Volume 40
Public Law 65–60
To provide for reimbursement of actual expenses or flat per diem for enlisted men traveling on duty under competent orders.
Approved April 20, 1918
Statutory text
An Act
To provide for reimbursement of actual expenses or flat per diem for enlisted men traveling on duty under competent orders.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That hereafter under such regulations and within such maximum rates as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War enlisted men may be reimbursed for actual expenses of travel, including subsistence and lodging, incurred while traveling under competent orders and not embraced in the movement of troops, or they may be paid a flat per diem therefor in lieu of such reimbursement.
Approved, April 20, 1918.