PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 149-MAY 25, 1939 Transportation and Transportation and recruiting of naval personnel: For mileage and recrung. 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 accom- modations, as may be authorized by the Secretary of the Navy, for security when secret documents are transported by officer mes- Attendanceatmeet- senger, and including not to exceed $5,000 for the expenses of attend- ance, at home and abroad, upon meetings of technical, professional, scientific, and other similar organizations, when, in the judgment of the Secretary of the Navy, such attendance would be of benefit Midshipmen, etc. in the conduct of the work of the Navy 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 not more than $2,500 shall be available for transportation of midshipmen, including reimburse- ment of traveling expenses while traveling under orders, after appointment as midshipmen; for actual traveling expenses of female Enlistedmen,etc. nurses; for travel allowance or for transportation and subsistence as authorized by law of enlisted men upon discharge; transportation of enlisted men and apprentice seamen and applicants for enlistment at home and abroad, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof; transportation to their home, if residents of the United States, of enlisted men and apprentice seamen discharged on medical survey, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof; transportation of sick or insane enlisted men and apprentice seamen and insane supernumerary patients to hospitals, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof; ,pserers, e'tc". d apprehension and delivery of deserters and stragglers, and for rail- way, steamship, and airway guides and other expenses incident to Recruiting. transportation; expenses of recruiting for the naval service; rent of rendezvous and expenses of maintaining the same; advertising for and obtaining men and apprentice seamen; actual and necessary expenses in lieu of mileage to officers on duty with traveling recruiting deTperantation of parties; transportation of dependents of officers and enlisted men, Funeral escorts. $1,045,592: expenses of funeral escorts of naval personnel; actual expenses of officers and midshipmen while on shore-patrol duty, including the hire of automobiles when necessary for the use of shore-patrol detachment: in all, $5,642,411; Total. In all, for pay, subsistence, and transportation of naval personnel, including members of the Naval Reserve when called to active duty in time of war or during the existence of a national emergency Amount immedi- declared by the President, $210,519,217, and $1,000,000 of such ately available. amount shall be available immediately, and the money herein specifi- cally appropriated for "Pay, subsistence, and transportation of naval Accounting. personnel" shall be disbursed and accounted for in accordance with Additional medical existing law and shall constitute one fund: Provided, That additional detail, Veterans' Ad- commissioned, warranted, appointed, enlisted, and civilian personnel minavalt hospitatls 0 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 appropriated misstions to Na al for in this Act: Provided further, That no part of this appropriation Academy after Janu- shall be available for the pay of any midshipmen whose admission ary30, 1939. subsequent to January 30, 1939, would result in exceeding at any time an allowance of four midshipmen for each Senator, Representa- tive, and Delegate in Congress; of one midshipman for Puerto Rico, a native of the island, appointed on nomination of the Governor, and of four midshipmen from Puerto Rico appointed on nomination of the Resident Commissioner; and of four midshipmen from the Appointments at District of Columbia: Provided further, That nothing herein shall large, from be construed to repeal or modify in any way existing laws relative men, etc. be construed to repeal or modify in any way existing laws relative [53 STAT.
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