shooters, marksmen, or regularly detailed as gun captains, gun For pay and allowances prescribed by law of enlisted men on Undrawn clothing: For payment to discharged enlisted men for clothing undrawn, $160,000. For pay and allowances of the Marine Corps Reserve (a) excluding transferred and assigned men, $55,000; (b) transferred men, $185,480; (c) assigned men, $65,000; in all, $305,480. Retired enlisted men. Undrawn clothing. Marine Corps Re serve. Vol. 43, p. 1080. Mileage, etc. Proviso. Allowance on Gov For mileage and actual and necessary expenses and per diem in lieu of subsistence as authorized by law to officers traveling under orders without troops, $125,000: Provided, That hereafter officers performing travel by Government-owned vessels for which no trans- ernment vessels not portation fare is charged shall only be entitled to reimbursement of actual and necessary expenses incurred. charging fare. Disbursing and ac In all, $14,970,347, and the money herein specifically appropriated counting. PAY OF CIVIL EMPLOYEES, MARINE CORPS Civilian personnel at Pay of civil force: For personal services in the District of Colum- headquarters. Office of the paymaster, $22,080; Office of the quartermaster, $75,280; in all, $160,000. GENERAL EXPENSES, MARINE CORPS For every expenditure requisite for, and incident to, the author- For provisions, subsistence, board and lodging of enlisted men, For fuel, heat, light, and power, including sales to officers, For military supplies and equipment, including their purchase, repair, preservation, and handling; recreational, school, educational, library, musical, amusement, field sport and gymnasium supplies, equipment, services, and incidental expenses; purchase and marking of prizes for excellence in gunnery and rifle practice, good-conduct badges, medals, and buttons awarded to officers and enlisted men by the Government for conspicuous, gallant, and special service; rental and maintenance of target ranges and entrance fees for competitions, $500,000; Transportation and For transportation of troops and applicants for enlistment, includ- recruiting." ing cash in lieu of ferriage and transfers en route; toilet kits for issue to recruits upon their first enlistment and other incidental Transporting de expenses of the recruiting service; and transportation for dependents of officers and enlisted men, $525,000; pendents. etc. Repairs to barracks, Forage, etc. Contingent. Vehicles, etc. Horses, etc. Funeral expenses. For repairs and improvements to barracks, quarters, and other public buildings at posts and stations; for the renting, leasing, and improvement of buildings in the District of Columbia with the approval of the Public Buildings Commission and at such other places as the public exigencies require, and the erection of temporary buildings upon the approval of the Secretary of the Navy at a total cost of not to exceed $10,000 during the year, $400,000; For forage and stabling of public animals and the authorized number of officers' horses, $40,000; For miscellaneous supplies, material, equipment, personal and other services, and for other incidental expenses for the Marine Corps not otherwise provided for; purchase, repair, and exchange of typewriters and calculating machines; purchase and repair of furniture and fixtures; purchase and repair of motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying and other vehicles; veterinary services and medicines for public animals and the authorized number of officers' horses; purchase of mounts and horse equipment for all officers below the grade of major required to be mounted; shoeing for public animals and the authorized number of officers' horses; books, newspapers, and periodicals; printing and binding; packing and crating of officers' allowance of baggage; funeral expenses of officers and enlisted men and accepted applicants for enlistment and retired officers on active duty and retired enlisted men of the Marine Corps, including the transportation of their bodies, arms, and wearing apparel from the place of demise to the homes of the deceased in the United States; construction, operation, and maintenance of laundries; and for all emergencies and extraordinary expenses, Purchase of motor $1,875,000: Provided, That there may be expended out of this appropriation for the purchase of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles not more than $20,600, as follows: Five vehicles to cost not more than $1,500 each, ten vehicles to cost not more than $500 each, and thirty motor cycles to cost not more than $270 each: Provided further, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy for clerical, drafting, inspection, watchman, interpreter, and messenger service in the classified field service of the Marine Corps, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927, shall not exceed $73,000; Laundries. Provisos. passenger vehicles. Clerical, etc., services. Marine Corps Reserve. Major alterations to ships. Additional protection, etc., of designated ships. Post, p. 661. Vol. 43, p. 719. Increase of the Navy. Construction and machinery of vessels Marine Corps Reserve: For clothing, subsistence, heat, light, transportation, and miscellaneous