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 63 STAT.] 81ST CONG. , IST SESS.-CH. 787-OCT. 29, 1949 The pay and allowances of such additional officers and nurses of the Medical Reserve Corps as are required to supplement the like officers and nurses of the Regular Army in the care of beneficiaries of the United States Veterans' Administration treated in Army hospitals may be paid from the funds allotted to the Department of the Army by that Administration under existing law. RESERVE OECERS' TRAINING CORPS For the procurement, maintenance, and issue, under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Army to institutions at which one or more units of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps are maintained, of such public animals, means of transportation, supplies, tentage, equipment, and uniforms as he may deem necessary, including cleaning and laundering of uniforms and clothing at camps; and to forage, at the expense of the United States, public animals so issued, and to pay commutation in lieu of uniforms at a rate to be fixed annu- ally by the Secretary of the Army; transporting said animals and other authorized supplies and equipment from place of issue to the several institutions and training camps and return of same to place of issue when necessary; purchase of training manuals, including Government publications and blank forms; for the establishment and maintenance of camps for the further practical instruction of the members of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, and for transporting members of such corps to and from such camps or other places designated by the Secretary of the Army, and to subsist them while traveling to and from such camps and while remaining therein so far as appropriations will permit, or, in lieu of transporting them to and from such camps and subsisting them while en route, to pay them travel allowance at the rate of 5 cents per mile for the distance by the shortest usually traveled route from the places from which they are authorized to proceed to the camp and for the return travel thereto, and to pay the return travel pay in advance of the actual performance of the travel, or to pay commutation in lieu of subsistence at camps at rates fixed by the Secretary of the Army; expenses incident to the use, including upkeep costs, of supplies, equipment, and materiel furnished in accord- ance with law from stocks under the control of the Department of the Army; pay for students attending advanced camps at the rate authorized by law; payment of commutation of subsistence to members of the senior division of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, at a rate not exceeding the cost of the garrison ration prescribed for the Army, as authorized in the Act approved June 3,1916, as amended by the Act approved June 4, 1920 (10 U. S . C . 387); medical and hospital treat- ment of members of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, who suffer personal injury or contract disease in line of duty, and for other expenses in connection therewith, including pay and allowances, sub- sistence, transportation, and burial expenses, as authorized by the Act of June 15, 1936 (10 U. S . C. 455a-d); mileage, traveling expenses, or transportation, for transportation of dependents (including dependents of retired officers, warrant officers, and enlisted men of the first three grades, and enlisted men of the first three grades of the Regular Army Reserve, ordered to active duty and upon relief there- from), and for packing, crating and unpacking, and transportation of baggage (including baggage of retired officers, warrant officers, and enlisted men of the first three grades, and enlisted men of the first three grades of the Regular Army Reserve ordered to active duty and upon relief therefrom) for officers, warrant officers, and enlisted men traveling on duty pertaining to or on detail to or relief from duty with the Reserve Officers' Training Corps; purchase (not to exceed thirty) and hire of passenger motor vehicles; procurement and issue 1001 Medical Reserve Corps. Pay, etc., of certain officers and nurses. Supplies, etc. Training camps. Travel allowance. Students attending advanced camps. Senior division of ROTC. Subsistence. 41 Stat. 778. Medical and hospi- tal treatment. 49 Stat. 1507.

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