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A-25361, page 454: Coupon Books for the Procurement of Qasoline 
and Oil. 
"The purchase on behalf of the Government of coupon books to be 
used in the procurement of gasoline and oil incident to the opera— 
tion of an automobile under Government control is not authorized, as 
such purchase involves the payment for supplies in advance of de— 
livery in contravention of section 5648, Revised Statutes. 
"Reimbursement may not be made of the value of a coupon book for the 
procurement of gasoline and oil alleged to have been used by an en-— 
ployee traveling under orders, in the absence of satisfactory evi- 
dence as to the time, place, quantity, or price of the gasoline and 
Oil that were furnished in exchange for the coupons detached from 
the book, and that the gasoline and oil were used on the official 
travel. 
A-26319, page 484: Transportation — Lanc-Grant Deductions — Ex- 
press_Shipmrents. 3 
"Under the reorganization plan of express service pursuant to which 
Railway Express Agency, Inc., was organized to perform express sery— 
ice as an agency of participating railroads beginning March 1, 1929, 
charges for express services by such agency are subject to land- 
grant deductions the same as if the service by such agency were per— 
formed by the participating railroads subject to land-grant laws. 
A-26259, page 534: Traveling Expenses — Employee Directed to 
Take Physical Examination with View to Retirement. 
"Where an employee of the Government travels for the purpose of 
taking a physical examination with a view to possible retirement, 
without the direction of the Commissioner of Pensions though under 
the direction of the administrative head of the office in which en— 
ployed, such employee is not entitled to reimbursement of expenses 
so incurred. 
A-26960, page 565: Traveling Expenses - Excess Baggage — Govern— 
nent Property. 
"When an employee traveling on official business is required by the 
nature of such business to carry with him instruments and other 
Government property in excess of what one porter could ordinarily 
handle and of such nature that it can not be intrusted to transfer 
companies he may be allowed reimbursement for additional fees to the 
several porters necessary to handle such equipment at stations and 
hotels, at not exceeding the rates specified in par. 99 (c) of the 
Standardized Government Travel Regulations. 
A-25515, page 570: Traveling Expenses - Vedisal Treatment _— Em— 
Dloyees Injured Coincicent with Termination of Travel Status. 
"An employee who is injured coincident with the termination of his 
official duty in a travel status may be reimbursed from the adminis-— 
trative appropriation available for traveling expenses for the ex- 
pense incurred in returning to his headquarters, even though the 
trip is delayed due to the injury, in an amount not to exceed the 
amount that should have been incurred if the employee had returned 
uninjured immediately after the completion of his official duties by 
the shortest usually traveled route. 6 Comp. Gen. 278 distinguished." 
