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BULLETIN
No. 30.

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WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, June 29, 1920.

Procurement of envelopes under Post Office Department contracts_ Act of Congress-Enlistment of non-English-speaking citizens and aliens

Additional compensation for civilian employees..

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I__Procurement of envelopes under Post Office Department contracts. Paragraph 4, section III, Bulletin No. 9, War Department, 1920, is amended by adding to the authorized sizes of envelopes enumerated therein the following:

Item No. 113, 33 by 5 inch, rope, No. 2.

[462.4, A. G. O.]

II__Act of Congress-Enlistment of non-English-speaking citizens and aliens.-The following act of Congress is published to the Army for the information and guidance of all concerned: An Act Authorizing the enlistment of non-English-speaking citizens and aliens.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That so much of the Act of Congress entitled "An Act to regulate enlistments in the Army of the United States," approved August 1, 1894, as provides that "in time of peace no person (except an Indian) who can not speak, read, and write the English language" be, and the same is hereby, repealed.

Approved, June 14, 1920.

[342.18, A. G. O.]

III__Additional compensation for civilian employees.-The following section from the act of Congress making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, and for other purposes, approved May 29, 1920, is published to the Army for the information and guidance of all concerned:

SEC. 6. That all civilian employees of the Governments of the United States and the District of Columbia who receive a total of compensation at the rate of $2,500 per annum or less, except as otherwise provided in this section, shall receive, during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, additional compensation at the rate of $240 per annum: Provided, That such employees as receive a total of annual compensation at a rate more than 433°-20

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$2,500 and less than $2,740 shall receive additional compensation at such a rate per annum as may be necessary to make their salaries, plus their additional compensation, at the rate of $2,740 per annum, and no employee shall receive additional compensation under this section at a rate which is more than 60 per centum of the rate of the total annual compensation received by such employee: Provided further, That the increased compensation at the rate of $240 per annum for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, shall not be computed as salary in construing this section: Provided further, That where an employee in the service on June 30, 1919, has received during the fiscal year 1920, or shall receive during the fiscal year 1921 an increase of salary at a rate in excess of $200 per annum, or where an employee, whether previously in the service or not, has entered the service since June 30, 1919, whether such employee has received an increase in salary or not, such employees shall be granted the increased compensation provided herein only when and upon the certification of the person in the legislative branch or the head of the department or establishment employing such persons of the ability and qualifications personal to such employees as would justify such increased compensation: Provided further, That the increased compensation provided in this section to employees whose pay is adjusted from time to time through wage boards or similar authority shall be taken into consideration by such wage boards or similar authority in adjusting the pay of such employees.

The provisions of this section shall not apply to the following: Employees paid from the postal revenues and sums which may be advanced from the Treasury to meet deficiencies in the postal revenues; employees of the Panama Canal on the Canal Zone; employees of the Alaskan Engineering Commission in Alaska; officers and members of the Metropolitan police of the District of Columbia and the United States Park police who receive the compensation fixed by the Act approved December 5, 1919; officers and members of the Fire Department of the District of Columbia who receive the compensation fixed by the Act approved January 24, 1920; employees paid from lump-sum appropriations in bureaus, divisions, commissions, or any other governmental agencies or employments created by law since January 1, 1916, except employees of the United States Tariff Commission who shall be included and except that employees of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance shall receive increased compensation at one-half the rate allowed by this section for other employees: Provided, That employees of said bureau who are compensated at rates below $400 per annum shall receive additional compensation only as the rate of 60 per centum of the annual rates of compensation received by such employees. The provisions of this section shall not apply to employees whose duties require only a portion of their time, except charwomen, who shall be included; employees whose services are utilized for brief periods at intervals; persons employed by or

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through corporations, firms, or individuals acting for or on behalf of or as agents of the United States or any department or independent establishment of the Government of the United States in connection with construction work or the operation of plants; employees who receive a part of their pay from any outside sources under cooperative arrangements with the Government of the United States or the District of Columbia; employees who serve voluntarily or receive only a nominal compensation, and employees who may be provided with special allowances because of their service in foreign countries. The provisions of this section shall not apply to employees of the railroads, express companies, telegraph, telephone, marine cable, or radio system or systems taken over by the United States, and nothing contained herein shall be deemed a recognition of the employees of such railroads, express companies, telegraph, telephone, marine cable, or radio system or systems as employees of the United States.

Section 6 of the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation Act approved May 10, 1916, as amended by the Naval Appropriation Act approved August 29, 1916, shall not operate to prevent anyone from receiving the additional compensation provided in this section who otherwise is entitled to receive the

same.

Such employees as are engaged on piecework, by the hour, or at per diem rates, if otherwise entitled to receive the additional compensation, shall receive the same at the rate to which they are entitled in this section when their fixed rate of pay for the regular working hours and on the basis of three hundred and thirteen days in the said fiscal year would amount to $2,500 or less: Provided, That this method of computation shall not apply to any per diem employees regularly paid a per diem for every day in the year.

So much as may be necessary to pay the additional compensation provided in this section to employees of the Government of the United States is appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.

So much as may be necessary to pay the increased compensation provided in this section to employees of the government of the District of Columbia is appropriated, one-half out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated and onehalf out of the revenues of the District of Columbia, except to employees of the Washington Aqueduct and the water department, which shall be paid entirely from the revenues of the water department, and to employees of the minimum wage board and the playgrounds department, which shall be paid wholly out of the revenues of the District of Columbia.

So much as may be necessary to pay the increased compensation provided in this section to persons employed under trust funds who may be construed to be employees of the Government of the United States or of the District of Columbia is authorized to be paid, respectively, from such trust funds.

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Reports shall be submitted to Congress on the first day of the next regular session showing for the first four months of the fiscal year the average number of employees in each department, bureau, office, or establishment receiving the increased compensation at the rate of $240 per annum and the average number by grades receiving the same at each other rate.

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BULLETIN

No. 31.

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WAR DEPARTMENT,

WASHINGTON, July 6, 1920.

Act of Congress—Sundry civil expenses.—The following act of Congress is published to the Army for the information and guidance of all concerned:

An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by 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 otherwise appropriated, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, namely:

TREASURY DEPARTMENT.

BUREAU OF WAR RISK INSURANCE.

For expenses of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance under the Act approved October 6, 1917, as amended:

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Compensation: For the payment of military and naval compensation for death or disability, $125,000,000; and the unexpended balances of the appropriations for military and naval compensation for the fiscal year 1920 are continued and made available during the fiscal year 1921 for the payment of compensation for death or disability.

Medical and Hospital Services: For medical, surgical, and hospital services, medical examinations, funeral expenses, traveling expenses, and supplies, for beneficiaries of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance, including court costs and other expenses incident to proceedings heretofore or hereafter taken for commitment of mentally incompetent persons to hospitals for the care and treatment of the insane, $46,000,000. This appropriation shall be disbursed by the Bureau of War Risk Insurance and such portion thereof as may be necessary shall be allotted from time to time to the Public Health Service, the Board of 933°-20-1

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