ia] A 
Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, Navy Department, Washington, D. C., 
upon properly certified bills, after inspection and acceptance of 
the material, the responsibility of seeing that the invoices were 
~eceived promptly by the bureau or office of the Government speci- 
fied in the contract was that of the contractor, and its contention 
that the deduction of discount for prompt payment should not have 
been made in view of the respective dates the invoices were received 
at the office of the inspector of naval material in New York, N. Y., 
is not tenable. 
A-29021, page 167: Subsistence — Meals Taken After Arrival at 

"Par. 62 of the Standardized Government Travel Regulations authori- 
zing reimbursement for meals taken by employees while en route to 
or from an official station when the departure is before or the ar— 
rival after certain specified hours can not be construed to author— 
ize reimbursement for meals not taken en route to or from an em— 
ployees' official station, but taken at his official station. 
A-29269, page 168: Compensation — Travel Expenses — Temporary 
Employees As Witnesses Before Federal Grand Juries. 
"A temporary employee of the Civil Service Commission subpoenaed to 
appear to testify on behalf of the Government is entitled to his 
regular compensation for the time necessarily absent from his regu— 
lar work. 
"A temporary employee of the Civil Service Commission subpoenaed 
tO appear to testify on behalf of the Government is not entitled to 
witness fees or mileage, but is entitled to his necessary expenses, 
under the Standardized Government Travel Regulations, in going, re- 
turning, and while necessarily at the place where the jury isha 
session." 
A--28586, page 111: Compensation — Deceased Employees. 
"Payment may be made to the one legally entitled thereto of the 
compensation due a deceased employee of the United States up to and 
including the date of death, but payment may not be made to include 
any date later than that on which the employee was last known to be 
alive. 
Vol. 8, A-24566, page 170: Traveling Expenses — Division of — Gasoline 
ee re oe 
Tax. 
"Where an employee of the United States is traveling on official 
business in his private automobile and is accompanied by a person 
other than an employee of the United States, the employee may be 
reimbursed for one-half of the expenditures for gasoline exclusive 
of the State tax. No reimbursement of the State tax may be made 
to such employee. 
A-2473), page 183: Transportation Requests. 
"Where the owners or operators of ferries at isolated points object 
or refuse to accept Government transportation requests, the traveler 
