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SIXTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Cns. 204, 205. 1908. 4()3 a regular course of study at any military school or college of the United States, such officer or enlisted man shall receive from the annual appropriation for the support of the Army, the same travel allowances and quarters or commutation of quarters to which an officer or enlisted man of the Regular Army would be entitled for attending such school or college under orders from proper military authority; such officer shall also receive commutation and subsistence at the rate of one dollar per day and each enlisted man such subsistence as is furnished to an enlisted man of the Regular Army while in actual attendance upon a course of instruction.” Sec. 11. That section twenty of said Act as amended be, and the same is hereby, amended and reenacted so as to read as follows: "SEc. 20. That upon the application of the governor of any State Amgumom of, Aror Territory furnished with material of war under the provisions of EZ,{’H}g$”§§§¥’lt$?€g this Act, or former laws of Congress, the Secretary of War may, in his 32 ,,9 discretion, detail one or more officers or enlisted men of the Army to amended.p' ' report to the governor of such State or Territory for duty in connection with the organized militia. All such assi nments may be revoked Revocation. at the request of the governor of such State or Territory or at the pleasure of the Secretary of Wa1·. The Secretary of War is hereby author- Boardoftive officem ized to appoint a board of five officers on the active list of the organized militia so selected as to secure, as far as practicable, equitable representation to all sections of the United States, and which shall, from time to time, as the Secretary of War may direct, proceed to Washington, District of Columbia, for consultation with the Secretary of VVar respecting the condition, status, and needs of the whole body of the organized militia. Such officers shall be appointed for the term rom. of four years unless sooner relieved by the Secretary of War. "The actual and necessary traveling expenses of the members of the mveiing oxoeom, board, together with a per diem to be established by the Secretary of °t°‘ VVar, shall be paid to the members of the board. The expenses herein Charged against authorized, together with the necessary clerical and office expenses of °°°°“`l“ppr°p"`m°°’ the division of militia affairs in the office of the Secretary of \Var, shall constitute a charge against the whole sum annually a propriated under section sixteen hundred and sixty-one, Revised Statutes, as R_g__m_166i,p,ooo_ amended, and shall be paid therefrom, and not from the allotment duly apportioned to any particular State, Territory, or the District of Columbia; and a list of such expenses shall be submitted to Congress 1.1s:orexpe¤oe¤,o¤o. annually by the Secretary of War in connection with his annual report."' Approved, May 27, 1908. CHAP. 205.-An Act To amend an Act entitled "An Act to simplify the laws in May 2y_ mm relation to the collection of the revenues/’ approved June tenth, eighteen hundred [H. R. 17506.] and ninety, as amended by the Act entitled "An Act to provide revenues for the rgugagjf Government and to encourage the industries ot the United States," approved July ' twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Slate.? qf'America in Lbngress assembled, That section fourteen of the coueoaou or ous- Act entitled “An Act to simplify the laws in relation to the collection t°{'?§f°§';"f5?_ of revenues," approved June tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, as A ‘ “"“°’“·‘ amended by the Act entitled "An Act to provide revenues for the Government and to encourage the industries- of the United States," approved July twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, be, VOL 3Q' p_ I5], and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows: °’”°“d°"· "S1cc. 14. That the decision of the collector as to the rate and ,€:,ggj$lec§;,9gj, 8__°°,{; amount of duties chargeable upon imported merchandise, including all dutiable our-ge, etc, dutiable costs and charges, and as to all fees and exactions of whatever character (except duties on tonnage), shall be tinal and conclusive