Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 56 Part 1.djvu/654

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PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 477-JULY 2, 1942 Nonapplication of designated restric- tions. Establishment, maintenance, etc. Restriction on use of funds for pension- ers, etc. Medical Reserve Corps. Pay, etc., of certain officers and nurses. sBpplies, etc. Training camps. Travel allowance. in a federally recognized status without pay under this Act: Pro- vided further, That the restrictions contained in this paragraph on the use of appropriations made in this Act shall not apply to pay, allowances, or traveling, or other expenses for or incident to services entered into pursuant to orders issued by competent authority. ORGANIZED RESERVES For establishment, maintenance, and operation of Organized Reserve headquarters; for miscellaneous expenses incident to the administration of the Organized Reserves, including the maintenance and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; for the actual and necessary expenses, or per diem in lieu thereof, at rates authorized by law, incurred by officers and enlisted men of the Regular Army and Reserve officers ordered to active duty for periods in excess of fifteen days traveling on duty in connection with the Organized Reserves, and for travel of dependents, and packing and transportation of baggage of such personnel, $100. No appropriation made in this Act shall be available for pay, allow- ances, or traveling or other expenses of any officer of the Organized Reserves who may be drawing a pension, disability allowance, disa- bility compensation, or retired pay from the Government of the United States. The pay and allowances of such additional officers and nurses of the Medical Reserve Corps as are required to supplement the like officers and nurses of the Regular Army in the care of beneficiaries of the United States Veterans' Administration treated in Army hos- pitals may be paid from the funds allotted to the War Department by that Administration under existing law. CITIZENS' MILITARY TRAINING RESERVE OFFICERS' TRAINING CORPS For the procurement, maintenance, and issue, under such regula- tions as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War, to institutions at which one or more units of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps are maintained, of such public animals, means of transportation, supplies, tentage, equipment and uniforms as he may deem necessary, including cleaning and laundering of uniforms and clothing at camps; and to forage, at the expense of the United States, public animals so issued, and to pay commutation in lieu of uniforms at a rate to be fixed annually by the Secretary of War; for transporting said animals and other authorized supplies and equipment from place of issue to the several institutions and training camps and return of same to place of issue when necessary: for purchase of training manuals, including Government publications and blank forms; for the estab- lishment and maintenance of camps for the further practical instruc- tion of the members of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, and for transporting members of such corps to and from such camps or other places designated by the Secretary of War, and to subsist them while traveling to and from such camps and while remaining therein so far as appropriations will permit, or, in lieu of transporting them to and from such camps and subsisting them while en route, to pay them travel allowance at the rate of 5 cents per mile for the distance by the shortest usually traveled route from the places from which they are authorized to proceed to the camp and for the return travel thereto, and to pay the return travel pay in advance of the actual performance of the travel, or to pay commutation in lieu of sub- sistence at camps at rates fixed by the Secretary of War; for expenses 626 [56 STAT.