ment, and a copy of said report shall be transmitted to Congress by the War Department." Act of Feb. 27, 1917 (Pub. No. 362, 39 Stat.-.)

106a. Annual reports, date for furnishing to printer, etc.-Appropriations herein and hereafter made for printing and binding shall not be used for any annual report or the accompanying documents unless the copy therefor is furnished to the Public Printer in the following manner: Copies of the documents accompanying such annual reports on or before the fifteenth day of October of each year; copies of the annual reports on or before the fifteenth day of November of each year; complete revised proofs of the accompanying documents and the annual reports on the tenth and twentieth days of November of each year, respectively; and all of said annual reports and accompanying documents shall be printed, made public, and available for distribution not later than within the first five days after the assembling of each regular session of Congress. The provisions of this section shall not apply to the annual reports of the Smithsonian Institution, the Commissioner of Patents, or the Comptroller of the Currency. Sec. 3, act of July 1, 1916 (39 Stat. 336).

114a. Joint Committee on Printing, continuance of, vacancies in, and powers of during recess.-Hereafter the members of the Joint Committee on Printing who are reelected to the succeeding Congress shall continue as members of said committee until their successors are chosen: Provided, That the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall, on the last day of a Congress, appoint Members of their respective Houses who have been elected to the succeeding Congress to fill any vacancies which may then be about to occur on said committee, and such appointees and the members of said committee who shall have been reelected shall continue until their successors are chosen. The Joint Committee on Printing shall, when Congress is not in session, exercise all the powers and duties devolving upon said committee as provided by law, the same as when Congress is in session. Sec. 6, act of Mar. 3, 1917 (Pub. No. 381, 39 Stat. -).

125a. Public library depositaries to receive publications, etc., new designations authorized.-Libraries heretofore designated by law as depositaries to receive books and other Government publications shall hereafter, during their existence, continue such receipt; and new designations may be made when libraries heretofore chosen shall cease to exist or other designations shall hereafter be authorized by law. Sec. 5, act of June 23, 1913 (38 Stat., 75).

131a. Forging, etc., certificate of discharge.-Whoever shall forge, counterfeit, or falsely alter any certificate of discharge from the mili

tary or naval service of the United States, or shall in any manner aid or assist in forging, counterfeiting, or falsely altering any such certificate, or shall use, unlawfully have in his possession, exhibit, or cause to be used or exhibited, any such forged, counterfeited, or falsely altered certificate, knowing the same to be forged, counterfeited, or falsely altered, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both, in the discretion of the court. Act of Mar. 4, 1917 (Pub. No. 391, 39 Stat. -).

149a. Volunteer regiments mustered out authorized to retain colors.-The Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized to permit volunteer regiments, on being mustered out of the service of the United States, to retain all of their regimental colors. Said colors shall be turned over to the State authorities to which said regiments belong, and the regimental quartermaster in making his returns may, in lieu of said colors and in full release therefor, file with the proper official of the War Department a receipt from the quartermaster-general of said State that said colors have been delivered to said State authorities. Act of Feb. 25, 1899 (30 Stat. 890).

150a. Sale of Army transports Meade and Crook authorized.— Authority is hereby granted the Secretary of War to sell or otherwise dispose of, in accordance with law and regulations, the United States Army transports Meade and Crook. Act of Aug. 29, 1916 (39 Stat. 634).

154a. Reapportionment of space in the State, War, and Navy Department Building.-The commission in charge, or a majority of the members thereof, may at any time reapportion space among the departments now occupying the State, War, and Navy Department Building if the same can be done with a reduction of the amount of floor space occupied by any branch of the public service in said building, the reduction or avoidance of public expense for rent of office or storage space for the Government, and the reduction of the number

of watchmen required for said building from forty to not more than thirty-eight. Act of May 10, 1916 (39 Stat. 94).

154b. Same-No department or branch of the service to be ejected. No arrangement of space made hereunder shall involve the ejectment from the building of any department or branch of the public service now occupying the same. Id.

154c. Same-Vacated rooms not to be used for museum purposes.— No rooms vacated under any arrangement of space hereunder shall be used for museum purposes. Id.

155a. Bureau of Insular Affairs, existing law relating to organization of not repealed.-Nothing in this Act shall be construed to repeal existing laws relating to the organization of the Bureau of Insular Affairs of the War Department. Sec. 14, act of June 3, 1916 (39 Stat. 176).

162a. Claims for damage to and loss of private property, settlement of by Auditor for War Department on recommendation of Secretary of War.-For payment of claims for damages to and loss of private property incident to the training, practice, and operations of the Army that have accrued, or may hereafter accrue, from time to time, to be immediately available and to remain available until expended: Provided, That settlement of such claims shall be made by the Auditor for the War Department, upon the approval and recommendation of the Secretary of War, where the amount of damages has been ascertained by the War Department, and payment thereof will be accepted by the owners of the property in full satisfaction of such damages, *. Act of Aug. 29, 1916 (39 Stat.

639.)

169a. Persons not to receive two salaries in excess of two thousand dollars; exceptions.-Unless otherwise specially authorized by law no money appropriated by this or any other Act shall be available for payment to any person receiving more than one salary when the combined amount of said salaries exceeds the sum of $2,000 per annum, but this shall not apply to retired officers of the Army, Navy, or Marine Corps whenever they may be appointed or elected to public office or whenever the President shall appoint them to office by and with the advice and consent of the Senate or to officers and enlisted men of the Organized Militia and Naval Militia in the several States, Territories, and the District of Columbia. Sec. 6, act of May 10, 1916 (39 Stat. 120).

169b. Same-Amended so as not to apply to services heretofore rendered.-Section six of an Act entitled "An Act making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, namely:" approved May tenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

"SEC. 6. That unless otherwise specially authorized by law, no money appropriated by this or any other Act shall be available for

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1 Held, that in the case of a retired enlisted man of the Army his pay as such is not salary within the meaning of the above statute, also that a pension is not a salary within its inhibition. (Comp. W. W. Warwick, June 3, 1916, War Dept. Bull. 18, July 8, 1916.)

In the case of a quartermaster clerk who held a commission in the National Guard and was mustered into the Federal service, Held, that upon his muster into the Federal service he ceased to be a member of the National Guard, within the meaning of the Act of May 10, 1916, and became an officer of the Army, and as such was subject to the prohibition of that act. (Comp. Treas., Jan. 3, 1917, War Dept. Bull. 9, Feb. 2, 1917.)