred pursuant to 
authority heretofore granted under this heading to enter into contracts. 
56 Stat. 654. 
MAINTENANCE AND OPERATION 
For expenses necessary for the maintenance, operation, and admin-
istration of the activities of the Air Force, including the United 
States Air Force Reserve and the Air Reserve Officers' Training 
Corps; maintenance, operation, and modification of aircraft; trans-
portation of things; rents at the seat of government and elsewhere, 
and in administering the provisions of 43 U, S. C. 315q payments of 
rents may be made in advance; repair of facilities; field printing 
plants; procurement of ambulances; hire of passenger motor vehicles; 
Training and in- training and instruction of military and civilian personnel of the Air 
s rue ion. 
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 reservations authorized by Air Force regula-
tions to be used for welfare and recreational purposes; rental of land 
or purchase of options to rent land without reference to section 3648, 
Revised Statutes, as amended, use or repair of private property, and 
other necessary expenses of combat maneuvers; organizational cloth-
ing and equipage; 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 
(31 U. S. C. 95a; 50 U. S. C. 1705-1707; Act of July 26,1947, Public 
Law 248); burial of the dead as authorized by law (10 IJ. S. C. 
916-916d; 5 U. S. C. 103a), including remains of personnel of the 
Air Force of the United States who die while on active duty, travel 
allowances of attendants accompanying remains, and acquisition by 
lease or otherwise of temporary burial sites; conduct of schoolrooms, 
service clubs, chapels, and other instructional, entertainment, and 
welfare expenses for enlisted men, not otherwise provided for; 
expenses for inter-American cooperation as authorized for the Navy 
by the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 421f), for Latin-American 
cooperation; payments of deficiency judgments and interests thereon 
arising out of condemnation proceedings heretofore instituted; and 
special services by contract or otherwise; $3,208,442,000. 
32 Stat. 282. 
Rental of land, etc. 
31 U. S. C. § 529. 
Exchange fees and 
68 Stat. 800, 921; 61 
Stat. 493; 52 Stat. 398; 
64 Stat. 743. 
60 U. S. 0. app. 
§§ 1705-1707; 31U. S.C. 
I 95a note. 
60 Stat. 858. 
Expenses of individ-
ual or troop move-
ments. 
MILITARY PERSONNEL REQUIREMENTS 
For pay, allowances, clothing, subsistence, transportation, interest 
on deposits of enlisted personnel, and travel in kind for cadets and 
all other personnel of the Air Force of the United States on active 
duty (other than personnel of the Reserve components, including the 
Air National Guard, on active duty while undergoing reserve train-
ing) , including commutation of quarters, subsistence supplies for issue 
as rations to enlisted personnel, cloth and materials and clothing for 
issue and sale, and clothing allowances, as authorized by law; and, in 
connection with personnel paid from this appropriation, for rental 
of camp sites and local jJrocurement of utility services and other neces-
sary expenses incident to individual or troop movements (including 
packing and unpacking and transportation of organizational equip-
ment) , ice, meals for recruiting parties, monetary allowances for liquid 
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443 
coffee for troops when supplied cooked or travel rations, altering and 
fitting clothing, and commutation of rations, as authorized by law, 
to enlisted personnel, including those sick in hospitals (to be paid to 
the surgeon in charge); transportation, as authorized by law, of 
dependents, baggage, and household effects of personnel paid from 
this appropriation; rations for civilian employees when entitled 
thereto, applicants for enlistment, prisoners of war, and general 
prisoners; subsistence supplies for resale, as authorized by law; com-
mutation of rations, as authorized by regulations, to applicants for 
enlistment, civilian employees entitled to subsistence at public expense, 
and general prisoners, while sick in hospitals (to be paid to the sur-
geon in charge) ; subsistence of supernumeraries necessitated by emer-
gent military circumstances; issues of toilet articles and barbers' and 
tailors' material to general prisoners confined at military posts with-
out pay and allowances, applicants for enlistment, and recruits upon 
first enlistment; civilian clothing and when necessary an overcoat, 
the cost of all not to exceed $30, for each person upon each release from 
a military prison, each enlisted man discharged otherwise than honor-
ably, each enlisted man convicted by a civil court for an offense result-
ing in confinement in a civil prison, and each enlisted man interned, 
or discharged without internment as an alien enemy; expenses of 
apprehension and delivery of deserters, stragglers, and escaped mili-
tary prisoners; payment, m the discretion of the Secretary, of rewards 
(not to exceed $25 in any one case) for the apprehension of deserters; 
confinement of military prisoners in nonmilitary facilities; donations 
of not to exceed $25 to each civilian prisoner upon each release from 
a military prison, to each enlisted man discharged otherwise than 
honorably upon each release from confinement under court-martial 
sentence, and to each person discharged for fraudulent enlistment; 
expenses of courts, boards, and commissions; welfare; and medals and 
other awards; $3,016,700,000. 
