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May 26, 1898.

That the temporary appointments made by the President Joint resolu- On and after April twenty-first, eighteen hundred and tion ratifying ninety-eight, and up to the date of the passage of this joint and confirming certain tempora resolution, of officers of the line and staff of the Navy, are ry appointments of officers of the hereby ratified and confirmed, to continue in force during the exigency under which their services are required in the existing war: Provided, That the officers so appointed shall be assigned to duty with rank and pay of the grades estab lished by existing law, and shall be paid from the appropriation "Pay of the Navy."

Navy.

June 8, 1898.

For special necessities of the various naval squadrons; Support of for the charter or purchase of suitable vessels; for the naval establish- increase of small craft attached to the various squadrons, Navy Depart and for replacing such as may be lost or destroyed; for mainment emergency taining and destroying communication; and for obtaining

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Bureau of Supplies and Ac counts.

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June 16, 1898.

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information, ten million dollars, of which sum not more than five hundred thousand dollars may be used to meet contingencies that can not be foreseen, but which constantly arise under existing conditions.

For provisions and commuted rations for the seamen and marines, which commuted rations may be paid to caterers of messes, in cases of death or desertion, upon orders of the commanding officer, commuted rations for officers on sea duty and naval cadets, and commuted rations stopped on account of sick in hospital and credited to the naval hospital fund, subsistence of officers and men unavoidably detained or absent from vessels to which attached under orders (during which subsistence rations to be stopped on board ship and no credit for commutation therefor to be given); fresh water for drinking and cooking purposes; labor in general storehouses and paymasters' offices in navy-yards, including expenses in handling stores purchased under the naval supply fund, one million dollars.

For purchase of clothing and small stores for issue to the naval service, the present fund being inadequate to meet the requirements of the service at this time, to be added to the "Clothing and small stores fund," one million dollars.

That in every case in which a settler on the public land An act for the of the United States under the homestead laws enlists or protection of is actually engaged in the Army, Navy, or Marine Corps of tlers who enter the United States as private soldier, officer, seaman, or the military or naval service of marine, during the existing war with Spain, or during any the United States other war in which the United States may be engaged, his services therein shall, in the administration of the homestead laws, be construed to be equivalent to all intents and purposes to residence and cultivation for the same length of time upon the tract entered or settled upon; and hereafter no contest shall be initiated on the ground of abandonment, nor allegation of abandonment sustained against any such settler, unless it shall be alleged in the preliminary affidavit or affidavits of contest, and proved at the hearing in cases hereafter initiated, that the settler's alleged absence from the land was not due to his employment in such service: Provided, That if such settler shall be discharged on account of wounds received or disability in

curred in the line of duty, then the term of his enlistment shall be deducted from the required length of residence without reference to the time of actual service: Provided further, That no patent shall issue to any homestead settler who has not resided upon, improved, and cultivated his homestead for a period of at least one year after he shall have commenced his improvements.

That a hospital corps of the United States Navy is hereby established, and shall consist of pharmacists, hos pital stewards, hospital apprentices (first class), and hospital apprentices; and for this purpose the Secretary of the Navy is empowered to appoint twenty-five pharmacists with the rank, pay, and privileges of warrant officers, removable in the discretion of the Secretary, and to enlist, or cause to be enlisted, as many hospital stewards, hospital apprentices (first class), and hospital apprentices as in his judgment may be necessary, and to limit or fix the number, and to make such regulations as may be required for their enlistment and government. Enlisted men in the Navy or the Marine Corps shall be eligible for transfer to the hospital corps, and vacancies occurring in the grade of pharmacist shall be filled by the Secretary of the Navy by - selection from those holding the rate of hospital steward.

SEC. 2. That all necessary hospital and ambulance service at naval hospitals, naval stations, navy-yards, and marine barracks, and on vessels of the Navy, Coast Survey, and Fish Commission, shall be performed by the members of said corps, and the corps shall be permanently attached to the Medical Department of the Navy, and shall be included in the effective strength of the Navy and be counted as a part of the enlisted force provided by law, and shall be subject to the laws and regulations for the government of the Navy.

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SEC. 3. That the pay of hospital stewards shall be sixty Hospital stewdollars a month, and the pay of hospital apprentices (first class) thirty dollars a month, and the pay of hospital apprentices twenty dollars a month, with the increase on account of length of service as is now or may hereafter be allowed by law to other enlisted men in the Navy.

SEC. 4. That all benefits derived from existing laws, or that may hereafter be allowed by law, to other warrant officers or enlisted men in the Navy shall be allowed in the same manner to the warrant officers or enlisted men in the hospital corps of the Navy.

SEC. 5. That all acts and parts of acts, so far as they conflict with the provisions of this Act, are hereby repealed.

Benefits to warrant officers.

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war losses...

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Advance of public money prohibited

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authority necessary.

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clothing

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District of Columbia, advertisements in.

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