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 1516 72d C ONGRESS. SESS. II. CH. 212 . M ARCH 3, 1933 . of Part II of the Legislative Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1933, shall be regarded as having been retired and entitled to annuity beginning with the day following the date of separation from active service, instead of from August 1, 1932 and the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs is hereby authorized and directed to make payments acc ording ly fro m the civil servic e reti rement and di sabili ty fun d. Allowances ; opera- SEC. 9. The allowance provided for in the Act entitled "An Act tion of motor cycles and a utomobiles. t o permit payments for the operation of motor cycles and automo- vol. 40, P. 110 3 . biles used for necessar travel on official business, on a mileage basis U.S . C., SupP . vI, y 7 P. 19. in lieu of actual operating ex enses " approved February 14, 1931 Rates. (U . S. C ., Supp. V, title 5, sec . 73a), Yor travel ordered after the date of enactment of this Act shall not exceed 2 cents per mile in the case of travel by motor cy cle or 5 cents per mile in the case of travel by automobile. Travel expenses. SEC. 10. Whenever by or under authority of law actual expenses for travel may be allowed to officers or employees of the United Sta tes, such allowanc es, in th e case of travel o rdered af ter the d ate of enactment of this Act, shall not exceed the lowest first-class rate by the transportation facility used in such travel. d Saturday h alf holi- SEC. 11. From and after the date of enactment of this Act, the Vol.46,p .5 482 . VI, provisions of the Act of March 3, 1931 (U. S. C., Supp. V, title 5, P. 17, s ec . 26a ), shall not apply to any e mployees of the V eterans' Adminis- anmpl o minif ration tration Homes, Hospitals, or Combined Facilities where, in the dis- ho mes, etc. cretion of the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs, the public interest requires that such employees should be excepted from the provisions thereof. As to those employees excepted from the, provisions of the Act of March 3, 1931, seven hours shall constitute a workday on Saturday and labor in excess of four hours on Saturdays shall not entitle such employees to an equal shortening of the workday on some other day or to additional compensation therefor. Forei gn assignmen ts of SEC. 12 . Assignments of officers of the Army, Navy, or Marine Corps etc., officers. Corps to permanent duty in the Philippines, on the Asiatic Station, - or in China, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, or the Panama Canal Zone shall be for not less than three years. No such officer shall be transferred to duty in the continental United States' before the expiration of such period unless the health of such officer or the public interest requires such t ransfer, and the r eason for the tran sfer shal l be stat ed in the order directing such transfer. as dgmenntis recovered eer eed SEC. 13 . The Act entitled "An Act to provide for deducting any vo1 .13 ,p .491 . debt due the United States from any judgment recovered a ainst the U.S. C.,p.990, United States by such debtor," approved March 3, 1875 (U . S. C ., title 31, sec . 227), is hereby amended to read as follows : Paymen t of : " That when any final judgment recovered against the United States duly allowed by legal authority shall be presented to the Comptroller General of the United States for payment, and the plaintiff therein'shall be indebted to the United States in any manner, whether as principal or surety, it shall be the duty of the Comptroller sat off of debts due. General of the United States to withhold payment of an amount of such judgments equal to the debt thus due to the United States ; and if silch plaintiff assents to such set-off, and discharges his judgment or an amount thereof equal to said debt, the Comptroller General of plaDiniis ssargentupon the United States shall execute a discharge of the debt due from the ,.he Payment rag resale, plaintiff to the United States. But if such plaintiff denies his need . indebtedness to the United States, or refuses to consent to the set-off, then the Comptroller General of the United States shall withhold payment of such further amount of such judgment, as in his opinion will be sufficient to cover all legal charges and costs in prosecuting States claim. the debt of the United States to final judgment. And if such debt is not already in suit, it shall be the duty of the Comptroller General