Transportation of 
dependents, etc. 
Rations for civilian 
employees. 
Rewards. 
Donations to desig-
nated released prison-
ers. 
RESEARCH AND DEVEIX3PMENT 
For expenses necessary for basic and applied scientific research 
and development, by contract or otherwise, and transportation of 
things, to remain available until expended, $425,000,000. 
RESERVE PERSONNEL. REQUIREMENTS 
For pay, allowances, clothing, subsistence, and travel for personnel 
of the United States Air Force Reserve and the Air Reserve Officers' 
Training Corps, while on active duty undergoing reserve training 
or while performing drills or equivalent duty, or undergoing training 
and instruction or on duty under section 5, National Defense Act, 
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, $19,043,000, to remain avail-
able until June 30,1953. 
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 section 5, National Defense Act, as authorized by law; 
travel expenses (other than mileage), on the same basis as authorized 
by law for Air National Guard personnel on active Federal duty, of 
39 Stat. 167. 
10 U. S. C. § 38. 
39 Stat. 167. 
10 U. 8. C. § 38. 
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[65 STAT. 
Training, etc. 
64 Stat. 829. 
60 U. S. C. 
note. 
Supplies, etc. 
881 
Caretakers. 
54 Stat. 1134. 
32U. S. C. §42note. 
Air National Guard commanders while inspecting units in compli-
ance with National Guard regulations when specifically authorized 
by the Chief, National Guard Bureau; establishment, 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) ; maintenance, 
operation, and modification of aircraft; transportation of things; 
purchase and hire of passenger motor vehicles; procurement and issue 
to the Air National Guard of the several States, Territories, and the 
District of Columbia of supplies, materials, and equipment, as author-
ized by law; and expenses incident to the maintenance and use of 
supplies, materials, and equipment, including such as may be fur-
nished from stocks under the control of agencies of the Department 
of Defense; $87,900,000: 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 of the Air 
Force. 
CONTINGENCIES 
For emergencies and military expenses, to be expended on the 
authority or approval of the Secretary of the Air Force, and such 
expenses may be accounted for solely on his certificate, $40,600,000. 
TITLE VI—GENERAL PROVISIONS 
Temporary services 
by contract. 
60 Stat. 810. 
31 U. S. C. § 529. 
Advances of public 
moneys. 
Compensation 
noncitizens. 
to 
Pay and allowances, 
military personnel. 
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 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. 602. Section 3648, Revised Statutes, shall not apply, in the 
case of payments made from appropriations contained in this Act, 
(1) to payments made in compliance with the laws of foreign 
countries or their ministerial regulations, (2) to payments for rent 
in 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 prohibit-
ing 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. (a) No part of any appropriation contained in this Act for 
"Pay and allowances" of military personnel shall be used for any 
other purpose. 
(b) No part of any appropriation contained in this Act for "Pay 
and allowances" of military personnel shall be expended for the pay 
or allowances, accruing after November 30, 1951, of any enlisted 
member of the inactive or volunteer reserve who served on active duty 
for a period of twelve months or more in any branch of the Armed 
Forces during the period beginning December 7, 1941, and ending 
September 2, 1945, if such member shall have served on active duty 
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445 
for a period of sixteen months or more after June 26,1950, unless such 
member shall have voluntarily consented to remain on active duty. 
SEC. 605. The appropriations in this Act otherwise available for 
travel or transportation which are current on date of relief from duty 
station of personnel traveling under orders may be charged with all 
expenses in connection with such travel including transportation of 
dependents and household goods, regardless of time of arrival at 
destination of such personnel. 
SEC. 606. Appropriations contained in this Act available for travel 
shall be available for all expenses incident to attendance at meetings of 
technical, scientific, professional, or other similar organizations. 
SEC. 607. No part of any money appropriated in this Act or included 
under any contract authority granted in this Act shall be expended 
for the payment of any commission on any land purchase contract 
in excess of 2 per centum of the purchase price. 
SEC. 608. 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 be employed in addition to the numbers 
otherwise authorized and appropriated for. 
SEC. 609. No collection or reclamation shall be made by the United 
States on account of any money paid to assignees, transferees, or 
allottees, or to others for them, under assignments, transfers, or allot-
ments of pay and allowances made under authority of law where 
liability might exist with respect to such assignments, transfers, or 
allotments or the use of such moneys, because of the death of assignors, 
transferors, or allotters. 
