Samoa.

NAVAL STATION, TUTUILA, SAMOA: For the purchase Tutuila of five and eleven-hundredths acres of land, more or less, . at Steps Point, owned by natives, on which are located range lights, three hundred dollars.

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Naval magazine, Guantanamo, Cuba: One magazine, Guantanamo fifteen thousand dollars; one shell house, fifteen thou- azine. sand dollars; one set quarters and office, eight thousand five hundred dollars; wharf, including clearing, grading, and equipment, twelve thousand five hundred dollars; in all, fifty-one thousand dollars.

naval magazine.

NAVAL MAGAZINE, OLONGAPO, PHILIPPINE ISLANDS: Olongapo, P.I. One shell house, one observation magazine, one stowage shed, one marine barracks, extensions to gun-cotton house, railway track and dock, one electric generator, and for lighting grounds and quarters, twenty thousand five hundred and seventy-seven dollars.

home remains of

TRANSPORTATION OF REMAINS: To enable the Secretary Trans ferring of the Navy, in his discretion, to cause to be transferred officers, etc. to their homes the remains of officers and enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps who die or are killed in action ashore or afloat, and also to enable the Secretary of the Navy, in his discretion, to cause to be transported to their homes the remains of civilian employees who die outside of the continental limits of the United States, thirteen thousand dollars: Provided, That the sum herein appropriated shall be available for payment for trans- fund. portation of the remains of officers and men who have died while on duty at any time since April twenty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight.

Proviso.

Application o

Co m mutation,

PROVISIONS, NAVY: * * * Provided, That That the Proviso. Secretary of the Navy is authorized to commute rations prisoners. for such general courts-martial prisoners in such amounts as seem to him proper, which may vary in accordance with the location of the naval prison, but which shall in no case exceed thirty cents per diem for each ration so commuted; labor in general storehouses and paymasters' offices in navy yards, including naval stations maintained in island possessions under the control of the United States, and expenses in handling stores purchased and manufactured under the general account of advances; and for the purchase of United States Army emergency rations, as required.

Repairs of barracks.

San Francisco, Cal., celebration.

foreign countries

PAY OF CIVIL FORCE: * * * One clerk, for duty in the Philippine Islands in the Quartermaster's Department, at one thousand four hundred dollars.

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FOR REPAIRS OF BARRACKS, MARINE CORPS: Repairs and improvements to barracks and quarters at repairs of barracks, Sitka, Alaska; and Isthmus of Panama; for the renting, leasing, improvement, and erection of buildings in Porto Rico, the Territory of Hawaii, the Philippine Islands, at Guam, the District of Columbia, and at such other places as the public exigencies require; and for.per diem to enlisted men employed under the direction of the Quartermaster's Department on the repair of barracks, quarters, and the other public buildings, one hundred and ten thousand dollars.

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By a joint resolution of Congress the President of the Invitation to United States has been authorized and respectfully reto participate in. quested, by a proclamation or in such manner as he may deem proper, to invite all foreign countries and nations to attend and participate in an exposition at the city and county of San Francisco, California, on or about the first day of January, nineteen hundred and fifteen, to celebrate the completion and opening of the Panama Canal, and also the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of the Pacific Ocean.

Mar. 4, 1911.

CHAP. 240.—An Act Making appropriations to supply deficien[H. R. 32957.]__ cies in appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eleven [Public, No. 480.] and for prior years, and for other purposes.

36 Stat. L., pt. 1, p. 1289.

propriations.

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

Guantanamo,

Cuba.

To reimburse provisions, Navy, nineteen hundred and nine, for ice furnished various yard departments at naval station, Guantanamo, Cuba, during October, November, and December, nineteen hundred and eight, and March,

April, and May, nineteen hundred and nine, one hundred and fifty-one dollars and seventy-eight cents.

of

BRINGING HOME REMAINS OF OFFICERS: Transporta- Transportation tion of remains: To supply a deficiency in the appropriation "Bringing home remains of officers, and so forth,' including all objects mentioned under this title of appropriation in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eleven, five thousand dollars.

Mar. 4, 1911.

CHAP. 242.—An Act Making appropriations for fortifications and other works of defense, for the armament thereof, for the procurement _[H. R. 32865.] of heavy ordnance for trial and service, and for other purposes

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sums of money herein provided for be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be available until expended, namely:

For construction of seacoast batteries, as follows: In the Hawaiian Islands, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars;

[Public, No. 482.] 36 Stat. L., pt. 1, p. 1341.

Fortifications appropriations.

lands.

In the Philippine Islands, one million one hundred, Philippine Isand sixty-nine thousand dollars;

In all, one million three hundred and nineteen thousand dollars.

For installation of light and power plants at the defenses of the following localities:

In the Philippine Islands, one hundred and seventyone thousand nine hundred and sixty-two dollars. For purchase and installation of searchlights for the defenses of most important harbors, as follows: In the Hawaiian Islands, forty thousand one hundred dollars.

