Executive Order 9976

by President of the United States

By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by sections 10 and 12 of the Pay Readjustment Act of 1942, as amended (56 Stat. 363, 364, 60 Stat. 858; 37 U.S.C. 110, 112), and sections 208(c) and 305(a) of the National Security Act of 1947 (61 Stat. 504, 508), Executive Order No. 9871 of July 8, 1947, prescribing regulations governing the granting of allowances for quarters and subsistence to enlisted men of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard, and per diem allowances to members of such services and Coast and Geodetic Survey and Public Health Service on duty outside the continental United States or in Alaska, is hereby amended as follows:

1. The words ‘‘Air Force,’’ are inserted after the word ‘‘Army,’’ wherever such word occurs in the said order and in the title thereof.
   


2. Part I A 1, General, of the said order is amended to provide that the daily subsistence allowance therein authorized where government messing facilities are furnished shall be $1.50 instead of $1.20.
   


3. This order shall be effective as of July 1, 1948, and the said Executive Order No. 9871 as amended by this order shall continue in effect during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1949, unless sooner modified or revoked.
   

Harry S. Truman

The White House,

July 12, 1948.

Notes

Amends:

• Executive Order 9871, July 8, 1947

See Related:

• Executive Order 10061, June 2, 1949