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 376 70A Stat. 442.

PUBLIC LAW 87-144-AUG. 17, 1961

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j ^ ^ v j by section 7204 of title 10,United States Code, in amounts not exceeding an average of $275 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 Occupied areas, dependents; (b) for expenses in connection with administration of occupied areas; (c) for payment of rewards as authorized for the 70A Stat. 444. j^avy by section 7209(a) of title 10, United States Code, for information leading to the discovery of missing naval property or the recovery mint"**"*'^ ^"**^' thereof; (d) for payment of deficiency judgments and interests thereon arising out of condemnation proceedings; (e) for payment of rentals for special purpose space at the seat of Government and, in 56 Stat. 654. administering the provisions of 43 U.S.C. 315q, rentals may be paid in advance. on'^Mitc ' ° ' ^"*' ^^^* ^^^" 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 nonmilitaify facilities: Provided, That section 212 stl?. JlsV '*°^' ^^ ^^ ^h® 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. Assistance to SEC. 608. Insofar as practicable, the Secretary of Defense shall small b u s i n e s s. 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. Mess operations. §jjc. 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 nnanced principally from nonappropriated funds) at which meals are sold to officers or civilians except under regulations approved by the Secretary of Defense, which shall (except under imusual 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 $2.50 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: Provided further, That members of organized nonprofit youth groups sponsored at either the national or local level, when extended the privilege of visiting a military installation and permitted to eat in the general mess by the commanding officer of the installation, shall pay the commuted ration cost or such meal or meals.

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