For protection, preservation, and repair of fortifications at the following localities:

Electric plants.

Philippine Is

lands.

Searchlights.

Hawaiian Is

lands.

Preservation

etc.

Philippine Islands.

In the Philippine Islands, seven thousand dollars. For preservation and repair of structures erected for Torpedo structorpedo defense at the following localities:

tures.

Philippine Is lands.

er plants.

In the Philippine Islands, one thousand dollars. For tools, electrical and other supplies and appliances, Operating pow to be furnished by the Engineer Department for the use

Land defenses. Philippines.

Mar. 4, 1911. [S. 9351. [Public, No. 492.]

36 Stat. L., pt.

1, p. 1348.

Army. Medical partment.

De

Words stricken out.

age of 70.

of the troops for maintaining and operating gun and mortar batteries-

In the Hawaiian Islands, one thousand dollars.

In the Philippine Islands, two thousand five hundred dollars.

For land defenses, Philippine Islands, one hundred and eighty thousand dollars.

CHAP. 252.-An Act To amend an Act entitled "An Act providing for the retirement of certain medical officers of the Army," approved June twenty-second, nineteen hundred and ten.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act approved June twenty-second, nineteen hundred and ten, entitled "An Act providing for the retirement of certain medical officers of the Army," be, and the same is hereby, amended as follows:

Strike out the words "in the War of the Rebellion," following the words "enlisted man," in said Act, so that the Act as amended will read:

"Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Medical Re- That any officer of the Medical Reserve Corps who shall serve Corps. Retirement at have reached the age of seventy years, and whose total All former active service in the Army of the United States, Regular Army service in- or Volunteer, as such officer, and as contract or acting assistant surgeon, and as an enlisted man, shall equal forty years, may thereupon, in the discretion of the President, be placed upon the retired list of the Army with the rank, pay, and allowances of a first lieutenant."

cluded.

Mar. 4, 1911. [H. R. 24256.]

CHAP. 266.-An Act To authorize commissions to issue in the cases of officers retired or advanced on the retired list with increased Public, No. 506.] rank. 36 Stat. L., pt.

1. p. 1354.

Retired Army,

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Commissions. That commissioned officers of the Army, Navy, and Navy, and Ma- Marine Corps on the retired list whose rank has been or to receive, for in- shall hereafter be advanced by operation of or in accorddance with law shall be entitled to and shall receive commissions in accordance with such advanced rank.

rine Corps officers

creased rank.

Mar. 4, 1911. [H. R. 32909.]

CHAP. 285.-An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, [Public, No. 525.] nineteen hundred and twelve, and for other purposes. 36 Stat. L.. pt. 1 p. 1363.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Sundry civil That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twelve, namely:

expenses, appropriations.

lands and Hawaii. Seacoast defenses.

Seacoast defenses, Philippine Islands and Hawaii: For Philippine Is continuing the construction of the necessary accommodations for the seacoast artillery in Philippine Islands and Hawaii, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to be immediately available.

Electric power plant, Corregidor Island, Philippine Islands: For the construction on Corregidor Island, Philippine Islands, of an electric power plant, one hundred and fifty-four thousand six hundred and sixty-seven dollars.

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Corregidor Is-
Power plant.

land, P. I.

Interment, etc.

of remains of offi

abandoned posts.

Disposition of remains of officers, soldiers, civilian employees, and so forth: For the expenses of interment, or of preparation and transportation to their homes or to cers, soldiers, etc. such national cemeteries as may be designated by proper authority, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, of the remains of officers, including acting assistant surgeons, and enlisted men of the Army active list; for the expenses of interment, or of preparation and transportation to their homes, of the remains of civil employees of the Army in the employ of the War Department who die abroad, inclusive of Alaska, or on Army transports; for the expenses of removal of remains from abandoned posts Removal from to permanent military posts or national cemeteries, including the remains of federal soldiers, sailors, or marines interred in fields or abandoned private and city cemeteries; and in any case where the expenses of burial or shipment of the remains of officers or enlisted men of the Army who die on the active list are borne by individuals, where such expenses would have been lawful claims against the Government, reimbursement to such individuals may be made of the amount allowed by the Government for such services, to be paid out of the funds appropriated by this Act, but no reimbursement shall be Reimbursemade under this Act of such expenses incurred prior to the uals. first day of July, nineteen hundred and ten, fifty-seven thousand five hundred dollars.

ment to individ

Battleship

"Maine.

wreck from Ha

WRECK OF BATTLESHIP MAINE: For additional amount for the raising or the removal of the wreck of the battle- Removing ship Maine from the harbor of Habana, in accordance bana Harbor. with the provisions of the Act approved May ninth, nineteen hundred and ten, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.