expenses, $40,000. In all, $8,090,000, to be accounted for as one fund. ALTERATIONS TO NAVAL VESSELS Major alterations, naval vessels: Toward the installation of additional protection against submarine attack, the installation of antiair-attack deck protection, and the conversion to oil burning of the United States ships New York, Utah, Texas, Florida, Arkansas, and Wyoming, and for the purchase, manufacture, and installation of new fire-control systems for the New York and Texas, all as authorized by the Act entitled "An Act to authorize alterations to certain naval vessels and to provide for the construction of additional vessels," approved December 18, 1924, $7,500,000, to be available until expended. INCREASE OF THE NAVY Construction and machinery: On account of hulls and outfits of heretofore authorized. vessels and machinery of vessels heretofore authorized, $20,450,000, Unexpended ances available. bal. Proviso. to which shall be added the unexpended balances remaining on etc. Additional technical employees. Armor, etc., vessels under construction. Unexpended balances added. Armor, armament, and ammunition: Toward the armor, arma- Proviso. Aircraft and accesso Aviation: Toward aircraft and aircraft accessories for aircraft ries for carriers. carriers heretofore authorized, $3,300,000. Post, p. 766. The appropriations made in this Act for the purchase or manu-Pnt patents, etc. facture of equipment or material or of a particular class of equipment or material shall be available for the purchase of letters patent, applications for letters patent, licenses under letters patent and applications for letters patent that pertain to such equipment or material for which the appropriations are made. expenses limited. Provisos. No part of any appropriation made for the Navy shall be expended Use for Department for any of the purposes herein provided for on account of the Navy Department in the District of Columbia, including personal services of civilians and of enlisted men of the Navy, except as herein expressly authorized: Provided, That there may be detailed to the Bureau of Navigation not to exceed at any one time twenty-four enlisted men of the Navy: Provided further, That enlisted men detailed to the naval dispensary and the radio communication service shall not be regarded as detailed to the Navy Department in the District of Columbia. Details to Naviga- tion Bureau. deemed details to Department. No pay to officers, uring devices on work of employees. No part of the appropriations made in this Act shall be available for the salary or pay of any officer, manager, superintendent, foreman, or other person having charge of the work of any employee of the United States Government while making or causing to be made with a stop watch or other time-measuring device a time study of any job of any such employee between the starting and completion thereof, or of the movements of any such employee while engaged upon such work; nor shall any part of the appropriations restricted. made in this Act be available to pay any premiums or bonus or cash reward to any employee in addition to his regular wages, except for suggestions resulting in improvements or economy in the operation of any Government plant; and that no part of the moneys and equipment of vesherein appropriated for the Naval Establishment or herein made sels, machinery, etc., at available therefor shall be used or expended under contracts here- and arsenals. Cash rewards, etc., Restriction on repair other than navy yards after made for the repair, purchase, or acquirement, by or from any private contractor, of any naval vessel, machinery, article, or articles that at the time of the proposed repair, purchase, or acquirement can be repaired, manufactured, or produced in each or any of the Government navy yards or arsenals of the United States, when time and facilities permit, and when, in the judgment of the Secretary of the Navy, such repair, purchase, acquirement, or production would not involve an appreciable increase in cost to the Government. Approved, May 21, 1926. May 21, 1926. [H. R. 306.] [Public, No. 265.] Pensions. vivors, etc. CHAP. 356.-An Act To amend the second section of the Act entitled "An Act to pension the survivors of certain Indian wars from January 1, 1859, to January, 1891, inclusive, and for other purposes," approved March 4, 1917, as amended. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Indian campaign sur- United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 2 of the Act entitled "An Act to pension the survivors of certain Indian wars from January 1, 1859, to January, 1891, inclusive, and for other purposes," approved March 4, 1917, as amended is amended to read as follows: Vol. 42, p. 836, amended. Determination of service. records. Office reports. State or Territorial records. Admission of evi dence satisfactory to "SEC. 2. The period of service performed by beneficiaries under War Department this Act shall be determined: First, by reports from the records of General Accounting the War Department, where there are such records; second, by reports from the records of the General Accounting Office showing payment by the United States, where there is no record of regular