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 63 STAT.] 81sT CONG., 1ST SESS.-CHS. 185, 187-JUNE 9, 10, 1949 by deduction from any amount due from the United States, or by such other legal method of recovery as may be necessary. SEC. 6. Except as otherwise permitted by this Act or by the laws relating to military personnel, only actual and necessary traveling expenses shall be allowed to any person holding employment or ap- pointment under the United States. SEC. 7. The fixing and payment under this Act of travel allowances and of advances and recovery thereof, and reimbursement of travel expenses under this Act, shall be in accordance with regulations which shall be promulgated by the Director of the Bureau of the Budget. SEC. 8. This Act shall not be construed to modify or repeal any Act providing for the traveling expenses of the President of the United States or any Act providing for mileage allowances for the President of the Senate or Members of Congress. SEC. 9. (a) The Subsistence Expense Act of 1926 and the Auto Mileage Act of February 14, 1931, are repealed. All Acts (other than appropriation items for examination of estimates in the field), applicable to civilian officers or employees of the departments and establishments, providing for reimbursement of actual travel or trans- portation expense, and all other Acts, general or special, which are inconsistent with or in conflict with the provisions of this Act (except such Acts or parts of Acts as fix or permit rates higher than the maxi- mum rates established under this Act) are hereby modified, but only to the extent of inconsistency or conflict with the provisions of this Act: Provided, however, That Acts making appropriations for the fiscal years 1949 and 1950 (whether approved before or after the approval of this Act) which authorize or permit, in either general or specific terms, the payment of travel or transportation expenses without regard to the Subsistence Expense Act of 1926, as amended, or the Standardized Government Travel Regulations, shall be construed to authorize payment of such expenses from the appropriation concerned without regard to this Act. (b) Wherever provision is made in any law for the payment of per diem allowances to officers and employees in any branch or establish- ment of the Government not covered by this Act, in accordance with the rates provided in the Subsistence Expense Act of 1926, such law is hereby amended to provide for payment at the rates prescribed in or under this Act. SEC. 10. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 1949. Approved June 9, 1949. [CHAPTER 187] AN ACT To provide for the settlement of claims of persons employed in Federal penal and correctional institutions for damage to or loss or destruction of personal property occurring incident to their service. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Attorney General, and such other officer or officers as he may designate for such purpose, are hereby authorized to consider, determine, adjust, and pay claims, not exceeding in any case the sum of $1,000, of persons employed in Federal penal and correctional institutions for damage to or loss or destruction of personal property occurring incident to such employment. No claim shall be allowed under this Act unless (a) the property claimed to be damaged, lost, or destroyed is deter- mined to be reasonable, useful, necessary, or proper under the at- tendant circumstances; (b) such damage, loss, or destruction shall 167 Expenses allowable. President or Mem- bers of Congress. Repeals. 44 Stat. 688; 46 Stat. 1103. 5U.S.C.§i821, 73a. Acts authorizing payment of expenses. 44 Stat. 688. 5U.S.0. 821. Effective date. June 10, 1949 [S. 30] (Public Law 93] Federal penal and correctional institu- tions. Settlement of cer- tain claims of em- ployees.

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