in this act shall be construed to require or compel any member of any well organized religious sect or organization at present organized and existing whose creed forbids its members to participate in war in any form, and whose religious convictions are against war or participation therein, in accordance with the creed of said religious organization, to serve in the militia or any other armed or volunteer force under the jurisdiction and authority of the United States. Section 8 defines as the organized militia the regularly enlisted, organized, and uniformed active militia in the several States and Territories and the District of Columbia who have heretofore participated or shall hereafter participate in the ap portionment of the annual appropriation provided by Section 1,661 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended, whether known and designated as National Guard, militia, or otherwise. The organization, armament, and discipline of the organized militia in the several States and Territories and in the District of Columbia shall be the same as that which is now or may hereafter be prescribed for the regular and volunteer armies of the United States, within five years from the date of the approval of this act: Provided, That the President of the United States, in time of peace, may by order fix the minimum number of enlisted men in each company, troop, battery, signal corps, engineer corps and hospital corps: And provided further, That any corps of artillery, cavalry and infantry existing in any of the States at the passage of the act of May 8, 1792, which, by the laws, customs or usages of the said States have been in continuous existence since the passage of said act under its provisions and under the provisions of Section 232 and Sections 1,625 to 1,660, both inclusive, of Title sixteen of the Revised Statutes of the United States relating to the militia, shall be allowed to retain their accustomed privileges, subject, nevertheless, to all other duties required by law in like manner as the other militia. Sections 4 to 6 provide that whenever the United States is invaded, or in danger of invasion from any foreign nation, or of rebellion against the authority of the government of the United States, or the President is unable, with the other forces at his command, to execute the laws of the Union in any part thereof, it shall be lawful for the President to call forth, for a period aot exceeding nine months, such number of the militia of the State or of the States or Territories or of the District of Columbia as he may deem necessary to repel such invasion, suppress such rebellion, or to enable him to execute such laws, and to issue his orders for that purpose to such officers of the militia as he may think proper. Whenever the President calls forth militia to be employed in the service of the United States, he may specify in his call the period for which such service is required, not exceeding nine months, and the militia so called shall continue to serve during the term so specified, unless sooner discharged by order of the President. When the militia of more than one State is called into the actual service of the United States by the President he may, in his discretion, apportion them among such States or Territories or to the District of Columbia according to representative population. Sections 7 to 11 provide for the mustering in and payment of the militia called into service. Section 12 requires the appointment for each State and Territory and for the District of Columbia of an Adjutant General, who shall make returns to the Secretary of War of the strength and condition of the organized militia. Section 13. provides for the issue of standard equipment to the militia organizations at the expense of the United States. Sections 14 and 15 provide for the payment of the militia, thus equipped, when in camp or on field service, and for the participation of the militia in regular army field and instruction manoeuvres. Section 16 authorizes the instruction at the federal government's expense of certain militia officers designated by Governors of States and Territories. Sections 17 and 18 provide for the issue of stores and supplies to the militia. But each State or Territory furnished with material of war shall, during the year next preceding each annual allotment of funds, in accordance with Section 1,661 of the Revised Statutes as amended, have required every company, troop and battery in its organized Imilitia not excused by the Governor of such State or Territory to participate in practice marches or go into camp of instruction at least five consecutive days, and to assemble for drill and instruction at company, battalion or regimental armories or rendezvous or for target practice not less than twenty-four times, and shall also have required during such year an inspection of each such company, troop and battery to be made by an officer of such militia or an officer of the regular army. Sections 19 to 21 provide for the detail of regular army officers to camps of instruction and for the inspection of target practice. Section 22 provides that when any officer, non-commissioned officer or private of the militia is disabled by reason of wounds or disabilities received or incurred in the service