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 55 STAT.] 77TH CONG., 1ST SESS.-CH. 86-MAY 6, 1941 Navy, no appropriation contained in this Act shall be available for the pay, alowances, 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 capacity of a retired enlisted man or a transferred member of the Fleet 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 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 hospital and credited at the rate of 70 cents per ration to the naval hospital fund; subsistence of members of the Fleet Reserve and retired enlisted men in naval hospitals; furlough rations as allowed by law; subsis- tence 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; sub- sistence 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, $41,399,256: Provided, That no part of this or any other appropriation contained in this Act shall be available for the procurement of any article of food or clothing not grown or produced in the United States or its possessions, except to the extent that the Secretary of the Navy shall determine that articles of food or clothing grown or produced in the United States or its possessions cannot be procured of satisfactory quality and in sufficient quantities and at reasonable prices as and when needed, and except procurements by vessels in foreign waters and by establishments located outside the continental United States, except the Territories of Hawaii and Alaska, for the personnel attached thereto; 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 accommodations, as may be authorized by the Secretary of the Navy, for security when secret documents are transported by officer messenger, and including $5,000 for the expenses of attendance, at home and abroad, upon meet- ings of technical, professional, scientific, and other similar organiza- tions, 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 proceeding from their homes to the Naval Academy for examination and appointment as midshipmen, and for transportation of midshipmen, including reimbursement of traveling expenses while traveling under orders, after appointment as midship- men; for actual traveling expenses of female nurses; for travel allow- ance or for transportation and subsistence as authorized by law of enlisted men upon discharge; transportation of enlisted men and applicants for enlistment at home and abroad, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof; transportation to their home, if residents of the United States, of enlisted men discharged on medical survey, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash m lieu 159 Subsistence. Proviso. Use of U. S. prod- Ilcts. Transportation and recruiting. Midshipmen.

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