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PUBLIC LAWS-CHS. 484, 485 - -JULY 3, 1942 material for stock) and for personal and contractual services under such regulations as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe: Provided Restriction. further,That no expenditure shall be incurred under the naval procure- ment fund, which is not properly chargeable to available funds under a naval appropriation, and the naval procurement fund shall be . promptly reimbursementd from the appropriate naval appropriations for all expenditures properly chargeable thereto on the basis of transfer and counterwarrants prepared in the Navy Department and certified to the Secretary of the Treasury by a duly authorized representative Warrants. of the Navy: Provided further, That such warrants when signed by the Secretary of the Treasury shall be entered in the appropriation accounts as of the fiscal year in which the expenditures were made and Adjustments. without revision by any officer of the Government; any adjustments between accounts subsequently found necessary in the audit and settle- ment of the accounts by the General Accounting Office shall be made as of current dates on the basis of new transfer and counterwarrants: Advance heck pay- Provided further, That advance check payments may be made to the mens. Naval Procurement Fund upon written request to the Paymaster Gen- eral of the Navy from the appropriate naval appropriation for all or any part of the costs ultimately chargeable to such naval appropria- tion, subject to appropriate adjustments being made on the basis of the completed actual cost of the supplies, materials, equipment, and Naval stock fund, services involved: Provided further, That the naval supply account designation. fund shall be hereafter designated as the naval stock fund: Provided Transfer of certain further, That the Paymaster General of the Navy is authorized to transfer to the naval procurement fund for payment any existing obli- gations under the naval stock fund which do not represent the acquisi- Transportation tion of materials for stock: And provided further, That hereafter the naval stock fund shall be charged with the cost of transporting material purchased free on board cars or on wharf or free alongside vessels at points specified in contract to activities to which initial delivery is to be made only when the contract on which the material is being pro- cured is drawn under that fund so that the issue price of the material may include the transportation costs on materials so procured, and similar transportation costs on materials procured under other con- tracts shall be charged to the appropriation under which each contract is drawn or to the corresponding current appropriation as may be available, or the Secretary of the Navy may direct any transportation costs to be charged directly to the proper appropriation which would otherwise be ultimately chargeable. Approved, July 3, 1942. [CHAPTER 485] July 3, 1942 AN ACT [s. 2454] To prescribe the relative rank of members of the Navy Nurse Corps in relation [Public ILaw 654] to commissioned officers of the Navy, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the ReavtivNe'te copr United States of America in Congress assembled, That hereafter scribed. the members of the Navy Nurse Corps shall have relative rank as Pest, p . 1074. follows: Superintendent. (a) The superintendent, the relative rank of lieutenant com- mander. stnt s uperin- (b) The assistant superintendents not to exceed one for each three hundred members of the Navy Nurse Corps, the relative rank of lieutenant. Cie nurses. c) Chief nurses, the relative rank of lieutenant (junior grade). Nurses. d) Nurses, the relative rank of ensign. 646 [56 STAT.