1259a. Secretary of War to prescribe regulations for accounting for Army supplies or property.-Hereafter the accounting for Army supplies or property and the fixing of responsibility therefor shall be according to such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War. Act of Aug. 29, 1916 (39 Stat. 635).

1259b. Loan of tents, restrictions on.-Hereafter no loan of tents shall be made except to the Grand Army of the Republic and the United Confederate Veterans. Joint resolution No. 11, Mar. 2, 1913 (37 Stat. 1025).

1261a. Exchange of sewing machines, etc., motor trucks, passengercarrying vehicles, and band instruments on purchase of new.— Hereafter sewing machines and other labor-saving machinery used

in the manufacture of clothing and equipage, motor trucks and passenger-carrying vehicles, and band instruments may be exchanged in part payment for new machines, vehicles, and instruments used for the same purpose as those proposed to be exchanged. Act of Aug. 29, 1916 (39 Stat. 635).

1272a. Soldiers' homestead, military service on Mexican border, etc., equivalent to residence. The provisions of the Act approved June sixteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, chapter four hundred and fifty-eight (Thirtieth Statutes at Large, page four hundred and seventy-three), shall be applicable in all cases of military service rendered in connection with operations in Mexico, or along the borders thereof, or in mobilization camps elsewhere, whether such service be in the military or naval organization of the United States or the National Guard of the several States now or hereafter in the service of the United States. Joint resolution No. 1916 (39 Stat. 671).

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1274a. Donation of lands for aviation field and remount station, acceptance of.—The Secretary of War is hereby authorized to accept for the United States from any citizen of the United States a donation of a tract or tracts of land suitable and desirable in his judgment for the purposes of an aviation field and remount station, the terms of the donation also to authorize the use of the property donated for any other service of the United States which may hereafter appear desirable. Act of Aug. 29, 1916 (39 Stat. 622).

1274b. Purchase of lands for aviation purposes provided military reservations are not available.-The Secretary of War is directed to investigate the suitability of the various military reservations for aviation purposes, and should any of the reservations be found not suitable and not available for aviation, he is authorized, in his discretion, to acquire, by purchase, condemnation, or otherwise, for the United States of America, such land as may be necessary for aviation purposes, and there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $300,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for said purpose. Id.

1274c. Donation of lands for mobilization, training, and supply stations, acceptance of; also report as to additional needs for National Guard and Regular Army.-The Secretary of War is hereby authorized to accept for the United States from any person such tract or tracts of land suitable and desirable in his judgment for permanent mobilization, training, and supply stations; and he is directed to investigate and report to Congress as soon as practicable what additional tracts are necessary for said purposes for use by the National Guard and by the Regular Army and the probable cost of the same. Id. 623.

1274d. Report as to land and buildings required for airships, etc., for seacoast defenses.-The Secretary of War is directed to submit to Congress on or before January first, nineteen hundred and eighteen, a detailed statement of the land, buildings, and other facilities now available and to be required for the accommodation of airships and other aerial machines to be used in connection with the seacoast defenses of the continental United States, the insular possessions, and the Panama Canal. Act of Feb. 14, 1917, (Pub. No. 309, 39 Stat. —). 1279a. Erection of Young Men's Christian Association buildings on military reservations.-Authority is hereby given to the Secretary of War, in his discretion, to grant permission by revocable license to the International Committee of Young Men's Christian Associations of North America to erect and maintain, on the military reservations within the United States or its island possessions, such buildings as their work for the promotion of the social, physical, intellectual, and moral welfare of the garrisons may require, unde rsuch regulations as the Secretary of War may impose. Act of May 31, 1902 (32 Stat., 282).

1279b. Revocable license to American National Red Cross to erect buildings on military reservations for storage of supplies.-Authority is hereby given to the Secretary of War to grant permission, by revokable license, to the American National Red Cross to erect and maintain on any military reservations within the jurisdiction of the United States buildings suitable for the storage of supplies, or to occupy for that purpose buildings erected by the United States, under such regulations as the Secretary of War may prescribe, such supplies to be available for the aid of the civilian population in case of serious national disaster. Sec. 10, Act of June 3, 1916 (38 Stat. 173).

(For the provision of this section immediately preceding this paragraph see paragraph 750c).

1293a. Educational instructions, vocational education, employment of civilian teachers, etc., for enlisted men. In addition to military training, soldiers while in the active service shall hereafter be given the opportunity to study and receive instruction upon educational lines of such character as to increase their military efficiency and enable them to return to civil life better equipped for industrial, commercial, and general business occupations. Civilian teachers may be employed to aid the Army officers in giving such instruction, and part of this instruction may consist of vocational education either in agriculture or or the mechanical arts. Sec. 27, Id., 186.

(For provision of this section immediately preceding this paragraph see paragraph 1032a.)

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1293b. Same-Secretary of War to prescribe necessary rules and regulations, and suspend, increase, or decrease the amount of in struction. The Secretary of War, with the approval of the President, shall prescribe rules and regulations for conducting the instruction herein provided for, and the Secretary of War shall have the power at all times to suspend, increase, or decrease the amount of such instruction offered as may in his judgment be consistent with the requirements of military instruction and service of the soldiers. Id.

1294a. Post offices at military posts. Hereafter, at all military posts where post offices have been established, the Secretary of War shall assign proper and suitable room or rooms for post office purposes. Act of Aug. 1, 1914 (38 State. 629).

1315a. Trespass upon or injury to mines, torpedoes, fortifications, etc., or violation of regulations as to defensive sea areas.—Section forty-four of the Act entitled "An Act to codify, revise, and amend the penal laws of the United States," approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and nine, be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows:

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SEC. 44. Whoever shall willfully trespass upon, injure, or destroy any of the works or property or material of any submarine mine or torpedo or fortification or harbor-defense system owned or constructed or in process of construction by the United States, or shall willfully interfere with the operation or use of any such submarine mine, torpedo, fortification, or harbor-defense system, or shall knowingly, willfully, or wantonly violate any duly authorized and promulgated order or regulation of the President governing persons or vessels within the limits of defensive sea areas, which defensive sea areas are hereby authorized to be established by order of the President from time to time as may be necessary in his discretion for purposes of national defense, shall be punished on conviction thereof in a district or circuit court of appeals of the United States for the district or circuit in which the offense is committed, or into which the offender is first brought, by a fine of not more than $5,000, or by imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years, or by both, in the discretion of the court." Act of Mar. 4, 1917 (Pub. No. 391, 39 Stat.-).