1219. An indebtedness arising from an authorized advance shall Advance not not interfere with the registry of an allotment; it shall be regis- to interfere with tered to be paid at once in the same manner as if no advance had been made.

1220. Boys enlisted to serve until they are twenty-one years of age shall not be permitted to allot any part of their pay until they shall have been transferred to the general service, and have two months' pay due them on the account books of the ship.

1221. The allotment of men transferred from a seagoing ship to a hospital shall be continued the same as if at sea.

1222. 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.

allotment.

Apprentices can not leave al

lotments, except.

Men transferred to hospital, allotment to continue. Allotments to

be stopped before discharge of persons in debt.

Death of per

sons to whom al

lotments are pay

Transfer of ac

1223. 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. able. 1224. (1) A pay officer shall, upon transferring the accounts of any person having an allotment, immediately inform the Auditor counts of persons for the Navy Department of the fact, giving the name of the ship ments. having allotand 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.

Allotments

ued not to be re

1225. (1) When an allotment is discontinued, at the request of the person making it, before the expiration of the term for which it once discontinis granted, it shall not be renewed within that term except by permis- newed, except. sion of the Navy Department, on satisfactory reasons being given for such discontinuance and renewal.

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

SECTION 5.-TRAVEL (OFFICERS).

1226. (1) The mileage to be paid commissioned officers of the line of Line, medical the Navy, and of the Medical and Pay Corps, traveling under orders and pay officers. without enlisted men, shall be computed at the rate of seven cents per mile for the total distance over the shortest usually traveled route, as shown in the official War Department Distance Table, and will be paid upon the presentation of orders at any navy pay office.

(2) Such officers will, when travel over a Government-aided road is involved, present their orders to any quartermaster of the Army, who will furnish them with a transportation request for such travel; and the pay officer who pays the mileage will deduct from the total amount noted in paragraph 1 the amount paid by the traveling public for that part of the journey which is traveled over Government-aided roads. The amount thus to be deducted must be obtained by pay officers from railroad companies.

Baggage of

pay officers.

(3) Such officers.can secure the benefit of through rates by obtaining a transportation request for the whole distance to be traveled and making a continuous journey.

(4) (a) Such officers, when traveling without enlisted men, to and from island possessions in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, will be paid actual expenses in lieu of mileage.

(b) Such officers traveling under orders without enlisted men outside of the United States, other than travel provided for in (a), shall be paid mileage.

(5) Such officers when traveling with enlisted men, shall receive transportation in lieu of mileage, and this transportation will be furnished in a "transportation request" to be issued in the manner provided in article 1237.

1227. (1) In changing station, such officers' authorized allowance line, medical and of baggage will be turned over to an army quartermaster for transportation as freight by ordinary freight lines, unless otherwise ordered. When ordered to perform hurried travel a portion of their baggage may be transported by express, if the quantity so to be sent be specified in the orders directing the travel.

(2) The baggage to be transported at public expense, upon change of station, will not exceed the following amounts:

For such officers when embarking under orders for shore duty in one of the island possessions, the allowance of baggage to be transported by the Quartermaster's Department of the Army from initial point to port of embarkation and from port of destination to station will be three times the allowance prescribed above. These allowances are in excess of weights transported free of charge under the regular fare by public carriers, and may, in special cases, be increased by the Navy Department on transports by water. Shipments of such officers' allowance of baggage will in all cases be made at the carrier's risk, including those over roads where tariffs provide for extra charge therefor.

(3) The Quartermaster's Department of the Army will transport the authorized change-of-station allowance of baggage and professional books and papers for such officers upon retirement, or who die in the service, from their last duty stations to such places within the limits of the United States as may be the homes of their families, or as may be designated by their legal representatives or executors.

(4) Officers ordered on temporary duty are not entitled to transportation of baggage as provided in paragraph 2.

(5) The Quartermaster's Department of the Army will furnish transportation for the professional books of officers changing stations, and of officers ordered home for retirement. Invoices of packages turned over to the shipping officer will be accompanied by the certificates of the officer as to the character of the books.

swains, etc.

1228. (1) Commissioned officers of the Marine Corps and chief Marine officers boatswains, chief gunners, chief carpenters, and chief sailmakers and chief boattraveling under orders without troops or enlisted men shall, except as provided in paragraph 2, be allowed mileage at the rate of eight cents per mile within the United States and of seven cents per mile without the United States.

(2) Such officers, when traveling without troops or enlisted men to and from island possessions in the Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean, will be paid actual expenses in lieu of mileage.

(3) Such officers, when traveling with troops or enlisted men, shall receive transportation in lieu of mileage; and to chief boatswains, chief gunners, chief carpenters, and chief sailmakers this transportation will be furnished on a transportation request" to

be issued in the manner provided in article 1237.

(4) Mileage of marine officers can be paid by the paymaster or the assistant paymaster of the Corps, upon vouchers made out in their respective names.

(5) Mileage of chief boatswains, chief gunners, chief carpenters, and chief sailmakers for travel in the United States will be paid in the same manner as provided in article 1229, paragraph 2.