of the United States, he shall be entitled to all the benefits of the pension laws existing at the time of his service, and in case such officer, non-commissioned officer or private dies in the service of the United States or in returning to his place of residence after being mustered out of such service, or at any time, in consequnce of wounds or disabilities received in such service, his widow and children, if any, shall be entitled to all the benefits of such pension laws. Section 23 establishes a list of eligibles for future volunteer appointments. It provides that for the purpose of securing a list of persons specially qualified to hold commissions in any volunteer force which may hereafter be called for and organized under the authority of Congress, other than a force composed of organized militia, the Secretary of War is authorized from time to time to convene boards of officers at army posts in different parts of the United States, who shall examine as to their qualifications for the command of troops or for the performance of staff duties all applicants who shall have served in the regular army of the United States, in any of the volunteer forces of the United States, or in the organized militia of any State or Territory or of the District of Columbia, or who, being a citizen of the United States, shall have pursued a regular course of instruction in any military school or college of the United States Army, or shall have graduated from any educational institution to which an officer of the army or navy has been detailed as superintendent or professor after having creditably pursued the course of military instruction therein provided. Such examinations shall be under rules prescribed by the Secretary of War, and shall be especially directed to ascertain the practical capacity of the applicant. The record of previous service of the applicant shall be considered as a part of the examination. Upon the conclusion of each examination the board shall certify to the War Department its judgment as to the fitness of the applicant, stating the office, if any, which it deems him qualified to fill, and, upon approval by the President, the names of the persons certified to be qualified shall be inscribed in a register to be kept in the War Department for that purpose. The persons so certified and registered shall, subject to a physical examination at the time, constitute an eligible class for commissions pursuant to such, certificates in any volunteer force hereafter called for and organized under the authority, of Congress, other than a force composed of organized militia, and the President may authorize persons from this class to attend and pursue a regular course of study at any military school or college of the United States other than the Military Academy at West Point and to receive from the annual appropriation for the support of the army the same allowances and commutations as provided in this act for officers of the organized militia: Provided, That no person shall be entitled to receive a commission as a second lieutenant after he shall have passed the ago of thirty; as first lieutenant after he shall have passed the age of thirty-five; as captain after he shall have passed the age of forty; as major after he shall have passed the age of forty-five; as lieutenant colonel after he shall have passed the age of fifty, or as colonel after he shall have passed the age of fifty-five: And provided further, That such appointments shall be distributed proportionately, as near as may be, among the various States contributing such volunteer force: And provided, That the appointments in this section provided for shall not be deemed to include appointments to any office in any company, troop, battery, battalion or regiment of the organized militia which volunteers as a body or the officers of which are appointed by the Governor of a State or Territory. Coinage for the By an act approved March 2, 1903, entitled "An act to establish a standard of value and to provide for a coinage system in the Philippine Islands," it is provided that the unit of value in the Philippine Islands shall be the gold reso consisting of twelve and nine-tenths grains of gold, ninetenths fine, said gold peso to become the unit of value when the government of the Philippine Islands shall have coined and ready for, or in. circulation not less than five million of the silver pesos hereinafter provided for in this act, and the gold coins of the United States at the rate of $1 for two pesos hereinafter authorized to be coined shall be legal tender for all debts, public and private, in the Philippine Islands. In addition to the coinage authorized for use in the Philippine Islands by the act of July 1, 1902, the government of the Philippine Islands is authorized to coin to an amount not exceeding seventy-five million pesos, for use in said islands, a silver coin of the denomination of one peso and of the weight of 416 grains, and the standard of said silver coins shall be such that of 1,000 parts, by weight, 900 shall be of pure metal and 100 hundred of alloy, and the alloy shall be of copper. The silver Philippine peso authorized shall be legal tender in the Philippine Islandfor all debts, public and private, unless otherwise specifically provided by