Chapter 4. Providing for the transportation from the District of Columbia of governmental employees whose services no longer are required
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CHAP. 4.— An Act Providing for the transportation from the District of Columbia of governmental employees whose services no longer are required. January 7, 1919. [[H. R. 13261](/us/bill/65/hr/13261).] [[Public, No. 246](/us/pl/65/246).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Civilian employees on war work, D. C. Transportation home furnished those no longer required. *Post*, p. 1266. Limit. That the heads of the several executive departments and other governmental establishments in the District of Columbia are authorized to furnish to such civilian employees, receiving compensation, exclusive of the additional $120, at the rate of not more than $1,400 per annum or less than $100 per annum, under their respective jurisdiction as have come to the District of Columbia since April sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, whose services are no longer required and whose employment has been or may be terminated by the Government without Dates applicable, etc.delinquency or misconduct on their part during the period from November eleventh, nineteen hundred and eighteen, to February twentieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, inclusive, their actual railroad transportation, including sleeping-car accommodations, from the District of Columbia to the place from which they accepted employment or to their legal residence, or to such other place not a greater distance as the employee may elect.
Sec. 2. Time for applying. That such transportation must be applied for within ten days after the termination of service and shall be used within five days after issuance unless an extension of time on account of illness *Proviso*. If services already terminated.be granted by the proper authority: *Provided*, That as to the employees whose services have been terminated during the period between November eleventh, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and the date Penalty for misuse.of the passage of this Act, inclusive, the time within which transportation shall be applied for shall be twenty days from the date of the passage of this Act.
Any person who shall sell, exchange, or transfer such transportation for the use of another shall be punished by a fine of not more than $100. 1053 Sec. 3. That the expenses authorized by this Act shall be paidAppropriations available. from the following appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen, which hereby are made available therefor:*Post*, p. 1266. For the War Department, from “Transportation of the Army and*Ante*, p. 888. its supplies.” For the Navy Department, from “Pay, miscellaneous.”*Ante*, p. 704.
For all other executive departments and independent establishments, from the appropriations for the support of the services in which such persons are employed. Sec. 4. That any employee who would be entitled to transportation,Refund to persons who left prior to December 10, 1918. including sleeping-car accommodation, under this Act and who has left the District of Columbia prior to the passage of this Act, but not before December tenth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, upon application and presentation within sixty days after the passage of this Act of proper proof shall have refunded the cost of actual railroad transportation, including sleeping-car accommodation, from the District of Columbia to the place from which employment was accepted, or to their legal residence, or to such other place not a greater distance to which the employee may have gone: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Deduction.
That payment to any employee for leave of absence not earned in proportion to the term of employment shall be deducted from the refund authorized in this section. Sec. 5. That the provision made in this Act for the transportationNo supplemental allowance. of employees shall not be supplemented in any manner by the various services in which they are employed. Sec. 6. That the provisions made in this Act for the transportationNot applicable to appointments hereafter. of employees shall not apply to those who enter such service after the passage of this Act.
Approved, January 7, 1919.