PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 147-JUNE 26, 1943 Total. Care of Veterans' Administration pa- tients. Appointment of en- listed men to Naval Academy. Per diem rates of allowance. Money allowances in lieu of transporta- tion. Post, pp. 208, 210 . Use of receipts for expenditures. Transportation of dependents, etc. detachment; for all necessary expenses for recruiting for the naval service, including lodging and subsistence of applicants, rent of ren- dezvous and expenses of maintaining the same, and advertising for and obtaining men; total transportation, $162,956,000; In all, for pay, subsistence, and transportation of naval personnel, $3,701,958,984, and the money herein specifically appropriated for "Pay, subsistence and transportation, Navy", shall be disbursed and accounted for in accordance with existing law and shall constitute one fund: Provided, That hereafter additional commissioned, warranted, appointed, enlisted, and civilian personnel of the Medical Department of the Navy, required for the care of patients of the United States Veterans' Administration in naval hospitals, may be employed in addition to the numbers annually appropriated for: Provided fur- ther, That during the present emergency qualified enlisted men of the Navy, Naval Reserve, and Marine Corps may be appointed to the Naval Academy after nine months of service: Provided further, That the Secretary, in prescribing per diem rates of allowance in accord- ance with law, is hereby authorized to prescribe such per diem, whether or not orders are given to officers for travel to be performed repeatedly between two or more places in the same vicinity and with- out regard to the length of time away from their designated posts of duty under such orders, and also the actual and necessary expenses or per diem in lieu thereof as he may determine and approve for naval personnel on special duty in foreign countries, including per diem allowances, not exceeding $6, to naval personnel of, or under training for, the Naval Air Transport Service while on such duty or training away from their permanent stations: And provided further, That funds appropriated under the heads of "Pay, subsistence, and trans- portation", "General expenses, Marine Corps", "Pay and allowances, Coast Guard", in this Act shall be available for the payment of money allowances, in lieu of transportation by the shortest usually traveled route now authorized by law to be furnished in kind, at 3 cents per mile to enlisted men regardless of the mode of travel who, under regulations prescribed by the Secretary, travel at their own expense. MAINTENANCE, BUREAU OF SUPPLIES AND ACCOUNTS For equipage, supplies, and services under the cognizance of the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, including commissions, interest, and exchange; ferriage and bridge tolls, including streetcar fares; rent of buildings and offices not in navy yards for naval purposes, not oth- erwise provided for, and for other Government agencies as necessitated by their vacation of Government-owned property for naval use; acci- dent prevention; services of civilian employees under the cognizance of the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts; payment on a strictly part- time or intermittent employment basis in the District of Columbia or elsewhere, solely under the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, of such specialists as may be contracted for by the Secretary, at a rate of pay not exceeding $25 per diem for any person so employed; ice and mechanical devices for cooling drinking water on shore (except at naval hospitals and shops at industrial navy yards); $201,690,000: Provided, 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 Navy and Marine Corps on disbursing duty and charged in their official accounts may be used by them as required for current expenditures, all necessary bookkeeping adjustments of appropriations, funds, and accounts to be made m the settlement of their disbursing accounts: Providedfurther, That during the fiscal year 1944 the dependents and [57 STAT.
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