the bridge herein authorized be not commenced within one year and CHAP. 634.-An Act Authorizing the Secretary of War to sell certain coal in Alaska, and for other purposes. March 9, 1906. [H. R. 16305.] [Public, No. 41.] Alaska. Sale of Government to citizens of Nome authorized. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, and is hereby, authorized to cause to be sold to the citizens of coal Nome, Alaska, at its actual cost to the United States at the place of sale, such limited quantities of coal for domestic uses as, in his judgment, can safely be spared from the stock provided for the use of the garrison at Fort Davis, Alaska. Approved, March 9, 1906. CHAP. 636.-An Act To incorporate The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. March 10, 1906. [H. R. 13538.] [Public, No. 42.] The Carnegie Foun ing. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the persons following, District of Columbia. namely, Arthur T. Hadley, Charles William Eliot, Nicholas Murray dation for the AdButler, Jacob G. Schurman, Woodrow Wilson, L. Clark Seelye, vancement of Teach Charles C. Harrison, Alexander C. Humphreys, S. B. McCormick, Incorporators. Edwin B. Craighead, Henry C. King, Charles F. Thwing, Thomas McClelland, Edwin H. Hughes, H. McClelland Bell, George H. Denny, William Peterson, Samuel Plantz, David S. Jordan, William H. Crawford, Henry S. Pritchett, Frank A. Vanderlip, T. Morris Carnegie, Robert A. Franks, their associates and successors duly chosen, are hereby incorporated and declared to be a body corporate in the District of Columbia by the name of The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, and by that name shall be known and have perpetual succession, with the powers, limitations and restrictions herein contained. SEC. 2. That the objects for which said corporation is incorporated Objects. shall be (a) To receive and maintain a fund or funds and apply the income thereof as follows: To provide retiring pensions, without regard to race, sex, creed, or color, for the teachers of universities, colleges and technical schools in the United States, the Dominion of Canada, and Newfoundland, who, by reason of long and meritorious service, or by reason of old age, disability, or other sufficient reason, shall be deemed entitled to the assistance and aid of this corporation, on such terms and conditions, however, as such corporation may from time to time approve and adopt: Provided, however, That the said retiring pensions shall be paid to such teachers only as are or have been connected with institutions not under control of a sect or which do not require their trustees, their officers, faculties, or students (or a majority thereof) to belong to any specified sect, and which do not impose any theological test as a condition of entrance therein or of connection therewith. (b) In general, to do and perform all things necessary to encourage, uphold, and dignify the profession of the teacher and the cause of higher education within the United States, the Dominion of Canada, and Newfoundland aforesaid, and to promote the objects of the foundation. with full power, however, to the trustees hereinafter appointed and their successors from time to time to modify the conditions and regulations under which the work shall be carried on, so as to secure the application of the funds in the manner best adapted to the conditions of the time: And provided, That such corporation may by a vote of two-thirds of the entire number of trustees enlarge or vary the purposes herein set forth, provided that the objects of the corporation shall at all times be among the foregoing or kindred thereto. (c) To receive and hold by gift, bequest, devise, grant, or purchase, any real or personal property, and to use and dispose of the same for the purposes of the corporation. SEC. 3. That the direction and management of the affairs of the corporation, and the control and disposition of its property and funds, shall be vested in a board of trustees, twenty-five in number, to be composed of the following individuals: Arthur T. Hadley, Charles William Eliot, Nicholas Murray Butler, Jacob G. Schurman, Woodrow Wilson, L. Clark Seelye, Charles C. Harrison, Alexander C. Humphreys, S. B. McCormick, Edwin B. Craighead, Henry C. King, Charles F. Thwing, Thomas McClelland, Edwin H. Hughes, H. McClel land Bell, George H. Denny, William Peterson, Samuel Plantz, David S. Jordan, William H. Crawford, Henry S. Pritchett, Frank A. Vanderlip, T. Morris Carnegie, and Robert A. Franks, being twenty-four in number with power to said board to increase the same to twenty-five in all, who shall constitute the first board of trustees and constitute the members of the corporation. Vacancies occurring by death, resignation, or otherwise shall be filled by the remaining trustees in such manner as the by-laws shall prescribe, and the persons so elected shall thereupon become trustees and also members of the corporation. SEC. 4. The principal office of the corporation shall be located in the District of Columbia, but offices may be maintained and meetings of the corporation or the trustees and committees may be held in other places such as the by-laws may from time to time fix. SEC. 5. That the said trustees shall be entitled to take, hold, and administer any securities, funds, or property which may be transferred to them for the purposes and objects hereinbefore enumerated, and such other funds or property as may at any time be given, devised, or bequeathed to them, or to such corporation, for the purposes of the trust; with full power from time to time to adopt a common seal, to appoint officers, whether members of the board of trustees or otherwise, and such employees as may be deemed necessary in carrying on the business of the corporation and at such salaries or with such remuneration as they may think proper; and full power to adopt by-laws and such rules or regulations as may be necessary to secure the safe and convenient transaction of the business of the corporation; and full power and discretion to invest any principal and deal with and expend the income of the corporation in such manner as in their judgment will best promote the objects herein before set forth; and in general to have and use all the powers and authority necessary to