ex designated by the secretary of state to conduct the examination; Provided further, That unless the disability be permanent a like amination shall be made annually in order to determine the degree of disability, and the payment of annuity shall cease from the date of the medical examination showing recovery. Fees for examination under this provision, together with reasonable traveling and other expenses incurred in order to submit to examination, shall be paid out of the foreign service retirement and disability fund. officer shall pay into the foreign service retirement and disability fund a special contribution equal to 5 per centum of his annual salary for each year of such employment, with interest thereon to date of payment compounded annually at 4 per centum. Sec. 19. In the event of public emergency any retired foreign service officer may be recalled temporarily to active service by the president and while so serving he shall be entitled in lieu of his retirement allowance to the full pay of the class in which he is When the annuity is discontinued under this temporarily serving. Sec. 20. All provisions of law heretofore provision before the annuitant has received a sum equal to the total amount of his con-enacted relating to secretaries in the diplothe differ-matic service and to consular officers, which tributions with accrued interest, ence shall be paid to him or to his legal are not inconsistent with the provisions of this act, are hereby made applicable to for representatives. eign service officers when they are designated for service as diplomatic or as consular officers and that all acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed. in Sec. 21. The appropriations contained title I. of the act entitled "An act making appropriations for the departments of state and justice and for the judiciary and for the departments of commerce and labor for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1925, and for other purposes." for such compensation and expenses (k) The president is authorized from time to time to establish, by executive order, a list of places in tropical countries which by reason of climatic or other extreme conditions are to be classed as unhealthful posts and each year of duty at such posts, while so classed, inclusive of regular leaves of absence, shall be counted as one year and a half, and so on in like proportion in reckoning the length of service for the purposes of retirement. (1) Whenever a foreign service officer becomes separated from the service except for disability before reaching the age of retirement 75 per centum of the total amount of contribution from his salary without interest shall be returned to him. (m) Whenever any foreign service officer, after the date of his retirement, accepts a position of employment the emoluments of which are greater than the annuity received by him from the United States government by virtue of his retirement under this act, the amount of the said annuity during the continuance of such employment shall be reduced by an equal amount: Provided, That all retired foreign service officers shall notify the secretary of state once a year of any positions of stating the employment accepted by them, amount of compensation received therefrom, So and whenever any such officer fails to report it shall be the duty of the secretary of state to order the payment of the annuity to be suspended until such report is received. (n) The secretary of state is authorized to expend from surplus money to the credit of the foreign service retirement and disability fund an amount not exceeding $5,000 for the expenses necessary in carrying out the provisions of this section, including actuarial advice. (0) Any diplomatic secretary or consular officer who has been or any foreign service officer who may hereafter be promoted from the classified service to the grade of ambassador or minister or appointed to a position in the department of state shall be entitled to all the benefits of this section in the same conditions 28 manner and under the same foreign service officers. (p) For the purposes of this act the period of service shall be computed from the date of original oath of office as secretary in the diplomatic service, consul-general, consul, viceconsul, deputy consul, consular assistant, consular agent. co aercial agent, interpreter or student interpre.r, and shall include periods of service at different times in either the diplomatic or consular service, or while on assignment to the department of state, or on special duty, but all periods of separation from the service and so much of any period of leave of absence as may exceed six months shall be excluded: Provided. That service in the department of state prior to appointment as a foreign service officer may be included in the period of service, in which case the as are affected by the provisions of this act are made available and may be applied toward the payment of the compensation and expenses herein provided for, except that no part of such appropriations shall be available for the payment of annuities to retired foreign service officers. Sec. 22. The titles "second assistant secretary of state" and "third assistant secretary of state" shall hereafter be known as "assistant secretary of state" without numerical distinction of rank; but the change of title no way impair the commissions, shall in salaries and duties of the present incumbents. There is hereby established in the department of state an additional "assistant secretary of state" who shall be appointed by the president, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, and shall be entitled to compensation at the rate of $7,500 per annum. The position of director of the consular service is abolished and the salary provided for that office is hereby made available for the salary of the additional assistant secretary of state herein authorized. Sec. 23. This act shall take effect on July (Approved May 24, 1924.) 