Ships, boats.

etc.

to Revenue-Cut

TRANSPORTATION OF THE ARMY AND ITS SUPPLIES: * **; for the purchase and repair of ships, boats, and other vessels required for the transportation of troops and supplies and for official, military and garrison purposes; for expenses of sailing public transports and other vessels on the various rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Transportation Atlantic and Pacific Oceans: Provided, That hereafter ter Service. when, in the opinion of the Secretary of War, accommodations are available, transportation on vessels of the Army transport service may be furnished the officers, employees, and enlisted men of the Revenue-Cutter Service, and their families, without expense to the United Young Men's States, and also secretaries and supplies of the Army and Navy department of the Young Men's Christian AssociaTransportation tion: Provided further, That hereafter when there is cargo space available without displacing military supplies, transportation may be provided for merchandise of American production consigned to residents and mercantile firms of the island of Guam, rates and regulations therefor Officers on offi- to be prescribed by the Secretary of War: Provided further, That hereafter in the performance of their official and military duties officers of the Army are authorized, under such regulations as may be established by the Secretary of War, to use means of transportation herein provided for:

Christian

ciation.

to Guam.

cial duties.

Alaska.

Asso

Military and post roads, etc.

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CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE OF MILITARY AND POST ROADS, BRIDGES, AND TRAILS, ALASKA: For the construction and maintenance of military and post roads, bridges, and trails in the District of Alaska, to be expended under the direction of the board of road commissioners described in section two of an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the construction and maintenance of roads, the establishment and maintenance of schools, and the care and support of insane persons in the District of Alaska, and for other purposes," approved January twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and five, and to be expended conformably to the provisions of said Act, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to remain available until the close of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, Proviso offers nineteen hundred and thirteen: Provided, That hereafter may serve as road the Secretary of War may, in his discretion, assign suitable retired officers of the Army to active duty as members of the board of road commissioners for Alaska, and in the case of any officer so assigned the provisions of so much of the Act of Congress approved April twenty-third, nineteen hundred and four, entitled "An Act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and five, and for other purposes," as relates to the assignment of retired officers to active duty shall apply.

Retired

commissioners.

Pay.

Philippine Islands.

BARRACKS AND QUARTERS, PHILIPPINE ISLANDS: ConBarracks and tinuing the work of providing for the proper shelter and quarters. protection of officers and enlisted men of the Army of the

Proviso.
Restriction on

United States lawfully on duty in the Philippine Islands, including repairs and payment of rents, the acquisition of title to building sites, and such additions to existing military reservations as may be necessary, and including also shelter for the animals and supplies, and all other buildings necessary for post administration purposes, six hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That no part of said six hundred thousand dollars shall be expended for the amount for officonstruction of quarters for officers of the Army, the total cost of which, including the heating and plumbing apparatus, wiring and fixtures, shall exceed in the case of quarters quarters of a general officer the sum of twelve thousand dollars; of a colonel or officer above the rank of captain, ten thousand dollars; and of an officer of and below the ránk of captain, six thousand dollars.

CARE OF INSANE FILIPINO SOLDIERS: For the care, maintenance, and treatment at asylums in the Philippine Islands of insane natives of the Philippine Islands cared for in such institutions conformably to the Act of Congress approved May eleventh, nineteen hundred and eight, three thousand dollars.

CARE OF INSANE SOLDIERS, PORTO RICO REGIMENT OF INFANTRY: For the care, maintenance, and treatment at asylums in Porto Rico of insane soldiers of the Porto Rico Regiment of Infantry, seven hundred and twenty dollars.

cers' quarters.

Philippine Islands.

CONTINGENCIES, ENGINEER Department, PHILIPPINE ISLANDS: For contingent expenses incident to the opera- Contingencies tions of the Engineer Department in the Philippine Islands, to be expended at the discretion of the Secretary of War, five thousand dollars.

Promotion to

mental

promo

On and after the passage of this Act, every line officer Line officers. on the active list below the grade of colonel who has lost rank lost by regiin lineal rank through the system of regimental promo- tion. tion in force prior to October first, eighteen hundred and ninety, may, in the discretion of the President, and subject to examination for promotion as prescribed by law, be advanced to higher grades in his arm up to and including the grade of colonel, in accordance with the rank he would have been entitled to hold had promotion been lineal throughout his arm or corps since the date of his entry into the arm or corps to which he permanently

Provisos.

Not to affect

To be addition- belongs: Provided, That officers advanced to higher grades al numbers. under the provisions of this Act shall be additional officers promotions un- in those grades: Provided further, That nothing in this der existing law. Act shall operate to interfere with or retard the promotion to which any officer would be entitled under existing Status of offi- law: And provided further, That the officers advanced to higher grades under this Act shall be junior to the officers who now rank them under existing law, when these officers have reached the same grade.

cers advanced.

Mar. 3, 1911.

[H. R. 26656.] [Public, No. 470.]

36 Stat. L., pt.

1, p. 1048.

