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 SIXTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ons. 263-265. 1911. 1353 sibility for the care and keeping of the said monument shall be and remam with the {:1ty of Phi adelphia, Pennsylvania, it being understood that the United States shall ave no responsibility therefor. Approved, March 4, 1911. CHAP. 264.·—An Act. Autherizin ro r acc Treas D€pBTt»D]€Dt to YCOPBD  ECOOIIIHS 0%     of the ury ' Be it enacted  the Senate and House of R ·esen,ta¢i·ves of the United [Pmm’N°•5M.) States of America in Omgress assembled, Tm the proper accounting Navy. qiHcers of the Treasury Department are hereby authorized and directed ,,,?,‘,§’§.°“§§,u,,§',f"iQ’,§E to reopen the accounts of the pay officers of the navy named below °v¢*;¢d· for the purpose of allowing amounts as set forth, which were paid to A] °wm°°s` treasurers of officers’ messes in various navy-yards on account of oommuted ration money for enlisted servants, and afterwards sus nded agamst the pay 0iiicers’ accounts and by them collected from tiki; officers who were members of the messes: Pay Ins for F. T. Arms, navy}yard, New York (account of W. L. Wilsonyzix hundred and fifty- our dollars and ninety cents; Paymaster Charles Cunard, navy- yard, Norfolk, Vir inia., two hundred and fprty-six dollars and sixty cents; Paymaster   Nicholson, navy-yard, Mare Island, California, four hundred and seventy-eight dollars and eighty cents; Passed Assistant Paymaster E. A. Mcgliillan, naval station, Guam, two hundred and sixty-five dollars and fifty cents; total, one thousand six hundred and forty-five dollars and eighty cents. Approved, March 4, 1911. " CHAP. 285.-An Act. For the establishment of marine schools, and for other %iE*g¤;Ai}3g§· purposes- —_§:1blic; No. 5l)5.`| Be it enacted by the Senate and House of R esentatives of the United States of America in Lbngress assembled, mt the Secretary of the {‘§f§,“(*§f”§§§"j’¥f§‘·ve8_ Nav *, to promote nautical education, is hereby authorized and empow- se1¤.vw·.f<¤r- eredito furnish, upon the application in writing of the governor of zu State, a suitable vessel of the navy, with ull her apparel, charts, books, and instruments of navigation, provided the same can be spared without detriment to the naval service, to be used for the benclit of any nautical school, or school or college having u nautical branch, established at eeuyh of the following ports of the United States: Boston, P¤¤···*»¤*s¤¤¢¤i· Philadelphia, New York, Seattle, Sun Francisco, Baltimore, Detroit, Saginaw, Michigan, Norfolk, and Corpus Christi, upon the condition €¤¤¤¤•i=¤¤· that there shall be xrminmined at suci port a school or branch of 21 school for the instruction of youths in navigation, steamship—murine engineering, and ull matters pertaining to the proper construction, equipment, and sailing of vessels or any particular branch thereof. Sr:0. 2. That a sum not exceeding the amount annually appropriated in{£%*;cg;i¤*i¢*> *0 ¤i¤ by any State or municipality for the purpose of maintaining such a. ` marine school or schools or the nautical branch thereof is hereby · authorized to be appropriated for the purpose of aiding in the maintenance and support of such school or schools: Promkied, however, Ej;§Q':£i0us' T but appropriations shall be made for one school in any port heretofore named in section one and that the appropriation for any one year shall not exceed twenty-tive thousand dollars for any one school. Sec. 3. That, the President of the United States is hereby author· *)******0* °*“°°*¤· ized, when in his opinion the same can be done Without detriment to the public service, to detail proper officers of the navy as superintendents of or instructors in such schools: Provided, That if any such