Ration supplies may be purchased by the cabin, wardroom, warrant officers’, and other authorized messes and payment therefor made in cash to the commissary officer. The prices to be charged for such supplies shall not be less than the invoice prices, and the cash received from such sales shall be accounted for on the ration return and may be expended for the general mess.
(Aug. 4, 1949, ch. 393, 63 Stat. 533, § 479; renumbered § 2774, Pub. L. 115–282, title I, § 116(b), Dec. 4, 2018, 132 Stat. 4226.)