Volume 46 · 1205
Public Law 71–270
To amend the fourth proviso to section 24 of the Immigration Act of 1917, as amended.
Approved February 21, 1931
Statutory text
An Act
To amend the fourth proviso to section 24 of the Immigration Act of 1917, as amended.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the fourth
Immigration Act of 1917, amended.
Vol. 39, p. 893; Vol. 45, p. 954, amended.
U. S. C. Supp. IV, p. 62.
Traveling expenses on change of station, etc., allowed.
proviso to section 24 of the Immigration Act of 1917, as amended, is hereby amended to read as follows:
“ Provided further, That when inspectors or other employees of the Immigration Service and officers and employees of the Naturalization Bureau and Naturalization Service are ordered to perform duty in a foreign country, or transferred from one station to another, in the United States or in a foreign country, they shall be allowed their traveling expenses in accordance with such regulations as the Secretary of Labor may deem advisable, and they may also be allowed, within the discretion and under written orders of the Secretary of Labor, the expenses incurred for the transfer of their wives and dependent minor children; their household effects and other personal property, not exceeding in all five thousand pounds, including the expenses for packing, crating, freight, and
Expenses of transporting remains to be paid.
drayage thereof. The expense of transporting the remains of such officers, inspectors or other employees who die while in, or in transit to, a foreign country in the discharge of their official duties, to their former homes in this country for interment, and the ordinary and necessary expenses of such interment and preparation for shipment at their posts of duty or at home, are hereby authorized to be paid on the written order of the Secretary of Labor.
Approved, February 21, 1931.