contract: Provided, That debts contracted prior to December 31, 1903, may be paid in the legal tender currency of said islands existing at the time of the making of said contracts, unless otherwise expressly provided by contract. Section 77 of the act of July 1, 1902, is hereby amended so that it shall read: "That the government of the Philippine Islands is authorized to coin for use in said islands a coin of the denomination of fifty centavos and of the weight of two hundred and eight grains, a coin of the denomination of twenty centavos and of the weight of eighty-three and ten-one-hundredths grains, and a coin of the denomination of ten centavos and of the weight of forty-one and fifty-five-one-hundredths grains; and the standard of said silver coins shall be such that of 1,000 narts, by weight, 900 shall be of pure metal and 100 of alloy, and the alloy shall be of copper." The Philippine peso herein authorized and the subsidiary silver coins authorized by Section 77 of the act of July 1, 1902, as amended, shall be coined under the authority of the government of the Philippine Islands in such amounts as it may determine, with the approval of the Secretary of War of the United States, except as limited in this act, from silver bullion purchased by said government, with the approval of the Secretary of War of the United States: Provided, That said government may, in its discretion, in lieu of the purchase of bullion, recoin any of the silver coins now in or hereafter received by the treasury of the government of the Philippine Islands into the coins provided for in this act or in the act of July 1, 1902, as herein amended, at such rate and under such regulations as it may prescribe; and the subsidiary silver coins authorized by this act and by the act of July 1, 1902, shall be legal tender in said islands to the amount of $10. The coinage authorized by this act shall be subject to the conditions and limitations of the provisions of the act of July 1, 1902, except as herein otherwise provided; and the government of the Philippine Islands may adopt such measures as it may deem proper, not inconsistent with said act of July 1, 1902, to maintain the value of the silver Philippine peso at the rate of one gold peso, and in order to maintain such parity between said silver Philippine pesos and the gold pesos herein provided for, and for no other purpose, may issue temporary certificates of indebtedness, bearing interest at a rate not to exceed 4 per centum annually, payable at periods of three months or more, but not later than one year from the date of issue, which shall be in the denominations of $25, or fifty pesos, or some multiple of such sum, and shall be redeemable in gold coin of the United States, or in lawful money of said islands, according to the terms of issue prescribed by the government of said islands; but the amount of such certificates outstanding at any one time shall not exceed $10,000,000, or twenty million pesos, and said certificates shall be exempt from the payment of all taxes or duties of the government of the Philippine Islands, or any local authority therein, or of the government of the United States, as well as from taxation in any form by or under any State, municipal or local authority in the United States or the Philippine Islands: Provided, That all the proceeds of said certificates shall be used exclusively for the maintenance of said parity, as herein provided, and for no other purpose, except that a sum not exceeding $3,000,000 at any one time may be used as a continuing credit for the purchase of silver bullion in execution of the provisions of this act. The Mexican silver dollar now in use in the Philippine Islands and the silver coins heretofore issued by the Spanish Government for use in said islands shall be receivable for public dues at a rate to be fixed from time to time by the proclamation of the civil governor of said islands until such date, not earlier than the first day of January, 1904, as may be fixed by public proclamation of said civil governor, when such coins shall cease to be so receivable: Provided, That the public offices of the government of said islands shall give a preference for all public dues to the silver pesos and the silver certificates authorized by this act, and may at any time refuse to receive such Mexican dollars and Spanish coins as may appear to be counterfeit or defective. The treasurer of the Philippine Islands is authorized to receive deposits of the standard silver coins of one peso authorized by this act to be coined, at the treasury of the government of said islands or any of its branches, in sums of not less than twenty pesos, and to issue silver certificates therefor in denominations of not less than two nor more than ten pesos, and coin so deposited shall be retained in the treasury and held Such for the payment of such certificates on demand, and used for no other purpose. certificates shall be receivable for customs, taxes, and for all public dues in the Philippine Islands, and when so received may be reissued, and when held by any banking association in said islands may be counted as a part of its lawful reserve. Sections 9 to 12 provide for the coinage of the pesos thus authorized, and Section 13 declares that Section 78 of the act of July 1, 1902, and all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act, and all p ovisions of law in force in the Philippine Islands making any form of money legal tender after December. 