1. 1924. the REMISSION OF BOXER INDEMNITY. Whereas by authority of a joint resolution congress approved May 25, 1908. of president of the United States was authorized to remit to China the sum of $11,961.121.76 of the Boxer indemnity fund accredited to the United States, which sum the president on Dec. 28, 1908, duly remitted and which, at the request of China, was specified to be used for educational purposes; and, Whereas, it is deemed proper as a further act of friendship to remit the balance of said indemnity fund amounting to $6,137,552.90 in order further to develop the educational and other cultural activities of China; now. therefore, be it Resolved by the senate and house of representatives of the United States of America in congress assembled, That the president is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to remit to China as an act of friendship any or all further payments of the annual installments of the Chinese indemnity due under the bond received from China pursuant to the protocol of Sept. 7, 1901, as modified by executive day of December, 1908, order on the 28th pursuant to the authority of the joint resolu tion of congress approved May 25, 1908, for indemnity against losses and expenses incurred by reason of the so-called Boxer disturbances in China during the year 1900, such remission to begin as from Oct. 1, 1917, and to be at such times and in such manner as the president shall deem just. (Approved May 24, 1924.) INCREASE OF COAST GUARD. An act to authorize a temporary increase of the coast guard for law enforcement. The secretary of the navy is authorized to transfer to the department of the treasury, for the use of the coast guard, such vessels of the navy, with their outfits and armaments, as can be spared by the navy and as are adapted to the use of the coast guard. The president is authorized to appoint. by and with the advice and consent of the senate. the following temporary officers of the coast guard: Two captains, ten commanders, twentyfive lieutenant-commanders, forty-eight lieutenants and forty-two lieutenants (junior grade) and ensigns of the line; and five commanders, eleven lieutenant commanders, nineteen lieutenants and forty lieutenants (junior grade) and ensigns of the engineer corps. Such temporary officers while in service shall receive the same pay. allowances and benefits as permanent commissioned officers of the coast guard of corresponding grade and length of service, except that no such officer shall be entitled to retirement because of his temporary commission. Temporary appointments shall continue until the president otherwise directs or congress otherwise provides. Permanent commissioned officers of the coast guard may be given temporary promotion, in order of seniority and without examination. to fill any such temporary grades. Notwithstanding such temporary promotion, any such officer shall continue to hold his permanent commission and shall be advanced in lineal rank, promoted and retired in the same manner as though this act had not become law. (Approved April 21, 1924.) SERVICE MEDALS FOR TEXAS CAVALRY. authorized to construct, reconstruct and improve roads and trails, inclusive of necessary bridges, in the national parks and monuments under the jurisdiction of the department of the interior. For such purposes, including the making of necessary surveys and plans, there is authorized to be appropriated the following sums to be available until expended: The sum of $2,500,000 for the fiscal years ending June 30. 1924. and June 30, 1925: the sum of $2.500.000 for the fiscal year ending June 30. 1926; and the sum of $2.500.000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927. The secretary of agriculture is authorized to reserve from distribution to the several states. in addition to the 10 per centum authorized by section 5 of the act of Nov. 10. 1921, not exceeding 5 per centum of the material, equipment and supplies hereafter received from the secretary of war, and to transfer said material, equipment and supplies to the secretary of the interior for use in constructing. reconstructing, improving and maintaining roads and trails in the national parks and monuments; Provided, That no charge shall be made for such transfer except such sums as may be agreed upon as being reasonable charges for freight, handling and conditioning for efficient use. (Approved April 9, 1924.) PROTECTION OF BIRDS AND ANIMALS. Section 84 of the act entitled "An act to codify, revise and amend the penal laws of the United States," approved March 4. 