351 57 STAT.] 78TH CONG. , 1BT SESS.-CH. 185-JULY 1, 1943 sary supplies and services incident to individual or troop move- ments, including transportation of organizational equipment and impedimenta; and for transportation of authorized baggage of mili- tary and civilian personnel, including packing and unpacking, $720,000,000: Provided, That other appropriations for the Military Travel charges Establishment shall be charged with such amounts as may be required priations. for travel in connection with development, procurement, production, maintenance, or construction activities; and, with such exception, no Restriction. other appropriation in this Act shall be available for any expense for or incident to travel of personnel of the Regular Army or civilian employees under the War Department, except the appropriation "Contingencies of the Army" and the appropriations for Engineer Service, Army, the National Guard, the Organized Reserves, the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, and the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice, and except as may be provided for in the appropriations "Special Field Exercises", "Inter-American Rela- Attendance atmeet tions, War Department", and "Air Corps, Army": Provided further, ngs. That, in addition to the authority contained in section 67, National 392Utat. '21 Defense Act of June 3, 1916, as amended, a total of not to exceed 9. $7,500 of the appropriations available to the War Department charge- able with expenses of travel shall be available for expenses incident to attendance at meetings of technical, professional, scientific, and other similar organizations, when, in the judgment of the Secretary of War, such attendance would be of benefit in the conduct of the work of the War Department: Providedfurther, That appropriations n Pdeor'ersv available for travel of personnel of the Military Establishment or employees under the War Department which are current at the date of relief from duty station of such personnel traveling under orders shall be charged with all expenses properly chargeable to such appro- priations in connection with the travel enjoined, including travel of dependents and transportation of authorized baggage and house- hold effects of such personnel, regardless of the dates of arrival at destination of the persons so traveling; Personnel outside During the fiscal year 1944 the dependents and household effects u.s el of such military and civilian personnel in and under the Military enMo ldeodeend- Establishment on duty at stations outside the continental limits of the United States, or in Alaska, as may be determined upon by the Secretary of War, may, prior to the issuance of orders for the relief of such personnel from their stations, be moved (including packing and unpacking of household effects) to such locations as may be desig- nated by such personnel, by the use of either Government or com- mercial means of transportation, and later from such locations to the duty stations to which such personnel may be ordered, and current appropriations of the Military Establishment available for travel and transportation may be used for this purpose, the decision of the Secre- tary of War to be final as to the dependency of any individual sought to be affected by this provision except as to travel performed subse- ao quent to arrival in the United States: Provided further, That funds M0oftetportation. appropriated under this head may be applied to the payment of money allowances in lieu of transportation, or transportation and subsistence, at the rate of 3 cents per mile to enlisted men regardless of the mode Pd ra of travel: Provided further, That the Secretary of War, in prescrib- lPodne.mr ing per diem rates of allowance in accordance with law for officers and warrant officers of the Army of the United States traveling on official business and away from their designated posts of duty, is hereby authorized to prescribe such per diem rates of allowance, whether or not orders are given to such officers for travel to be performed repeatedly between two or more places in-the same vicinity,
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