National

CHAP. 226.—An Act To prevent the disclosure of national defense secrets.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, de-'That whoever, for the purpose of obtaining information Offenses speci- respecting the national defense, to which he is not lawObtaining un- fully entitled, goes upon any vessel, or enters any navylawful informa- yard, naval station, fort, battery, torpedo station, arsenal,

ense.

fied.

tion.

photgraphs,

etc.

lawful

tion.

informa

camp, factory, building, office, or other place connected with the national defense, owned or constructed or in process of construction by the United States, or in the possession or under the control of the United States or any of its authorities or agents, and whether situated within the United States or in any place noncontiguous to Obtaining but subject to the jurisdiction thereof; or whoever, when sketches, plans, lawfully or unlawfully upon any vessel, or in or near any such place, without proper authority, obtains, takes, or makes, or attempts to obtain, take, or make, any document, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, plan, model, or knowledge of anything connected with the Receiving un- national defense to which he is not entitled; or whoever, without proper authority, receives or obtains, or undertakes or agrees to receive or obtain, from any person, any such document, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, plan, model, or knowledge, knowing the same Communicating to have been so obtained, taken, or made; or whoever, having possession of or control over any such document, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, plan, model, or knowledge, willfully and without proper authority, communicates or attempts to communicate the same to any person not entitled to receive it, or to whom the same ought not, in the interests of the national defense, be Disclosing communicated at that time; or whoever, being lawfully intrusted with any such document, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, plan, model, or knowledge, willPunishment. fully and in breach of his trust, so communicates or attempts to communicate the same, shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars, or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.

information.

plans, etc.

Punishment for com munication

SEC. 2. That whoever, having committed any offense deto foreign govern- fined in the preceding section, communicates or attempts ments, etc. to communicate to any foreign government, or to any

agent or employee thereof, any document, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, plan, model, or knowledge so obtained, taken, or made, or so intrusted to him, shall be imprisoned not more than ten years.

pines.

SEC. 3. That offenses against the provisions of this Act Jurisdiction for committed upon the high seas or elsewhere outside of a seas. judicial district shall be cognizable in the district where the offender is found or into which he is first brought; but offenses hereunder committed within the Philippine In the PhilipIslands shall be cognizable in any court of said islands having original jurisdiction of criminal cases, with the same right of appeal as is given in other criminal cases where imprisonment exceeding one year forms a part of the penalty; and jurisdiction is hereby conferred upon such courts for such purpose.

CHAP. 239.-An Act Making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twelve, and for other purposes.

Mar. 4, 1911. [H. R. 32212.] [Public, No. 479. 36 Stat. L., pt. 1, p. 1265.

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, appro- Naval service priated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not appropriations. otherwise appropriated, for the naval service of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twelve, and for other purposes.

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cers, War with Accounts to be

That the accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby Volunteer offauthorized and directed to open and resettle, upon appli- spain. cation, the accounts of volunteer officers of the Navy reopened, etc. who served in the War with Spain, and to resettle such accounts in accordance with the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of the United States against John M. Hite, reported in Two hundred and fourth United States Reports, page three hundred and forty-three.

tional numbers.

That officers on the active list of the line of the United Officers performing engineerStates Navy who, under authority of law, now perform ing duty on shore engineering duty on shore only are hereby made addi- only, made additional to the numbers in the grades in which they are now serving, and shall be carried as additional to the numbers of each grade to which they may hereafter be promoted: Provided, That said officers shall be entitled Proviso. to all the benefits of retirement under existing or future laws equally with other officers of like rank and service.

Retirement.

physical exami

Officers ailing Hereafter, if any officer of the United States Navy nation for promo- shall fail in his physical examination for promotion and tion to be retired. be found incapacitated for service by reason of physical disability contracted in the line of duty, he shall be retired with the rank to which his seniority entitled him to be promoted.

Guam.

Care of lepers etc.

CARE OF LEPERS, ISLAND OF GUAM: Naval station, island of Guam: Maintenance and care of lepers, special patients, and for other purposes, fourteen thousand dollars.

Guantanamo

Cuba.

Pearl Harbor Hawaii.

in

Floating crane. Capacity creased.

Guam.

NAVAL STATION, GUANTANAMO, CUBA: For emergency repair installation, three hundred and seventy-eight thousand five hundred dollars.

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NAVAL STATION, PEARL HARBOR, HAWAII: Dredging channel, to complete, five hundred and forty-five thousand dollars; dry dock, to continue, eight hundred thousand dollars; administration building, fifty thousand dollars; power plant, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars; six officers' quarters, sixty-nine thousand dollars; fresh-water system, twenty-three thousand dollars; foundry, seventy-five thousand dollars; forge shop, fifty thousand dollars; combined ship fitters, metal workers, and boiler shop, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars; pipe and plumber shop, thirty-five thousand dollars; combined wood-working shop, seventy thousand dollars; water-front development, one hundred thousand dollars; naval hospital (total cost not to exceed three hundred thousand dollars), including surgeons' quarters (cost not to exceed twenty-one thousand dollars), quarters for female nurses (cost not to exceed ten thousand dollars), stables (cost not to exceed five thousand dollars); improvement of grounds (cost not to exceed fifteen thousand dollars), seventy-five thousand dollars; in all, two million two hundred and sixty-two thousand dollars.

The capacity of the one hundred and ten ton floating crane authorized by the Act of June twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and ten, for use of Pearl Harbor, is hereby increased to one hundred and fifty tons capacity, and the limit of cost is hereby increased to three hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars.

NAVAL STATION, ISLAND OF GUAM: Sewer system, fifteen thousand dollars; extension of naval station roads, ten thousand dollars; coal shed, Piti, one thousand dollars; wharf, Piti, three thousand dollars; ice plant, three thousand dollars; in all, thirty-two thousand dollars.