1909. is amended so as to read as follows: "Sec. 84. Whoever shall hunt. trap, capture, willfully disturb or kill any bird or wild animal of any kind whatever or take or destroy the eggs of any such bird on any lands of the United States which have been set apart or reserved as refuges or breeding grounds for such birds or animals by any law. proclamation or executive order, except under such rules and regulations as the secretary of agriculture may, from time to time, prescribe, or who shall willfully injure, molest or destroy any property of the United States on any such lands shall be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.' (Approved April 15, 1924.) STATISTICS OF COTTON. The director of the census is authorized and directed to collect and publish statistics concerning the amount of cotton ginned; the quantity of raw cotton consumed in manufacturing establishments of every character: number of active consuming cotton spindles: the number of active spindle hours and the quantity of cotton imported and exported, with the country of origin and destination. The secretary of war is authorized and directed to procure a bronze medal of appropriate design, with a bar and ribbon, together with a rosette or other device to be worn in lieu thereof, to be presented to each of the several officers and enlisted men of the two brigades of cavalry organized by the state of Texas, under authority from the war department of date of Dec. 8. 1917. who served therein prior to Nov. 11. 1918: Provided.he quantity of baled cotton on hand; the That such medals shall not be presented to men who have, subsequent to such service, been dishonorably discharged from the service or deserted: Provided further. That the sum of $5.000, or so much thereof as may be neces sary, is hereby authorized to be appropriated for the purpose of carrying this last paragraph into effect: Provided further. That the several officers and enlisted men to whom such medals may be presented are hereby authorized to wear, on occasions of ceremony, the uniform lawfully prescribed to be worn by them at the time of their service: Provided. This act shall not be considered as conferring upon the members of said organizations the benefits of the war risk insurance act or to confer a pensionable status to the members of said organizations. and that this act shall not be deemed to constitute a precedent for the future granting of such rights. (Approved April 16. 1924.) ROADS IN NATIONAL PARKS. The secretary of the interior in the administration of the national park service is hereby The statistics of the quantity of cotton ginned shall show the quantity ginned from each crop prior to Aug. 1, Aug. 16, Sept. 1, Sept. 16. Oct. 1, Oct. 18, Nov. 1, Nov. 14. Dec. 1, Dec. 13, Jan. 16 and March 1. The quantity of cotton consumed in manufacturing establishments, the quantity of baled cotton on hand, the number of active consuming cotton spindles, the number of active spindle hours and the statistics of cotton imported and exported shall relate to each calendar month, and shall be published as soon as possible after the close of the month. Each report published by the bureau of the census of the quantity ginned shall carry with it the latest available statistics concerning the quantity of cotton consumed. stocks of baled cotton on hand, the number of cotton-consuming spindles and the quantity of cotton imported and exported. In addition to the information regarding cotton in the United States the director of the census shall compile any available information concerning the production, consumption and stocks of cotton in foreign countries and the number of cotton-consuming spindles in such countries. Each report published by the bureau of the census regarding cotton shall contain an abstract of the latest available information obtained under the provisions of this section and the director of the census shall furnish the same to the department of agriculture for publication in connection with the reports of that department concerning cotton in the same manner as in the case of statistics relating to the United States. (ADproved April 2, 1924.) PROTECTION OF FOREST LANDS. The secretary of agriculture is hereby authorized and directed, in co-operation with appropriate officials of the various states or other suitable agencies, to recommend for each forest region of the United States such systems of forest fire prevention and suppression as will adequately protect the timbered and cut-over lands therein with a view to the protection of forest and water resources and the continuous production of timber on lands chiefly suitable therefor. Sec. 2. If the secretary of agriculture shall find that the system and practice of forest fire prevention and suppression provided by any state substantially promotes the objects described in the foregoing section, he is hereby authorized and directed, under such conditions as he may determine to be fair and equitable in each state, to co-operate with appropriate officials of each state, and through them with private and other agencies therein, in the protection of timbered and forest producing lands from fire. In no case other than for preliminary investigations shall the amount expended by the federal government in any state during any fiscal year, under this section, exceed the amount expended by the state for the same purpose during the same fiscal year, including the expenditures of forest owners or operators which are required by state law or which are made in pursuance of the forest protection system of the state under state supervision and for which in all cases the state renders satisfactory accounting. In the co-operation extended to the several states due consideration shall be given to the protection of watersheds of navigable streams, but such co-operation may, in the discretion of the secretary of agriculture, be extended to any timbered or forest-producing lands within the co-operating states. Sec. 3. The secretary of agriculture shall expend such portions of the appropriations authorized herein as he deems advisable to study the effects of tax laws, methods, and practices upon forest perpetuation, to co operate with appropriate officials of the various states or other suitable agencies in such investigations and in devising tax laws designed to encourage the conservation and growing of timber, and to investigate and promote practical methods of insuring standing timber on growing forests from losses by fire and other causes. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated annually, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, not more than $2,500,000, to enable the secretary of agriculture to carry out the provisions of sections 1, 2 and 3 of this act. Sec. 4. The secretary of agriculture is hereby authorized and directed to co-operate with the various states in the procurement, production and distribution of forest-tree seeds and plants, for the purpose of establishing windbreaks. shelter belts and farm wood lots upon denuded or nonforested lands within such co-operating states, under such conditions and requirements as he may prescribe to the end that forest-tree seeds or plants so procured, produced, or distributed shall be used effectively for planting denuded or nonforested lands in the co-operating states and growing timber thereon: Provided, That the amount expended by the federal government in cooperation with any state during any fiscal year for such purposes shall not exceed the amount expended by the state for the same purposes during the same fiscal year. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated annually, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, not more than $100,000, to enable the secretary of agriculture to carry out the provisions of this section. Sec. 5. The secretary of agriculture is hereby authorized and directed, in co-operation with appropriate officials of the various states or, in his discretion, with other suitable agencies, to assist the owners of farms in establishing, improving and renewing woodlots, shelter belts, windbreaks and other valuable forest growth and in growing and renewing useful timber crops: Provided, That, except for preliminary investigations, the amount expended by the federal government under this section in co-operation with any state or other co-operating agency during any fiscal year shall not exceed the amount expended by the state or other Co-operating agency for the same purpose during the same fiscal year. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated annually out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated not more than $100,000 to enable the secretary of agriculture to carry out the provi sions of this section. Sec. 6. Section 6 of the act of March 1, 1911, is hereby amended to authorize and direct the secretary of agriculture to examine, locate and recommend for purchase such forested, cut-over or denuded lands within the watersheds of navigable streams as in his judgment may be necessary to the regulation of the flow of navigable streams or for the production of timber and to report to the national forest reservation commission the results of such examination; but before any lands are purchased by the commission said lands shall be examined by the secretary of agriculture, in co-operation with the director of the geological survey, and a report made by them to the commission showing that the control of such lands by the federal government will promote or protect the navigation of streams, or by the secretary of agriculture showing that such control will promote the production of timber thereon. Sec. 7. To enable owners of lands chiefly valuable for the growing of timber crops to donate or devise such lands to the United States in order to assure future timber supplies for the agricultural and other industries of the state or for other national forest purposes, the secretary of agriculture is hereby uthorized, in his discretion, to accept on behalf of the United States title to any such land so donated or devised, subject to such reservations by the donor of the present stand of merchantable timber or of mineral or other rights for a period not exceeding twenty years as the secretary of agriculture may find to be reasonable and not detrimental to the purposes of this section, and to pay out of any moneys appropriated for the general expenses of the forest service the cost of recording deeds or other expenses incident to the examination and acceptance of title. Any lands to which title is so accepted shall be in units of such size or so located as to be capable of economical administration as national forests either separately or jointly with other lands acquired under this 278 section, or jointly with an existing national Sec. 8. The secretary of agriculture is hereby authorized to ascertain and determine the location of public lands chiefly valuable for stream-flow protection or for timber production, which can be economically administered as parts of national forests, and to report his findings to the national forest reservation commission established under the act of March 1. 