For payment of amounts for arrears of pay and allowances on account of service of officers and men of the Army during the war with Spain and in the Philippine Islands that may be certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, and that are chargeable to the appropriations that have been carried to the surplus fund, one hundred thousand dollars.

Approved, March 3, 1905.

III..An Act To promote the efficiency of the reserve militia and to encourage rifle practice among the members thereof.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to sell, at the prices at which they are listed for the Army, upon the request of the governors of the several States and Territories, such magazine rifles belonging to the United States as are not necessary for the equipment of the Army and the organized militia, for the use of rifle clubs formed under regulations prepared by the national board for the promotion of rifle practice and approved by the Secretary of War.

SEC. 2. That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized in his discretion to sell to the several States and Territories, as prescribed in section seventeen of the Act approved January twenty-first, nineteen hundred and three, for the use of said clubs, ammunition, ordnance stores, and equipments of the Government standard at the prices at which they are listed for the Army. The practice of the rifle clubs herein provided shall be carried on in conformity to regulations prescribed by the national board for the promotion of rifle practice, ap proved by the Secretary of War, and the results thereof shall be filed in the office of the Military Secretary of the Army. Approved, March 3, 1905.

IV.. An Act Authorizing the President to reinstate Alexander G. Pendleton, junior, as a cadet in the United States Military Academy.

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

President is hereby authorized to reinstate former cadet Alexander G. Pendleton, junior, to the United States Military Academy at West Point on or at any day after the eleventh day of June, nineteen hundred and five.

Approved, March 2, 1905.

V..Joint Resolution Permitting Ying Hsing Wen and Ting Chia Chen, of China, to receive instruction at the Military Academy at West Point.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, authorized to permit Ying Hsing Wen and Ting Chia Chen, of China, to receive instruction at the Military Academy at West Point: Provided, That no expense shall be caused to the United States thereby; and that the said Ying Hsing Wen and Ting Chia Chen shall agree to comply fully with all regulations for the police and discipline of the United States Military Academy, and shall be studious and give their utmost efforts to accomplish the courses in the various departments of instruction: And pro· vided further, That, in the case of the said Ying Hsing Wen and Ting Chia Chen, the provisions of sections thirteen hundred and twenty and thirteen hundred and twenty one of the Revised Statutes of the United States shall be suspended. Approved, March 3, 1905.