50152 50152 BONDING OF AGENT OFFICERS 1. Post supply officers at posts where there is no disbursing officer, commanding officers of posts where there are neither disbursing nor supply officers, recruiting officers, and others who are required to advance cash for subsistence, lodging, transfers in connection with transportation, and minor repairs to motor vehicles on the road under power will secure such cash on requisition from the disbursing office of the supply department carrying the pay accounts of the post or station concerned, and will act as agents of such disbursing officers. All such officers acting as agents of disbursing officers will give bond in the sum of $2,000. Where the size of the agent's fund justifies, the disbursing officer concerned may require that the bond be increased to an amount not in excess of $10,000. 50153 PROCEDURE FOR BONDING 1. An individual required to be bonded will submit to the Commandant of the Marine Corps (Code CDA) a request for bond application, via the disbursing officer or supply officer whom he represents, if applicable. The individual may state in his request the surety company he prefers. If no surety is selected by the applicant, the Commandant of the Marine Corps will select one of the approved corporate sureties. 2. An application blank (original only) of the surety company selected and a partially executed Official Bond, in duplicate, will be furnished the applicant. The application blank must be executed in full by the applicant. check or money order made payable to the surety, to cover payment of the first year's premium must be attached to the application blank. A 3. The Official Bond will be legibly signed in duplicate by the principal. Two witnesses are required as to the principal's signature; the signature and the address of each witness must be legible. 4. A disbursing officer or a deputy of a disbursing officer will be furnished three signature cards for completion in his own handwriting. The signature indicated on the signature cards. as the officer's official signature must correspond with his signature on the Official Bond. The signature on the Official Bond is the official signature and must be used in signing Treasury 5. When an officer being bonded is also being 6. All papers required by subparagraphs 2, 3, 4, and 5 will be forwarded to the Commandant of the Marine Corps Code (Code CDA). 50154 SURETIES 1. A bond on which the sureties are individuals must be signed by not less than two sureties, at least one of whom must qualify in a sum, over and above all exemptions, debts, and legal liabilities, not less than the full amount of the bond; if there are but two sureties, the second must also qualify in like amount; or in lieu of a second surety for the whole amount, two or more individuals will be accepted, provided the aggregate amount for which they qualify be not less than the full amount of the bond. Each surety must make affidavit stating the value of his or her property over and above all exemptions, debts, and legal liabilities. The affidavit must also contain the place of resident of the surety. In case a married woman should be offered as surety, an additional certificate will be required to the effect that such surety holds the property in her own right, and is competent under the laws of the State in which she resides to bind herself as surety in such case. The sufficiency of the sureties must be certified to by a judge or clerk of a United States court or by a United States attorney, preferably for the district in which such sureties reside. Where the sureties are individuals, an affidavit of surety on the prescribed Treasury Department form must be submitted at the end of 2 years. 2. Under the provisions of title 6 U. S. C. 6-8, a surety or guarantee company, duly certified by the Secretary of the Treasury as having complied with the requirements of said Act, and by him authorized to do business thereunder, and having a duly appointed agent in the District of Columbia, will be accepted as sole surety Ch. 2 7/51 51016 MESS STEWARDS ASSIGNED TO OFFICERS' QUARTERS 1. When enlisted personnel are legally assigned to the quarters of an officer as mess stewards and subsisted therein, the commuted value of the ration at the rate prescribed by law will be paid monthly to the officer, except when a mess steward is entitled to the payment of leave rations, see chapter 78. 2. Uncooked foods will not under any circumstances be issued to officers' stewards in lieu of commuted rations. 3. Nothing herein shall be construed as prohibiting any mess steward from being regularly subsisted in the general mess, if so desired by the officer concerned. However, when any mess steward legally assigned to the quarters of an officer is regularly subsisted in a general mess, no right to payment of the commuted value of such mess steward's ration shall accrue to the officer. 51017 SUBSISTENCE FOR OTHER BRANCHES OF THE ARMED SERVICES 1. At stations where enlisted personnel of other departments of the Department of Defense are subsisted by the Marine Corps on competent authority, the cost of such rations furnished will be the unit ration value in effect on the day such rations are furnished. 2. Supernumerary rations furnished to organizations, units, or personnel of the Departments of the Army or Air Force shall be accounted for as follows: Receipts covering meals furnished such personnel shall be obtained from the officer or noncommissioned officer in charge, using Form NAVMC 33-SD, prepared in sufficient copies to comply with the provisions of paragraph 54302, indicating thereon the number, unit cost, and total of the meals furnished and a brief statement indicating the authority (orders) or 1. A detachment of marines traveling on duty under orders on a vessel of the Army Transport Service will be quartered and subsisted in the same manner as troops of the army traveling thereon. The commanding officer of the marine detachment will certify to the proper transport officer the total number of rations drawn. Settlement for this subsistence will be made by the Quartermaster General of the Marine Corps, with the Army submitting proper bills, using Standard Form 1080, upon which should be stated the number of personnel transported, the number of rations furnished, showing first and last meal, with dates, char acter, and unit prices of rations, a copy of the order for each individual transported, and a receipt from the officers or other persons in charge of the Marine detachment that the travel actually has been performed as stated. 51019 ACCOUNTABILITY FOR RATIONS FURNISHED FIELD HOSPITALS 1. On expeditionary service, when field hospitals are established under a Marine Corps command, personnel attached thereto and patients shall be subsisted in the following manner: a. The field hospital will be given credit of one ration per day for each patient subsisted, officers as well as enlisted personnel, at the current value of the Marine Corps ration. If, at the end of the month, it is found that the value of subsistence stores drawn from the Marine Corps by the hospital mess are in excess of the above mentioned credit, such excess will be covered by an invoice by money value on which the Marine Corps will obtain reimbursement by transfer of funds from the appropriation "Medical Department, Navy" to the appropriation "General Expenses, Marine Corps." b. Officers of the Marine Corps and Navy who are patients in a field hospital shall be charged the actual cost of the patient's mess ration. When the value of the patient's mess ration exceeds the value of the established Marine Corps ration, the amount collected by checkage against the individual's pay record will be shown in two amounts-one amount for the value of the established Marine Corps ration and credited to "General Expenses, Marine Corps," and the excess amount credited to "Medical Department, Navy." c. Enlisted personnel of the Navy attached to a field hospital shall be fed in the general mess, and reimbursement at the value of the ration, whether computed or fixed, shall be effected by a transfer of funds. 51020 RESPONSIBILITY FOR RATIONS WHEN SERVING WITH THE ARMY 1. Rations will be furnished by the Quartermaster Corps of the Department of the Army to officers and enlisted personnel of the Marine Corps when acting or proceeding to act in cooperation with the land forces of the United States, in conformity with the requirements of Section 1143 of the Revised Statutes. (10 U.S. C. 75.) Ch. 2 7/51 |