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 PUBLIC LAWS-OH. 30--MAY 29, 1945 Subsistence. Total. Care of Veterans Administration pa- tients. Appointment of en- listed men to Naval Academy. employee performing service in the residence or quarters of an offi- cer 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- 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 of meals to officers by general messes on shore as regulated by detailed instructions from the Navy Department; Subsistence: For provisions for messes, subsistence in messes, com- muted rations, including commuted rations for enlisted personnel on leave at 65 cents per diem, and other subsistence in kind; mid- shipmen's rations at 85 cents per diem; subsistence in kind in hospital messes of female nurses, hospital corpsmen, and other enlisted per- sonnel on duty in hospitals, active duty enlisted personnel, active and inactive retired enlisted personnel and members of the Fleet Reserve when sick and in hospitals, credited, when applicable, to the appro- pria.tion "Medical Department, Navy", at the rate of 80 cents per ration; subsistence of supernumeraries on naval vessels because of war conditions, including expenses heretofore incurred for such purpose; subsistence of Navy and Marine Corps general courts-martial pris- oners undergoing imprisonment; money allowances for subsistence and quarters of enlisted personnel when not furnished quarters or subsistence in kind, and for enlisted personnel absent from messes on temporary duty not involving travel (during which time all other subsistence shall be stopped); total subsistence, $674,457,000; In all, for pay and subsistence of naval personnel, $6,736,227,000, and the money herein specifically appropriated for "Pay and sub- sistence, Navy", shall be disbursed and accounted for in accordance with existing law and shall constitute one fund: Provided, That hereafter additional commissioned, warranted, appointed, enlisted, and civilian personnel of the Medical Department of the Navy, required for the care of patients of the United States Veterans Administration in naval hospitals, may be employed in addition to the numbers annually appropriated for: Provided further, That dur- ing the present emergency qualified enlisted men of the Navy, Naval Reserve, and Marine Corps may be appointed to the Naval Academy after nine months of service. TRANSPORTATION AND RECRUITING NAVAL PERSONNEL Transportation and recruiting: For mileage and actual and neces- sary expenses and per diem in lieu of subsistence as authorized by law to officers and nurses while traveling under orders, including Secretdocnments. expenses when on duty with traveling recruiting parties, and the cost of a compartment or such other accommodations as may be author- ized by the Secretary for security when secret documents are trans- ported by officer messenger or when valuable naval property is trans- ported as hand baggage by personnel of the Naval Establishment, and expenses of attendance, at home and abroad, upon meetings of technical, professional, scientific, and other similar organizations when, in the judgment of the Secretary, such attendance would be of Midshipmen. benefit in the conduct of the work of the Navy Department; for mileage at 5 cents per mile to midshipmen entering the Naval Acad- emy while proceeding from their homes to the Naval Academy for examination and appointment, and for transportation of midship- men, including reimbursement of traveling expenses, while traveling under orders after appointment, and transportation in kind and subsistence to discharged midshipmen; travel allowance or transpor- tation and subsistence of enlisted personnel upon discharge, including, [59 STAT.

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