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Actual expenses and per diem allowance under this section for any travel performed within the limits of continental United States shall be in accordance with the rates prescribed in sections 3 and 4 of this act. Sec. 5, act of June 3, 1926 (44 Stat. 689).

The heads of departments and establishments may prescribe a per diem allowance of not to exceed $7 in lieu of the actual expenses authorized by section 5. Sec. 6, act of June 3, 1926 (44 Stat. 689).

The allowance and payment of actual expenses and the fixing and payment of per diem allowance, or portions thereof, shall be in accordance with regulations which shall be promulgated by the heads of departments and establishments, and which shall be standardized as far as practicable, and shall not be effective until approved by the President of the United States. Sec. 7, act of June 3, 1926 (44 Stat. 689).

The heads of departments and establishments, under regulations which shall be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury for the protection of the United States, may advance through the proper disbursing officers from applicable appropriations to any person entitled to actual expenses or per diem allowance under this act such sums as may be deemed advisable considering the character and probable duration of the travel to be performed. Any sums so advanced shall be recovered from the person to whom advanced, or his estate, by deduction from any amount due from the United States or by such other legal method of recovery as may be necessary. Sec. 8, act of June 3, 1926 (44 Stat. 689).

All laws or parts of laws which are inconsistent with or in conflict with the provisions of this act, except such laws or parts of law as specially fix or now permit rates higher than the maximum rates established in this act, are hereby repealed or modified only to the extent of such inconsistency or conflict. Sec. 9, act of June 3, 1926 (44 Stat. 689).

Sections 10-13 are omitted as not affecting the Military Establishment or as temporary. An Executive order of August 11, 1926 (found in Bulletin No. 9, W. D., Sept. 15, 1926), has been issued under the provisions of sec. 7, above.

Appropriations for subsistence and transportation of the Army are now found under the heading "Quartermaster Corps," in the annual War Department appropriation acts. (C. M. L. No. 6, Oct. 1, 1926.)

94. Add new paragraph:

That in all cases in which, under the laws of the United States, oaths are authorized or required to be administered, they may be administered by notaries public duly appointed in any State, District, or Territory of the United States, by clerks and prothonotaries of courts of record of any such State, District, or Territory, by the deputies of such clerks and prothonotaries, and by all magistrates authorized by the laws of or pertaining to any such State, District, or Territory to administer oaths. Act of July 3, 1926 (44 Stat. 830). (C. M. L. No. 6, Oct. 1, 1926.)

110. Strike out present paragraph (except title) and insert new paragraph and note:

All employees to whom this act applies who, before its effective date, shall have attained or shall thereafter attain the age of seventy years and rendered at least fifteen years of service computed as prescribed in section 5 of this act shall be eligible for retirement on an annuity as provided in section 4 hereof: Provided, That city, rural, and village letter carriers, post-office clerks, sea post clerks, laborers, and mechanics generally shall, under like conditions, be -eligible for retirement at sixty-five years of age and that railway postal clerks

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and those employees engaged in pursuits whose occupation is hazardous or requires great physical effort, or which necessitates exposure to extreme heat or cold, and those employees whose terms of service shall include fifteen years or more of such service rendered in the Tropics, shall be eligible at sixty-two years of age; the classification of employees for the purpose of assignment to the various age groups shall be determined jointly by the Civil Service Commission and the head of the department, branch, or independent office of the Government concerned: Provided further, That any such employee who was employed as a mechanic for the major portion of his service, and not less than fifteen years, and was subsequent to August 20, 1920, involuntarily transferred to employment as a laborer and thereafter involuntarily discharged from the service of the United States, shall receive such annuity as he would have been entitled to, if on the day of his discharge from the service he had been retired under the provisions of this act: Provided further, That any mechanic, having served thirty years, who was, through no fault of his own, transferred or reduced to a minor position, and who shall have attained, or who shall thereafter attain the age of sixty-two years, shall have his annuity computed upon his average annual basic salary, pay, or compensation, for the last ten years of his service as a mechanic. * * Sec. 1, act of July 3, 1926 (44 Stat. 904).

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In this and the four following sections affected by these Changes are reproduced parts of an act generally amending the act of May 22, 1920, which provided for the retirement of employees in the classified civil service. The entire act is too long to be set forth in these Changes but should be consulted for such important provisions as those relating to computation of accredited service, medical examinations, refunds on involuntary separation from the service or transfer to positions not within the purview of the act, payment of annuities and applications therefor, and various other matters connected with this comparatively new legislation. (C. M. L. No. 6, Oct. 1, 1926.)

1101⁄2. Add new paragraphs and note:

Employees to whom act applies.-This act shall apply to the following employees and groups of employees:

(a) All employees in the classified civil service of the United States, including all persons who have been heretofore or may hereafter be given a competitive status in the classified civil service, with or without competitive examination, by legislative enactment, or under civil-service rules promulgated by the President, or by Executive orders covering into the competitive classified service groups of employees with their positions, or authorizing the appointment of individuals to positions within such service.

(b) Superintendents of United States national cemeteries.

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(c) All employees of the Panama Canal on the Isthmus of Panama who are citizens of the United States and whose tenure of employment is not intermittent nor of uncertain duration.

(d) Unclassified employees of the United States in all cities and in all establishments or offices in which appointments are made under labor regulations approved by the President, or from subclerical or other registers for the classified service; and unclassified employees transferred from classified positions: Provided, That these groups shall include only those employees whose tenure of employment is not intermittent nor of uncertain duration.

(f) All employees and groups of employees to whom the benefits of the act of May 22, 1920, and amendments thereof, shall have been extended by Executive orders.

This act shall not apply

to such employees or groups of employees

as may have been before the effective date of this act excluded by Executive orders from the benefits of the act of May 22, 1920, and amendments thereof.