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944 SIXTY~FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Cris. 126, 127, 133. 1917. under the supervision of the said citizens' executive committee and in accordance with plans and designs to be approved by the Superintendent of the Capitol, the Commissioner o public Buildings and Grounds, and the building inspector of the District of _Columbia. MM ¤f ¤<>=vi*=¤* Sec. 6. That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to loan_ to °°°ts'°°°‘ the chairman of the medical department of the citizens' executive committee for said reunion, or his successor in said office, for the tpur— pose of caring for the sick, injured, and infirmon the occasion o the said reunion, such hospital tents and camp 5.1p(phances_ and other necessaries, hospital furniture, and utensils 0 escriptions, ambulances, horses, drivers, stretchers, and Red Cross flaggsand poles belonging to the Government of the United States as in judgment ,,,m,,_,_,_ may e spared and are not in use by the Govemment at the time of Indemnity- the encam ment: Provided, That the said chairman, or his successor in said ofiiize, shall indemnify the War Department for any loss to such hospital tents and appliances as aforesaid not necessarily incident to such use. Approved, February 26, 1917. Felvuazsw, 1917. CHAP. 127.—Joint Resolution Authorizing the removal of the statue of Admiral [SJ ·’·‘°·] Dupont in Dupont Circle in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, and the [Pub. Res, No. si.] erection of a memorial to Admiral Dupont in place thereof. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United gisgwhgftgagmbm- States of America in Congress assenabled, That the Chief of Engineers nupesirmybwwmd United States Army, be, and he is hereby, authorized and irected

  • “¥"‘“’° °"‘““°· to grant permission for the removal of the statue and pedestal and

fonmdations of Admiral Dupont in Dupont Circle in the city of ` Wasbin¥on, District of Columbia, and the erection in place thereof Sykes. I t within the circle of a memorial to said Admiral Dupont: Provided, mm§°S°1 ° pmm That the present statue and {pedestal may, after the completion of the memorial in place thereo , be turned over to the donors of the memorial for relocation outside the District of Columbia: Provided mI1g;pm¤;1F¤§° com- farther, That the site and design of the memorial shall be approved me '°” ° Am' by the Commission of Fine Arts, and that the United States shall be put to no expense in or by the removal of the statue, pedestal, and oundations and the erection of said memorial, complete: Provided Amlirniwd. further, That no greater area in the said Dupont Circle shall be taken for the memorial erein authorized than the small circle now occupied '1‘¤¤¤¤r<>r erectmn. by the statue of Admiral Dupont: Provided tggther, That if the erection of this memorial shall not be be wi three years from and after the passage of this joint rescilifiion, the ermission granted may, in the discretion of the Chief of Engineers, Iiinited States Army, be revoked at any time. Approved, February 26, 1917.

  • `°b’¢?gYg7i i9i7· CRAP. 183,-An Act To authorize @cu1tura1 entries on surplus coal lands in
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mm Rmmmm Be it enacted_by Senate and House of Representatives of the United _._g,,c,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,5 States of America in Congress assembled, That in any Indian reservagwlggdgeg wm ¤1 tion heretofore or hereafter opened to settlement and ent pursuant to ‘ a classification of the surplus lands therein as mineral anldrnonmineral, such surplus lands not otherwise reserved or dis osed of, which have been or may be withdrawn or classified as coal binds or are valuable for coal deposits, shall be subject to the same disposition as is or may be prescribed by law for the nonmineral lands in such reserva-