on the ticket, he should request the return of the ticket from the conductor, who will show on the ticket where the traveler left the train. In case the conductor refuses to return the ticket, that fact should be reported when refund report is made.

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20. Care should be taken to stop baggage that has been checked on the ticket at the same point where the traveler leaves the train. on account of change of route or other reason, baggage can not be intercepted and transferred and is carried through to destination on unused portion of ticket, full statement of facts should be made to the Disbursing Clerk at the time of transmitting the unused ticket. 21. Only one mileage or scrip book should be purchased on one transportation request.

SLEEPING AND PARLOR CAR ACCOMMODATIONS AND BERTHS ON

STEAMERS.

SEC. 3.-22. One berth for each person or a seat in parlor car will be allowed. When especially authorized, or when the exigencies of travel require it, a full section or a stateroom may be allowed. Such charges must be accompanied by an explanation.

23. All charges for sleeping and parlor car accommodations must be supported by the berth or seat check, where such a check is issued. 24. Through sleeping or parlor car tickets must be obtained where possible.

25. The allowance is for either a lower or upper berth; the kind of berth actually obtained must be stated.

26. Berths in tourist sleepers must be described as such.

27. When using Government requests for transportation for parlor or sleeping car accommodations, the passenger's check must be attached to the memorandum request before it is transmitted to the Department.

28. Customary charges for stateroom accommodations, steamer chairs, and rugs will be allowed on steamers and other vessels.

29. Stateroom accommodations can be charged for only when fare on steamer does not include berth.

30. Where stateroom checks are issued, they must be attached to the voucher when paid for in cash or to memorandum request when obtained on a Government request.

STREET CARS, BUSSES, CARRIAGES, TAXICABS, ETC.

SEC. 4.-31. Reasonable charges for transportation by the usual means, such as street cars, busses, etc., will be allowed. If carriages or taxicabs are used, explanation showing impracticability of securing usual means of transportation must be furnished in support of charges therefor.

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BAGGAGE.

SEC. 5.-32. Charges for transfer of baggage to and from home, hotel, depot, and wharves will be allowed at not to exceed the current rates charged by regular transfer companies.

33. Charges for "extra" or "excess" baggage will not be allowed except in cases where the extra weight consists of public property or private property to be used for public purposes. Such charges must be explained.

34. All baggage weighing in excess of the weight or of a size greater than transported free by transportation companies will be regarded as excess baggage.

35. Reasonable fees to baggagemen and to porters on arrival at and departure from homes, hotels, depots, and wharves or landings will be allowed for the handling of baggage. The nature of the service rendered shall be stated in every instance.

36. Checking baggage at hotels and depots will be allowed if accompanied by an explanation that checking baggage was for official business or that a saving of transfer charges was effected.

37. Where baggage is checked on a ticket which for any reason is not used, the baggage should be stopped and proper note made on the ticket by the officer of the transportation company.

38. If the baggage goes through on such a ticket, through negligence of the employee, the cost for transportation exacted by the transportation company will be charged against the employee.

FEES TO PORTERS, STEWARDS, ETC.

SEC. 6.-39. Fees to porters on sleeping and parlor or chair cars will be allowed not to exceed 25 cents a day of 24 hours or fraction of a day, or for each car used by the traveler.

40. Customary fees to stewards and others on ocean and coastwise steamers not to exceed in the aggregate on trans-Atlantic steamers, $10; on the Pacific Ocean to or from Hawaii, not to exceed $10; to or from China, Japan, or the Philippine Islands, not to exceed $15; on coastwise steamers, not to exceed 50 cents a day: Provided, That fees to table stewards, or to cabin porters or cabin boys, on vessels for services rendered in connection with meals, will be included in computing the aggregate amount of subsistence expenses.

ACTUAL EXPENSES OF SUBSISTENCE.

SEC. 7.-41. Except as hereinafter provided, the actual and necessary expenses for subsistence while traveling on official business and away from home or official station must not exceed $5 for any one day. The item "Subsistence" includes all traveling expenses except transportation and expenses incident thereto.

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42. Under no circumstances will charges for meals or lodging be allowed which are taken at the employee's official station or home. 43. Charges for sleeping-car berths are transportation expenses and not expenses of subsistence. Charges for sleeping car and lodging for the same night must be fully explained.

44. Fees for actual dining-room service not to exceed 50 cents per day will be allowed within the legislative limit per day.

45. Receipts for lodging (European plan) or board and lodging (American plan) must be furnished, unless impracticable to obtain them, in which case full explanation to that effect should be indicated in voucher. Receipts must show dates for which the charge is made and indicate the beginning and termination of the period by name of meal or lodging.

46. Where receipt covers fractional parts of a day with charges at per day rates, the receipt must show the proportion of daily rate charged for meals and lodging.

47. Receipts will not be required for meals except where included with lodging on the American plan.

48. Charges for alcoholic liquors or cigars will not be allowed.

49. When computing the daily expenditures for subsistence, the day will begin with breakfast and end with the lodging of that day.

