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

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PRIVATE DETACHMENT MESSES

1. When private messes are organized and operated on United States Government property by personnel drawing a monetary subsistence allowance as provided by paragraph 51003, the noncommissioned officer in charge of such mess will keep a cash book supported by the necessary receipt and expenditure vouchers. The accounts of the mess will be submitted to the commanding officer once each month and upon relief of the custodian of the account.

2. Such messes have no official status. However, it is considered appropriate that commanding officers should examine the accounts with a view to protecting the interests of the individual members and to ascertain that all bills are promptly paid.

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b. That requiring such purchases to be made from local civilian source would cause undue hardships to personnel concerned.

c. That the sale of provisions will not in any way adversely affect the quantity or quality of the stores furnished the general messes.

d. That separate storage facilities are ¡available for the storage of dry stores and fresh provisions other than the facilities provided the general mess for the storage of subsistence

stores.

2. Stores procured primarily for issue to the general mess may be sold to regularly established officers' and noncommissioned officers'

messes.

3. Sales and/or transfers to activities of the Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Army, Air Force, other departments of the Government, state maritime academies, merchant vessels of the maritime commission and contractors operating Navy owned tankers will be made at the unit price of the article.

4. sales to persons other than those listed in subparagraph 3 above will be made at cost price plus three percent. After three percent has been added to the cost price, any resulting fractions in the result will be considered as one cent.

5. All purchases by individual patrons shall be made for cash, except where charge sales are specifically authorized in overseas areas by the Secretary of the Navy. Charge sales may be made to official organizations and resale activities other than concessionaires, which are in operation at a post or station for uniformed personnel on active duty.

6. Where sales commissaries are not operated, each activity making sales of provisions will use

Sales Slips, Form NAVMC-734-SD in all These slips will be numbered serially

cases.

and copies retained until the accounts have been audited by the Supply Department Audit and Inventory Team. Purchases of apparently excessive quantities of provisions will be reported by the supply officer concerned to the commanding officer, who will cause them to be investigated to satisfy himself that only those entitled to the sale privilege are being supplied. Such sales will be limited to stock ordinarily carried for issue to general messes. Miscellaneous articles will not be procured exclusively for sales purposes without special authority from the Quartermaster General of the Marine Corps.

7. At activities where a Navy commissary store is operated, but does not sell fresh bread, fresh, smoked and salted meats, these components of the ration may be sold by the supply officer as authorized in this paragraph. Fresh meats will be sold by the supply officer only in quantity and in such proportions of the various cuts as will not deprive the general messes of an equitable proportion of the choice cuts.

8. Under no circumstances will subsistence stores that have been issued to a general mess for consumption be sold to anyone.

9. Articles purchased by the Marine Corps by net weight will be sold at net weight at the time of sale. Where the weight of a wrapper or cover was included in the weight of an article at the time of purchase, it will be included in the weight when the article is sold. Articles in cartons, packets, or sealed cans will be sold as purchased. Stores longest on hand will, if in good condition, be sold first.

10. The commanding officer will regulate the sale and delivery of supplies. Resale or bartering of supplies by individuals is forbidden.

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51054 SALES OF EMPTY CONTAINERS

AND GARBAGE

1. Proceeds from sales of empty food containers will be deposited in the Treasury as "Miscellaneous Receipts," except in cases where such containers are returned in accordance with the terms of a contract, when the refund will be deposited to the credit of the appropriation which stands charged with their cost. Such sales will be reported as separate entry on Form NAVMC-563-SD as illustrated in figure 51-6. 2. For the disposal of garbage, tallow, and bones, see disposal of surplus property, Chapter 60. For contracts, preparation of proposals, etc., in connection with the disposal of garbage, tallow, and bones, see Chapter 55.

3. All nonreturnable barrels, egg crates, glass jars, textile bags, vegetable and fruit lugs or crates, paper cartons, etc., emanating from Food Service activities, other than commissary stores, shall be salvaged and turned in to the nearest authorized selling activity for disposition in the best interests of the Government (see paragraph 60052). Officers in Charge of Food Service activities, other than the Officers in Charge of Commissary Stores, will certify monthly to the Supply Officer that all materials mentioned herein have been salvaged and disposed of as required by these regulations (see paragraph 51061).

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DAILY RATION STATEMENT

1. The commanding officer shall prepare the Daily Ration Statement, Form NAVMC-565SD, and will be responsible for its correctness. The Daily Ration Statement is prepared for the twenty-four-hour period beginning at 0001 and ending at 2400. The Daily Ration Statement will be submitted to the local supply officer as soon after 2400 as practicable, normally no later than 1000 of the first working day following the twenty-four-hour period to be covered. The date shown on this statement will be the date of the period covered by the statement. One copy of this statement will be furnished the mess officer.

2. The Daily Ration Statement will be summarized by the commanding officer each month on a Monthly Ration Memorandum, Form

Supply

NAVMC-828-SD. The commanding officer shall be responsible for the preparation and verification of this report to insure that the entries in column "Total Rations Claimed" and those reported to the post supply officer on Form NAVMC-565-SD agree.

3. One ration will be allowed for each person actually present for rations, including personnel granted liberty for which a leave-ration is not paid, and personnel absent for any reason who consume at least one meal at the post.

4. When personnel are transferred from one Marine Corps post, organization, or mess to another, credit for rations will be taken on the basis of the number of meals furnished, three meals constituting a ration. For example: If ten individuals are transferred after breakfast, credit will be taken for three rations by the post organization or mess furnishing the breakfast. No credit will be taken for fractional parts of rations due to personnel transferred or joined.

5. In cases of personnel transferred to or going from naval vessels, or organizations subsisted by the Navy, credit for rations for the day of transfer will be taken by the ship, post, or organization from which transferred, unless the transfer is made before breakfast.

6. In computing the number of days patients are subsisted in hospitals, the day of admission shall be disregarded and the day of discharge shall be included.