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 53 STAT.] 76TH CONG. , IsT SESS.-CH. 88-APR. 26, 1939 599 tion of the Secretary of War, be paid to any civil officer or citizen for such services and expenses; for a donation of $10 to prisoner discharged otherwise than honorably upon his release from confine- ment under court-martial sentence involving dishonorable discharge, $15,000. FINANCE SERVICE For compensation of clerks and other employees of the Finance Department, including not to exceed $900 for any one person for allowances for living quarters, including heat, fuel, and light, as authorized by the Act approved June 26, 1930 (5 U. S . C . 118a), $1,180,718. CLAIMS FOR DAMAGES TO AND LOSS OF PRIVATE PROPERTY For payment of claims, including claims of military and civilian personnel in and under the War Department, not exceeding $500 each in amount for damages to or loss of private property incident to the training, practice, operation, or maintenance of the Army that have accrued, or may hereafter accrue, from time to time, $8,000: Provided, That settlement of such claims shall be made by the General Account- ing Office, upon the approval and recommendation of the Secretary of War, where the amount of damages has been ascertained by the War Department, and payment thereof will be accepted by the owners of the property in full satisfaction of such damages. CLAIMS OF OFFICERS, ENLISTED MEN, AND NURSES OF THE ARMY FOE DESTRUCTION OF PRIVATE PROPERTY For the payment of claims of officers, enlisted men, and nurses of the Army for private property lost, destroyed, captured, abandoned, or damaged in the military service of the United States, under the provisions of an Act approved March 4, 1921 (31 U. S. C . 218-222), $15,000. QUARTERMASTER CORPS Subsistence of the Army: Purchase of subsistence supplies: For issue as rations to troops, including retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty, civil employees when entitled thereto, hospital matrons, applicants for enlistment while held under observation, general prisoners of war, and general prisoners at posts; ice for issue to organizations of enlisted men and offices at such places as the Secretary of War may determine, and for preservation of stores; for the subsistence of the masters, officers, crews, and employees of the vessels of the Army Transport Service; meals for recruiting parties and applicants for enlistment while under observation; for sales to officers, including members of the Officers' Reserve Corps while on active duty, and enlisted men of the Army. For payments: Of the regulation allowances of commutation in lieu of rations to enlisted men on furlough, and to enlisted men when stationed at places where rations in kind cannot be economically issued, including retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty. For payment of the regulation allowance of commutation in lieu of rations for enlisted men applicants for enlistment while held under observation, civilian employees who are entitled to subsistence at public expense, and general prisoners while sick in hospitals, to be paid to the surgeon in charge; advertising; for providing prizes to be established by the Secretary of War for enlisted men of the Army who graduate from the Army schools for bakers and cooks, the total amount of such prizes at the various schools not to exceed $900 per annum; and for other necessary expenses incident to the purchase, testing, care, pres- ervation, issue, sale, and accounting for subsistence supplies for the Clerks, etc. Post. p. 993. 46 Stat. 818. 5U.S.C.§118a. Private property damages, etc. Proviso. Settlement by Gen- eral Accounting Office, etc. Destruction of pri- vate property of offi- cers, etc. 41 Stat. 1436 . 31U.S.C.§§218- 222. Subsistence of the Army. Post, p. 993. Army Transport Service. Sales to officers, eto. Allowances of com- mutation in lieu of rations. Prizes, etc. Subsistence sup- plies.

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