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 FIFTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sm. 11. ous. 2s1s-2515. 1907. 121 7 after the beginning of the first session of the Sixtieth Con ess, report to Congress such conclusions, recommendations, and pidins as said commission may see proper to make by bill or otherwise. The sum exQ,gg;gg“§§§;’:1Bf,q{ of seventy -five thousand ollars, or so much thereof as may be neces- mly available. sary, is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be paid out on the audit and order of the chairman or acting chairman of the said commission, which audit and order shall be conclusive and binding upon all De rtments as to the correctness of the accounts of such commission. §id appropriation shall be immediately available. That the appropriations herein made for the officers, clerks, and per- Ng r·a¥¤=¢!1= ¤> regsons employe in the postal service shall not be available for the com- dia1°°pei’Q¤¤§i'°°°°°" peusation of an persons permanently incapacitated for performing such service. The establis ment of a civil-pension roll or an honorable- Fg1g1g;, M11. ew. service roll, or the exemption of any of the officers, clerks, and persons pm I ` in the postal service from the existing laws respecting employment in such service is hereby prohibited. . The Postmaster-General shall each year prepare and submit in his m§§£¤*;gQ° g}_q annual report to Congress estimates of the revenue and expenditures wronin the Postal Service for the fiscal year current, and also for the fiscal year next ensuing at the time said report is submitted, together with a statement of the receipts and expenditures for the preceding completed iiscal year. That if the revenues of the Post-Oilice Department shall be insum— mg,Q%;%g{g;;}g;1 ‘° cient to meet the appropriations made by this Act, a sum equal to such ` deficiency of the revenue of said Department is hereby appropriated, to be id out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise amoriateciju to supply said deiiciencies in the revenues for the Post- ce De rtment for the year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, and the sum needed may be advanced to the Post-Oliice Department upon requisition of the ostmaster-General. Approved, March 2, 1907. CHAP. 2514.-An Act To amend the Act of Congress approved February elev- enth, nineteen hundred and one, entitled "Au Act providing or allotments o lands - ,.,;.1. - in severalty to the Indians of the La Pointe or Bad wer Reservation, in the State of [rum1r·,No.17s.] W1sconsin." Be i thenacted by the Senate and House ofRe{:reaentati·ves of the United States of America in Oongreea assembled, That the Act of Congress {ZY11g2y5m ,_r Bm approved February eleventh, nineteen hundred and one (Thirty—iirst awe: ncscmnmn, Statutes, page seven hundred and sixty-six), entitled "An Act pro- w{}t,,_:,_1_,,_-,6,,_ viding for allotments of lands in severulty to the Indians of the La nnéggglmgy f1z1·¢ ¤<·1 Pointe or Bad River Reservation, in the State of Wisconsin? shall nof be construed so as to bar or in any manner abridge or curtail the right of any Indian to allotment on said reservation, whether born before or after the passage of said Act, as provided by the treaty concluded V<>r11>,v·111°· with the Chippewas of Lake Superior and the Mississippi, September thirtieth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four. Approved, March 2, 1907. CHAP. 2515.-An Act Providing for the retirement of noncommissioned officers, N¤¥§£·W· petty officers, and enlisted men oi the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps of the United States. [rubuc, No. 174.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House ofRey»·esentatinee of the United _ _ States of America in Congress assembled, That when an enlisted man m§,fl”°d °“‘”‘°‘ shall have served thirty years either in the Army, Navy, or Marine Additional n110W- Corps, or in all, he shall, upon making application to the President, °”°°"°‘ von xxxxv, PT 1-—·77