Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 70A.djvu/645

587 587 (f) A claim allowed by the General Accounting Office under subsection (e) shall be certified to the treasurer of the Home for payment from the Soldiers' Home permanent fund (trust fund) in the amount found due, including accrued interest. No claim may be allowed or paid in excess of the net proceeds, including accrued interest, of the estate covered into the Treasury under subsection (d). CHAPTER 947.—TRANSPORTATION Sec.

9741. 9742. 9743. 9746. 9748.

Control and supervision. Control of transportation systems In time of war. Officers: use of transportation. Civilian personnel in Alaska. Motor vehicles: for members on permanent change of station.

§9741. Control and supervision The transportation of members, munitions of war, equipment, military property, and stores of the Air Force throughout the United States shall be under the immediate control and supervision of the Secretary of the Air Force and agents appointed or designated by him. § 9742. Control of transportation systems in time of war I n time of war, the President, through the Secretary of the Air Force, may take possession and assume control of all or part of any system of transportation to transport troops, war material, and equipment, or for other purposes related to the emergency. So far as necessary, he may use the systefm to the exclusion of other traffic. §9743. Officers: use of transportation Under such conditions as the Secretary of the Air Force may prescribe, officers of the Air Force may, in the performance of their duties, use means of transportation provided for the Air Force and its supplies. §9746. Civilian personnel in Alaska Persons residing in Alaska who are and have been employed there by the United States for at least two years, and their families, may be transported on airplanes operated by Air Force transport agencies or, within bulk space allocations made to the Department of the Air Force, on vessels or airplanes operated by any military transport agency of the Department of Defense, if— (1) the Secretary of the Air Force considers that accommodations are available; (2) the transportation is without expense to the United States; (3) the transportation is limited to one round trip between Alaska and the United States during any two-year period, except in an emergency such as sickness or death; and (4) in case of travel by air— (A) the Civil Aeronautics Board has not certified that commercial air carriers of the United States that can handle the transportation are operating between Alaska and the United States; and (B) the transportation cannot be reasonably handled by a United States commercial air carrier.

