Section 2
SEC. 2. The salaries and wages of public officers and employees who shall be entitled to receive for services compensation under the provisions of the appropriation Act referred to in the preceding section shall be on and after the first day of January, nineteen hundred and fourteen, as may be provided in said appropriation Act, until otherwise provided by law, and the officers and employees specified or provided for in said Act shall only be entitled to receive as full compensation the pay which shall be appropriated by said appropriation Act as the salaries and wages for their services, even in the cases where salaries assigned by laws now in force may be reduced by said appropriation Act, the provisions contained in said laws to the contrary notwithstanding.