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55 STAT.] 77TH CONG., 1ST SESS.-CH. 262-JUNE 30, 1941 retired enlisted men, $14,045,745; pay of civilian employees at mili- tary headquarters, not to exceed $1,337,684; pay and allowances of contract surgeons, $86,784; pay of nurses, $5,750,820; rental allow- ances, including allowances for quarters for enlisted men on duty where public quarters are not available, $104,363,780; subsistence allowances, $38,227,611; interest on soldiers' deposits, $104,500; pay- ment of exchange by officers serving in foreign countries and when specially authorized by the Secretary of War, by officers disbursing funds pertaining to the War Department, when serving in Alaska, and all foreign money received shall be charged to and paid out by disbursing officers of the Army at the legal valuation fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, $100; in all, $1,207,895,561, of which amount $1,000,000 shall be available immediately; and the money herein appropriated for "Pay of the Army" shall be accounted for as one fund: Provided,That during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1942, no officer of the Army shall be entitled to receive an addition to his pay in consequence of the provisions of the Act approved May 11, 1908 (10 U. S. C. 803): Provided further, That the appropriations contained in this Act shall not be subject to any limitations as to the strength of any branch of the Army, as to the enlisted strength of the Army, as to the number of flying cadets in the Army Air Corps, as to the number of assistant superintendents of the Army Nurse Corps, and as to the number and grade of Reserve officers who may be ordered to extended active duty with the Air Corps: Provided further, That exclusive of officers of the Army Air Corps, including those assigned thereto for training, the number of officers of the Army who may be required to participate regularly and frequently in aerial flights during the fiscal year 1942 shall not exceed 5 per centum of the total authorized commissioned strength of the Army, notwithstanding the provisions of section 20, Act of June 10, 1922, as amended (10 U. S . C. 292): Provided further, That the thirteenth paragraph of section 127a of the National Defense Act, as amended (10 U. S . C . 535), is further amended by striking out the words "one- half of 1 per centum" and inserting in lieu thereof the words "2 per centum": Provided further, That no part of this or any other appropriation contained in this Act shall be available for the pay of any person, civil or military, not a citizen of the United States, unless in the employ of the Government or in a pay status on July 1, 1937, under appropriations for the War Department, nor for the pay of any such person beyond the period of enlistment or termination of employment, but nothing herein shall be construed as applying to instructors of foreign languages at the Military Academy, to selective trainees, or to Filipinos in the Army Transport Service, or to persons employed outside of the continental limits of the United States except enlisted men of the Regular Army, other than Philip- pine Scouts, upon expiration of enlistment, and this provision shall be subject to the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act for the protec- tion of certain enlisted men of the Army", approved August 19, 1937. as amended by the Act approved August 16. 1940: Provided further, That, without deposit to the credit of the Treasurer of the United States and withdrawal on money requisitions, receipts of public moneys from sales or other sources by officers of the Army on dis- bursing duty and charged in their official accounts, except receipts to be credited to river and harbor and flood-control appropriations and retirement deductions, may be used by them as required for current expenditures, all necessary bookkeeping adjustments of appropria- tions, funds, and accounts to be made in the settlement of their disbursing accounts. 369 Contract surgeons; nurses. Rent, subsistence, etc. Provisos. No allowance to officer owning mount. 35 Stat. 108 . Appropriations not subject to designated limitations. Aerial flights, limi- tation. 44 Stat. 782. Details to educa- tional institutions, etc. 44 Stat. 705. Ante, p. 189. Citizenship require- ment. Not applicable to designated persons. 50 Stat. 696; 54 Stat. 788. 10 U. . C.C 626a; 8T. .C.§724note. Use of receipts of public moneys from sales, etc. 278941°-42-PT. I - 24