Regulations Governing the Granting of Allowances for Quarters and Subsistence to Enlisted Men of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard, and Per Diem Allowances to Members of Such Services and Coast and Geodetic Survey and Public Health Service on Duty Outside the Continental United States or in Alaska

Signed by Harry S. Truman on July 8, 1947.

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  title        = {{Executive Order 9871: Regulations Governing the Granting of Allowances for Quarters and Subsistence to Enlisted Men of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard, and Per Diem Allowances to Members of Such Services and Coast and Geodetic Survey and Public He…}},
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Supersedes EO 9386, October 15, 1943; EO 9744-C, June 29, 1946; EO 9825, January 30, 1947

Amended by EO 9976, July 12, 1948; EO 10061, June 2, 1949

See EO 9561, June 1, 1945; Transfer Order 25 of the Secretary of Defense dated October 14, 1948 (13 FR 6270)

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