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C00214 1 (1915-04-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadbxq0001 and id is 1 raw text is: DECISIONS OF THE COMPTROLLER. disbursing officer present to regularly pay them their salary and emoluments. The Navy Regilations should be amended to meet the above re- (uirement of law. As this practice of making advances to naval officers is one of long standing, no further action will be taken by this office until the Sec- retary of the Navy has had time to amend the regulations in accord- ance with this decision. PURCHASE OF DRINKING WATER FOR USE IN GOVERNMENT OFFICES. The cost of distilled or other special drinking water furnished to a Government office located in a prIvate office building through a central water-cooling plant is a proper charge against the Government where the service is not a special service but merely one that Is rendered alike to all the tenants of the building. Comptroller Downey to A. Zappone, disbursing clerk, Department of Agriculture, April 21, 1815: I have your letter of the 14th instant in which you ask whether, in view of the decision of this office of November 16, 1914 (21 Comp. Dec., 319), there may lawfully be paid a charge of $1.40 for distilled drinking water, as evidenced by a subvoucher to a voucher herewith returned covering certain station expenses, etc., incurred in January, 1915, by Dr. Thomas A. Bray, inspector in charge of the station of the Bureau of Animal Industry at El Paso, Tex. With your letter you also inclose a copy of a letter addressed to you by the Auditor for the State and Other Departments relative to the character of the evidence necessary to support a charge of the nature here in question and request to be advised as to whether payment should be refused generally of items for drinking water purchased for use of local offices in the field unless the same are supported by evidence that wholesome water can not be obtained without expense and evidence of unwholesomeness of the water supply of the locality as indicated by the auditor. With respect to your first inquiry you are advised that the decision cited by you (21 Comp. Dec., 319) has no direct bearing on the pres- ent case, and that, in view of the fact that circumstances may exist in certain localities rendering the purchase of drinking water at Government expense necessary as a means of safeguarding the health of Government employees there stationed, no hard-and-fast rule can be laid down with respect to the propriety or legality of such charges further than to say that reimbursement of an expenditure made for the purpose indicated should be allowed only when the necessity for such expenditure is clearly established. 739

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