Volume 69
Public Law 84–253
To authorize subsistence allowances to enlisted personnel.
Approved August 5, 1955
Statutory text
AN ACT
To authorize subsistence allowances to enlisted personnel.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Career (Compensation Act of 1949, as amended, is further amended by adding
at the end of subsection 301 (e) the following: “(f) Effective April 15, 1955, under such regulations and in such localities as may be prescribed by the Secretary of Defense, enlisted members granted permission to mess separately whose duties require them to purchase one or more meals from other than Government messes shall be entitled to not to exceed the pro rata allowance authorized for each such meal for enlisted members when rations in kind are not available.”
Approved August 5, 1955.