Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-12-10
Travel Pay OH Discharge.

Circular S., Nov. %, 1918. i%nstruc-
lions for final payment of officers and
enlisted men separated from active
service in the rehabilitation OF the
present army. In addition to direct
ing pay officers as TO the manner of
filling out the payrolls; stating how
and where officers and men are to be
paid, and how financial accountability
OF officers is to be guarded, the cir
GUAR gives instructions as to the
course to be pursued in the matter of
reporting on unfinished Liberty Loan
contracts on allotment. The circular
has the following to say regarding
travel pay:
Officers actually holding commits
slons in the reserve corps if discharg-
ed are entitled to pay to include date
OF discharge and to travel pay at the
rate of 4 cents per mile. Upon dis
cnargc they may be paid final pay in
Guiding travel pay before leaving post
or camp if the requirements herein
after prescribed as to non-indebted-
ness are complied with.
Reserve officers ordered to their
homes there to stand relieved from
active service are entitled to pay to
include date necessary to reach their
homes and to mileage at Z cents per
mile. Reserve officers returned to an
inactive status may be paid final pay
due them before leaving camp if they
can reach home on the date their re-
lief at the post or camp become effec-
tive. In cases where they cannot
reach home on date or relief from
duty at post or camp. they cannot be
paid final pay until sufficient time has
elapsed to permit them to reach
home. The mileage of I cents per
mile due a reserve officer upon re-
turn from active service to inactive
service cannot be claimed or paid
prior to his having actually performed
the travel enjoined. When the travel
is performed he sho<d prepare the
usual mileage voucher, War Dept.
Form 1881, to cover such travel and
send it for settlement to the quarter
master of the amp from which he
was relieved. Officers discharged Gas
distinguished from reserve officers or
dered to inactive status) who are pre-
Guided from drawing final pay at
place of discharge will, if they desire,
be paid the travel pay of 1 cents per
mile due them.
Travel pay at the rate of three
and one-half cents per mile will be
PAID from place an enlisted man is
separated from active service as fol-
lows: Men who enlisted in the regu-
lar army, or men who enlisted in an
organization of the National Guard
after it has been called into federal
service-to the place Of acceptance
for enlistment. Men indicted under
the selective service regulations-to
the place of induction. Men who be-
longed to the National Guard prior to
its being called or drafted into fed
eral service and reported for active
+ FEDERAL service as members of such
National Guard organizations under
call or draft by the President-to the
nome rendezvous of the organization
with Which they reported for present
tour of federal service. Men who had
been furloughed from the regular
army to the reserve from which they
were called to active duty and are
now again furloughed to the reserve
or discharged-to the place at which
they received the call or notice re-
curing them to report again for ac-
tive service. Men of the enlisted re-
serve corps who were called to active
service and are relieved from such &C
tive service and placed back in the re-
serve on inactive status or DISCHARGED
to the place at which they received
the call or notice to report for active
service. Men will be paid full travel
/ a due them Notwithstanding that
they may not'be paid in full Or that
stoppages exceed total amount other
wise due them"
LIBERTY BONDS.