Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 52.djvu/274

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52 STAT.] 75-r CONG., 8D SESS.- CH. 175-APR. 26, 1938 intendents, directors, and assistant directors-pay, $560,020; rental allowance, $24,000; subsistence allowance, $23,871; pay retired list, $271,976; in all, $879,867; rent of quarters for members of the Nurse Corps; pay and allowances of transferred and assigned men of the Fleet Naval Reserve, $15,507,347; reimbursement for losses of prop- erty as provided in the Act approved October 6, 1917 (34 U. S . C. 981, 982), as amended by the Act of March 3, 1927 (34 U. S. C . 983), $10,000; payment of six months' death gratuity, $150,000; in all, $176,841,282; and no part of such sum shall be available to pay active- duty pay and allowances to officers in excess of nine on the retired list, except retired officers temporarily ordered to active duty as mem- bers of retiring and selection boards as authorized by law: Provided, That, except for the public quarters occupied by the Chief of Office of Naval Operations, the Superintendent of the Naval Academy, and the Commandant of the Marine Corps, and messes temporarily set up on shore for officers attached to seagoing vessels, to aviation units based on seagoing vessels including officers' messes at the fleet air bases, and to landing forces and expeditions, and in addition not to exceed forty in number at such places as shall be designated by the Secretary of the Navy, no appropriation contained in this Act shall be available for the pay, allowances, or other expenses of any enlisted man or civil employee performing service in the residence or quarters of an officer or officers on shore as a cook, waiter, or other work of a character performed by a household servant, but nothing herein shall be construed as preventing the voluntary employment in any such capacity of a retired enlisted man or a transferred member of the Fleet Naval Reserve without additional expense to the Government, nor the sale of meals to officers by general messes on shore as regu- lated by detailed instructions from the Navy Department; Subsistence of naval personnel: For provisions and commuted rations for enlisted men of the Navy, which commuted rations may be paid to caterers of messes in case of death or desertion, upon orders of the commanding officers, at 50 cents per diem, and midshipmen at 75 cents per diem, and commuted rations stopped on account of sick in hospital and credited at the rate of 70 cents per ration to the naval hospital fund; subsistence of men unavoidably detained or absent from vessels to which attached under orders (during which subsistence rations to be stopped on board ship and no credit for commutation therefor to be given); quarters and subsistence of men on detached duty; subsistence of members of the Naval Reserve during period of active service; subsistence in kind at hospitals and on board ship in lieu of subsistence allowance of female nurses and Navy and Marine Corps general courts-martial prisoners undergoing imprisonment with sentences of dishonorable discharge from the service at the expiration of such confinement; in all, $21,557,059; Transportation and recruiting of naval personnel: For mileage and actual and necessary expenses and per diem in lieu of subsistence as authorized by law to officers of the Navy while traveling under orders, including the cost of a compartment or such other accom- modations, as may be authorized by the Secretary of the Navy, for security when secret documents are transported by officer messenger, and including not to exceed $5,000 for the expenses of attendance, at home and abroad, upon meetings of technical, professional, scien- tific, and other similar organizations, when, in the judgment of the Secretary of the Navy, such attendance would be of benefit in the conduct of the work of the Navy Department; for mileage, at 5 cents per mile, to midshipmen entering the Naval Academy while proceed- ing from their homes to the Naval Academy for examination and 233 Fleet Naval Re- serve. Property losses. 40 Stat. 389; 44 Stat. 1368. 34 U. S. C. §§981- 983. Active duty pay, etc., to retired officers; restriction. Proviso. Enlisted men ashore as household servants. Voluntary, etc. , services. Sale of meals to offi- cers. Subsistence of naval personnel. Unavoidable ab- sences. Detached duty. Naval Reserve. Transportation and recruiting. Attendance at meet- ings. Midshipmen, etc.