Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1919 — TRAVEL PAY TO DISCHARGED MEN IS INCREASED. [ARTICLE]

TRAVEL PAY TO DISCHARGED MEN IS INCREASED.

“Public law 300, approved February 28th, 1919, entitled every enlisted man discharged from the Army, Navy, or Marine Corps after November 11, 1918, to five cents per mile from place of his discharge to his actual bonafide home or residence or original muster into the service at his option. “Men discharged hereafter will receive five cents per mile to place of induction into the service. Men already discharged will eventually be reimbursed for the difference between the travel pay they then received and the amount to which they are not entitled. Advise all discharged men to delay applying for such reimbursement until specific instructions have been issued by the Directors of Finance as to how this application should be made.” These specific instructions can not je given until an expected opinion of the Comptroller of the Treasury las been rendered construing the words quoted above.