31, 1903, except as provided in this act, are hereby repealed. By an act approved February 9, 1903, a system of extradition with the Philippines was established. The act provided that Section 1,014 of the Revised Statutes, so far as applicable, shall apply throughout the United States Extradition to and for the arrest and removal therefrom to the Philippine from the Philippines. Islands of any fugitive from justice charged with the commission of any crime against the United States within the Philippine Islands, and shall apply within the Philippine Islands for the arrest and removal therefrom to the United States of any fugitive from justice charged with the commission of any crime against the United States. Such fugitive may, by any judge or magistrate of the Philippine Islands, and agreeably to the usual mode of process against offenders therein, be arrested and imprisoned, or bailed, as the case may be, pending the issuance of a warrant for his 1emoval to the United States, which warrant it shall be the duty of a judge of the court of first instance seasonably to issue, and of the officer or agent of the United States designated for the purpose to execute. Such officer or agent, when engaged in executing such warrant without the Philippine Islands, shall have all the powers of a marshal of the United States so far as such powers are requisite for the prisoner's safe keepinig and the execution of the warrant, and the provisions of Sections 5,278 and 5,279 of the Revised Statutes, so far as applicable, shall apply to the Philippine Islands, which, for the purposes of said sections, shall be deemed a Territory within the meaning thereof. By an act approved January 14, 1903, entitled "An act relating to Hawaiian silver coinage and silver certificates," provision is made for retiring such coins and certificates and substituting United States silver coins for them. Hawaiian Hawaiian coins will be received as legal tender until January 1, Silver Coinage. 1904, and Hawaiian silver certificates must be redeemed and cancelled by the Territorial Government before January 1, 1905. Exchange of Hawalian coins at their face value for United States coins is to be made through United States collectors of customis or internal revenue stationed in Hawail. All Hawaiian coins thus received are to be reconverted at the San Francisco mint into United States subsidiary coinage. An act approved January 30, 1903, entitled "An act to promote the efficiency of the Philippine constabulary,' provided that officers of the regular army may be detailed for service as chief and assistant chiefs, the said The Philippine assistant chiefs not to exceed in number four, of the Philippine Constabulary. constabulary, and that during the continuance of such details the officer serving as chief shall have the rank, pay and allowances of brigadier general, and the officers serving as assistant chiefs shall have the rank, pay and allowances of colonel: Provided, That the difference between the pay and allowances of brigadier general and colonel, s herein provided, and the pay and allowances of the officers so detailed in the grades from which they are detailed shall be paid out of the Philippine treasury. Companies of Philippine scouts ordered to assist the Philippine constabulary in the maintenance of order in the Philippine Islands may be placed under the command of officers serving as chief or assistant chiefs of the Philippine constabulary: Provided, That when the Philippine scouts shall be ordered to assist the Philippine constabulary, said scouts shall not at any time be placed under the command of inspectors or other officers of the constabulary below the grade of assistant chief of constabulary. An act approved February 12, 1903, "to fix the salaries of certain judges of the United States," made an increase of from 20 to 25 per cent in those salaries. The compensation allowed by the act are: Chief Justice of the Salaries of Supreme Court, $13,000; Associate Justices, $12,500; circuit Federal Judges. judges, $7,000; district judges, $6,000; Chief Justice of the Court of Claims, $6,500; Associate Justices, $6,000; Chief Justice of the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, $7,500; Associate Justices, $7,000; Justices of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, $6,000. Importation of By the act making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture, approved March 3, 1903, it is provided that the Secretary of Agriculture, whenever he has reason to believe that articles are being imported from foreign countries which, by reason of such adulteration are dangerous to the health of the people of the United States, or which are forbidden to be sold or restricted in sale in the countries in which they are made or from which they are exported, or which shall be falsely labelled in any respect in regard to the place of manufacture of the contents of the package, shall make a request upon the Secretary of the Treasury for samples from original packages of such articles for inspection and analysis; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to