Other officers

1229. (1) Officers of the Navy other than those enumerated in articles 1226 and 1228 traveling under orders in the United States of the Navy. shall be allowed eight cents per mile, while so engaged, in lieu of their actual expenses.

(2) Mileage of such officers for travel in the United States will be paid upon the presentation of original orders, issued or approved by the Navy Department, by any purchasing pay officer or by the pay officers of the stations at Portsmouth, Key West, Pensacola, Newport, and New London.

Allowance for

(3) Such officers of the Navy traveling abroad under orders shall travel by the most direct route, the occasion and necessity for travel abroad. 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. When detailed for shore duty beyond the seas, they shall, when traveling under orders, without troops or enlisted men, receive mileage at the rate of seven cents per mile over the shortest usually traveled route, for all travel performed after they have reported for duty. For the travel necessary to reach their stations from the United States, and to return therefrom, they shall receive only actual expenses.

Allowance of

(4) The amount of baggage for which necessary expenses of transportation may be allowed such officers, when traveling abroad baggage. under orders, shall not exceed five hundred pounds for commanding officers and four hundred pounds for other officers.

Allowances

1230. (1) No officer of the Navy shall be paid mileage except for travel actually performed at his own expense and in obedience only for travel to orders.

actually performed.

(2) No allowance shall be made for traveling expenses unless the Orders must same be incurred on the order of the Secretary of the Navy, or the have approval of Secretary. allowance be approved by him. (3) Orders of officers involving travel must designate the place Terminal from which, and the point or points to which, the travel is to be points to be desigperformed.

(4) When pay officers are detached from duty, the clerks to said officers will be ordered to perform the travel necessary to accompany their pay officers to the place designated for the settlement of their

nated in orders.

Pay clerks.

Travel

ex

accounts. When pay officers have settled their accounts, clerks to said officers will be ordered to perform the travel necesary to reach their homes.

1231. (1) Officers and other persons in the Navy traveling by penses not al- Government conveyance, under orders or authority derived from the Navy Department, shall not be paid mileage,

lowed.

Unauthorized

dence.

(2) An order merely permitting an officer to appear before an examining board or a court of inquiry does not entitle him to mileage or to traveling expenses.

(3) An order detaching an officer from a ship abroad and granting him permission to return home does not entitle him to traveling expenses or mileage.

(4) An officer who changes his official residence without due nochange of resi- tice and permission 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 re

quired voucher.

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

1232. (1) An officer shall certify to such copies of his orders as 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.

Calculation of

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

(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.

Expenses for 1233. (1) Allowances for travel other than mileage will be paid travel, how paid. only upon the order of the Paymaster General of the Navy, to whom all claims, together with the original orders requiring such travel, and a certified copy thereof with all indorsements, must be presented. Such claims must be itemized and in duplicate, 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 will be received as sufficient evidence.

Necessary detention.

Claims.

Separate bills.

(2) Detention at any place on the way must be certified by the officer to have been necessarily incurred in awaiting the next conveyance.

(3) Travel claims will be audited by the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts and forwarded to the Department for action. After approval the claim will be returned to the Bureau for payment as may be directed by the Paymaster General. The original orders will be forwarded with the approved claim to the pay officer designated to pay it, who will indorse the amount paid on the orders and return them to the claimant.

(4) The cost of transportation of public property of the United States, in charge of an officer traveling abroad, shall not be included in the same voucher or bill as that of his personal expenses.

1234. (1) Pay officers shall, in all cases when paying traveling Indorsement expenses or mileage, indorse over their signature on the original on orders. orders of the officer, 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 should be taken and used.

1235. Transportation furnished upon an officer's orders to or from duty shall be indorsed upon his original orders, and a certified copy of such orders must accompany the vouchers for the expenditure.

SECTION 6.-TRAVEL (ENLISTED MEN).

Transporta

tion.

Men whose

1236. (1) A person enlisted in the Navy within the United States, whose term of service expires while under treatment in hos- term of service pital on a foreign station shall, upon the termination of such treat- expires in hosment, be entitled to a passage to a port of the United States.

(2) Claims for travel expenses in excess of the foregoing should be submitted to the Paymaster General, as provided in article 1233 for officers.

1237. (1) Transportation for enlisted men of the Navy shall be furnished only on a written order of competent authority.

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

(3) On board ship at a port where there is no general storekeeper, purchasing pay officer, nor recruiting rendezvous, the order shall be given to the pay officer of the ship, and the transportation be furnished by him upon an approved ship's requisition, and this method shall be followed whenever undue delay would otherwise be occasioned.

(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 transportation 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 of enlisted persons 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 are furnished for the use of issuing officers.

(5) When the approximate cost of transportation, including subsistence, sleeping-car accommodation, and street-car fare is known to the issuing officer, he shall enter it upon the request and coupon; if not so known to him, the holder of the transportation request shall cause the agent of the railroad or steamship company to enter the cost of transportation as above before the coupon is mailed to the issuing officer.

pital abroad.

Transporta

tion.

Transportation requests.