Expiration of,

otherwise.

the pay officer will be held liable for amounts paid by the purchasing pay officer in the absence of due notice. When an allotment is stopped, the pay officer shall charge the allotment for as many months in advance as will probably be required for information to reach the Auditor.

(5) The pay officer shall give timely notice to the Auditor for by limitation or the Navy Department when an allotment is about to expire by limitation, or when it should be stopped for any other reason, stating the amount checked by himself and the last month for which checked.

Cases of cap- (6) The capture of the grantor of an allotment shall not operture, allotments ate to stop payment thereof before the expiration of the period for which it was made.

to continue.

allotment.

Advance not 1095. An indebtedness arising from an authorized advance to Interfere with shall not interfere with the registry of an allotment by an officer. It shall be registered to be paid in the same manner as if no advance had been made.

Allotments

for enlisted men.

Transfer to

hospital.

Transfer to another ship or station.

Grantor in debt; about to be discharged.

Death of persons to whom allotments are payable.

Transfer of acaccounts of persons having allotments.

1096. An enlisted person shall not be permitted to make an allotment unless there is due him the amount of the first payment, or unless such amount will probably be due on the date set for the first payment.

1097. The allotments of men transferred from a seagoing ship to a hospital shall be continued the same as if at sea.

1098. (1) When the grantor of an allotment is about to be transferred to another ship or station, the pay officer shall check against his account a sum sufficient to cover the amount of the allotment payable during the time that will probably elapse before the transferred account shall have been taken up.

(2) When the grantor of an allotment is soon entitled to discharge, and is so much in debt to the United States that it will require the whole or a part of his allotted pay to cancel his obligation, the pay officer shall inform the commanding officer and shall stop such allotment by the usual process, giving the facts as reason therefor.

1099. A purchasing pay officer shall immediately apprise the Auditor for the Navy Department upon receiving information of the death of any person to whom an allotment is payable by him. 1100. (1) A pay officer shall, upon transferring the accounts of any person having an allotment, immediately inform the Auditor for the Navy Department of the fact, giving the name of the ship and that of the pay officer to whom the transfer is made, and stating the amount checked by himself, the total amount checked, and the last month for which checked.

(2) When a pay officer is relieved and transfers the accounts of officers and crew to a successor, he shall, without waiting for his final accounts to be made up, immediately notify the Auditor for the Navy Department of the transfer of allotments.

(3) When a transferred allotment is received by a pay officer, and the grantor thereof has died, deserted, or been detained en route, the pay officer shall immediately notify the Auditor for the Navy Department of all the facts obtainable, and shall stop the allotment, using cable or telegraph, if necessary to prevent loss. 1101. (1) An allotment which has been discontinued, at the discontinued al- request of the person making it, before the expiration of the term for which it is granted, shall not be renewed within that term except by permission of the Navy Department on satisfactory reasons being given for such discontinuance and renewal.

Renewal of

lotments.

(2) In no case shall an allotment be allowed a returned deserter until his account shall have been received from the "Deserters' roll."

(3) Correspondence on the subject of allotments that have been granted must be with the Auditor for the Navy Department.

SECTION 5.-TRAVEL (OFFICERS).

1102. In lieu of traveling expenses and all allowances whatsoever connected therewith, including transportation of baggage, officers of the Navy, traveling from point to point within the United States, under orders, shall hereafter receive mileage at the rate of eight cents per mile, distance to be computed by the shortest usually traveled route; but in cases where orders are given for travel to be performed repeatedly between two or more places in the same vicinity, the Secretary of the Navy may, at his discretion, direct that actual and necessary expenses only be allowed. Actual expenses only shall be paid for travel under orders outside of the limits of the United States in North America. (Act June 7, 1900.)

Mileage.

1103. To facilitate action by the Department, officers on in- Repeated spection, recruiting, or other duty that necessitates repeated travel travel between same points. between the same points, shall keep an accurate account of their actual expenses and also the number of miles traveled by the most direct route, and submit both to the Department with their claims for reimbursement or mileage.

Travel of ma

1104. (1) Commissioned officers of the Marine Corps traveling under orders without troops shall be allowed mileage at the rate rine officers. of eight cents per mile (distance to be computed by the shortest usually traveled route) for travel performed within the United States and actual necessary expenses for travel performed without the United States.