promote such objects and carry out the purposes of the donor. The said trustees shall have further power from time to time to hold as investments any securities transferred or which may be transferred to them or to such corporation by any person, persons, or corporation, and to invest the same or any part thereof from time to time in such securities and in such form and manner as is or may be permitted to trustees or to savings banks or to charitable or literary corporations for investment, according to the laws of the District of Columbia or in such securities as may be transferred to them or authorized for investment by any deed of trust or gift or by any deed of gift or last will and testament to be hereafter made or executed. SEC 6. That the said corporation may take and hold any additional donations, grants, devises, or bequests which may be made in the further support of the purposes of the said corporation. Services of trustees SEC. 7. That the services of the trustees of the said corporation, to be gratuitous. acting as such trustees, shall be gratuitous, but such corporation may provide for the reasonable expenses incurred by trustees in the performance of their duties. SEC. 8. That as soon as may be possible after the passage of this Organization. Act, a meeting of the trustees hereinbefore named shall be called by Henry S. Pritchett, Charles William Eliot, Arthur T. Hadley, Nicholas Murray Butler, Woodrow Wilson, Jacob G. Schurman, Charles C. Harrison, Alexander C. Humphreys, and George H. Denny, or any six of them, at the Borough of Manhattan, in the city and State of New York, by notice served in person or by mail addressed to each trustee at his place of residence; and the said trustees named herein, or a majority thereof, being assembled, shall organize and proceed to adopt by-laws, to elect officers, fix their compensation, and generally to organize the said corporation. The corporation hereby incorporated may accept a transfer of all Property holdings the real and personal property of any other corporation created for similar objects, notwithstanding the fact that both said corporations may have common trustees, upon such terms as may be agreed upon, and may receive, take over, and enter into possession, custody, and management of all such property, real and personal: Provided, however, That such property shall be applied to the purposes of the corporation hereby incorporated as hereinbefore set forth. Proviso. SEC. 9. That such corporation hereby incorporated upon accepting Liabilities. a transfer of all the real and personal property of such other corporation shall succeed to the obligations and liabilities and be held liable to pay and discharge all the debts, liabilities, and contracts of such corporation so existing to the same effect as if such corporation hereby incorporated had itself incurred the obligation or liability to pay such debt or damages. SEC. 10. That Congress may from time to time alter, repeal, or modify this Act of incorporation, but no contract or individual right made or acquired shall thereby be divested or impaired. SEC. 11. That this Act shall take effect immediately on its passage. Amendment. Effect. CHAP. 637.-An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to lease land in Stanley County, South Dakota for a buffalo pasture. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to withdraw from entry and to lease for a period of ten years, at an annual rental of not less than fifty dollars, under rules and regulations to be by him prescribed, not exceeding three thousand five hundred acres of the public domain in townships five and six north, of range thirty, and townships five and six north, range thirty-one east, Black Hills meridian, in the county of Stanley and State of South Dakota, to be used exclusively for the pasturing of native buffalo, and for no other purpose: Provided, That no lands shall be leased except such tracts as may have been subject to homestead entry for a period of fifteen years and have not been entered or appropriated, unless abandoned for a sufficient period so that entries that may have been made have been canceled and the land has reverted to the public domain: Provided further, That the Secretary of the Interior may at any time cancel any lease which may hereafter be made under the provisions hereof and restore said land to the public domain. Approved, March 12, 1906. March 12, 1906. (H. R. 18542.j [Public, No. 43.] South Dakota. Stanley County, for thorized. Lease of lands in buffalo pasture, au Provisos. Cancellation of leases. at. March 14, 1906. [H. R. 18674.] [Public, No. 44.] Lawton, Okla. Waterworks, etc., Vol. 31, p. 1094. CHAP. 948.-An Act To amend an Act entitled "An Act to amend an Act entitled 'An Act to supplement existing laws relating to the disposition of lands, and so forth, approved March third, nineteen hundred and one,' approved June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two." Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That an Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to supplement existing laws relating to the disposiVol. 32, p. 506, tion of lands, and so forth, approved March third, nineteen hundred and one," approved June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two, be amended by adding thereto the following: amended. creased. Amount for, in- "And provided further, That in the event the amount which the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to cause to be expended for the town of Lawton is found by him to be not sufficient for the purpose intended, including the securing of an adequate water supply for said town of Lawton, he is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to cause to be expended out of the proceeds of the sale of town lots in said town, under the conditions, limitations, and restrictions above set forth, and subject to his supervision and control, the further sum of sixty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be available from said proceeds, Limit of expendi- so that the total amount which he is authorized to cause to be expended as aforesaid for the town of Lawton from the proceeds of the sale of town lots in said town will not exceed two hundred and ten thousand dollars." tures. Approved, March 14, 1906. March 15, 1906. [H. R. 58.] [Public, No. 45.] Republic, etc. signia, etc., of, in Dis hibited. CHAP. 949.