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 59 STAT.] 79TH CONG. , 1sT SESS.-CH. 130 -MAY 29, 1945 BUREAU OF SUPPLIES AND ACCOUNTS PAY AND SUBSISTENCE OF NAVAL PERSONNEL For pay and allowances and subsistence prescribed by law for naval personnel, including reserves on active duty- Pay and allowances: Officers, active duty, no part of which shall be available for increased pay for making aerial flights, by more than ninety-one officers above the rank of captain nor by nonflying officers or observers at rates in excess of those prescribed by law for the Army, which shall be the legal maximum rates as to such nonflying officers or observers; midshipmen; officers, retired, inactive; enlisted personnel, active, including cash prizes for men for excellence in gunnery, target practice, communication, engineering competi- tion and additional pay for duty as messmen; enlisted men, retired, inactive; men of the Fleet Reserve, inactive; nurses, female, active; nurses, female, retired, inactive; six months' death gratuity, offi- cers, nurses, and enlisted personnel; cash allowances for uniforms for officers; clothing furnished annually to enlisted personnel and issued in kind to members of the Navy Nurse Corps, or cash in lieu thereof; civilian clothing, including an overcoat when necessary, the cost of all not to exceed $30 per person to enlisted personnel given discharges for bad conduct, undesirability, unsuitability, or inapti- tude; reimbursement in kind or in cash as authorized by law to persons in the naval service, for personal property lost, destroyed, or damaged; including reimbursement, under rules prescribed by the Secretary, of naval personnel who furnish from their personal stock subsistence and clothing to shipwrecked and destitute persons; pur- chase of medals, crosses, bars, emblems, and other insignia; miscel- laneous items, including hire of quarters for officers serving with troops where sufficient quarters are not possessed by the United States to accommodate them; rent of quarters for members of the Nurse Corps; and hire of quarters for naval personnel, comparable to quarters assignable on a capital ship, as authorized by the Secretary to meet emergency conditions, including officers and men on sea duty at such times as they may be deprived of their quarters on hoard ship due to repairs or other conditions which may render them uninhabitable: Provided, That under this authorization no funds may be expended for the hire of quarters for occupancy by the dependents of officers or enlisted personnel; interest on deposits by enlisted personnel; losses in the accounts of Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard officers certified under the Act of July 11, 1919 (31 U. S. C. 105), and the Act of June 10, 1921 (31 U. S. C. 104), and payments in settlement of claims under the Act of January 2, 1942 (31 U. S. C . 224d); total pay and allowances, $6,061,770,000: Provided, That, except for the public quarters occupied by the Chief of Naval Operations, the Superintendent of the Naval Acad- emy and the Commandant of the Marine Corps, and messes tempo- rarily set up on shore for officers attached to seagoing vessels, aviation units based on seagoing vessels (including officers' messes at naval air stations), submarine bases, overseas bases (including Alaska), mobile hospitals, landing forces and expeditions, and such bachelor officers' quarters and messes as may be specifically designated by the Secretary and, in addition, not to exceed three hundred in number at such other places as shall be designated by the Secretary, no appropriation contained in this Act shall be available for the pay, allowances, or other expenses of any enlisted man or civil 207 Pay and allowances. Personal property losses, reimburse- ment. Quarters for person- nel. Quarters for de- pendents, restriction. 41 Stat. 132; 42 Stat. 24. 55 Stat. 880. 31 U. S. C., Bupp. IV, § 224d. Post, p. 511. Enlisted men or civil employees as household servants.

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