PUBLIC LAWS--CH. 288-JUNE 27, 1944 [CHAPTER 288] AN ACT June 27, 1944 To clarify the law relative to allowances for mileage of graduates of the United [S. 1669] States Military Academy and transportation of their dependents on assignment [Public Law 360] to their first duty station and to the mileage allowance of persons entering the United States Military Academy as cadets. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the U. s. Military United States of America in Congress assembled, That officers grad- AMdeage allowances uated from the United States Military Academy when traveling under of graduates. competent orders to the first station to which they are permanently assigned for duty shall receive the mileage allowance authorized by law for officers of the Army traveling under competent orders without troops, for the distance actually traveled under such orders, not to exceed the distance by the shortest usually traveled route from their homes or from West Point, New York, as may be designated in their Permanent change orders, to such first duty stations. The orders mentioned in the first of station. sentence of this section shall be deemed to involve a "permanent change of station" as those words are used in the fifth paragraph of section 37 u.. c., supp. 12, Pay Readjustment Act of 1942 (Act of June 16, 1942; 56 Stat. 112. 365), and the rights of the officers concerned shall be governed by the provisions of that paragraph with respect to the transportation of Repeal. their dependents and household effects. That portion of the Act of August 9, 1912 (37 Stat. 252; 10 U. S . C . 744), which reads as follows: "Provided further, That hereafter a graduate of the Military Acad- emy shall receive mileage as authorized by law for officers of the Army from his home to the station which he first joins for duty", is Effective date. hereby repealed. The provisions of this section shall be effective as No reduction in of January 19, 1943: Provided, That no person shall suffer, by reason prior allowance. f the enactment of this Act, any reduction in any allowance or com- pensation which he has been paid or to which he was'entitled immedi- ately prior thereto. Persons entering SEC. 2. A person entering the United States Military Academy as a cadet shall receive a mileage allowance at the rate of 5 cents per mile for all travel which he actually performs, and which he certifies he has actually performed, while proceeding to the United States Military Academy for admission as a cadet, not in excess of the distance by the shortest usually traveled route between the place which he certifies was his actual permanent place of abode or home, school, or Army station at the time such travel was commenced and the United States Military Academy: Provided,That a person discharged from the armed forces to enter the United States Military Academy shall receive a mileage allowance at the rate of 5 cents per mile for travel performed not m excess of the distance by the shortest usually traveled route between the place of discharge as certified by him and the United States Mili- Traveloutside U.s. tary Academy: Provided further, That no travel allowance shall be payable under this section for travel performed outside the continental Priorpayments. limits of the United States. All payments to such persons for travel to the United States Military Academy made on or after June 1, 1940, to the extent that they involve questions as to the place from which payment of mileage was authorized, are hereby approved, ratified, and confirmed. Approved June 27, 1944. [58 STAT. 392
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