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 SIXTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Cue. 313,314. 1916. 493 necessary investigations to determine whether said diseases have been sompletely eradicated in districts where they previously existe. · Total carried by this bill for the Department of Agriculture, $26,948,852 Approved, August 11, 1916. CHAP. 314.-An Act Mal¤ng’ appropriations for the su r ‘ ‘ An tu’m°‘ Academy for the fiscal year endiugliiiie thirtieth, nineteen hiinpdrddoainilhldewlghlltgaelnlj md for other pm.p0,,,,,_ · [i>u1me,N¤.1m.y Be it enacted by the Senate and House o Re esentatives of the United Miuml A<=¤‘ States of America in Congress a,ssembZcd,fThei)1i the following sums be, appr°Pmm°nS' and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support of the Military Academy for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred ‘ and seventeen: -» `· . ° ’ .» . rnmnnmur ESTAJBLISHMENT. ~ . . I, »; uS1,;j%;¤°¤¢ •$¢¤Y> For {jay of sey•m·ptof$sQtS;.·$27,000t€ P1‘0v’ld6d,·—Tl1at any 0Hcer '°t°` of the nited States Army now holding the positionof permanent c°,*f,§,§,“°*‘°¤ W professor at the United States Military. Academy who on July first, l nineteen hundred and sixteen; should have servednot less than thirty- three years in·`the¥Army, one-third of which service shall have been as professor and instructor at the Military Academy, shall on that datevhave the rankypay, and allowances of a colonel in the Arm ; " Promkled further That the present manager of the cadet store shag, mgidili iiiil°3u'l°°°°g°t on his own application, after forty y)ears’ service as clerk, superin- _ tendent, and manager of said store, e entitled to be laced on the retired list of the Army with the pay of a retired pay clierk, Quartermaster Corps, of the same period of service; For pay of one chaplain, $2,400; For pay of the master of the sword, $2,400; For pay of cadets, $462,000: Promkled, That whenever a cadet shall j§=·¤$@~=- fail to pass any required examination because deficient in any one sii$$iii1 mmmsubject of instruction he shall have the right to apply for a second ‘*°"’ ““°"°°· °“`· examination regarding such subject by making written application therefor to.the · cademic Board within ten days after bein officially notihed of such failure. The examination demanded shall be held within sixty days from the date of such application, and if the cadet being otherwise qualified shall pass the same by compliance with the requirements existing at the time of the first examination, he-shall m$g¤;_“¤°‘°°°*¤*¤¤ be readmitted to the academy: Provided further, That this proviso shall appl to those former cadets who failed in not more than two subjects dyuring the current year who shall make application for such examination within twenty days after the approval of this Act: Promkled further, That any ca et who fails to pass any uired R*°**°**°¤- examination shall have no more than one reexammation: zltigl pro- sngmue re: pm. vidcd further, That nothin contained in section thirteen hundred and gg; ymggkwm ¤°°· twenty!-five of the Revised Statutes shall render ineligible any former R.s..s¤¤.1:¢2s§p.2zv. cadet onorably discharged from the Military Academy for deficiency _ in studies, if otherwise qualided, as a civilian candidate for appointment to any vacancy in the grade of second lieutenant imder class ‘"""*" m six of the national-defense Act approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen; _ _ Provided, That the four Filipino cadets authorized by the Act of fri>1i?31€li°‘?giti' May twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred  eight, to be designated by P°··¢» P- E52- the Phili pine Commission to receive mstructions at the United States Mditary Academy; shall hereafter be designated by the Governor General of the P `lippine Islands.