50. When away from official station, employees may be allowed reimbursement for baths actually taken not to exceed one per day of 24 hours, and at a cost of not to exceed 50 cents each. Receipts for such expenditures will be required in each case.

51. Charges for baths will not be allowed when room with bath at hotel is taken.

PER DIEM IN LIEU OF SUBSISTENCE.

SEC. 8.-52. Section 13 of the sundry civil act approved August 1, 1914, provides:

That the heads of executive departments and other Government establishments are authorized to prescribe per diem rates of allowance not exceeding $4 in lieu of subsistence to persons engaged in field work or traveling on official business outside of the District of Columbia and away from their designated posts of duty when not otherwise fixed by law.

Under the provisions of this act all persons engaged in field work or traveling on official business of the Department outside of the District of Columbia and away from their designated posts of duty will be allowed $4 per diem in lieu of subsistence. This shall not apply to employees in district No. 1 of the Immigration Service during such periods as they may be temporarily assigned to another station within the district for relief duty. Actual expenses of subsistence will be reimbursed employees so assigned.

For the purpose of computing the per diem allowance, the calendar day beginning at midnight and ending at the next succeeding midnight will govern, $4 being allowed for each full calendar day the traveler is absent. Actual expenses of subsistence will be allowed for fractional parts of days at the beginning and end of a trip and per diem for all calendar days intervening.

The cost of lodging will be regarded as pertaining to the day in which the night for which the lodging was procured began.

The following illustration will explain the method to follow in submitting vouchers for subsistence:

If traveler left official station on August 1 at 3 p. m. and returned August 6 at 3 p. m., he would claim actual expenses for supper and lodging on August 1, per diem for August 2 to 5, inclusive, and actual expenses for breakfast and dinner on August 6.

53. The per diem will include all expenses except transportation and expenses incident thereto.

54. Per diem will in no case be allowed at the official station of the employee. The place of official station is fixed either by the law or the certificate of appointment.

55. The limits of the official station are the territorial limits of the city where the official station of the employee is located, except that, in the case of officers and employees in the Immigration Service who are designated to inspect alien passengers upon trains and vessels entering the United States from contiguous foreign territory, their official stations will include the territory necessarily traversed in making such inspections.

56. The hour of departure from and return to official station must be shown for each trip.

57. Hour of departure or arrival is hour at which the train, boat, or other conveyance used by an employee leaves or arrives at its regular terminal at the official station.

58. Employees in the field will be allowed per diem for Sundays and legal holidays while on duty away from their official stations. 59. When a leave of absence commences on Monday or terminates on Saturday, or is preceded or followed by a legal holiday, employees are not entitled to per diem in lieu of subsistence for such preceding and succeeding Sundays and holidays unless they were actually on duty at their places of assignment, which fact must be stated after the last item of expense has been entered in the voucher.

60. Employees traveling on steamers where the cost of ticket includes meals and stateroom accommodations will not be entitled to per diem in lieu of subsistence for the time they are on such steamers. In case of travel of this kind the time of departure and arrival of steamer must be shown.

GOVERNMENT REQUESTS FOR TRANSPORTATION.

SEC. 9.-61. Government requests for transportation issued by the Department must be used only for travel on official business of the Department, and should be used in every case when cost of transportation exceeds $1.

62. Separate transportation requests must be issued for the transportation of each regular employee. Deporting officers may obtain transportation for aliens, attendants, matrons, and guards on the same request issued for their own transportation except in cases where the attendants, matrons, or guards will submit expense vouchers in their own names. In such instances separate transportation requests should be issued for each attendant, matron, or guard, who will submit a separate voucher.

63. Requests generally will be honored for travel over all the railroads in the United States and on steamship lines within the United States and those leaving United States ports. They may also be used to obtain accommodations in sleeping and parlor cars.

64. When through tickets are on sale they should be obtained, except when rates more advantageous to the Government may be otherwise secured or when stop-overs are to be made on official business.

65. When stop-overs are to be made on official business and stopover privileges are not included in a regular ticket, separate requests will be issued for each portion of a journey.

66. Route journeys only when some substantial interest of the Government is subserved thereby.

67. Either fill in or rule out all spaces in the form.

68. Separate requests should be made for sleeping-car, parlor-car, and other accommodations not furnished on regular tickets for transportation.

69. Round-trip tickets should be procured when practicable.

70. The name of the appropriation from which cost of travel is properly payable should be indicated on the reverse of each request for transportation and also in the center of memorandum copy.

71. As the copy of request serves as a very important administrative record, care must be exercised that such copy is legible when forwarded and that the amount of the charge is correctly stated.

72. Each employee using a Government transportation request should state that fact in his monthly expense account under the date of its use, giving the number of the request, the points between which and the names of the railroads over which the travel is made, and the price of the ticket furnished. The price of the ticket should not be carried to the amount column in the voucher.