-An Act To prevent the unlawful wearing of the badge or insignia of the Grand Army of the Republic or other soldier organizations. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Grand Army of the States of America in Congress assembled, That whoever, in the DisImproper use of in- trict of Columbia, not being a member of the Military Order of the trict of Columbia, pro- Loyal Legion of the United States, of the Grand Army of the Republic, of the Sons of Veterans, of the Woman's Relief Corps, of the Union Veteran's Union, of the Union Veteran Legion, of the United Spanish War Veterans, of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and not entitled under the rules of the order to wear the same, willfully wears or uses the insignia, distinctive ribbon, or badge of membership, rosette, or button thereof, or who uses or wears the same to obtain aid or assistance thereby, shall be punished by a fine of not more than twenty dollars or by imprisonment for not more than thirty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Approved, March 15, 1906. Penalty. March 15, 1906. [H. R. 13673.] [Public, No. 46.] Reserve. CHAP. 950.-An Act To extend the provisions of the homestead laws to certain lands in the Yellowstone Forest Reserve. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Yellowstone Forest States of America in Congress assembled, That the general provisions Homestead laws of the homestead laws of the United States be, and the same are hereby, extended to certain extended to and over the surveyed lands in townships forty-eight, forty lands in. nine, and fifty, and ranges one hundred and five and one hundred and six, within the Yellowstone Forest Reserve, and the said lands shall be subject to entry ninety days after the passage of this Act, within which ninety-day period the Secretary of Agriculture may set aside such portions of said lands as were not occupied by a bona fide settler January first, nineteen hundred and six, not to exceed in the aggregate one forestry administra Proviso. No commutation. Rights of prior set tlers revived. hundred and sixty acres, as may be necessary for forest reserve admin- Land reserved for istrative purposes, which lands so set aside shall not be subject to set- tion. tlement entry or location during the life of the forest reserve: Provided, That the commutation clause of the homestead laws shall not apply to the said lands, and any bona fide settler who made settlement on said lands prior to January first, nineteen hundred and six, and who had prior to that time lost or exercised his homestead right, may enter and perfect title to the lands settled upon by him as though his homestead right had not been lost or exercised, upon the payment of the sum of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre for the land included in his entry at the time of making final proof. Approved, March 15, 1906. CHAP. 951.—An Act To provide for an increased annual appropriation for agricultural experiment stations and regulating the expenditure thereof. March 16, 1906. [H. R. 345.] [Public, No. 47.] ment stations. tion to States and Ter Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there shall be, and Agricultural experthereby is, annually appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury-Annual approprianot otherwise appropriated, to be paid as hereinafter provided, to each ritories for increased. State and Territory, for the more complete endowment and maintenance of agricultural experiment stations now established or which may hereafter be established in accordance with the Act of Congress Vol. 24, p. 440. approved March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, the sum of five thousand dollars in addition to the sum named in said Act for the year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, and an annual increase of the amount of such appropriation thereafter for five years by an additional sum of two thousand dollars over the preceding year, and the annual amount to be paid thereafter to each State and Territory shall be thirty thousand dollars, to be applied only to paying the necessary expenses of conducting original researches or experiments bearing directly on the agricultural industry of the United States, having due regard to the varying conditions and needs of the respective States or Territories. Amount of annual increase. etc. SEC. 2. That the sums hereby appropriated to the States and Terri- Payments quarterly tories for the further endowment and support of agricultural experiment stations shall be annually paid.in equal quarterly payments on the first day of January, April, July, and October of each year by the Secretary of the Treasury, upon the warrant of the Secretary of Agriculture, out of the Treasury of the United States, to the treasurer or other officer duly appointed by the governing boards of said experiment stations to receive the same, and such officers shall be required to Report of receipts report to the Secretary of Agriculture on or before the first day of September of each year a detailed statement of the amount so received and of its disbursement, on schedules prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture. The grants of money authorized by this Act are made Legislative assent subject to legislative assent of the several States and Territories to the purpose of said grants: Provided, That payment of such installments of the appropriation herein made as shall become due to any State or Territory before the adjournment of the regular session of legislature meeting next after the passage of this Act shall be made upon the assent of the governor thereof, duly certified by the Secretary of the Treasury. SEC. 3. That if any portion of the moneys received by the designated Apportionments officer of any State or Territory for the further and more complete endowment, support, and maintenance of agricultural experiment stations as provided in this Act shall by any action or contingency be diminished or lost or be misapplied, it shall be replaced by said State or Territory to which it belongs, and until so replaced no subsequent necessary. Proviso. Assent of governors. when misapplied, etc |