Chapter 436. To amend section 12 of the Act approved June 10, 1922, so as to authorize payment of actual expenses for travel under orders in Alaska
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CHAP. 436.— An Act To amend section 12 of the Act approved June 10, 1922, so as to authorize payment of actual expenses for travel under orders in Alaska.June 1, 1926.[[H. R. 9178](/us/bill/69/hr/9178).][[Public, No. 319](/us/pl/69/319).] *lie it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Pay readjustment, Army, etc.Vol. 42, p. 631, amended. That section 12 of the Act approved June 10, 1922 (Forty-second Statutes, page 631), be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows:
" “ Sec. 12. Mileage allowance for officers without troops. That officers of any of the services mentioned in the title of this Act, when traveling under competent orders without troops, shall receive a mileage allowance at the rate of 8 cents per mile, distance to be computed by the shortest usually traveled route and Transportation requests applicable to all services.existing laws providing for the issue of transportation requests to officers of the Army traveling under competent orders, and for deduction to be made from mileage accounts when transportation is furnished by the United States, are hereby made applicable to all the Actual expense for repeated trips between two places.services mentioned in the title of this Act, but in cases when orders are given for travel to be performed repeatedly between two or more places in the same vicinity, as determined by the head of the executive department concerned, he may, in his discretion, direct that actual Applicable to Alaska and outside travel.and necessary expenses only be allowed.
Actual expenses only shall be paid for travel under orders in Alaska and outside the limits of Subsistence, etc., when traveling away from post.the United States in North America. Unless otherwise expressly provided by law, no officer of the services mentioned in the title of this Act shall be allowed or paid any sum in excess of expenses actually incurred for subsistence while traveling on duty away from his Maximum.designated post of duty, nor any sum for such expenses actually incurred in excess of $7 per day.
The heads of the executive departments Per diem in lieu of subsistence.concerned are authorized to prescribe per diem rates of allowance, not exceeding $6, in lieu of subsistence to officers traveling on official business and away from their designated posts of duty. Dependents.Cost of travel in lieu of transportation in kind for.“ In lieu of the transportation in kind authorized by section 12 of an Act entitled ‘An Act to increase the efficiency of the commissioned and enlisted personnel of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast681 Guard, Coast and Geodetic Survey, and Public Health Service,’Vol. 41, p. 604. approved May 18, 1920, to be furnished by the United States for dependents, the President may authorize the payment in money of amounts equal to such commercial transportation costs when such travel shall have been completed.
Dependent children shall be suchDependent children.Vol. 42, p. 627. as are defined in section 4 of this Act.” " Approved, June 1, 1926.