Feb. 25, 1903, c. 755, § 1, 32 Stat. 866, with an increase of salary to $3,000 by the last-mentioned act.

ACT MARCH 3, 1901, c. 830, § 1.

Law clerk, to edit laws, etc.

* * for a law clerk, to be selected and appointed by the Secretary of State, to edit the laws of Congress and perform such other duties as he may require of him, at two thousand five hundred dollars per annum, to be available from March fourth, nineteen hundred and

one.

* *

Act March 3, 1901, c. 830, § 1, 31 Stat. 972.

This is a provision of the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1902, cited above. It is repeated in the similar act for the next subsequent year, Act April 28, 1902, c. 594, § 1, 32 Stat. 132, and again, with an appropriation for an assistant, in a provision of Act Feb. 25. 1903. c. 755, § 1, 32 Stat. 866, set forth below.

ACT FEB. 14, 1903, c. 552, § 11.

Bureau to obtain information for Department of Commerce and Labor. A person, to be designated by the Secretary of State, shall be appointed to formulate, under his direction, for the instruction of consular officers, the requests of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor; and to prepare from the dispatches of consular officers, for transmission to the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, such information as pertains to the work of the Department of Commerce and Labor; and such person shall have the rank and salary of a chief of bureau, and be furnished with such clerical assistants as may from time to time be authorized by law.

Act Feb. 14, 1903, c. 552, § 11, 32 Stat. 830.

This section is a part of the act to establish the Department of Commerce and Labor, cited above, other provisions of which are set forth post, under Title XII A, "The Department of Commerce and Labor."

An appropriation, to enable the Department of State to comply with the requirements of this section, for the chief of bureau, $2,250, and for clerks, etc., is made by the deficiency appropriation act of March 3, 1903, c. 1006, 32 Stat. 1082.

ACT FEB. 25, 1903, c. 755, § 1.

Assistant law clerk, to edit laws, etc.

* law clerk, and assistant, to be selected and appointed by the Secretary of State, to edit the laws of Congress and perform such other duties as may be required of them, at two thousand five hundred dollars and one thousand five hundred dollars, respectively;

*

Act Feb. 25, 1903, c. 755, § 1, 32 Stat. 866.

This is a provision of the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1904, cited above. An appropriation to pay for the services of the assistant law clerk to be appointed under this provision, from December 1, 1902, to July 1, 1903, was made by the deficiency appropriation act of March 3, 1903. c. 1006, 32 Stat. 1032.

Sec. 211.

Publication of commercial information.

The appropriation for the preparation, etc., of consular reports, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1904, is contained in the diplomatic and consular appropriation act of Feb. 9, 1903, c. 530, 32 Stat. 812.

ACT JULY 26, 1894, c. 166.

Terms of measure, weight, and money in commercial reports; number of copies.

The provision contained in this act and in the subsequent annual appropriation acts, set forth in Comp. St. 1901, p. 107, is repeated, in the same language, in the diplomatic and consular appropriation acts for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1903, and June 30, 1904, Act March 22, 1902, c. 272, 32 Stat. 87, and Act Feb. 9, 1903, c. 530, 32 Stat. 812.

TITLE VI.

THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR.

Sec. 215.

Subordinate officers.

The appropriations for the officers, clerks, and employés in the Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1904, are contained in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation act of Feb. 25, 1903, c. 755, § 1, 32 Stat. 883-886.

A Bureau of Insular Affairs is established in the Department by Act July 1, 1902, c. 1369, § 87, set forth below.

ACT AUG. 5, 1882, c. 389, § 1.

Skilled draftsmen, civil engineers, and other employés in office of Chief of Engineers.

The provision of this act and of subsequent annual appropriation acts, set forth in Comp. St. 1901, p. 112, is repeated, in the same language, omitting, after the word "surveys," the words "for military defenses," in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation acts for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1903, and June 30, 1904, Act April 28, 1902, c. 594, § 1, 32 Stat. 151, and Act Feb. 25, 1903, c. 755, § 1, 32 Stat. 885.

ACT MAY 9, 1892, c. 62.

Record and Pension Office.

Provisions for the compilation, by the chief of the Record and Pension office, of a complete roster of the Union and Confederate armies, are contained in Act Feb. 25, 1903, c. 755, § 1, set forth below.

