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For such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorized by the Attorney General, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia appropriation Acts for the fiscal years that follow:

Nineteen hundred and fifteen, $3,010.64;
Nineteen hundred and fourteen, $192.25;
Nineteen hundred and eleven, $6.60.

One-half of the foregoing amounts to meet deficiencies in the appropriations on account of the District of Columbia shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and one-half from any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.

NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT.

BUREAU OF ORDNANCE.

For ordnance and ordnance stores, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $995,000.

BUREAU OF YARDS AND DOCKS.

Maintenance: For general maintenance of yards and docks, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $52,000.

BUREAU OF CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR.

For construction and repair of vessels, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $680,000.

BUREAU OF STEAM ENGINEERING.

For engineering, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $900,000.

INTERIOR DEPARTMENT.

NATIONAL PARKS.

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To cover the cost of repairing damage to bridges, roads, trails, buildings, and so forth, in the Platt National Park, Oklahoma, $10,000.

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.

CONTINGENT EXPENSES.

For miscellaneous expenditures, including the same objects specified under this head in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve, 55 cents.

PUBLIC BUILDINGS.

Leavenworth, Kansas, Penitentiary: For continuing construction, $50,000, to remain available until expended, all of which sum shall be so expended as to give the maximum amount of employment to the inmates of said penitentiary.

Atlanta, Georgia, Penitentiary: For continuing construction, $25,000, to remain available until expended, all of which sum shall be so expended as to give the maximum amount of employment to the inmates of said penitentiary.

MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS.

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laws.

Enforcement of antitrust laws: For the enforcement of antitrust, Enforcing antitrust laws, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, $6.

Defending suits in

Defending suits in claims against the United States: For necessary claims. expenses, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $5,000.

Detection and prose

Detection and prosecution of crimes: For the detection and prosecution of crimes. cution of crimes against the United States, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $25,000.

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Glacier National
Commissioner.
Vol. 29, p. 184.

Commissioner of Glacier National Park: Commissioner in Glacier Park National Park, $1,500. The provisions of section twenty-one of the legislative, executive, and judicial Act, approved May twentyeighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, shall not be construed as impairing the right of said commissioner to receive said salary as herein provided.

District courts: The salary of the United States district judge for the western district of South Carolina from April twentieth to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, inclusive, at the rate of $6,000 per annum, $1,183.33, is authorized to be paid from the appropriation for pay of district judges contained in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen.

UNITED STATES COURTS.

ern

South Carolina west

district.

Pay of judge.
Vol. 38, p. 961.

United States courts.

For salaries, fees, and expenses of United States marshals and Marshals. their deputies, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $50,000.

For salaries, fees, and expenses of United States marshals and their deputies, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, $27,633.91.

For salaries of United States district attorneys and expenses of United States district attorneys and their regular assistants, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $5,000.

For salaries of United States district attorneys and expenses of United States district attorneys and their regular assistants, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen,

33 cents.

For fees of United States commissioners and justices of the peace acting under section one thousand and fourteen, Revised Statutes of the United States, $30,000.

For fees of jurors, $25,000.

Fees of witnesses: For fees of witnesses and for payment of the actual expenses of witnesses, as provided by section eight hundred and fifty, Revised Statutes of the United States, $100,000.

For bailiffs and criers, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, $444.82.

District attorneys.

Commissioners, etc.

Jurors' fees.

Witness' fees.

Miscellaneous ex

penses.

Support of prisoners.

National Training School for Boys, D. C.

Penitentiaries.
Leavenworth, Kans.

Atlanta, Ga.

For such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorized by the
Attorney General, including the same objects specified under this head
in the sundry civil appropriation Acts for the fiscal years that follow:
Nineteen hundred and thirteen, $92.23;
Nineteen hundred and twelve, $218.17;
Nineteen hundred and ten, $82.80.

For support of United States prisoners, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $200,000.

For support of United States prisoners, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, $101,893.05.

National Training School for Boys: For four hundred copies of the report of the board of trustees for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, delivered in June, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $13.42. Leavenworth, Kansas, Penitentiary: For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $27,500. For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, $2,374.13.

For clothing, transportation, and traveling expenses, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $19,500.

For clothing, transportation, and traveling expenses, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, $1,146.80.

For miscellaneous expenditures, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $10,000.

For hospital supplies, medicines, medical and surgical supplies, and all other articles for the care and treatment of sick prisoners; and for expenses of interment of deceased prisoners on the penitentiary reservation, $800.

Atlanta, Georgia, Penitentiary: For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $30,000.

For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, $15,154.11.

