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1440 Naval Reserve , etc . Transportation. Recru itin g . Transporting de- pendents, etc . Aggre gate amo unt . Accounting, etc . Provisos . Ava ila bil ity . Sea pay to Academy surplus graduates . Graduates of 1931 to receive commissions . Excess carried in en- sign grade . Post, p. 1482. Retirement provi- sio ns, U.S. C.,p. 1115. SEVENTY-FIRST CONGRESS . SEss. III. Ca. 326 . 1931 . absent from vessels to which attached under orders (during which subsisten ce rations to be stopped on board ship a nd no credit f or commutation therefor to be given) ; quarters and subsistence of men on detached duty ; subsistence of members of the Naval Reserve dur- ing period of active service ; subsistence in kind at hospitals and on board ship in lieu of subsistence allowance of female nurses and Navy and Marine Corps general courts-martial prisoners undergoing imprisonment with sentences of dishonorable discharge from the service at the expiration of such confinement ; in all, $16,502,216 ; Transportation and recruiting of naval personnel

For mileage

and actual and necessary expenses and per diem in lieu of subsistence as authorized by law to officers of the Navy while traveling under orders, including not to exceed $2,000 for the expenses of attendance at home and abroad, upon meetings of technical, professional, scien- tific, and other similar organizations, when, in the judgment of the Secretary of the Navy, such attendan ce would be o f benefit in t he conduct of the work of the Navy Department ; for mileage, at 5 cents per mile, to midshipmen entering the Naval Academy while proceeding from their homes to the Naval Academy for examination and appointment as midshipmen, and not more than $2,500 shall be available for transportation of midshipmen, including reimbursement of traveling expenses while traveling under orders after appointment as midshipmen ; for actual traveling expenses of female nurses ; for tra vel allo wanc e or for tra nspo rtat ion and subs iste nce as a utho rize d by law of enlisted men upon discharge ; transportation of enlisted men and apprentice seamen and applicants for enlistment at home and abroad, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof ; transportation to their homes, if residents of the United States, of enlisted men and apprentice seamen discharged on medical survey, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof ; transportation of sick or insane enlisted men and apprentice seamen and insane supernumerary patients to hospitals, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof ; apprehension and delivery of deserters and stragglers, and for railway guides and other expenses incident to transportation ; expenses of recruiting for the naval service ; rent of rendezvous and expenses of maintaining the same ; advertising for and obtaining men and apprentice seamen

actual and necessary expenses in lieu of mileage to officers on duty with traveling recruiting parties ; transportation of dependents of officers and enlisted men ; expenses of funeral escorts of naval per- sonnel ; in all, $4,538,654 ; In all, for pay, subsistence, and transportation of naval personnel, $154,040,870, of which sum $1,000,000 shall be immediately available, and the money herein specifically appropriated for "Pay, subsistence, and transportation of naval personnel," shall be disbursed and accounted for in accordance with existing law and shall constitute one fund : Provided, That the appropriation " Pay, subsistence, and transportation, Navy, 1931," shall be available for the pay and allow- ances of all officers commissioned in accordance with law, and shall be available to pay one year's sea pay to surplus graduates of the Naval Academy, as provided by law : Provided further, That the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Sen- ate, is hereby authorized to appoint as ensigns in the line of the Navy all midshipmen who graduate from the Naval Academy in the year 1931, but if the number so commissioned should exceed the total num- ber of officers of the line of the Navy authorized by existing law, the exce ss s hall be carr ied in the grade of ensign : Provided fur- the r, That any officer, other than commissioned warrant or war- rant officers, commissioned in the line of the Navy from sources other than the Naval Academy, may, upon his own application,