60 STAT.] 79TH CONG. , 2D SESS.-CH. 756-AUG. 2 , 1946 due to repairs or other conditions which may render them uninhabit- able: Provided, That such accommodations shall not be occupied by the dependents of naval personnel. SEC. 16. (a) No table linen, dishes, glassware, silver, and kitchen utensils shall be furnished for use in the residence or quarters occupied by officers with their dependents except for messes temporarily set up on shore for bachelor officers and officers attached to seagoing or dis- trict defense vessels, to aviation units based on seagoing vessels, to the fleet air bases, to the submarine bases, or to landing forces and expeditions. (b) Enlisted naval personnel may be assigned to duty in a service capacity in officers' messes and public quarters, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe, where the Secretary finds that the use of such personnel for such work is desirable for military reasons. No provision of law shall be construed as preventing the voluntary employment in any such capacity of a retired enlisted per- son or a transferred member of the Fleet Reserve without additional expense to the Government. (c) The sale of meals by general messes afloat and ashore is author- ized under such regulations as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe. SEC. 17 . (a) All enlisted naval personnel while on active duty or on authorized leave or furlough therefrom, midshipmen and cadets shall be allowed a ration, or commutation thereof in money, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe. Such regulations shall establish rates at which rations shall be commuted in money. Active duty enlisted personnel, active and inactive retired enlisted personnel and members of the Fleet Reserve when sick and in hospitals, and enlisted personnel on duty in hospitals may be subsisted in kind in hospital messes and, when so subsisted, the appropriation chargeable with the maintenance of the hospital mess shall be credited, when applicable, at such rate as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy as the value of the hospital ration. Members of the Nurse Corps may be subsisted in hospital messes under such regulations as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe, and nurses so subsisted shall pay therefor at rates to be fixed by such regulations: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall deprive such nurses of allowances for subsistence now or hereafter provided by law. (b) The proviso in the first paragraph under the head "Bureau of Provisions and Clothing" in the Act of January 30, 1885 (23 Stat. 291; 34 U. S. C . 901); the proviso in the first paragraph under the head "Maintenance, Quartermaster's Department, Marine Corps" in the Act of July 11, 1919 (41 Stat. 154; 34 U. S. C. 976); and section 1585 of the Revised Statutes, as amended (34 U. S. C. 907) are hereby repealed. SEC. 18. During the existence of war or national emergency as declared by the President, there may be transported and subsisted on naval vessels at Government expense such persons as the Secretary of the Navy may authorize by regulation. SEC. 19. Until September 1, 1946, enlisted men of the Navy and the Marine Corps and the Reserve components thereof, if otherwise eligible, shall be eligible for appointment to the Naval Academy by the Secretary of the Navy if they will have completed nine months' active service on the date of entrance. SEC. 20. (a) Candidates for appointment as midshipmen at the Naval Academy or as cadets at the Coast Guard Academy shall receive a mileage allowance at the rate of 5 cents per mile for travel performed while proceeding from their homes or duty stations to the Naval Academy or the Coast Guard Academy for examination and appoint- ment. 855 Dependents. Kitchen, etc., ware for officers' quarters. Assignment of en- listed personnel to officers' messes, etc. Sale of meals. Rations. Nurse Corps. Repeals. Subsistence, etc., of persons during emer- gency. Appointment of en- listed men to Naval Academy. Mileage allowance for candidates as mid- shipmen or cadets.
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