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317. "The original order, or certified copy, including indorsements, will accompany each voucher for mileage, and when transportation in kind has been furnished for the whole or for any part of the distance actually traveled, the order must be indorsed by the quartermaster issuing the transportation, showing between what points and over what route such transportation was furnished."-A. R., 1308, 1908. NOTE. Where an officer performs more than one journey under the same order and submits separate vouchers therefor, or where a number of officers perform journeys under one order, and payment is made in the same month's account, it will be sufficient if the order is filed with the first voucher paid and reference thereto made on subsequent vouchers.-P. M. G., Sept. 18, 1908, 70335.

318. If transportation is furnished at the request of the officer, by a longer than the shortest usually traveled route, that fact shall appear in the quartermaster's indorsement on the orders.-Cir. 14, Q. M. D., 1907.

319. When part of a journey is performed when one statute is in force and the remainder after another statute takes effect the compensation for each part is to be at the rate provided by the statute in force when the traveling was done.-Sup. Ct., 128 U. S., 471 (case McDonald); 6 Comp., 527, Dec. 9, 1899.

320. "Having presented a mileage account to a paymaster and being dissatisfied with the amount received, it has passed out of the category of a current account and has become a contested claim, which no paymaster should be called upon to settle."Comp., July 21, 1899, Cir. 193, P. M. G. O. (Case Lt. Schumm.)

NOTE. But in cases of short payments in mileage vouchers the Paymaster-General may, pursuant to an agreement with the auditor, direct the issuance of supplemental vouchers, observing the following routine: The vouchers to be prepared in the Paymaster-General's Office by the examiner of the account and to contain the proper reference to the original voucher, which must have noted on it by the examiner the fact that supplemental vouchers have been issued.

ACTUAL EXPENSES.

321. "For all sea travel," except in the Philippine Archipelago, the Hawaiian Archipelago, the home waters of the United States, and between the United States and Alaska, "actual expenses only shall be paid to officers, contract surgeons, dental surgeons, and veterinarians, to paymasters' clerks, and to the expert accountant of the Inspector-General's Department when traveling on duty under competent orders, with or without troops, and the amount so paid shall not include any shore expenses at port of embarkation or debarkation.”—Act of June 12, 1906, 34 Stat., 247; G. O., 115, 1906. See A. R., 1299 and 1300, 1908.

322. “Hereafter actual expenses only, not to exceed four dollars and fifty cents per day and cost of transportation when not furnished by the Quartermaster's Department, shall be paid to the officers of the Army, contract surgeons, and dental surgeons when traveling on duty without troops, under competent orders, within the geographical limits of the Territory of Alaska.”—Act May 11, 1908, 35 Stat., 114; G. O., 80, 1908.

323. An officer stationed within the geographical limits of Alaska and directed to proceed to a place or places in Alaska on temporary duty and upon completion thereof to return to his station, is in the status of a traveler from the date of his departure from his regular station to the date of return thereto and for such period is entitled to his actual and necessary expenses, not to exceed $4.50 per day and cost of transportation when not furnished by the Quartermaster's Department. The fact that the route of travel between two places in Alaska may lie in part outside the geographical limits of Alaska does not entitle to mileage, as distinguished from actual expenses, as the termini of the journey govern in determining the character of the journey.

An officer directed to proceed from a place within the continental limits of the United States to a place or places within the geographical limits of Alaska for temporary duty and upon completion thereof to return to his proper station, is in the status of a traveler for the entire period, and is entitled to mileage for his journey

to and from Alaska, and to actual and necessary expenses while in Alaska, not to exceed $4.50 per day and cost of transportation when not furnished by the Quartermaster's Department.-Comp., Aug. 9, 1909, P. M. G. O., 69781 (case Capt. J. F. Hall, Medical Corps); and Oct. 14, 1909, P. M. G. O., 78500 (case J. C. Whinnery, Dental Surg.).

324. An officer on foreign service, returning to or from the United States on leave of absence, who assumes command of troops on board the transport by virtue of being the senior line officer on board, is entitled to actual expenses for the journey.—Cir., 88, W. D., Oct. 31, 1908, confirmed by Comptroller, Mar. 19, 1909.

