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PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 46-FEB . 7 , 1942 the naval air stations, at submarine bases, at overseas bases, including Alaska, and at mobile hospitals, to landing forces and expeditions, and in addition not to exceed three hundred in number at such places as shall be designated by the Secretary of the Navy, no appropriation contained in this Act shall be available for the pay, allowances, or other expenses of any enlisted man or civil employee performing service in the residence or quarters of an officer or officers on shore as a cook, waiter, or other work of a character performed by a household servant, but nothing herein shall be construed as preventing the vol- untary employment in any such capacity of a retired enlisted man or a transferred member of the Fleet Reserve without additional expense to the Government, nor the sale of meals to officers by general messes on shore as regulated by detailed instructions from the Navy Department; Subs stence. Subsistence of naval personnel: For provisions and commuted rations for enlisted men of the Navy, which commuted rations shall be paid at the rate of 55 cents per diem, and midshipmen at 80 cents per diem, and commuted rations stopped on account of sick in hos- pital and credited at the rate of 80 cents per ration to the naval hos- pital fund; subsistence of members of the Fleet Reserve and retired enlisted men in naval hospitals; furlough rations as allowed by law; subsistence of men unavoidably detained or absent from vessels to which attached under orders (during which subsistence rations to be stopped on board ship and no credit for commutation therefor to be given); quarters and subsistence of men on detached duty; sub- sistence of members of the Naval Reserve during 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 sen- tences of dishonorable discharge from the service at the expiration of p rement of such confinement; in all, $109,780,984: Provided,That no part of this Procurement of U· .s . products. or any other appropriation contained in this Act shall be available for the procurement of any article of food or clothing not grown or produced in the United States or its possessions, except to the extent that the Secretary of the Navy shall determine that articles of food or clothing grown or produced in the United States or its possessions cannot be procured of satisfactory quality and in sufficient quantities and at reasonable prices as and when needed, and except procure- ments by vessels in foreign waters and by establishments located out- side the continental United States, except the Territories of Hawaii and Alaska, for the personnel attached thereto; Treiponation and Transportation and recruiting of naval personnel: For mileage and at, P991. 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 the cost of a compartment or such other accommodations, as may be authorized by the Secretary of the Navy, for security when secret documents are transported by officer messenger, and including $5,000 for the expenses of attendance, at home and abroad, upon meetings of technical, professional, scientific, and other similar organ- izations, when, in the judgment of the Secretary of the Navy, such attendance would be of benefit in the conduct of the work of the Navy Midshipmen. 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 for transportation of midshipmen, including reimbursement of traveling expenses while traveling under orders, after appointment as midship- men; for actual traveling expenses of female nurses; for travel allow- ance or for transportation and subsistence as authorized by law of enlisted men upon discharge; transportation of enlisted men and 62 [56 STAT.