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 53 STAT.] 76TH CONG. , IST SESS.-CH. 149-MAY 25, 1939 list, $315,333; in all, $923,629; rent of quarters for members of the Nurse Corps; pay and allowances of transferred and assigned men of the Fleet Naval Reserve, $15,144,575; reimbursement for losses of property 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 $230,039; in all, $183,455,545; and, except during war or national emergency declared by the President to exist, no part of such sum shall be available to pay active-duty pay and allowances to officers on the retired list, except seven for assignments filled on September 30,1937, exclusive of the assignments at the Naval Mine Depot, York- town, Virginia, and in the Treasury Department, three for duty exclusively with the Maritime Commission, two for duty exclusively in connection with the naval petroleum reserves, one for duty as cura- tor of the Naval Academy Museum, and one for duty at the Naval Gun Factory. Washington, District of Columbia, and except retired officers temporarily ordered to active duty as members of retiring and selection boards as authorized by law: Provided, That, except for the public quarters occupied by the Chief of Office of Naval Opera- tions, the Superintendent of the Naval Academy, and the Command- ant of the Marine Corps, and messes temporarily set up on shore for officers attached to seagoing vessels, to aviation units based on sea- going 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 char- acter performed by a household servant, but nothing herein shall be construed as preventing the voluntary employment in any such capac- ity 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 regulated 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 mid- shipmen 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 sub- sistence 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, $21,421,261: Provided, That no part of this or any other appropriation contained in this Act shall be available for the pro- curement of any article of food not grown or produced in the United States or its possessions, except articles of food not so grown or produced or which cannot be procured in sufficient quantities as and when needed, and except procurements by vessels or establishments in foreign waters or countries for the personnel attached thereto; 767 Fleet Naval Re- serve. Property losses. 40 Stat. 389; 44 Stat. 1368. 34 UI. C. 981-983. Active duty pay, etc., to retired officers; restriction. Exceptions. Proviso. Enlisted men as household servants. Voluntary, etc., services. Sale of meals to oflicers. Subsistence of naval personnel. Unavoidable ab- sences. Detached duty. Naval Reserve, ac- tive duty. Proviso. Procurement of food articles not produced in United States, re- striction.

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