(2) For all sea travel (except when regularly attached to vessels of the Navy for duty) actual expenses only shall be paid to such officers when traveling on duty under competent orders, with troops, and the amount so paid shall not include any shore expenses at port of embarkation or debarkation; but for the purpose of determining allowances hereunder travel in the Philippine Archipelago, the Hawaiian Archipelago, the home waters of the United States, and between the United States and Alaska shall not be regarded as sea travel. For all other travel with troops such officers shall receive transportation in lieu of mileage or traveling expenses.

(3) In cases where orders are given for travel to be performed repeatedly between two or more places in such vicinity as at the discretion of the Secretary of the Navy is appropriate, he may direct that actual and necessary expenses only be allowed.

(4) Mileage of marine officers may be paid by the paymaster or an assistant paymaster of the Corps upon receipt of proper vouchers accompanied by original orders issued or approved by the Secretary of the Navy or the Commandant of the Marine Corps.

1105. (1) Mileage of officers for travel in the United States Payment of shall be paid upon the presentation of original orders, issued or mileage. approved by the Navy Department, by any purchasing pay officer

Allowance for travel abroad.

Baggage.

Allowances only for travel actually performed.

have approval of Secretary.

or by the pay officers of the stations at Portsmouth, Key West, Pensacola, Newport, and New London.

(2) Officers of the Navy traveling abroad under orders shall travel by the most direct route, the occasion and necessity for such order to be certified by the officer issuing the same, and shall receive in lieu of mileage only their actual and reasonable expenses, certified over their own signatures and approved by the Secretary of the Navy.

(3) The amount of baggage for which necessary expenses of transportation may be allowed such officers when traveling abroad under orders to or upon detachment from sea duty, shall not exceed eight hundred pounds for flag officers, five hundred pounds for officers of command rank, four hundred pounds for other commissioned officers, and two hundred and fifty pounds for officers not commissioned.

(4) Officers transferred to or between shore stations beyond the continental limits of the United States, or returning home from such stations, may, at the discretion of the Secretary of the Navy, be allowed transportation of baggage at public expense in excess of the quantities prescribed in paragraph 3.

1106. (1) No officer of the Navy or Marine Corps shall be paid mileage except for travel actually performed at his own expense and in obedience to orders.

Orders must (2) No allowance shall be made for traveling expenses within the United States unless the same be incurred under orders originally issued or subsequently approved by the Navy Department. All allowances made for this purpose must also be approved by the Secretary of the Navy.

Terminal

(3) No allowance shall be made for traveling expenses without the United States unless the same shall be incurred on the order of the Secretary of the Navy, or of the commander-in-chief of a fleet or station, or upon orders approved by either of the above. (Art. 1109, par. 4.)

(4) Orders of officers involving travel must designate the place points to be des- from which, and the point or points to which, the travel is to be ignated in or

ders.

Pay clerks.

Travel expenses not allowed.

Unauthorized

dence.

performed.

(5) When a pay officer is detached from duty, his clerk will be ordered to perform the travel necessary to accompany the pay officer to the place designated for the settlement of his accounts. When the accounts have been settled, the clerk will be ordered to perform the travel necessary to reach his home.

1107. (1) No person in the naval service shall be paid mileage for travel performed by government conveyance.

(2) An order merely permitting an officer to appear before an examining board or a court of inquiry, or detaching him from a ship abroad and granting him permission to return home, does not entitle him to traveling expenses or mileage.

(3) An officer who changes his official residence without perchange of res mission of the Navy Department shall not, if ordered to duty, be entitled to mileage in excess of that from his former place of residence as recorded at the Department.

Certificate required as vouch

er.

(4) No expenses for travel to attend the funeral of a naval officer who dies in the United States shall be allowed.

1108. (1) An officer shall certify to such copies of his orders as may be required as vouchers by the pay officer; also, that he actually performed the travel in obedience to such orders, at his

own expense, and without transportation in a government conveyance. In drawing mileage to his home, he shall certify upon his orders his residence, which must correspond to his usual residence, as recorded in the Bureau of Navigation or Headquarters, Marine Corps.

Calculation of distances for

(2) Bills for mileage shall show the process by which the whole distance was calculated, giving the distance from point to point mileage. and stating how obtained, if not from the official tables of distances published by the War Department.