open such original packages and deliver specimens to the Secretary of Agriculture for the purpose mentioned, giving notice to the owner or consignee of such articles, who may be present and have the right to introduce testimony; and the Secretary of the Treasury shall refuse delivery to the consignee of any such goods which the Secretary of Agriculture reports to him have been inspected and analyzed and found to be dangerous to health, or which are forbidden to be sold or restricted in sale in the countries in which they are made or from which they are exported, or which shall be falsely labelled in any respect in regard to the place of manufacture or the contents of the package. By an act approved February 2, 1903, entitled "An act to more effectually suppress and prevent the spread of contagious and infectious diseases of live stock and for other purposes," it is provided that the powers conferred on the Live Stock Secretary of the Treasury by Sections 4 and 5 of an act entitled "An Diseases. act for the establishment of a Bureau of Animal Industry, to prevent the exportation of diseased cattle, and to provide means for the suppression and extirpation of pleuro-pneumonia and otner contagious diseases among domestic animals," approved May 29, 1884, are hereby conferred on the Secretary of Agriculture, to be exercised exclusively by him. He is hereby authorized and directed, from time to time, to establish such rules and regulations concerning the exportation and transportation of live stock from any place within the United States where he may have reason to believe such diseases may exist into and through any State or Territory, including the Indian Territory, and into and through the District of Columbia and to foreign countries, as he may deem necessary, and all such rules and regulations shall have the force of law. Whenever any inspector or assistant inspector of the Bureau of Animal Industry shall issue a certificate showing that such officer had inspected any cattle or other live stock which were about to be shipped, driven or transported from such locality to another, as above stated, and had found them free from Texas or splenetic fever infection, pleuro-pneumonia, foot and mouth disease, or any other infectious, contagious or communicable disease, such animals, so inspected and certified, may be shipped, driven or transported from such place intc and through any State or Territory, including the Indian Territory, and into and through the District of Columbia, or they may be exported from the United States without further inspection or the exaction of fees of any kind, except such as may at any time be ordered or exacted by the Secretary of Agriculture; and all such animals shall at all time be under the control and supervision of the Bureau of Animal Industry of the Agricultural Department for the purposes of such inspection. The Secretary of Agriculture shall have authority to make such regulations and take such measures as he may deem proper to prevent the introduction or dissemination of the contagion of any contagious, infectious or communicable disease of animals from a foreign country into the United States or from one State or Territory of the United States or the District of Columbia to another, and to seize, quarantine and dispose of any hay, straw, forage or similar material, or any meats, hides or other animal products coming from an infected foreign country to the United States, or from one State or Territory or the District of Columbia in transit to another State or Territory or the District of Columbia, whenever in his judgment such action is advisable in order to guard against the introduction or spread of such contagion. Any person, company or corporation knowingly violating the provisions of this act or the orders or regulations made in pursuance thereof shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be punished by a fine of not less than $100 nor more than $1,000, or by imprisonment not more than one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment. By an act approved January 12, 1903, Congress incorporated the General Education Board. The corporators named are William H. Baldwin, jr., Jabez L. M. Curry, The General Frederick T. Gates, Daniel C. Gilman, Morris K. Jesup, or without distinction of race, sect or creed. For the promotion of such object the said corporation is to have power to build, improve, enlarge, or equip, or to aid others to build, improve, enlarge, or equip, buildings for elementary or primary schools, industrial schools, technical schools, normal schools, training schools for teachers, schools of any grade, or for higher institutions of learning, or, in connection therewith, libraries, workshops, gardens, kitchens, or other educational accessories; to establish, maintain, or endow, or aid others to establish, maintain, or endow, elementary or primary schools, industrial schools, technical schools, normal schools, training schools for teachers, or schools of any grade, or higher institutions of learning; to employ or aid others to employ teachers and lecturers; to aid, co-operate with, or endow associations or other corporations engaged in educational work within the United States of America, or to donate to any such