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 F IFTY—NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Cns. 3514, 3515. 1906. 449 appropriations required for the service of the fiscal year for which t ey are prepared and submitted, and special or additional estimates new3mm on spefor that fiscal gear shall only be submitted to carry out laws subse— °ml“"m”°°”‘ quently enacte, or when deemed imperative} necessary for the public service by the Department in which they shall originate, in which case such special or additional estimate shall be accompanied by a full statement of its imperative necessity and reasons for its omission in the annual estimates. ` Sec. 5. It shall not be lawful hereafter for any clerk or other em- th§§;¤;}gg§S9§u'§u;€{,“€$ ployee in the classified service in any of the Executive Departments pmmenrwforecmns to be transferred from one Department to another Department until " t° ““°th"‘ such clerk or other employee shall have served for a term of three years in the Department from which he desires to be transferred. Sec. 6. Hereafter it shall be unlawful to detail civil officers, clerks, plgxggls fg GBQ Q3; or other subordinate employees who are authorized or employed under ments from outside or. or paid from appropriations made for the military or naval establish- D"m‘°°’°““°m‘ ments, or any other branch of the public service outside of the District of Columbia, except those officers and employees whose details are now specially provided by law, for duty in any bureau, office, or other division of any Executive Department in the District of Columbia, egept temporary details for duty connected with their respective o ces. Sec. T. S0 much of section one hundred and ninet -two of the Re- P'°""'°“°“ °* vised Statutes of the United States as requires newsriapers purchased neiiisgigeeti iizgeiiqgd for the use of the Executive Departments to be preserved for the per- “"‘°"°°d‘ manent nies of such Departments be, and the same is hereby, repealed. Sec. 8. That all laws or parts of laws inconsistent with this Act are R¢1>e¤1· repealed. Approved, June 22, 1906. CQAP. 3515.-·An Act To increase the efiiciency of the militia and promote rifle Jug? ""°°“"°‘ia; Be it enacted by the Semzte and House ofltepresentattves oft/we United _ _ _ States of America in Omagress assembled, That section sixteen hundred i€Sil¤2c.166l,p.290. and sixty-one of the Revised Statutes, as amended by the Acts of Feb- alvgléj P- *°*¤ V°'· ruary twelfth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and June sixth, ’` nineteen hundred, is hereby amended and reenacted so as to read as follows: “ Section 1. That the sum of two million dollars is hereby annually u£l¤*;¤;*;rggg;*;{’*ig; appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not other- ozpooéooo. 1661 wise appropriated, for the purpose of providing arms, ordnance stores, m,‘,,,,;;,,{’,§’§g1_ ‘ I" quartermaster stores, and camp equipage for issue to the militia, such appropriation to remain available until expended." Sec. 2. That section two of the Act of February twelfth, eighteen mXe*;}d€(f‘*· P- 40* hundred and eighty-seven, is hereby amended and reenacted, so as to i read as follows: "Sec. 2. That said appropriation shall be apportioned among the APP°'“°“'”°“‘· several States and Territories, under the direction of the Secretary of ‘ War, according to the number of Senators and Representatives to which each State respectively is entitled in the Congress of the United States, and to the Territories and District of Columbia. such progrtion and under such regulations as the President may prescribe: 0- Q,‘;,'f;’j,n wm rc vided, however, That no State shall be entitled to the benefits of the quired. appropriation apportioned to it unless the number of its regularly eu isted, organized, and uniformed active militia shall be at least one hundred men for each Senator and Representative to which such State is entitled in the Congress of the United States. And the amount of vox. xxxxv, rr 1--29