For clothing, transportation, and traveling expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $10,000.

For clothing, transportation, and traveling expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, $2,465.18.

For hospital supplies, including the same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $1,000.

For hospital supplies, including the same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, $11.07.

Approved, March 31, 1916.

CHAP. 56.—An Act Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the Military Establishment for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen.

March 31, 1916.

(H. R. 13768.)

[Public, No. 41.]

appropriations.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums are Urgent deficiencies appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the Military Establishment for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, namely:

MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT.

OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER.

Army.

Signal Service.

Signal Service of the Army: For expenses of the Signal Service Expenses. of the Army, including the same objects specified under this head in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, and for radio installations, motorcycles and motordriven vehicles used for technical purposes, $600,000, to remain available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen: Provided, however, That not more than $500,000 of the foregoing Purchase of airships, appropriation shall be used for the purchase, maintenance, operation, vehicles, etc. and repair of airships and other aerial machines and accessories in the aviation section; and for the purchase, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled, passenger-carrying vehícles, which may be necessary for the aviation section.

QUARTERMASTER CORPS.

Proviso.

Quartermaster Corps.

Pay.

Pay: For pay of the Army, including the same objects, except mileage, specified under this head in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $1,577,017.42. Mileage to officers and contract surgeons: For mileage to officers, Mileage, officers, etc. acting dental surgeons, veterinarians, contract surgeons, pay clerks, and expert accountant, Inspector General's Department, when authorized by law, $20,000.

Subsistence: For subsistence of the Army, including the same objects specified under this head in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $753,141.

Regular supplies: For regular supplies, Quartermaster Corps, including the same objects specified under this head in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $667,483.08.

Incidental expenses, Quartermaster Corps: For incidental expenses, Quartermaster Corps, including the same objects specified under this head in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $86,960.86.

Horses for Cavalry, Artillery, Engineers, and so forth: For the purchase of horses for Cavalry, Artillery, Engineers, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $1,529,000.

Subsistence.

Regular supplies.

Incidental expenses.

Horses.

Barracks and quar

Parracks and quarters: For barracks and quarters, including ters. the same objects specified under this head in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $31,300. Transportation: For transportation of the Army and its supplies, Transportation. including the same objects specified under this head in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $1,355,447.25.

Water and sewers at military posts: For water and sewers at military posts, including the same objects specified under this head

Water and sewers at

posts.

Clothing, and camp and garrison equipage.

Medical Department.

Supplies, etc.

in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred
and sixteen, $60,110.50.
Clothing, and camp and garrison equipage: For clothing, and
camp and garrison equipage, including the same objects specified
under this head in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year
nineteen hundred and sixteen, $1,223,542.

MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.

Medical and hospital department: For medical and hospital department, including the same objects specified under this head in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $37,500.

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ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT.

Ordnance service: For the current expenses of the Ordnance Department, including the same objects specified under this head in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $20,000.

Manufacture of arms: For manufacturing, repairing, and issuing arms at the national armories, $6,000.

Ordnance stores and supplies: For overhauling, cleaning, repairing, and preserving ordnance and ordnance stores in the hands of troops and at the arsenals, posts, and depots; for purchase and manufacture of ordnance stores to fill requisitions of troops; for Infantry, Cavalry, and Artillery equipments, including horse equipments for Cavalry and Artillery, $644,000.

Approved, March 31, 1916.

April 3, 1916. [H. J. Res., 68.] [Pub. Res., No. 12.]

Fort McHenry, Md. State over portion of.

Jurisdiction ceded to

Vol. 38, p. 382.

Provisos.

Punishment of

CHAP. 57.-Joint Resolution To cede to the State of Maryland temporary jurisdiction over certain lands in the Fort McHenry Military Reservation.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America_in_Congress assembled, That the United States hereby cedes to the State of Maryland such jurisdiction over the portion of the Fort McHenry Military Reservation permission to use which was granted to the city of Baltimore by Act of Congress of May twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, as the State now possesses elsewhere within its territory, such cession to be coextensive territorially with the said permit of June first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and to terminate upon its expiration: Provided, That jurisdiction to try and punish all crimes committed within said portion of the military reservation prior to the date that this cession becomes effective is reserved to the United States: Acceptance by State. Provided further, That the cession of jurisdiction made by this resolution shall not take effect until the same is accepted by the Legislature of the State of Maryland or its duly appointed representative clothed with such authority: And provided further, That when the United States shall resume possession of the said lands, or any part thereof, the jurisdiction herein ceded over lands so repossessed shall revest in the United States.

crimes.

Termination.

Approved, April 3, 1916.

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