Section 1
SECTION 1. Any provision of law to the contrary notwithstanding , no able-bodied employee or common laborer employed by, or under the direct supervision of, any branch of the National Government, the salary of whose position Is provided in the General Appropriation Act or any other Act, shall be paid a salary or wage less than the minimum rate fixed by the Executive Orders Numbered Forty-nine and Fifty, dated August nineteenth and twenty-fourth, respectively, nineteen hundred and thirty-six: Provided, That the minimum salary fixed for employees shall be construed as including the equivalent money value of subsistence, quarters, clothing-, and other allowances in kind or otherwise to which they may be entitled.