Chapter 342. For the payment of travel allowances, on discharge from the Volunteer Army, to certain officers and enlisted men who reentered the military service of the United States in the Philippine Islands
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CHAP. 342.— An Act For the payment of travel allowances, on discharge from the Volunteer Army, to certain officers and enlisted men who reentered the military service of the United States in the Philippine Islands. February 8, 1901. *Be it enacted by tin Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Army.Travel allowance on reenlistment in Thirty-sixth or Thirty-seventh Volunteer Infantry, or Eleventh Cavalry. That any officer of Volunteers, and any enlisted man of either Regulars or Volunteers, who was discharged in the Philippine Islands and there reentered the service, through commission or enlistment, in the Thirty-sixth or Thirty-seventh Regiments United States Volunteer Infantry, or in the Eleventh Regiment United States Volunteer Cavalry, shall, when discharged, except by way of punishment for an offense, receive for travel allowances, from the place of his discharge to the place in the United States of his last preceding appointment or enlistment, four cents per mile: *Provided,* That for sea travel, on discharge, from or between our island*Provisos*.Allowance for sea travel. possessions actual expenses only shall be paid to officers, and transportation and subsistence only shall be furnished enlisted men: *Provided further*, That officers and enlisted men discharged in the UnitedNo travel allowance back to Philippines on muster out in United States.
States under the provisions of this Act shall not be entitled to transportation or travel allowance back to the Philippine Islands. Approved, February 8, 1901.