MY. DEAR MR. SECRETARY:

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81-00755R000200110103-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 24, 2000
• Sequence Number: 103
• Publication Date: June 29, 1943
• Content Type: LETTER

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this east me more than 98 a day.
e4f course I have become accustomed to digging deep into my own
had to pay for what amounted to office space for the short
Was in New York,"
ling expenses to civilian officers and employees
of to Government while traveling on official business is controlled by
statute and the Standardised Government Travel Regulations promulgated by
the President. In fixing the amount that may be reimbursed neither the
Congress nor the President has deemed it necessary or advisable to make
any distinction between officers and employees based. upon `.heir rank or
upon the importance of the duties to be performed. Subsistence, that is,
"lodging, meals, and other necessary expenses incidental to the personal
sustenance or comfort of the traveler' (quoting from section 2 of the act
of June 3, 1926, 44 Stat, 888, defining the term, "Bubsistenee") is fixed
by law on a oc utation basis at not to exceed the rate of $6 per diem for
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P%1WAM'WSTATES
Washington
able,
oretaryt
kW letter of June 33, 1943, as follows,
in bringing the operators and mine workers together on an
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travel within the limits of the continental Unit
a, In that
ion, an section S of the Subsistence )kpense Act of 1988, as
wended by the act of January 30, 1942, 58 Stat. 39, providing$
'Qivilten officers and employees of the departments and establish..
tensed atralrate not to mooed 1'8 within the limits of the
nP *7 hevnnd the
toe and all fees or tips to porters and stewards, a per diem
a continental United States.
of subsistence that properly are chargeable against the
roumztation aliowanoo of $8 per diem provided by law and regulations for
With respect to the use of hotel space for conference purposes
loo, paragraphs 44-51 of the Standardized loverrmsent Travel Regula-
;and, of course, that there is no authori
to make any axoeptions for any reason in the consideration a
ragraph 78 of tie Standardized t3overnnent travel
Regulations, providingt
"Hire of room for official use.-.'When necessary to engage a room at
a hotel or other place in order to transact official business, a separate
charge therefor will be allowed when authorised or approved by the
administrative official, (see par. 80 (!.).)a
Paragraph SO (1) of the regulations cited intbe shove-quoted regulations
receipt (when practicable to obtain) for *Rental of rooms for
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unt paid for the hireof a roo?i for official use under
of the quoted regulation is not required to be charged
against the traveler's subs stenos allowance of #8 per diem, but is
of expense that may be reimbursed the traveler.
rr.se of the trip to which you refer otherwise
charge against appropriated funds, you are entitled to
sement for the cost of necessary space used for oonferena0
sis of your arm certificate, in addition to your
elaim for per diems in lieu of subsistence at the rate of 16, It would
equitable and proper that the claim for hire of office space be
the charge made for the suite you occupied, 1040 such amount as would
have been charged you for a single room at the same hotel for lodging
purposes.
I trust the foregoing will be found helpful in the presaiation of
your expense account for the trip.
Respectfully*
LivAsay C. Warren
Comptroller General
of the flatted States,
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