Proviso. Balance available. Vol. 32, p. 1036. Sandy Hook proving ground, N. J.' Maintenance. Expenses of officers. Track repairs. Watertown Arsenal, Mass. Watervliet Arsenal. Motors. Powder factory. Erection and equip ment. Cable, Forts Dade and De Soto, Fla., to mainland. Submarine mines. Insular possessions. Hawaii. Seacoast batteries. Sites. thereon, three hundred and twenty thousand dollars: Provided, That the unexpended balance of thirty-nine thousand three hundred and two dollars and sixteen cents of the forty thousand dollars appropriated by Act of March third, nineteen hundred and three, for cast-steel top carriages for twelve-inch mortars, is hereby made available for the purposes above named. PROVING GROUND, SANDY HOOK, NEW JERSEY. For current expenses and maintenance of the ordnance proving ground, Sandy Hook, New Jersey, including expenses incident to the transportation of men and material therefor, general repairs and altera tions and accessories incidental to testing and proving ordnance, including hire of assistants for the Ordnance Board, skilled mechanical labor, purchase of instruments and other supplies, building and repairing butts and targets, clearing and grading ranges, fifty thousand two hundred and forty-three dollars. For the necessary expenses of officers while temporarily employed on ordnance duties at the proving ground and absent from their proper station, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per diem while so employed, and the compensation of draftsmen while employed in the Army Ordnance Bureau on ordnance construction, eighteen thousand seven hundred dollars. For repairs of railroad tracks connecting the proving ground with the Central Railroad of New Jersey, six thousand dollars. WATERTOWN ARSENAL, WATERTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS: For new machines and the installation of same, fifteen thousand dollars. For modifying part of pattern storehouse for use as pattern shop, including purchase and installation of necessary machines, workbenches, and heating apparatus, five thousand five hundred dollars. WATERVLIET ARSENAL, WATERVLIET, NEW YORK. For electrifying heavy machines, twenty thousand dollars. POWDER FACTORY. For the erection and equipment of a powder factory, with its necessary communications and accessory structures, upon such reservation now or that may hereafter be under the control of the War Department as may be selected by the Secretary of War, one hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars." UNDER THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER. For the purpose of connecting Forts Dade and De Soto, Florida, with the mainland by a military telegraph and cable line, four thousand five hundred and fifty dollars. SUBMARINE MINES. For the purchase of submarine mines and necessary appliances to operate them for closing the channels leading to our principal seaports, and continuing torpedo experiments; for the purchase of the necessary machinery, tools, and implements for the repair shop of the torpedo depot at Fort Totten, New York, and for extra-duty pay to soldiers necessarily employed for periods not less than ten days on work in connection with the issue, receipt, and care of submarine mining material at the torpedo depot, three hundred thousand dollars. FORTIFICATIONS IN INSULAR POSSESSIONS. For construction of seacoast batteries in the Hawaiian Islands, two hundred and sixty thousand dollars. For procurement of land needed as sites for the defenses of the Hawaiian Islands, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For the purchase, manufacture, and test of seacoast cannon for coast defense for the insular possessions, including their carriages, sights, implements, equipments, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, four hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That the Secretary of War is authorized to mount seven twelve-inch rifles on a corresponding number of carriages to be procured out of appropriations made or to be made hereunder for the insular possessions, said guns being on hand in excess of the number of carriages provided for emplacements in the United States. For purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition for seacoast cannon, for the insular possessions, including the necessary experiments in connection therewith, and the machinery necessary for its manufacture at the arsenals, one hundred thousand dollars. Seacoast guns. Proviso. Ammunition. Inspecting instru For purchase, manufacture, and test of inspecting instruments for ments, range finders, the manufacture of cannon, carriages, and ammunition; range finders etc. and other instruments for fire control at the fortifications in the insular possessions, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, thirty-two thousand dollars. For the alteration and maintenance of the seacoast artillery in the Alterations. insular possessions, including the purchase and manufacture of machinery, tools, and materials necessary for the work, and the expenses of the mechanics engaged thereon, five thousand dollars. BOARD OF ORDNANCE AND FORTIFICATION. Board of Ordnance and Fortification. Vol. 25, p. 489. Civilian member. Per diem. To enable the Board to make all needful and proper purchases, Purchases, etc. experiments, and tests to ascertain, with a view to their utilization by the Government, the most effective guns, small arms, cartridges, projectiles, fuses, explosives, torpedoes, armor plates, and other implements and engines of war, and to purchase or cause to be manufactured, under authority of the Secretary of War, such guns, carriages, armor plates, and other war material as may, in the judgment of the Board, be necessary in the proper discharge of the duty devolved upon it by the Act approved September twenty-second, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight; to pay the salary of the civilian member of the Board of Ordnance and Fortification provided by the Act of February twentyfourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and for the necessary traveling expenses of said member when traveling on duty as