Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 54 Part 1.djvu/309

 54 STAT.] 76TH CONG. , 3D SESS.-CH. 313-JUNE 11, 1940 subsistence allowance, $26,280 (composed of "A" item, $25,185, and "B" item, $1,095); pay retired list, $341,067; in all, $1,024,727 (com- posed of "A" item, $941,632, and "B" item, $83,095) ; rent of quarters for members of the Nurse Corps; pay and allowances of transferred Fleet Naval Re- and assigned men of the Fleet Naval Reserve, $18,515,785 (composed of "A" item, $16,500,000, and "B" item, $2,015,785) ; reimbursement Propertylosses. 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 40 Sat . 389; 44 (34 U. S. C . 983), $10,000; payment of six months' death gratuity, $240,240 (composed of "A" item, $192,640 and "B" item, $47,600); in all, $215,820,559 (composed of "A" item, $193,864,052, and "B" item, $21,956,507); and, except during war or national emergency declared etctoive-druty pay,s etc., to retired officers; by the President to exist, no part of such sum shall be available to restriction. pay active-duty pay and allowances to officers on the retired list, except seven for assignments filled on September 30, 1937, exclusive Exception of the assignments at the Naval Mine Depot, Yorktown, 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 curator of the Naval Academy Museum, and one for duty at the Naval Gun Factory, Washington, District of Columbia, and except retired officers tem- porarily ordered to active duty as members of retiring and selection boards as authorized by law: Provided, That, except for the public Enlisted men as quarters occupied by the Chief of Office of Naval Operations, the household servants. 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 ves- sels including officers' messes at the naval air stations, and to landing forces and expeditions, and in addition not to exceed fifty-nine 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 con- Voluntary services. strued as preventing the voluntary employment in any such capacity of a retired enlisted man or a transferred member of the Fleet Reserve without additional expense to the Government, nor the sale ofcers o mea'l to 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 Subsstence of naval rations for enlisted men of the Navy, which commuted rations shall be paid at the rate of 50 cents per diem, and midshipmen at 75 cents per diem, and commuted rations stopped on account of sick in hos- pital and credited at the rate of 70 cents per ration to the naval hospital fund; subsistence of men unavoidably detained or absent seUncoidable from vessels to which attached under orders (during which sub- sistence rations to be stopped on board ship and no credit for com- mutation therefor to be given); quarters and subsistence of men on Detached duty. detached duty; subsistence of members of the Naval Reserve during Ntiaval dutlve, 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 imprison- ment with sentences of dishonorable discharge from the service at the expiration of such confinement; in all, $27,260,651 (composed of "A" item, $22,330,976, and "B" item, $4,929,675): Provided, That no Prcurementoffood part of this or any other appropriation contained in this Act shall articles not produced be available for the procurement of any article of food not grown in.. reto. or produced in the United States or its possessions, except articles 275

