Chapter 53. To provide quarters or commutation thereof to commissioned officers in certain cases
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CHAP. 53.— An Act To provide quarters or commutation thereof to commissioned officers in certain cases. April 16, 1918. [[S. 3863](/us/bill/65/s/3863).] [[Public, No. 129](/us/pl/65/129).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Army. Officer on field duty to have quarters allowances for family during present emergency. Vol. 34, p. 1169. That during the present emergency every commissioned officer of the Army of the United States on duty in the field, or on active duty without the territorial jurisdiction of the United States, who maintains a place of abode for a wife, child, or dependent parent, shall be furnished at the place where he maintains such place of abode, without regard to personal quarters furnished him elsewhere, the number of rooms prescribed by the Act of March second, nineteen hundred and seven (Thirty-fourth Statutes, page eleven hundred and sixty-nine), to be occupied by, and only so long as occupied by, said wife, child, or Commutation.dependent parent; and in case such quarters are not available every such commissioned officer shall be paid commutation thereof and commutation for heat and light at the rate authorized by law in cases where Present allowances not reduced.public quarters are not available; but nothing in this Act shall be so construed as to reduce the allowances now authorized by law for any person in the Army.
Approved, April 16, 1918.