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 PUBLIC LAWS-CHS. 106, 107-MAY 3, 1945 Per diem rates of al- lowance. 56 Stat. 359. 37 U. S. C., Supp. IV, §§ 101-120. Post, pp. 541, 542, 587. U. S. Code Anno- tated; Lifetime Fed- eral Digest. Expenses of inter- agency groups. Veterans' priorities respecting building materials. Short title. SEC. 212. The funds appropriated in the appropriation Acts for the fiscal year 1946 of the services mentioned in the title of the Act of June 16, 1942 (Public Law 607, Seventy-seventh Congress), shall be available for, and the heads of the executive departments concerned are authorized to prescribe, per diem rates of allowance, at rates not to exceed $7 per day, in lieu of subsistence to officers traveling on offi- cial business and away from their designated posts of duty, and to members of the services concerned (including officers, warrant officers, contract surgeons, enlisted personnel, aviation cadets, and members of the Nurse Corps) when traveling by air under competent orders and on duty without troops; and for the payment in advance, or otherwise, of money allowances in lieu of transportation, at the rate of 3 cents per mile to enlisted men, regardless of the mode of travel. SEC. 213. No part of any appropriation contained in this or any other Act shall be used to pay in excess of $2 per volume for the current and future volumes of the United States Code Annotated or in excess of $3.25 per volume for the current or future volumes of the Lifetime Federal Digest. SEC. 214. Hereafter appropriations of the executive departments and independent establishments of the Government shall be available for the expenses of committees, boards, or other interagency groups engaged in authorized activities of common interest to such depart- ments and establishments and composed in whole or in part of repre- sentatives thereof who receive no additional compensation by virtue of such membership: Provided,That employees of such departments and establishments rendering service for such committees, boards, or other groups, other than as representatives, shall receive no additional compensation by virtue of such service. SEC. 215. In order to enable persons who have served ninety days or more in the land or naval forces during the present war, and who have satisfactorily completed their period of active military or naval service, to obtain materials required for the construction, alteration, or repair of dwelling houses to be occupied by them, any department or agency of the Government, in allocating or granting priorities with respect to any materials, shall give to such persons a preference over all other users of such materials (except to the extent such materials are needed by such other users to meet actual military needs), without requiring any showing of hardship or other necessity for the con- struction, alteration, or repair of such dwelling houses. SEC. 216. This Act may be cited as the "Independent Offices Appro- priation Act, 1946". Approved May 3, 1945. [CHAPTER 107] JOINT RTF.qT .TTTTI May 3, 1945 .... ^.^ [I. . Res. 18] Providing for the celebration in 1945 of the one-hundredth anniversary of the [Public Law 50] founding of the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland. U. S. Naval Acad- emy Centennial Commission. Establishment and purpose. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in order to provide for the commemoration of the one-hundredth anniversary of the founding of the United States Naval Academy there is hereby estab- lished a commission to be known as the United States Naval Academy Centennial Commission (hereafter referred to as the "Commission"), to be composed of three Senators to be appointed by the President of the Senate, three Members of the House of Representatives to be 134 [59 STAT.

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