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naval proving grounds, naval ordnance plants, and naval torpedo stations; for the pay of chemists, clerical, drafting, inspection, and messenger service in navy yards, naval stations, naval ordnance plants, schools atordn and naval ammunition depots, and for care and operation of schools at ordnance stations at Indianhead, Maryland; Dahlgren, Virginia; and South Charleston, West Virginia, $167,570,000. BUREAU OF SUPPLIES AND ACCOUNTS Post, pp. 671,814 . PAY, SUBSISTENCE, AND TRANSPORTATION OF NAVAL PERSONNEL Activelistofficers. Pay of naval personnel: For pay and allowances prescribed by law of officers on the active list, pay, $41,921,503, including $2,769,010 for increased pay for officers of the Regular Navy for making aerial flights, no part of which shall be available for increased pay for making aerial flights by more than nine officers above the rank of captain, nor by nonflying officers or observers at rates in excess of those prescribed by law for the Army, which shall be the legal maximum rates as to such nonflying officers or observers; rental allowance, $8,236,148; subsistence allowance, $5,075,407; in all, Retired officers. $55,233,058; officers on the retired list, $17,487,566; for hire of quar- ters for officers serving with troops where there are no public quar- ters belonging to the Government, and where there are not sufficient quarters possessed by the United States to accommodate them, and hire of quarters for officers and enlisted men on sea duty at such times as they may be deprived of their quarters on board ship due to repairs or other conditions which may render them uninhabitable, Enlisted men. $9,030; pay of enlisted men on the retired list, $16,509,600; interest on deposits by men, $19,800; pay of enlisted men as authorized by limitation on numPer. law (in addition to chief petty officers of the Naval Reserve or of the retired list called to active duty, the number of chief petty officers shall not exceed 8 per centum, of which those with perma- nent appointments shall not exceed 7 per centum, of the number of regular enlisted men), extra pay for men as authorized by law, and cash prizes for men for excellence in gunnery, target practice, communication, and engineering competition, $179,508,173; outfits for all enlisted men of the Navy on first enlistment, civilian clothing not to exceed $15 per man to men given discharges for bad conduct or undesirability or inaptitude, reimbursement in kind of clothing to persons in the Navy for losses in cases of marine or aircraft disasters or in the operation of water- or air-borne craft, and the authorized issue of clothing and equipment to the members of the Nurse Corps, $1,785,174; pay of enlisted men undergoing sentence Nurse Corps. of court martial, $62,835; pay and allowances of the Nurse Corps, including assistant superintendents-pay, $683,620; rental allowance, $43,200; subsistence allowance, $27,375; pay retired list, $352,500; in all, $1,106,695; rent of quarters for members of the Nurse Corps; Fleet Reserve. pay and allowances of transferred and assigned men of the Fleet Reserve, $15,755,300; reimbursement for losses of property as pro- 40 Stat. 39; 44 Stat. vided in the Act approved October 6, 1917 (34 U. S . C . 981, 982), as amended by the Act of March 3, 1927 (34 U. S . C. 983), $10,000; payment of six months' death gratuity, $392,000; in all, $287,879,231: Enisted men as Provided, That, except for the public quarters occupied by the household servants. Chief of Office of Naval Operations, the Superintendent of the Naval Pot, p. 814. Academy, and the Commandant of the Marine Corps, and messes temporarily set up on shore for officers attached to seagoing vessels, to aviation units based on seagoing vessels including officers' messes at the naval air stations, and at submarine bases, to landing forces and expeditions, and in addition not to exceed one hundred in number at such places as shall be designated by the Secretary of the [55 STAT. 158 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 86-MAY 6, 1941