Allowance for subsistence.
Section 13
SEC. 13. Allowance for subsistence.— The provisions of this Act or any other existing law to the contrary notwithstanding, no officer or employee of the National Government shall be given subsistence chargeable against the appropriation herein provided, except the following: (a) Marine officers, engineers and crew of the government vessels, launches, and motor boats, who shall take their meals in the mess on board the vessels, launches, or motorboats when on duty during meal time; (b) Lightkeepers who shall be furnished raw food materials; (c) Those officials and employees who have been granted subsistence heretofore, at the discretion of the Department Head concerned, when required to render continuous service and covering meal time at not to exceed one-third subsistence for every meal time, allow ing full subsistence when required to live within the premises of hospitals, prisons, Philippine Army bar racks training schools, leper institutions or similar insti tutions to make their services available at any and all time: PROVIDED, That said subsistence shall be fur nished in kind, requiring those entitled thereto to take their meals in the mess provided therefor and main tained at the expense of the Government and under no condition shall the same be commuted or paid in cash or given in raw foodstuffs, except as otherwise provided in this section in the case of lightkeepers, and except further that commutation of subsistence may be granted to enlisted men of the Philippine Army as provided in the Army regulations, and the following officers and employees heretofore allowed such commu tation at rates not exceeding one-half of the correspond ing per diems prescribed in section 12 hereof: (1) District nurses of the Bureau of Health and nurse-social workers of the Bureau of Public Welfare in Manila not assigned to any particular institution; (2) Officers and employees in leper institutions; (3) The Director and Assistant Director of Pri sons, physicians, pharmacists, dentists, sanitary inspec tors, attendants and nurses of the Bureau of Prisons; (4) Officials and employees of the Insular Psy chopathic Hospital and Welfareville; and (5) Employees of the Bureau of Quarantine Serv ice at thirty-six centavos daily.