Such accounts should contain a certificate by the officer that he assumed command by seniority under paragraph 225, Army Transport Regulations.-P. M. G., Mar. 26, 1909, 72528.

325. "An itemized statement of such expenses will be filed with each voucher for payment, using the following as a basis of what is allowable:

"1. Fares upon commercial steamers or other usual modes of conveyance by sea, and the cost of transportation for self and baggage, by boat or lighter, to and from vessels when voyages are not begun or ended at docks and a charge in addition to the cost of passage is made therefor.

"2. Cost of customary stateroom accommodations on commercial steamers when the same is not included in the charge for passage.

"3. Hire of special water transportation when there are no regular means of convey

ance.

"4. Actual cost of meals for the time actually and unavoidably consumed in the voyage when the same is not included in the charge for passage. Amount of rent of steamer chair, not exceeding $1 for trips of two days or longer on each commercial steamer, and fees to cabin and other stewards not exceeding the following: Six days or less on the Atlantic Ocean, $1.50 a day; seven to ten days, not exceeding $10; eleven to fifteen days or longer, $1 a day; total not exceeding $15. On the Pacific Ocean, fifteen days or less, $1 a day; total fees for fifteen days or longer not exceeding $15. To the West Indies, Cuba, Porto Rico, Panama, and to South American ports, $1 a day; total fees for fifteen days or longer, not exceeding $15. From the Orient to the United States, via Suez, not exceeding $25.

"5. When transhipping at an intermediate port, as a necessary incident to a continuous voyage, the actual cost of meals and lodgings, including baths, at hotels, not exceeding $6 a day, transfer of self and baggage from dock to hotel and from hotel to dock, and fees to porters for handling baggage, not exceeding $2 for each transfer, and fees to waiters and bell boys at hotels, not exceeding 50 cents for each day.

"The officer will certify on the itemized statement that the account is correct and just, and that the amounts charged therein were actually paid by him. Subvouchers, properly receipted, will be required for items of board and lodging at hotels. When not practicable to obtain such subvouchers, the officer will so certify. The payment of fees to cabin or other stewards or the rent of steamer chairs when traveling on Government transports is not authorized. Accounts for reimbursement for items not authorized herein or in excess of the amounts stated will be forwarded to the PaymasterGeneral of the Army to be submitted to the Secretary of War for his consideration and approval before payment."-A. R., 1300, 1908, as amended by G. O., 167, W. D., 1909. NOTE.-Ordinarily the cost of lodging will be regarded as pertaining to the day in which the night for which the lodging was procured began.-7 Comp., 338, Jan. 18, 1901.

326. A transportation request for sea travel on behalf of an officer traveling without troops on a vessel other than a government transport can not be issued by the Quartermaster's Department. An officer traveling by sea and not on a government transport must pay for his transportation, subject to reimbursement by the Pay Department, for the expenses actually incurred by him in the performance of the journey.-Cir. 93, W. D., 1908.

327. Tips must be itemized. The rule which requires the statement as far as possible of the items of an expense account is a rule of the accounting officers of the Treasury, and seems necessary to insure their accuracy and the enforcement of the law that only actual traveling expenses be allowed.-14 Comp., 530, Feb. 19, 1908.

328. An officer traveling from the Philippine Islands to the United States who, for his own convenience, proceeds on a commercial liner and is not furnished transportation and subsistence is entitled to reimbursement of what it would have cost the Government if he had come on a transport.-Comp., June 3, 1904, P. M. G. O., 43744. (Case Major Houston.)

DEDUCTIONS.

329. "Officers who so desire may, upon application to the Quartermaster's Department, be furnished under their orders transportation requests for the entire journey by land, exclusive of sleeping and parlor car accommodations, or by water, and the transportation so furnished shall, if travel was performed under a mileage status, be a charge against the officer's mileage account, to be deducted at the rate of three cents per mile by the paymaster paying the account, and of the amount so deducted there shall be turned over to an authorized officer of the Quartermaster's Department three cents per mile for transportation furnished, except over any railroad which is a free or fifty per centum land-grant railroad, for the credit of the appropriation for the transportation of the Army and its supplies.”—Act June 12, 1906, 34 Stat., 246; G. O., 115, 1906. See A. R., 1299, 1908.