contemplated in said Act; for the payment of the necessary expenses of the Board, including a per diem allowance to each officer detailed to serve thereon, when employed on duty away from his permanent station, of two dollars and fifty cents a day; and for the test of experimental guns, carriages, and other devices procured in accordance with the recommendation of the Board of Ordnance and Fortification, five thousand dollars, the expenditure of which shall be made by the several bureaus of the War Department heretofore having jurisdiction of the same, or by the Board itself, as the Secretary of War may direct: Provided, Right to use invenThat before any money shall be expended in the construction or test tion. of any gun, gun carriage, ammunition, or implements under the supervision of the said Board, the Board shall be satisfied, after due inquiry, that the Government of the United States has a lawful right to use the inventions involved in the construction of such gun, gun carriage, ammunition, or implements, or that the construction or test is made at the request of a person either having such lawful right or authorized to convey the same to the Government. Tests, etc. Proviso. Material That all material purchased under the foregoing provisions of this Act shall be of American manufacture, except in cases when, in the ture. judgment of the Secretary of War, it is to the manifest interest of the United States to make purchases in limited quantities abroad, which material shall be admitted free of duty. Approved, June 25, 1906. VOL XXXIV, IT 1—30 to be of manufac June 25, 1906. [S. 2948.] [Public, No. 293.] Arizona. Composition. Quorum. CHAP. 3541.-An Act To amend section one of the Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and five, providing for an additional associate justice of the supreme court of Arizona, 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 Act providing for an additional associate justice of the supreme court of Arizona, and for other purposes, approved March third, nineteen hundred and five, be so amended that the first section thereof shall read as follows: "That hereafter the supreme court of the Territory of Arizona shall Vol. 33, p. 998, consist of a chief justice and four associate justices, any three of whom shall constitute a quorum, but three justices must concur in order to If two or more dis- reverse a judgment or other determination of a district court, except that in any case where two or more of the five justices shall be disqualified from sitting, the justices qualified shall constitute a quorum, and a majority thereof may affirm or reverse such case, but should a case be tried before only two justices their disagreement would be an affirmance of the case." amended. qualified. Approved, June 25, 1906. June 25, 1906. [S, 5512.] [Public, No. 294.] Porto Rico. Jurors in Federal courts. Qualifications. Provisos. June 25, 1906. [S. 6146.] [Public, No. 295.] Ohio River. Company may bridge, Ante, p. 84. Amendment. CHAP. 3542.-An Act Defining the qualifications of jurors for service in the United States district court in Porto Rico. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the qualifications of jurors as fixed by the local laws of Porto Rico shall not apply to jurors selected to serve in the district court of the United States for Porto Rico, but that the qualifications required of jurors in said court shall be that each shall be of the age of twenty-one years and not over sixtyfive years, a resident of Porto Rico for not less than one year, and having a sufficient knowledge of the English language to enable him to duly serve as a juror: Provided, That the exemption from jury duty allowed by the local law shall be respected by the court when insisted upon by veniremen: And provided further, That the juries for said court shall always be selected and drawn in accordance with the laws of Congress regulating the same in the United States courts. Approved, June 25, 1906. CHAP. 3543.-An Act To authorize the Back River Bridge Company to construct a bridge across the west or smaller division of the Ohio River from Wheeling Island, West Virginia, to the Ohio shore. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Back River Bridge Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of West Virginia, its successors and assigns, be, and they are hereby, authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and approaches thereto, for street railway and wagon traffic and other appropriate public uses, across the west or smaller channel of the Ohio River, known as the Back River, from a point near the southerly end of Wheeling Island, which is a part of the city of Wheeling, in the State of West Virginia, to the Ohio shore, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters," approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six. SEC. 2. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved. Approved, June 25, 1906. CHAP. 3544.-An Act To authorize the village of Oslo, Marshall County, Minnesota, to construct a bridge across the Red River of the North. June 25, 1906. [H. R. 20119.] [Public No. 296.] Red River of the North. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United a point opposite in the State of North Dakota, in accordance with the Ante, p. 84. teen hundred and six. SEC. 2. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby Amendment. expressly reserved. Approved, June 25, 1906. CHAP. 3546.