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 Winslow Anderson, of California; Charles H. Alden, of Pennsylvania; William W. Grant, of Colorado; Robert Harvey Reed, of Wyoming; Thomas C. Clark, of Minnesota; Robert A. Marmion, of the District of Columbia; Miles Standish, of Massachusetts; John C. Wise, of Maryland; George T. Vaughan, of Virginia; Albert H. Briggs, of New York; William C. Borden, of New York; Otis H. Marion, of Massachusetts, and their associates and successors, are hereby created a body corporate and politic in the District of Columbia, by the name of the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States, for the purpose of advancing the knowledge of military surgery, medicine, and sanitation in the medical departments of the Army, the Navy, and the Marine-Hospital Service of the United States and of the militia of the different states, and·to increase the efficiency of the different services by mutual association and the consideration of matters pertaining to the medico-military service of the United States in peace and in war.

. That the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Navy, the Surgeon-General of the Army, the Surgeon-General of the Navy, and the Surgeon-General of the Marine Hospital Service shall be ex officio members of the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States, and, with the president of the association, shall act as an advisory board to the said association.

. That said association is authorized to hold real and personal estate in the United States, so far only as may be necessary to its lawful ends, to an amount not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars, and may adopt a constitution and make by-laws not inconsistent with law, and may adopt a seal and an insignia which may be worn by its members.

Approved, January 30, 1903.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congneas assembled, That section fourteen of an Act entitled "An Act to divide the State of Texas into four judicial districts," passed at the first session of the Fifty-seventh Congress, approved March eleventh, nineteen hundred and two, and known as chapter one hundred and eighty three, be so amended as that said section fourteen shall hereafter read as follows:

"Sec. 14. That the United States circuit and district courts for the western district of Texas shall be held in each year at the times and places as follows:

"At Austin, in the county of Travis, on the fourth Monday of January and the second Monday of June.

"At Waco, in the count of McLennan, on the second Monday of November and the fourth Monday of February.

"At San Antonio, in the county of Bexar, on the third Monday of December and the first Monday of May.

"At El Paso, in the county of El Paso, on the first Monday of October and the first Monday of April."

. That this Act shall take effect on the thirty-first day of March, anno Domini nineteen hundred and three.

Approved, January 30, 1903.

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