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53 STAT.] 76TH CONG., 1ST SESS.-CH. 88-APR . 26, 1939 and paid out by disbursing officers of the Army at the legal valuation fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, $100; in all, $170,371,405, of which amount $1,000,000 shall be immediately available; 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, 1940, 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 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, 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 Philippine Scouts, upon expira- tion of enlistment, and this provision shall be subject to the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act for the protection of certain enlisted men of the Army", approved August 19, 1937: 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 appropriations, funds, and accounts to be made in the settlement of their disbursing accounts: Provided further, That there shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of mis- cellaneous receipts the sum of $20,987.39, such amount being the balance of funds belonging to military organizations of the Army, disbanded at the conclusion of the World War. No payment shall be made from money appropriated in this Act to any officer on the retired list of the Army who, for himself or for others, is engaged in the selling of, contracting for the sale of, or negotiating for the sale of, to the Army or the War Department, any war materials or supplies. No appropriation for the pay of the Army shall be available for the pay of any officer or enlisted man on the active list of the Army who is engaged in any manner with any publication which is or may be issued by or for any branch or organization of the Army or mili- tary association in which officers or enlisted men have membership and which carries paid advertising of firms doing business with the War Department: Provided, however, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to prohibit officers from writing or disseminating articles in accordance with regulations issued by the Secretary of War. TRAVEL OF THE ARMY For travel allowances and travel in kind, as authorized by law, for persons traveling in connection with the military activities of the War Department, including mileage, transportation, reimbursement of actual expenses, or per diem allowances, to officers and contract surgeons; transportation of troops; transportation, or reimbursement therefor, of nurses, enlisted men, recruits, recruiting parties, appli- cants for enlistment between recruiting stations and recruiting depots rejected applicants for enlistment, general prisoners, cadets and 597 Accounting. Provisos. No allowance to officer owning mount. 35 Stat. 108 . 10 U.. C. 803. Citizenship require- ments. No pay beyond en- listment period, etc. Foreign language instructors. Filipinos in Army Transport Service, etc. Reenlistment of aliens. 50 Stat. 696. Receipts of public moneysfromsales,etc., use of. Deposit of funds of disbandedmilitary or- ganizations. Pay forbidden to a retired officer selling supplies to Army. Offlcers,etc. , engaged with certain service publications; pay for- bidden. Proviso. Writing, etc., of articles by officers. Travel allowances, etc. Post, p . 993. Reruiting expenses.