-An Act Making appropriations for the service of the Post-Office Department for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, 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 following sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated for the service of the Post-Office Department, in conformity with the Act of July second, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, as follows: OFFICE OF THE POSTMASTER-GENERAL. June 26, 1906. may [H. R. 16953.] [Public, No. 297.] Postal service appropriations. Vol. 5, p. 80. Postmaster-General. Advertising. ors. Post-office inspect Salaries. For advertising, three thousand five hundred dollars. SALARIES OF POST-OFFICE INSPECTORS: For salaries of fifteen inspectors in charge of divisions, at three thousand dollars each; ten inspectors, at two thousand four hundred dollars each; fifteen inspectors, at two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars each; fifteen inspectors, at two thousand dollars each; ten inspectors, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; one hundred and thirty inspectors, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; one hundred and ten inspectors, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; and seventy-two inspectors, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; in all, five hundred and ninetynine thousand one hundred and fifty dollars: Provided, That all persons employed on the thirtieth day of June, nineteen hundred and six, perintendents made as superintendents of division, rural delivery, shall, on July first, nine- Inspectors. teen hundred and six, be appointed as post-office inspectors of the grade of one thousand eight hundred dollars per year: And provided further, That all persons employed on June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, as rural agents shall, on July first, nineteen hundred and six, be appointed as post-office inspectors, except not to exceed one hundred and forty-seven of such agents shall be so appointed as postoffice inspectors. Provisos. Rural agents made inspectors. Limit. Per diem. Provisos. Temporary For per diem allowance of inspectors in the field while actually traveling on official business away from their home, their official domicile, and their headquarters, at a rate to be fixed by the Postmaster-General, not to exceed four dollars per day, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That the Postmaster-General may, in his discretion, allow inspectors per diem while temporarily located at any place on ances. business away from their home, or their designated domicile, for a period not exceeding twenty consecutive days at any one place, and make rules and regulations governing the foregoing provisions relating to per diem: And provided further, That no per diem shall be. Limit. paid to inspectors receiving annual salaries of two thousand dollars or more. allow Clerks, etc. Traveling, etc., expenses. Miscellaneous. Rewards, etc. For compensation to clerks and laborers at division headquarters, ninety-five thousand dollars. For traveling expenses of inspectors without per diem, and of inspectors in charge, expenses incurred by inspectors not covered by per diem allowance, and traveling expenses of the chief post-office inspector, seventy thousand dollars. For necessary miscellaneous expenses at division headquarters, six thousand dollars. For payment of rewards for the detection, arrest, and conviction of post-office burglars, robbers, and highway mail robbers, twenty thouObtaining informa. sand dollars: Provided, That of the amount herein appropriated not to exceed two thousand dollars may be expended, in the discretion of the Postmaster-General, for the purpose of securing information concerning violations of the postal laws, and for services and information looking toward the apprehension of criminals. tion, etc. Travel, etc. First Assistant Postmaster-General. Assistant postmast ers. Superintendent, clerks, etc. At $3,200. At $3,000. At $2,700. At $2,600. At $2,500. At $2,400. At $2,200. For travel and miscellaneous expenses in the postal service, office of the Postmaster-General, one thousand dollars. OFFICE OF THE FIRST ASSISTANT POSTMASTER-GENERAL. For compensation to postmasters, twenty-four million dollars. For compensation to assistant postmasters at first and second class post-offices: Two, at three thousand five hundred dollars each; twentyfive, at three thousand dollars each; five, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; two, at two thousand dollars each; twelve, at one thousand nine hundred dollars each; twenty, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; fifty-five, at one thousand seven hundred dollars each; one hundred, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; ninety, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; one hundred, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; two hundred and ten, at one thousand three hundred dollars each; three hundred and fifty, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; three hundred and forty, at one thousand one hundred dollars each; two hundred and fifty, at one thousand dollars each; sixty, at nine hundred dollars each; sixty, at eight hundred dollars each, and sixty, at seven hundred dollars each; in all, not to exceed two million one hundred and twenty-three thousand eight hundred dollars. For compensation to clerks in first and second class post-offices; Superintendents of delivery, superintendents of mails, superintendents of money order, and superintendents of registry, eight, at not exceeding three thousand two hundred dollars each; Auditors, two, at not exceeding three thousand dollars each; Superintendents of delivery and superintendents of mails, seventeen, at not exceeding two thousand seven hundred dollars each; Cashiers, superintendents of delivery, and superintendents of mails, twenty-one, at not exceeding two thousand six hundred dollars each; Superintendents of delivery, superintendents of mails, and superintendents of stations, six, at not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars each; Assistant superintendent of delivery, assistant superintendent of mails, assistant superintendent of money order, assistant superintendent of registry, bookkeeper, cashiers, finance clerk, private secretaries, superintendents of delivery, superintendents of mails, superintendents of money order, and superintendents of registry, twenty-six, at not exceeding two thousand four hundred dollars each; Assistant superintendents of mails, bookkeepers, cashiers, chief mailing clerks, chief stamp clerks, finance clerks, superintendents of delivery, superintendents of mails, superintendents of money order, superintendent of registry, and superintendents of stations, twentynine, at not exceeding two thousand two hundred dollars each; |