NOTE. When an officer has been furnished sleeping-car accommodations the cost of the same must be deducted from his mileage account.

330. “When the established route of travel shall, in whole or in part, be over the line of any railroad on which the troops and supplies of the United States are entitled to be transported free of charge, or over any fifty per centum land-grant railroad, officers traveling as herein provided for shall, for the travel over such roads, be furnished with transportation requests, exclusive of sleeping and parlor car accommodations, by the Quartermaster's Department. When transportation is furnished by the Quartermaster's Department, or when the established route of travel is over any of the railroads above specified, there shall be deducted from the officer's mileage account by the paymaster paying the same three cents per mile for the distance for which transportation has been or should have been furnished."-Act June 12, 1906, 34 Stat., 247; G. O., 115, 1906. See A. R., 1299, 1908.

For land-grant map and list of railroads, see G. O., 41, 1907.

331. If an officer fails to secure transportation requests over subsidized roads, he can not be reimbursed for what it would have cost the Government had transportation requests been furnished.-Comp., Apr. 21, 1902, P. M. G. O., 30321. (Case Lt. Guy

E. Carleton.)

332. When transportation is furnished for the entire distance or for a part of the distance by a route longer than the official route, and the cost is generally known to be no greater than by the official route, or it is so certified by the quartermaster, deduction is made for the distance by the official route; if the cost is greater, deduction is made for the actual distance for which transportation is furnished plus the excess of land-grant distance on the official route over that on the route on which transportation was obtained.

The transfer to the Quartermaster's Department will be for the distance for which deduction is made, exclusive of the land-grant distance involved in such deduction.— Auditor, Apr. 25, 1907.

NOTE. When transportation is furnished by a route longer than the official route and the cost is not greater than by the official route, settlement with the Quartermaster's Department will be the same as if the transportation had been furnished by the official route. If the cost is greater the settlement with the Quartermaster's Department will be made on the basis of the route over which transportation was actually furnished.-P. M. G. O., 63038..

DISTANCES.

333, Distance between two points of travel is fixed absolutely by mileage tables prepared by the Paymaster-General, under direction of the Secretary of War, regardless of the actual distance.-7 Comp., 304, Jan. 5, 1901.

334. When travel is performed by a longer route than that usually traveled and the evidence shows it was not for the officer's personal convenience or pleasure, but that the necessities of the service demanded it, mileage may be paid for the distance actually traveled.—Comp., Dec. 19, 1902, P. M. G. O., 11826–73.

335. "All payments made by paymasters on account of mileage will be determined in accordance with distance tables officially promulgated and in use at the date of beginning of the journey. Exception to this rule will be made only when the terms of the order, or the impracticability of the shortest usually traveled route, compel the officer to take a longer route, in which case mileage will be computed over the route actually traveled.”—A. R., 1302, 1908.

336. The shortest usually traveled routes between the United States and the following places are as hereinafter indicated, and actual expenses and mileage must be computed accordingly unless other routes are traveled or specified, as contemplated in Army Regulations 1302 and 1307 of 1908: Philippine Islands via San Francisco; Porto Rico via New York City and San Juan; Cuba via New York City and Havana from points in the New England States, New York, and New Jersey; Cuba via Jacksonville, Fla., the Florida East Coast Railroad and steamer to Havana, Cuba, for all other points except that part of the State of Florida south of the Seaboard Air Line from Jacksonville to the Chattahoochee River and west of the St. Johns River, the route for the excepted part being by way of Port Tampa, Fla.-P. M. G.

IN DISTRICT.

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337. An officer who is required to travel on duty by orders from competent authority, either by express direction or necessary implication, is entitled to mileage, when the payment of mileage in lieu of actual expenses is authorized by law, notwithstanding the duties may be within his district."--6 Comp., 163, Aug. 26, 1899.

338. "An officer traveling under orders to supervise work being done in the district to which he was assigned for duty, but the supervision of which work was not required by the general order assigning him to duty, is entitled to mileage."-5 Comp., 955, June 24, 1899. (Case Capt. Harts, Eng'r Corps.)

