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PUBLIC LAW 86-166-AUG. 18, 1959

Navy by section 7204 of title 10, United States Code, in amounts not exceeding an average of $265 per student, when the Secretary of the Department concerned finds that schools, if any, available in the locality, are unable to provide adequately for the education of such dependents; (b) for expenses in connection with administration of occupied areas; (c) for payment of rewards as authorized for the Navy by section 7209(a) of title 10, United States Code, for information leading to the discovery of missing naval property or the recovery thereof; (d) for payment of deficiency judgments and interests thereon arising out of condemnation proceedings; (e) for payment of rentals at the seat of government or elsewhere, and, in administering the provisions of 43 U.S.C. 315q, rentals may be paid in advance. SEC. 607. Appropriations for the Department of Defense for the current fiscal year shall be available for: (a) donations^ of not to exceed $25 to each prisoner upon each release from confinement in military or contract prison (except disciplinary barracks) and to each person discharged for fraudulent enlistment; (b) authorized issues of articles to prisoners (except those in disciplinary barracks); (c) subsistence of selective service registrants called for induction, applicants for enlistment while held under observation, prisoners (except those in disciplinary barracks), and supernumeraries when necessitated by emergent military circumstances; (d) reimbursement for subsistence of enlisted personnel while sick in hospitals; and (e) expenses of prisoners confined in nonmilitary facilities: Provided, That section 212 of the Act of June 30, 1932 (5 U.S.C. 59a), shall not apply to retired military personnel on duty at the United States Soldiers' Home. SEC. 608. Insofar as practicable, the Secretary of Defense shall assist American small business to participate equitably in the furnishing of commodities and services financed with funds appropriated under this Act by making available or causing to be made available to suppliers in the United States, and particularly to small independent enterprises, information, as far in advance as possible, with respect to purchases proposed to be financed with funds appropriated under this Act, and by making available or causing to be made available to purchasing and contracting agencies of the Department of Defense information as to commodities and services produced and furnished by small independent enterprises in the United States, and by otherwise helping to give small business an opportunity to participate in the furnishing of commodities and services financed with funds appropriated by this Act. SEC. 609. No appropriation contained in this Act shall be available for expenses of operation of messes (other than organized messes the operating expenses of which are financed principally from non-appropriated funds) at which meals are sold to officers or civilians except under regulations approved by the Secretary of Defense, which shall (except under unusual or extraordinary circumstances) establish rates for such meals sufficient to provide reimbursement of operating expenses and food costs to the appropriations concerned: Provided, That officers and civilians in a travel status receiving a per diem allowance in lieu of subsistence shall be charged at the rate of not less than $2.25 per day: Provided further, That for the purposes of this section payments for meals at the rates established hereunder may be made in cash or by deductions from the pay of civilian employees. SEC. 610. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall be available until expended unless expressly so provided elsewhere in this or some other appropriation Act. SEC. 611. Appropriations of the Department of Defense available for operation and maintenance, may be reimbursed during the cur32716 O-60—27

70A Stat. 442.

Occupied a r e a s. 70A Stat. 444. Payment ficiency ments.

of dejudg-

56 Stat. (554. Articles for prisoners.

47 Stat. 406.

Assistance to America n small business.

Mess operations.

T r a v e l - s tatus rate.

A V a i l a b i l i t y of appropriations. E x p e n s e s for m i l i t a r y equipment.

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