serving in the grade of admiral or as Chief of Naval operations, $2,200. SEC. 12. 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 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 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 and necessary expenses only be allowed. Actual expenses only shall be paid for travel under orders outside the limits of 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 designated post of duty, nor any sum for such expenses actually incurred in excess of $7 per day. That heads of the executive departments 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. 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, Coast Guard, Coast and Geodetic Survey, and Public Health Service," 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 such as are defined in section 4 of this Act.. SEC. 15. That existing laws authorizing increase of pay for foreign service and commutation of quarters, heat, and light are hereby repealed, effective July 1, 1922. SEC. 16. That nothing contained in this Act shall operate to reduce the pay of any officer on the active list below the pay to which he is entitled by reason of his grade and length of service on June 30, 1922, not including additional pay authorized by the Act entitled "An Act to increase the efficiency of the commissioned and enlisted personnel of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Coast and Geodetic Survey, and Public Health Service," approved May 18, 1920; and nothing contained in this Act shall operate to reduce the total of the pay and allowances which any enlisted man of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, or Coast Guard is now receiving during his current enlistment and while he holds his present grade or rating. The provisions of this section shall apply in like manner to each person not commissioned whose pay is based by law on that of a commissioned officer. SEC. 17. That on and after July 1, 1922, retired officers and war rant officers shall have their retired pay, or equivalent pay, computed as now authorized by law on the basis of pay provided in this Act: Provided, That nothing contained in this Act shall operate to reduce the present pay of officers, warrant officers, and enlisted men now on the retired list or officers or warrant officers in an equivalent status of any of the services mentioned in the title of this Act. SEC. 22. That the provisions of this Act shall be effective beginning July 1, 1922, and all laws and parts of laws which are inconsistent herewith or in conflict with the provisions hereof are hereby repealed as of that date. APPENDIX 5 PLANT AND EQUIPMENT The headquarters of the Public Health Service are in the Butler Building, at the corner of New Jersey Avenue and C Streets, S. E., Washington. At present the larger part of the administrative personnel is housed in a temporary building at 16 Seventh Street, S. W., erected during the war and known as C Building. Other property in Washington includes the Hygienic Laboratory, which occupies several buildings at Twenty-fifth and E Streets, N. W. The plant and equipment of the service outside of 'Washington are extensive and valuable. Quarantine stations are shown on p. 187. The quarantine service owns also four steamers, one barge, 46 launches, and 5 hulks. The following table shows the hospitals operated by the service on April 29, 1922, as well as those which had previously been operated, but which had been closed. On that date an executive order transferred to the Veterans' Bureau the annexes to the Marine Hospitals at New Orleans and Mobile and all the Veterans' Hospitals. MARINE AND VETERANS' HOSPITALS ON APRIL 29, 1922 |