1911, and if the commission shall determine that the administration of said lands by the federal government will protect the flow of streams used for navigation or for irrigation. or will promote a future timber supply, the president shall lay the findings of the commission before the congress of the United States. power purposes, and Sec. 9. The president, in his discretion, is as national hereby authorized to establish forests or parts thereof any lands within the boundaries of government reservations, other than national parks, reservations for phosphate and other mineral deposits or water national monuments, Indian reservations, which in the opinion of the secretary of the department now adand the secretary of ministering the area agriculture are suitable for the production of timber. to be administered by the secretary of agriculture under such rules and regulations and in accordance with such general plans as may be jointly approved by the the secretary secretary of agriculture and formerly administering the area, for the use and occupation of such lands and for the sale such That where of products therefrom. on land prenational forest is established viously reserved for the army or navy for purposes of national defense the land shall remain subject to the unhampered use of the war navy department for said purposes, and nothing in this section shall be construed to relinquish the authority over such lands for purposes of national defense now vested in the department for which the lands available moneys formerly reserved. Any for the maintenance, improvement, protection, construction of highways and general adminshall be istration of the national forests on the national available for expenditure All reforests created under this section. ceipts from the sale of products from or for the use of lands in such national forests shall be covered into the treasury as miscellaneous fund, and shall be receipts, forest reserve disposed of in like manner as the receipts from other national forests as provided by existing law. Any person who shall violate any rule or regulation promulgated under this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned for not more (Approved June 7. than one year, or both. 1924.) or were INCORPORATION OF THE G. A. R. of the Republic, with a membership limited Sec. 2. The object and purpose of this cor- The principal office of this corporation shall annual or other meetings of its governing be in the city of Washington, D. C., but or territory of the union, and the corporabody and members may be held in any state tion shall have the power to possess and hold property needful or desirable for its objects or any of its territories or dependencies, conand purposes anywhere in the United States sistently with the provisions of local laws pertaining_thereto. con Sec. 3. The supreme governing and trolling authority in the organization shall be the national encampment, composed of representatives from the several department encampments as are now or may hereafter be organized: Provided, That there shall never be any change in the plan of organization of the national encampment that shall materially change its present representative form of gov ernment or render possible the concentration of the control thereof in the hands of a limited number, or in a self-perpetuating body Sec. 4. The qualifications for membership in not representative of the membership at large the organization, except as they are limited by the provisions of section 1 of this act. shall be such as are fixed by the ordinances, rules and regulations adopted by the national encampment. Sec. 5. The activities of the corporation shall be exercised through the following agencies, in accordance with the laws, rules and regulations now in force, or such as may be hereafter enacted by the national encampment thereof, namely: 1. Through the national encampment, its officers and committees. 2. Through such department encampments as may have been heretofore, or as may be hereafter, organized, their officers and committees. 3. Through such posts as may have been may be hereafter, organized, heretofore, or their officers and committees. Such department encampments shall be subject and subordinate in authority to the national encampment, and such posts shall be also subject to such control, exercised through the department encampment and department officers of the particular department to which it belongs. Sec. 6. The corporate existence of the Grand Army of the Republic, and the exclusive rights of its surviving members to wear the insignia of membership therein shall terminate only when the last of its members dies: Provided, however, That if at any national encampment hereafter held a memorial shall be adopted by the vote of three-fourths of the members present, reciting that because of the decrease in its membership, or because of the age and infirmity of its surviving members. it is no longer advisable and practicable to hold future national annual encampments, such action shall not operate to deprive said organization of any of its corporate powers, but the government may be modified to provide for such contingency, subject to the restrictions contained in section 3 of this act: Provided. That nothing in this act shall in any manner affect the right or the power of such posts or departments to dispose of or otherwise affect the ownership of property held by any post or department in its own name, nor affect the right of such posts or departments to organize corporations under state laws for the purpose of caring for and disposing of such property. Sec. 7. The national encampment may, by resolution, provide for the disposition and future ownership of