339. Where an officer is assigned to duty at a particular place, and has duties added at another place, travel in the performance of such duties is travel within the meaning of the mileage laws; but if he is directed to perform duties at a particular place and the duties are scattered, travel in their performance is not travel within the meaning of the mileage laws.-Comp., June 18, 1902, P. M. G. O., 21256. (Case Lt. Col. Jacobs.)

INSPECTION DUTY.

340. Inspections called for by law are those indicated in Army Regulations 897, 901, of 1908, and General Order No. 7, 1903. Inspections under regulations are set forth in paragraphs 191, 898, 899, 900, 903, 911, of 1908.-P. M. G.

341. "No portion of the appropriation for mileage to officers shall be expended for inspections or investigations except such as are especially ordered by the Secretary of War, or such as are made by army and department commanders in visiting their commands, and those made by the Inspector-General's Department in pursuance of law, Army Regulations, or orders issued by the Secretary of War."-Act Aug. 6, 1894, 28 Stat., 237; G. O., 32, 1894. See A. R., 1304, 1908.

"But the commanding general of the Philippines Division may issue orders in the name of the Secretary of War involving travel to investigate claims for property, damages, buildings, and other property and important investigations in the Philippine Islands."-A. R., 1304, 1908.

342. "Each department commander will inspect the troops under his command at least once each year, and for this purpose he may be accompanied by one officer of his personal or the department staff."-A. R., 191, 1908.

343. "Commanders of artillery districts have no authority to issue orders to officers carrying mileage to and from posts within the districts under their command."—A. R., 1306, 1908.

But an artillery district commander may order a member of his staff to accompany him when traveling to inspect the posts in his district, if authority therefor be given by the Secretary of War.-J. A. G., Apr. 18, 1903.

No travel orders will be issued for these inspections unless government transportation is not available for making them, in which case application will be made through military channels to The Adjutant-General of the Army for travel orders for such inspections as are deemed necessary.-G. O., 184, 1908.

344. "Special inspections and investigations within the limits of a command (territorial or tactical) may be made under orders of the commander thereof; but in all cases involving travel his selection of officers to perform such duty shall be restricted to inspectors-general, acting inspectors-general, or officers of the General Staff Corps on duty as such, at his headquarters under War Department assignment."-A. R., 896,

1908.

345. An order to a staff officer for inspection duty, issued by the commanding general of a department "under instructions from The Adjutant-General" is competent for mileage.-P. M. G., Aug. 11, 1905.

346. "Officers of the Army detailed to inspection duty under the provisions of the militia act of January 21, 1903, whose expenses are in excess of the mileage accruing for such inspection travel, will forward to the Paymaster-General of the Army two signed mileage accounts, two copies of the orders and approved itinerary, etc., and duplicate detailed statement of the actual and necessary expense incurred, using the following as a basis of what is allowable:

"1. Fares upon railroads, steamers, or other usual modes of conveyance, including the actual cost of transportation of personal baggage not in excess of 150 pounds to each purchased ticket whenever an extra charge is made therefor.

"2. Cost of seat in parlor car, one double berth in sleeping car, or customary accommodations on steamer, where same are not included in the travel fare, and fees to porters or to stewards, not to exceed twenty-five cents for each twelve hours or fraction thereof of actual travel.

"3. Hire of special transportation, either by land or water, where there are no regular means of conveyance. Ferriage, tolls, driver's service, and horse keeping, when transportation is hired. Subvouchers, properly receipted, will be required for these items when they exceed one dollar. When not practicable to obtain such subvouchers the officer will so certify.

"4. Transfer coach fare en route to and from depots and hotels, or, when there are no such conveyances, moderate and necessary hack hire not to exceed the authorized local rates, and the cost of transfers of baggage, not to exceed $1 for each transfer. Items of hack hire require explanation as to the distance and the necessity for same. "5. The actual cost of meals while traveling, where same are not included in the travel fare, the actual cost of meals and lodgings at hotels, and the cost of baths and laundry will be allowed to an aggregate of not to exceed an average of $6 a day for the time actually and unavoidably consumed in making the inspections, the period to be

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