UNDER LEGISLATIVE.

Alaskan inves

tigation.

tee authorized. Expenses, etc.

Alaskan Investigation: To defray the expenses of a joint committee to consist of five Members of the Senate Joint commit and five Members of the House of Representatives, who shall be appointed five by the presiding officer of the Senate and five by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, ten thousand dollars, and said committee shall make an investigation into the existing conditions in the Territory of Alaska and report upon the same at the next regular session of Congress, with recommendations for such legislation as may be deemed necessary, the said sum to be disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate upon vouchers to be approved by the chairman of the committee.

[No. 2.] Joint Resolution Making appropriations for the payment of certain expenses incident to the first session of the Sixty-first Congress.

Apr. 23, 1909.
H. J. Res. 45.]

Pub. res., No.

2.] 36 Stat. L., pt.

(For stationery for Delegate from Alaska. See p. 376.) 1, p. 182.

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ARMY AND NAVY. .

SIXTY-FIRST CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION.

CHAP. 7.-An Act Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, and for other purposes.

Aug. 5, 1909. [H. R. 11570.] [Public, No. 6.] 36 Stat. L., pt. 1, p. 118.

ciencies

appro

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and are hereby appropriated, Urgent defiout of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appro- priations. priated, to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, and for other purposes, namely:

tia.

etc., for partici

pating in Army

maneuvers.

The accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby Organized millauthorized and directed to credit in the accounts of the Credit in acdisbursing officers of the several States, Territories, and counts of States. the District of Columbia such amounts as have been, or may be, disallowed in their accounts for payments heretofore made by them on account of the participation of the organized militia in the encampments, maneuvers, and field instruction of the Regular Army, under the provisions of section nine of the Act of Congress approved May twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and eight, entitled "An Act to further amend the Act entitled 'An Act to promote the efficiency of the militia, and for other purposes," approved January twenty-first, nineteen hundred and three."

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Feb. 25, 1910.

SIXTY-FIRST CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION.

CHAP. 62.-An Act Making appropriations to supply urgent defi[H. R. 18282.]___ ciencies in appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and [Public, No. 62.] ten, and for other purposes.

36 Stat. L., pt.

1, p. 202.

ciencies appropriations.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Urgent defi- That the following sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, and for other purposes, namely:

Signal service.

lic works.

Reimburse

ment.

OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER.

Canadian de- Reimbursement Canadian department of public works: partment of pub- To authorize the officer in charge of the WashingtonAlaska military cable and telegraph system to reimburse the Canadian department of public works from receipts of the Washington-Alaska military cable and telegraph system on account of telegraphic transfer business with the Dominion government telegraph system at International Boundary, Alaska, eighty-two dollars and thirty-nine cents.

Pearl Harbor naval station, Hawaii.

Mar. 8, 1910.

[H. R. 13410.] [Public, No. 80.] 36 Stat. L., pt. 1, p. 234.

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Naval station, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii: Toward dredging an entrance channel of a depth of thirty-five feet, three hundred thousand dollars.

(Awards extra pay volunteers, war with Spain; Judgment in favor of State of Mississippi for expenses incurred in raising troops war with Spain; Award to Swift & Co. for beef furnished Army in Cuba. See p. 82.)

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CHAP. 88.-An Act To modify the one hundred and twentysecond and one hundred and twenty-fourth articles of war, and to repeal the one hundred and twenty-third article of war.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That the one hundred and twenty-second and one hundred and twenty-fourth articles of war be, and hereby are, modified to read as follows:

Army.

Articles of war.

R. S., sec. 1342

p. 241, amended. Command

join.

"ART. 122. If, upon marches, guards, or in quarters, when different different corps of the army happen to join or do duty corps happen to together, the officer highest in rank of the line of the Position of orArmy, Marine Corps, organized militia, or volunteers, by ganized militia. commission, there on duty or in quarters, shall command the whole, and give orders for what is needful in the service, unless otherwise specially directed by the President, according to the nature of the case."

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Rank of organ

'ART. 124. Officers of the organized militia of the sev- ized militia offieral States, when called into the service of the United cers on duty with States, shall on all detachments, courts-martial, and other forces. other duty, wherein they may be employed in conjunction with the regular or volunteer forces of the United States, take rank next after all officers of the like grade. in said regular forces, and shall take precedence of all officers of volunteers of equal or inferior rank, notwithstanding the commissions of such militia officers may be older than the commissions of the said officers of the regular forces of the United States.'

SEC. 2. That the one hundred and twenty-third article of war be, and hereby is, repealed.

CHAP. 115.—An Act Making appropriation for the support of the army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eleven.

serv

Limited ice rank, etc.. repealed.

Mar. 23, 1910. [H. R. 15384.

Public, No. 102. 36 Stat. L.. pt

1, p. 243.

priations.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and they are hereby, appro-Army priated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support of the army for the year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eleven:

appro

Contingent ex

penses.

CONTINGENCIES, MILITARY INFORMATION SECTION, General StafF CORPS: For contingent expenses of the military information section, General Staff Corps, including the purchase of law books, professional books of reference, professional and technical periodicals and newspapers, and of the military attaches at the United States embassies and legations abroad; and of the branch office of the military information section at Manila, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, ten thousand dollars: Provided, That section thirty-six hundred and forty-eight, Revised Statutes, shall not apply R. S., sec. 3648 to subscriptions for foreign and professional newspapers and periodicals to be paid for from this appropriation.

Proviso.
Periodicals, etc.

p. 718.