its property and archives. and may declare the event in which such disposition shall become effective and such ownership vested. and a duly authenticated copy of such resolution shall be filed in the office of the Supreme court of the District of Columbia. Upon the happening of the event thus declared, and upon the filing of a petition in said Supreme court reciting said facts, said court shall take jurisdiction there. of, and upon due proof being made the court shall enter a decree which shall be effectual to vest title and ownership in accordance with the provisions of such resolution. (Approved June 3, 1924.) Under CONSERVATION OF ALASKA FISHERIES. For the purpose of protecting and conserving the fisheries of the United States in all waters of Alaska the secretary of commerce from time to time may set apart and reserve fishing areas in any of the waters of Alaska over which the United States has jurisdiction, and within such areas may establish closed seasons during which fishing may be limited or prohibited as he may prescribe. this authority to limit fishing in any area so set apart and reserved the secretary may (a) fix the size and character of nets, boats, traps or other gear and appliances to be used therein; (b) limit the catch of fish to be taken from any area; (c) make such regulations as to time, means, methods and extent of fishing as he may deem advisable. From and after the creation of any such fishing area and during the time fishing is prohibited therein it shall be unlawful to fish therein or to operate therein any boat, seine, trap or other gear or apparatus for the purpose of taking fish; and from and after the creation of any such fishing area in which limited be fishing is permitted such fishing shall carried on only during the time, in the manner, to the extent and in conformity with such rules and regulations as the secretary prescribes under the authority herein given: Provided, That every such regulation made by the secretary of commerce shall be of general application within the particular area to which it applies, and .that no exclusive or several right of fishery shall be granted therein. nor shall any citizen of the United States be denied the right to take, prepare, cure or preserve fish or shellfish in any area of the waters of Alaska where fishing is permitted by the secretary of commerce. The right herein given to establish fishing areas It shall be unlawful to import or bring into the territory of Alaska, for purposes other than personal use and not for sale or barter, salmon from waters outside the jurisdiction of the United States taken during any closed period provided for by this act or regulations made thereunder. In all creeks, streams or rivers or in any other bodies of water in Alaska over which the United States has jurisdiction, in which salmon run, and in which now or hereafter there exist racks, gateways or other means by which the number in a run may be counted or estimated with substantial accuracy, there shall be allowed an escapement of not less than 50 per centum of the total number thereof. In such waters the taking of more than 50 per centum of the run of such fish is hereby prohibited. It is hereby declared to be the intent and policy of congress that in all waters of Alaska in which salmon run there shall be an escapement of not less than 50 per centum thereof, and if in any year it shall appear to the secretary of commerce that the run of fish in any waters has diminished or is diminishing, there shall be required a correspondingly increased escapement of fish therefrom. Section 3 of the act of congress entitled "An act for the protection and regulation of the fisheries of Alaska," approved June 26, 1906, is amended to read as follows: "Sec. 3. That it shall be unlawful to erect or maintain any dam, barricade, fence, trap. fish wheel or other fixed or stationary ob struction, except for purposes of fish culture, in any of the waters of Alaska at any point where the distance from shore to shore is less than 1,000 feet, or within 500 yards of the mouth of any creek, stream or river into which salmon run, excepting the Karluk and Ugashik rivers, with the purpose or result of capturing salmon or preventing or impeding their ascent to the spawning grounds. and the secretary of commerce is hereby authorized and directed to have any and all such unlawful obstructions removed or destroyed. For the purposes of this section the mouth of such creek, stream or river shall be taken to be the point determined as such mouth by the secretary of commerce and marked in accordance with this determinadion. It shall be unlawful to lay or set any seine or net of any kind within 100 yards of any other seine, net or other fishing appliance which is being or which has been laid or set in any of the waters of Alaska or to drive or to construct any trap or any other fixed 600 fishing appliance within yards laterally or within 100 yards endwise of any other trap or fixed fishing appliance." Section 4 of said act of congress approved June 26, 1906, is amended to read as follows: "Sec. 4. That it shall be unlawful to fish for. take or kill any salmon of any species or by any means except by hand rod, spear or gaff in any of the creeks, streams or rivers of Alaska; or within 500 yards of the mouth of any such creek, stream or river over which the United States has jurisdiction, excepting the Karluk and Ugashik rivers: Provided. That nothing contained herein shall prevent the |