association or corporation any property or moneys which shall at any time be held by the said corporation hereby constituted; to collect educational statistics and information, and to publish and distribute documents and reports containing the same. Rebate of position of any An act approved January 15, 1903, entitled "An act to provide rebate of duties on coal, and for other purposes,' "authorized and required the Secretary of the Treasury to make full rebate for one year of duties imposed by law on all coal of every form or description imported into the United States from foreign countries. It also directed that the provisions of the Dingley law should not hereafter be construed to authorize the imduty on anthracite coal. By the act making appropriations for the naval service, approved March 3, 1903, the President is authorized to have constructed by contract or in navy yards three first class battleships carrying the heaviest armor and most powerful Increase of ordnance for vessels of their class upon a trial displacement of not the Navy. more than 16,000 tons, and to have the highest practicable speed and great radius of action, and to cost, exclusive of armor and armament, not exceeding $4,212,000 each; two first class battleships, carrying the heaviest armor and most powerful ordnance for vessels of their class, upon a trial displacement of not more than 13,000 tons, and to have the highest practicable speed and great radius of action, and to cost, exclusive of armor and armament, not exceeding $3,500,000 each; two steel ships, to be used in training landsmen and apprentices, to be propelled by sail, and to cost, exclusive of armament, not exceeding $370,000 each; one wooden brig, to be used for training landsmen and apprentices at stations, to be propelled by sail, and to cost, exclusive of armament, not exceeding $50,000. The Secretary of the Navy is also authorized to expend $500,000 in the purchase of subsurface or submarine torpedo boats. By the same act it is provided that there shall be allowed at the Naval Academy two midshipmen for each Senator, Representative and Delegate in Congress, two for the District of Columbia, and five each year at large: Provided, Increase in That the additional Congressional appointments authorized shall be the Naval made at such times as may be determined by the Secretary of the Cadet Corps. Navy, who shall equitably distribute the increase among the several States, Districts and Territories, so that ultimately, if practicable, each Senator, Representative and Delegate may recommend for appointment during each Congress one midshipman. The Secretary of the Navy shall as soon as practicable after the fifth day of March in each year notify in writing each Senator, Representative and Delegate in Congress of any vacancy which may be regarded as existing in the State, District or Territory which he represents, and the nomination of a candidate to fill such vacancy shall be made upon the recommendation of the Senator, Representative or Delegate. Such rcommendation shall be made by the first day of June of that year, and if not so made the Secretary of the Navy shall fill the vacancy by the appointment of an actual resident of the State, District or Territory in which the vacancy exists, who shall have been for at least two years immediately preceding his appointment an actual bona fide resident of the State, District or Territory in which the vacancy exists and shall have the qualifications otherwise prescribed by law: And provided further, That the Superintendent of the Naval Academy shall make such rules, to be approved by the Secretary of the Navy, as will effectually prevent the practice of hazing; and any cadet found guilty of participating in or encouraging or countenancing such practice shall be summarily expelled from the Academy, and shall not thereafter be reappointed to the Corps of Cadets or be eligible for appointment as a commissioned officer in the army or navy or Marine Corps until two years after the graduation of the class of which he was a member. The provisions for the increase of arpointments of midshipmen to the Naval Academy shall continue in force until June 30, 1913; and thereafter one midshipman shall be appointed for each Senator, Representative and Delegate in Congress. Hereafter there shall be at the Naval Academy one midshipman from Porto Rico, who shall be a native of said island, and whose appointment shall be made by the President on the recommendation of the Governor of Porto Rico. After January 1, 1904, all candidates for admission to the Naval Academy at the time of their examination must be between the ages of sixteen and twenty years. By the same act it is provided that to increase the efficiency of the Marine Corps the following additional officers, non-commissioned officers, drummers, trumpeters and privates to those now provided by law for said corps, are hereby authorized and directed, namely: One colonel, one lieutenant colonel, five majors, twelve captains, twenty-five first lieutenants, twelve second lieutenants, one assistant adjutant and inspector with the rank of lieutenant colonel, two assistant adjutants and inspectors with the rank of major, one assistant quartermaster with the rank of lieutenant colonel, five Increase in the |