By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 7 of the act of August 2 1946, Public Law 600-79th Congress, I hereby prescribe the following regulations governing the expenses of travel of new appointees, expenses of transportation of their immediate families and expenses of transportation of their household goods and personal effects from places of actual residence at time of appointment to places of employment outside continental United States and for such expenses on return of employees from their posts of duty outside continental United States to places of their actual residence at time of assignment to duty outside the United States.
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Executive Order 9778—Regulations Governing Travel and Transportation Expenses of New Appointees to Positions in the...
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