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FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 548, 549. 1891. 1083 grou shall make their uarterl payments of ensions on Januar q¤me¤1ypeyme¤u fourdh, A(pril fourth, J u(ly fourth, and October Ifourth of each year?; °°""“’“‘ · the secon group shall make their quarterly payments of pensions on February fourth, May; fourth, August fourth, and November fourth of each year; and the third group shall make their quarterly payments of pensions on March fourth, June fourth, September ourth, and December fourth of each year. The Secretary of the Interior is hereby fully authorized to cause payments of pensions to be made for the fractional lparts of quarters created by such change,' so as to properly adjust a payments as heremxfurovided. Section 1z.s.,¤e¤.4vc4,1ns¤¤. forty-seven un red and sixty-four of the Revi Statutes is hereby °"‘°”°°d` so amended as to conform to the changes in the time of payments provided herein, and is made applicable thereto. The sum of fifteen thousan dollars is hereby appropriated to mxpeuseseremmge. meet_t1l£ qxpenses involved in carrying into effect the c anges herein provi or._ Sec. 3. That the same power to administer oaths and take aiiida- eI;Vg¤;¥¤3;s.¤¤· vits, which by virtue of section forty-seven hundred and forty-four gsm, ad of the Revised Statutes is conferred pipon clerks detailed by the Commissioner of Pensions from his office to investigate suspected 12.s.,¤ee.4744,p.s2a attempts at fraud on the Government through and by virtue of the pension laws, and to aid in prosecutin any mperson so offending, shall be, and is hereby, extended to all spec` examiners or ad - tional special examiners employed under authority of Congress to aid in the same purpose. , Approved, March 3, 1891. — Msrch3, 1891. CHAP. 549.-An act authorizing' the Secre of the Treasury, in his discretion, "_'_'_"’ to suspend for a period of one year from Marciiatywenty-ninth, e' teen hundred and ninety·0ne, the provisions of an act approved March second, eignteen hundred and eighty-nine, entitled "An act to amend sections forty-four hundred and ugpty-eight and forty-four hundred and eighty-nine of the Revised Statutes, requiringe-savmg appliances on steamers/’ so far as they relate to steamers plying exclusively upon any of the lakes or bays of the United States; Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Suspension ,6, to United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary °*g;°‘{f,l;',;,,;; of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized, in his discretion, to pi-ejéllues on mamsuspend for a eriod of one year from the twenty ninth day of March, °'°· eighteen hundred and ninety-one. so far as they relate to steamers lying exclusively upon any of the lakes or bafys of the United States, the provisions of an act to amend sections orty-four hundred and 1$l..•¤cs.nss.44¤> eighty eight and forty-four hundred and eighty nine of the Revised "v.,ij;,_p_lm_ Statutes, of the United States, approved, March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, requiring ine-carrying projectiles and the means of propelling them to be carried on steamers, and the rules Am, p. ae. and regulations relating thereto adopted by the Board of Supervising Ins ectors, approved by the Secretary of the Treasury March secon ei ffteen hunciied and ninety. dhe Secretary of the Treasury is hereby directed to make a series _ of experiments with such line carrying projectiles and the means of 0,Eg}’g}'§$,'£· :;;,3 ropelling them as may be submitted, and to report the same to ences. Congress, at the beginning of the first session of the Fifty-second Congress, and also his opinion as to whether necessity exists for such life-saving appliances as are now repuired by the regulations of the Treasury Department under the a oresaid sections of the Revised Statutes, as amended, and as to what changes, if any, in such law or regulations may be deemed advisable byihim to meet the interests of lifesaving and the shipping interests a ke. Approved, March 3, 1891.