Expenses for

(3) When a doubt exists as to the distance traveled, the certificate of the officer, stating the route by which he traveled, with the distance thereon, and that it was the shortest usual route, shall be received as evidence, if the post office records do not determine it. 1109. (1) Allowances, other than mileage, for travel of offi- travel, how pald. eers within the United States shall be paid only upon the order of the Paymaster General of the Navy, to whom all claims, together with the original orders requiring the travel, and a certified copy thereof with all endorsements, must be presented. Such claims must be itemized and in duplicate, must be for actual and necessary expenses only, and must be accompanied by vouchers in the usual form, unless the officer certifies that it was not practicable to obtain them, in which case his own certificate to a detailed statement of the actual and necessary expenses shall be received as sufficient evidence.

(2) Officers performing travel under orders without the United States, shall prepare their claims for traveling expenses as required by paragraph 1, and submit them to the pay officer having their accounts, who shall, after verifying them, make reimbursement to the claimants upon public bills, endorsing the amount paid on the original orders, and filing the claim, together with a certified copy of the original orders as sub-vouchers. In the event of a question arising as to the propriety of any item, the pay officer shall forward the claim to the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts for audit.

Necessary de

(3) Detention at any place on the way must be certified by the officer to have been unavoidable, the necessity therefor to be tention. stated in detail.

(4) The maximum allowances for travel both within and without the United States shall be as established by the Department in general or special orders.

Claims.

property.

Endorsement

(5) The cost of transportation of public property of the United TransportaStates, in charge of an officer traveling abroad, shall not be in- tion, public cluded in the same voucher or bill as that of his personal expenses. 1110. (1) A pay officer paying traveling expenses or mileage, shall endorse over his signature on the original travel orders, as well as on the copies retained for vouchers, the date of payment, the amount paid, and the points of departure and arrival.

(2) In case an order is confidential, or several subjects are embraced in it, an extract pertinent to the service for which payment is made shall be taken and used.

1111. Transportation furnished upon an officer's orders to or from duty shall be endorsed upon his original orders, and a certified copy of such orders must accompany the vouchers for the expenditure.

on orders.

Transporta

tion.

Men whose term of service expires in hospital abroad.

Transportation, by whom furnished.

Transportation requests.

Stubs.

SECTION 6.-TRAVEL (ENLISTED MEN).

1112. (1) Travel allowance or transportation and subsistence shall be furnished to enlisted men as provided by article 802.

(2) A person enlisted in the Navy within the continental limits of the United States whose term of service expires while under treatment in hospital on a foreign station shall, upon the termination of such treatment, be entitled to passage to a port of the United States.

(3) Claims for travel expenses in excess of the foregoing shall be submitted to the Paymaster General, as provided in article 1109 for officers.

1113. (1) Transportation for enlisted men of the Navy should be furnished only on a written order from competent authority.

(2) At navy yards and stations such orders shall be addressed to the pay officer; at San Francisco, Cal., to the purchasing pay officer; at naval rendezvous at places where there is no pay officer, to the commanding officer of the rendezvous.

(3) On board ships not furnished navy transportation requests, the commanding officer shall direct the pay officer of the ship to procure the transportation, furnishing cash for the necessary subsistence and transfers on public bill. Transportation companies will be directed to submit bills for the transportation furnished within the continental limits of the United States in accordance with paragraph 12. Travel outside the United States shall be paid for on public bill.

(4) On the receipt of an order for the transportation of one or more enlisted men, by any one of the officers enumerated in paragraph 2, he shall make and file a certified copy thereof, and issue a ' transportation request," showing the date and place of issue, the name of the company to furnish the transportation, the name and rating of the person to be transported or, in the case of a draft of men, the name of one of the enlisted men and the number accompanying him. The class of transportation to be furnished must be shown, and the routes inserted (initials of lines) from point of departure to ultimate destination, in the space marked "via," care being taken by the issuing officer to select the most economical route, unless otherwise directed. Transportation requests on established forms will be furnished for the use of issuing officers.

(5) The officer or enlisted man in charge of a draft holding a transportation request, shall receipt on the stub and request, stating the exact number of men to be transported and the places from and to which transportation is furnished. If the person receipting can not write his name, there shall be a witness to his mark. (6) Requests issued from each yard or station shall be numbered serially for each fiscal year.

(7) They shall cover transportation from starting point to final destination, if by all-rail route, except when over bond-aided roads. (8) Stubs shall receive the same number as the request to which attached.

(9) Stubs and requests for travel over bond-aided roads shall be marked BA R before the serial number. (Par. 12.)

(10) When transportation requests are issued in compliance with an order from the Bureau of Navigation, the number of the bureau's letter shall be noted on the stub and request.