SEC. 610. 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 secu-
rity guard services for protection of confidential files; examination 
of estimates of appropriations and Department of Defense activities 
in the field and the use of such appropriations for such purpose shall 
be subject only to regulation by the standing committees concerned; 
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 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 Classification Act 
of 1949, as amended. 
SEC. 611. The appropriations contained in this Act for the Air 
Force, Navy, and for the Army, which are available for the procure-
ment or manufacture of supplies, materials, and equipment of special 
or technical design may be used for the development and procurement 
of gages, dies, jigs, and other special aids and appliances, production 
studies, factory plans, and other production data, including specifica-
tions and detailed drawings, and for the purchase of designs, processes 
Personnel traveling 
under orders. 
Attendance at meet-
ings. 
Jommissions on 
land-purchase con-
tracts. 
Personnel detailed 
to other agencies. 
Keclamation of cer-
tain payments, re-
striction. 
Availability of ap-
propriations. 
Tuition payments., 
etc., restriction. 
63 Stat. 954. 
5 X
T
. S. C. § 1071 
note. 
Gages, dies, jigs, etc. 
446 
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[65 STAT. 
and manufacturing data, copyrights and letters patent, applications 
therefor, and licenses thereunder pertaining to such supplies, equip-
ment, and materials for which the appropriations are made. 
onS?/wX^ta ^"^' 
^^^- ^12. 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, 
te^ef/^*^'^*^ ^
™
™ 
^^^' ^^^' ^^^^^S the current fiscal year, without deposit to the credit 
^ ^^' 
of the Treasurer of the United States and withdrawal on money requi-
sitions, receipts of public moneys from sales or other sources by officers 
of the Department of Defense on disbursing duty and charged in their 
official accounts, except receipts to be credited to river and harbor and 
flood-control appropriations, may be used by them as required for 
current expenditures, all necessary bookkeeping adjustments of ap-
propriations, funds, and accounts to be made in the settlement of their 
disbursing accounts. 
^^Minor construction. 
gj,(. Q^^ ^he Secretary of the Army, the Secretary of the Air 
Force, and the Secretary of the Navy are authorized to expend out of 
the Appropriations in this Act available for construction or main-
tenance such amounts as may be required for minor construction 
(except family quarters), extensions to existing structures, and 
Cost limitation. 
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 $50,000, except that the limitation on 
the cost of any such project which is determined by the Secretary of 
Defense to be urgently required in the interests of national defense, 
.m^X^o^"p^^"n"J,*° shall not exceed $200,000: 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. 
^rt°r *iimitatton°^ 
^^^' ^^^' ^^^ring the Current fiscal year, appropriations contained 
quar ers, imi a ion. ^^ ^^^^ ^^^ (except tliose for liquidation of prior contract authoriza-
tions) shall not be obligated for construction of family quarters for 
personnel at a cost per family unit in excess of $14,040 on housing 
units for generals; $12,040 on housing units for majors, lieutenant 
colonels and colonels, or equivalent; $11,040 on housing units for 
second lieutenants, lieutenants, captains, and warrant officers, or 
equivalent; or $10,040 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. The last proviso of section 3 of the Act of June 12, 1948 
f u**s ^^'*M26p- (Public Law 626), and the last proviso in the next to last paragraph 
1
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; of sectiou 3 of the Act of June 16, 1948 (Public Law 653), shall not 
Itid.' ^' ^ ^^ ^^^^ be applicable to appropriations made herein or heretofore to carry out 
such Acts, in cases where the Secretary of the Department concerned 
determines that the erection of prefabricated family quarters will be 
more advantageous to the United States than multiple type dwellings 
of conventional construction. 
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^^^' ^1^- Appropriations for the Air Force and the Army for the 
current fiscal year shall be available for carrying out the purposes 
note^' ^' ^' *^^' *
^
^
^ ^^ Executive Order 9112 of March 26,1942; for expenses in connection 
with the administration of occupied areas; for distribution of trophies 
and devices as authorized by law; for actual and necessary expenses 
or per diem in lieu thereof authorized by law; and, except as otherwise 
^ u^*s."c!§5 236- authorized by the Act of September 30, 1950 (Public Law 874), for 
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primary and secondary schooling for dependents of military and 
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447 
civilian personnel of the Department of Defense residing on military 
installations or stationed in foreign countries, 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; and appropriations for the Air Force for the current 
fiscal year shall be available for expenses of temporary duty travel 
of military personnel and for travel expenses of civilians (other than 
on permanent change of station) traveling in connection with the 
activities of the Air Force. 
