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1394a. Pay and allowances of.—In all matters relating to the pay and allowances of officers and soldiers of the Army of the United States, the same rules and regulations shall apply to the Regular Army and to volunteer forces mustered into the service of the United States for a limited period. Sec. 1292, R. S.

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CHAPTER XXXIII.

INDIANS-INDIAN AGENTS-INDIAN COUNTRY.

Prohibition of permits to Indians to go into Texas repealed-----

Par. 1413a.

1413a. Prohibition of permits to Indians to go into Texas repealed. So much of section four of the Act of May eleventh, eighteen hundred and eighty (Twenty-first Statutes at Large, page one hundred and thirty-two), as prohibits granting permission in writing or otherwise to any Indian or Indians on any Indian reservation to go into the State of Texas, under any pretext whatever, be, and the same is hereby, repealed. Act of May 18, 1916 (39 Stat. 128).

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1469a. Withholding clearance from vessels violating, during existence of war to which the United States is not a party.-From and after the passage of this resolution, and during the existence of a war to which the United States is not a party, and in order to prevent the neutrality of the United States from being violated by the use of its territory, its ports, or its territorial waters as the base of operations for the armed forces of a belligerent, contrary to the obligations imposed by the law of nations, the treaties to which the United States is a party, or contrary to the statutes of the United States, the President be, and he is hereby, authorized and empowered to direct the collectors of customs under the jurisdiction of the United States to withhold clearance from any vessel, American or foreign, which he has reasonable cause to believe to be about to carry fuel, arms, ammunition, men, or supplies to any warship, or tender, or supply ship of a belligerent nation, in violation of the obligations of the United

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