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Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters

Chapter 12 — River and Harbor Improvements Generally

§ 583. Payment of allowances, etc., incident to change of station of Engineer officers from appropriation for improvements

Statutory text

When in the opinion of the Secretary of the Army the changes of a station of an officer of the Corps of Engineers is primarily in the interest of river and harbor improvement, the mileage and other allowances to which he may be entitled incident to such change of station may be paid from appropriations for such improvements.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Pub. L. 68–467 § 5 · 43 Stat. 1186

    Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 583

    Mar. 3, 1925, ch. 467, § 5, 43 Stat. 1191

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Mar. 3, 1925, ch. 467, § 5, 43 Stat. 1191

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 5. To cover actual additional expenses to which fliers are subjected when making aerial surveys, hereafter a per diem of $7 in lieu of other travel allowances shall be paid to officers, warrant officers, and enlisted men of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps for the actual time consumed while traveling by air, under competent orders, in connection with aerial surveys of rivers and harbors, or other governmental projects, and a per diem of $6 for the actual time consumed in making such aerial surveys, to be paid from appropriations available for the particular improvement or project for which the survey is being made: Provided, That not more than one Proviso. Limitation. of the per diem allowances authorized in this section shall be paid for any one day. Hereafter, when in the opinion of the Secretary of War the Mileage, etc., on change of station, payable from improvements appropriations. changes of a station of an officer of the Corps of Engineers is primarily in the interest of river and harbor improvement, the mileage and other allowances to which he may be entitled incident to such change of station may be paid from appropriations for such improvements.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Change of Name

Department of War designated Department of the Army and title of Secretary of War changed to Secretary of the Army by section 205(a) of act July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title II, 61 Stat. 501. Section 205(a) of act , was repealed by section 53 of act Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 641. Section 1 of act , enacted “Title 10, Armed Forces” which in sections 3010 to 3013 continued Department of the Army under administrative supervision of Secretary of the Army.

Credits

1925–1947 · 2 acts
  1. 1925Mar. 3, 1925, ch. 467, § 5, 43 Stat. 1191
  2. 1947July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title II, § 205(a), 61 Stat. 501.
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(Mar. 3, 1925, ch. 467, § 5, 43 Stat. 1191; July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title II, § 205(a), 61 Stat. 501.)

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