enlistment, or muster into the United States military service; and third, when there is no record of service or payment for same in the War Department or the General Accounting Office by satisfactory evidence from muster rolls on file in the several State or Territorial archives; fourth, Commissioner, if no where no record of service has been made in the War Department or General Accounting Office and there is no muster roll or pay roll on file in the several State or Territorial archives showing service of the applicant, or where the same has been destroyed by fire or otherwise lost, or where there are muster rolls or pay rolls on file in the several State or Territorial archives but the applicant's name does not appear thereon, the applicant may make proof of service by furnishing evidence satisfactory to the Commissioner of Pensions: Certificate of dis- Provided, That the want of a certificate of discharge shall not deprive any applicant of the benefits of this Act." muster rolls, etc. Proviso. charge not essential. Approved, May 21, 1926. CHAP. 357.-An Act To provide for the permanent withdrawal of certain lands adjoining the Makah Indian Reservation in Washington for the use and occupancy of the Makah and Quileute Indians. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the followingdescribed lands in Washington be, and they are hereby, withdrawn from entry, sale, or other disposition and set aside for the Makah and Quileute Indians: Lots 3 and 4 of section 3; lots 6, 7, 8, 12, 13, 14, 15, and northwest quarter of southeast quarter and southeast quarter of southeast quarter of section 4; lots 1 and 4 of section 9; lots 6, 7, 9, and Southwest quarter of northwest quarter of section 10; lots 9 and 10 of section 11; lot 5 of section 12; lot 6 of section 12, except six hundred and ninety-four one-thousandths acre reserved for light house purposes; lot 7 of section 12, except strip two hundred and CHAP. 362.-An Act To amend an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the May 22, 1926. [S. 2475.] [Public, No. 267.] World War trophies. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Compilation made of armed forces from States, during World distribution. War, to serve as basis of Prompt detailed noStates, etc., of apportionment. SEC. 2. That for the purposes of this Act the reports heretofore compiled under the direction of the Secretary of War showing the number of men in the armed forces of the United States accredited to each State, Territory, and possession of the United States, and to the District of Columbia, either by enlistment or by the process of the Selective Service Act, or otherwise drawn into and becoming an integral part of the armed forces of the United States during the period April 7, 1917, to November 11, 1918, and the allotment of war trophies suitable for distribution among the several States, Territories, and possessions, and the District of Columbia, shall serve as the basis of distribution. As soon as practicable after the date upon tice to executives of which this Act shall become effective the Secretary of War shall cause the chief executive of each of the several States, Territories, and possessions, and the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to be informed of the character and quantity of war devices and trophies apportioned thereto, and shall invite each such chief executive and the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to designate such material as will be accepted free on board common carrier at the point of storage and to designate the point or points to which the accepted material is to be shipped without expense to the United States other than that of packing and loading at the point of storage: Provided, That the Secretary of War is authorized to Proviso. apportion and distribute such war devices and trophies, formerly vices heretofore considcontemplated by the said reports heretofore compiled as unsuitable ered unsuitable. for distribution as trophies, as he deems suitable for distribution and Vol. 43, p. 598, amendto include the Canal Zone in such apportionment and distribution. ed. Distribution of de Shipment on notice "SEC. 3. Shipment of the apportionment of each State, Territory, of acceptance, etc. and possession, and the District of Columbia accepted shall be made as soon as practicable after the chief executive or the commissioners thereof, as the case may require, shall have informed the Secretary of War that such State, Territory, possession, or District will accept and take possession thereof as hereinbefore provided for and will relieve the United States of all responsibility for the safe delivery of the material and of all charges, costs, and expenses whatsoever connected with the transportation thereof: Provided, That if the Reapportionment, chief executive or the commissioners of any State, Territory, pos- etc., if acceptance not session, or District shall not, on or before July 1, 1927, file with the filed before July 1,1927. Secretary of War such acceptance and agreement, such apportionment, or any part thereof, shall be reapportioned and redistributed to the several States, Territories, and possessions of the United ed. Proviso. Vol. 43,p. 598, amend. |