SEC, 617. Appropriations for the Navy for the current fiscal year 
shall be available for expenses in connection with the transfer to the 
United States of foreign vessels, including pay, subsistence, trans-
portation, and repatriation of alien crews; expenses including those 
heretofore incurred incident to the operation by the Navy of private 
plants taken over at the direction of the President, and the Secretary 
of the Navy may designate any naval appropriation to be charged 
with such expenses, proper adjustment to be made on the basis of final 
costs between applicable appropriations; payment of rewards, as 
authorized by law, for information leading to the discovery of missing 
naval property or the recovery thereof, and except as otherwise 
authorized by the Act of September 30, 1950 (Public Law 874), for 
contributions for the support of schools for dependents of military 
and civilian personnel of the Department of Defense as authorized 
by section 13 of the Act of August 2,1946 (5 U. S. C. 421d). 
SEC. 618. 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, techni-
cal, clerical, administrative, executive, or supervisory position unless 
such person is a citizen of the United States of America or of the 
Eepublic of Panama: Provided^ however^ (1) That, notwithstand-
ing the provision in the Act approved August 11,1939 (53 Stat. 1409), 
limiting employment 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 employed, if United States citizens are available in con-
tinental United States or on the Canal Zone; (3) that nothing in this 
Act shall prohibit the continued employment of any person who shall 
have rendered fifteen or more years of faithful and honorable service 
on the Canal Zone; (4) that in the selection of personnel for skilled, 
technical, administrative, clerical, supervisory, or executive positions, 
the controlling 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, adminis-
trative, 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 
indirectlj^ 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 fv/rther^ 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. 
Transfer of foreign 
vessels, etc. 
64 Stat. 1100. 
20 U. S. C. §§ 236--
244. 
60 Stat. 854. 
Canal Zone. 
Citizenship require-
ment. 
E m p l o y m e n t of 
Panamanian citizens. 
48 U. S. C. § 1307 
note. 
Limitation on num-
ber. 
Employees with IJi 
or more years of serv-
ice. 
Selection of person-
nel. 
Hours of employ-
ment; pay rates. 
Applicability of sec-
tion. 
Suspension of com-
pliance. 
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448 
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[65 STAT. 
icMflman tastotsT.^'" ^Ec. 619. Insofar as practicable, the Secretary of Defense shall assist 
American small business to participate equitably in the furnishing 
of commodities and services financed with funds appropriated under 
this Act by making available or causing to be made available to sup-
pliers in the United States, and particularly to small independent 
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 otherwise 
helping to give small business an opportunity to participate in the 
furnishing of commodities and services financed with funds appro-
priated by this Act. 
for^enii™ed^personnei! 
^^^' ^^^- During the current fiscal year, commuted rations for 
enlisted personnel of the uniformed services (as defined in the Career 
63Ste,t.|02^ ^ ^^ Compensation Act of 1949) on leave, or otherwise authorized to mess 
note. 
separately, shall be equivalent to the cost of the ration as determined 
by the Secretary of Defense. 
Operation o
f messes. 
ggc. 621. No appropriation contained in this Act shall be available 
for expenses of operation of messes (other than organized messes 
which are financed principally from nonappropriated funds) at which 
meals are sold to ojmcers 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 
Payments f
o
r meals, appropriations Concerned: Provided, 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. 
proprSns!^ °
^ ^^' 
^ ^ - ^^^- ^^ 
^^^'^ °^ ^^^ appropriation contained in this Act 
shall be available until expended unless expressly so provided else-
where in this or some other appropriation Act. 
officers^quarters!'' *" 
^^^- ^^^- ^^ ^^^ °^ ^^^ appropriation contained in this Act shall 
be available for or on account of the supply or replacement of table 
linen, dishes, glassware, silver, and kitchen utensils 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 regu-
lations approved by the Secretary of Defense, which shall provide for 
uniform practices among all of the services. 
SEC. 624. The provisions of the Act of February 9, 1946 (60 Stat. 
3
1 u. s. c. J634a. 
3)^ shall be applicable to the appropriations of the Army and Air 
Force for military pay for the current fiscal year, upon certification 
by the appropriate agency of the department concerned. 
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SEC. 625. Not more than $10,000,000 of the amounts received during 
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• 
the current fiscal year by each of the Departments of the Army, Navy, 
and Air Force as proceeds from the sale of scrap or salvage materials, 
shall be available during the current fiscal year for expenses of trans-
portation, demilitarization, and other preparation for sale or salvage 
Report to Congress. Qf military supplies, equipment, and materiel: Provided, That a report 
of receipts and disbursements under this limitation shall be made 
quarterly to the Committees on Appropriations of the Congress. 