ACT JULY 1, 1902, c. 1369, § 87.

Bureau of Insular Affairs.

That the Division of Insular Affairs of the War Department, organized by the Secretary of War, is hereby continued until otherwise provided, and shall hereafter be known as the Bureau of Insular Affairs of the War Department. The business assigned to said Bureau shall embrace all matters pertaining to civil government in the island possessions of the United States subject to the jurisdiction of the War Department; and the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to detail an officer of the Army whom he may consider especially well qualified, to act under the authority of the Secretary of War as the chief of said Bureau; and said officer while acting under said. detail shall have the rank, pay, and allowances of a colonel.

Act July 1, 1902, c. 1369, § 87, 32 Stat. 712.

This section is a part of the act to provide temporarily for the civil government of the Philippine Islands, cited above.

Sec. 217.

Custody of the departmental records and property.

The compilation from the records of a complete roster of the Union and Confederate armies is authorized by a provision of Act Feb. 25, 1903, c. 755, § 1, set forth below.

ACT FEB. 25, 1903, c. 755, § 1.

Roster of Union and Confederate armies.

* * That under the direction of the Secretary of War the Chief of the Record and Pension Office shall compile, from such official records as are in the possession of the United States and from such other authentic records as may be obtained by loan from the various States and other official sources, a complete roster of the officers and enlisted men of the Union and Confederate armies.

Act Feb. 25, 1903, c. 755, § 1, 32 Stat. 884.

This is a proviso annexed to an appropriation for the Record and Pension Office in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1904, cited above.

Sec. 224.

Loss of certificate of discharge.

Further provisions for the issue of a certificate in lieu of a lost certificate, to any officer or enlisted man honorably discharged from the military service, as well as to those who served in the War of the Rebellion, as provided by this section, are made by Act July 1, 1902, c. 1353, set forth below.

ACT JULY 1, 1902, c. 1353.

An Act to Authorize the Secretary of War to Furnish Certificates in Lieu of Lost or Destroyed Discharges. (32 Stat. 629.) Certificate in lieu of lost certificate of discharge.

Be it enacted, &c., That whenever satisfactory proof shall be furnished to the War Department that any officer or enlisted man who has been or shall hereafter be honorably discharged from the military service of the United States has lost his certificate of discharge, or the same has been destroyed without his privity or procurement, the Secretary of War shall be authorized to furnish to such officer or enlisted man, or to the widow of such officer or enlisted man, a certificate of such discharge, to be indelibly marked, so that it may be known as a certificate in lieu of a lost or destroyed discharge: Provided, That such certificate shall not be accepted as a voucher for the payment of any claim against the United States for pay, bounty, or other allowance, or as evidence in any other case.

Sec. 231.

Act July 1, 1902, c. 1353, 32 Stat. 629.

Report of examinations of river and harbor improvements.

Provisions directing the Secretary of War to superintend and control all property formerly under the control of the Missouri River Commission created by Act July 5, 1884, c. 229, § 1, set forth in Comp. St.

1901, p. 3530, and to expend the unexpended balances of the appropriations for such commission, are contained in Act June 13, 1902, c. 1079, § 1, post, under Title LXIII, "Rivers and Harbors," subchapter "Mississippi and Missouri River Commissions."

Provisions authorizing the Secretary of War to complete works for river and harbor improvements by contract or otherwise are contained in Act June 13, 1902, c. 1079, § 1, post, under Title LXIII, "Rivers and Harbors," subchapter "Improvement of Rivers and Harbors." Provisions authorizing the Secretary of War to sell land or other property acquired for river and harbor improvements when no longer needed or when no longer serviceable are contained in Act June 13, 1902, c. 1079, § 5, post, under Title LXIII, "Rivers and Harbors," subchapter "Improvement of Rivers and Harbors."

Sec. 232.

[Repealed. Act Jan. 21, 1903, c. 196, § 25.]

This section is expressly repealed by the act to promote the efficiency of the militia, and for other purposes, mentioned above, which act contains more comprehensive provisions of the same nature. Act Jan. 21, 1903, c. 196, §§ 12, 25, post, under Title XVI, "The Militia."