SEC. 626. 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 
3
1 u. s. c. § 665. 
of subsection (c) of section 3679 of the Revised Statutes, as amended, 
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PUBLIC LAW 179—OCT. 18, 1951 
449 
whenever he deems such action to be necessary in the interest of 
national defense. 
SEC. 627. Appropriations available during the current fiscal year 
for the pay and allowances of midshipmen appointed under paragraph 
(b) of section 3 of the Act of August 13, 1946 (60 Stat. 1058), as 
amended (34 IT. S. G. 1020b), shall be available for a 50 per centum 
increase of the pay of such midshipmen while in flight training or on 
other flight duty. 
SEC. 628. No appropriation contained in this Act shall be available 
on and after January 1, 1952, 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 maintenance 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 promulgated by the Secretaries 
of the military departments concerned, with the approval of the Secre-
tary 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^ however^ 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. 
SEC. 629. 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 
Government employees that asserts the right to strike against the 
Government of the United States, or that such person does not advo-
cate, and is not a member of an organization that advocates, the over-
throw of the Government of the United States by force or violence: 
Provided further^ That any person w ho engages in a strike against 
the Government of the United States or who is a member of an organi-
zation 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 Gov-
ernment of the United States by force or violence and accepts employ-
ment the salary or w^ges for which are paid from any appropriation 
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. 630. In order more effectively to administer the programs and 
functions of the Department of Defense, the President, to the extent 
he deems it necessary and appropriate in the interest of national 
defense, may authorize within the Office of the Secretary of Defense 
M i d s h i p m e n 
in 
flight training, etc. 
Pay and allowances. 
Commissary stores. 
Persons engaging, 
etc., in strikes against 
or advocating over-
throw of U. S. Gov-
ernment. 
Affidavit. 
Penalty clause. 
Temporary posi-
tions in grades GS-17 
and QS-18. 
450 
PUBLIC LAW 180—OCT. 18, 1951 
[65 STAT. 
63 Stat. 954. 
5 U. S. O. 
note. 
1071 
Contract provision 
regarding gratuities. 
Ceiling on civilian 
employees. 
Restriction on flight 
pay. 
Short title. 
ten temporary positions for the fiscal year 1952 to be placed in 
grades GS-17 and GS-18 of the general schedule of the Classification 
Act of 1949 in accordance with the procedures and standards of that 
Act. Not more than five of these positions shall be in grade GS-18. 
Such positions shall be additional to the number authorized by section 
505 of that Act, and not more than four of these positions may be filled 
by promotion. 
SEC. 631. No part of any money appropriated in titles II, III, IV, 
or V of this Act shall be expended under any contract (other than a 
contract for personal services) entered into after the enactment of this 
Act unless such contract provides— 
(1) that the Government may, by written notice to the con-
tractor, terminate the right of such contractor to proceed under 
such contract if it is found, after notice and hearing, by the 
Secretary of the military department with which the contract is 
made, or his designee, that gratuities (in the form of entertain-
ment, gifts, or otherwise) were offered or given by such contractor, 
or any agent or representative of such contractor, to any officer 
or employee of the Government with a view toward securing 
a contract or securing favorable treatment with respect to the 
awarding or amending, or the making of any determinations 
with respect to the performing, of such contract: Provided^ That 
the existence of the facts upon which such Secretary makes such 
findings shall be in issue and may be reviewed in any competent 
court, 
(2) that in the event any such contract is so terminated the 
Government shall be entitled, (A) to pursue the same remedies 
against the contractor as it could pursue in the event of a breach 
of the contract by the contractor, and (B) as a penalty in addition 
to any other damages to which it may be entitled by law, to 
exemplary damages in an amount not less than three nor more 
than ten times (as determined by the Secretary or his designee) 
the costs incurred by any such contractor in providing any such 
gratuities to any such officer or employee. 
SEC. 632. No funds appropriated in titles II, I I I , IV, and V of this 
Act shall be used for the payment in excess of 500,000 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. 
SEC. 633. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall 
be available for the payment of flight pay to personnel whose actual 
assigned duties do not involve operational or training flights. 
SEC. 634. This Act may be cited as the "Department of Defense 
Appropriation Act, 1952". 
Approved October 18, 1951. 
October 18, 1961 
[H. R. 42051 
Public Law 180 
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AN ACT 
To provide retirement benefits for the Chief of the Dental Division of the Bureau 
of Medicine and Surgery, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of ATnerica in Congress assemhled^ That section 3 of the