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 SIXTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Cris. 14, 16,18. 1917. 867 bered Twenty-five, Sixt ·fourth Congress a roved Jul twentieth “‘“° "“°‘“*°d ‘°' nineteen hundred and sixteen, entitled "Joi1il:pResolutioh creating iomt subcommittee from the membershi of the Senate Committee on mgm, ,,_ 38-, nterstate Commerce and the House ébmmittee on Interstate and i Foreign Commerce to investigate the conditions relatin to interstate and foreign commerce, and the necessity of further le lation relating thereto, and defining the powers and duties of such su€1dommittee." be and the same hereby is continued and is authorized to sit either during the session of Congress or during the recess and to make its report to Cofiigress otr; or before the first Monday in December, nineteen hundred an seven en. In the event that any House Member of said subcommittee shall mm°"‘°'°d'°°° cease to be a Member of Congress by reason of not being reelected, or if a vacancy should otherwise occur in the House membership of said subcommittee when Congress is not in session, the next ranking member of the committee from which the retiring member was selected shall fill the vacancy. Approved, January 15, 1917. cmir. re.-An Act mvrmm the continuance of are oage imma semi, ‘“"‘}§E’.,,}§;_}°"· Oklahoma, fora period of one year January first, nineteen hundred and seventeen. n Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rrptpresenta/tives of the United .‘-I States of Amerika in Congress assembled, at the thir paragraph Og'? l”*“*¤S°**·•'· of section four of the Act of June twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred 'iiriw umm iw and six (Thirty-fourth Statutes at Large, page five hundred and ”€{§r'{'§§‘i,_ 5,,_ thirty-nine), is hereby amended to the extent that the moneys therein provided for support for Osage schools may be used for_ the same purposes as provided in said paragraph for a further period of one year from the Erst day of January, nineteen hundred and seventeen. Approved, January 18, 1917. . CHAP. 18.-—Joint Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of War to issue temporary Imhgil permits for additional diversions of water from the Niagara River. §d-753- Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United _ _ States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, iiiiiiii°¤¤iiifiixr&•»¤s¤ and he is hereby, authorized to issue permits, revocable at will, for the ggmwggrw pgnngmz diversion of water in the United States from the Niagara River above ’ the Falls for the creation of power to indiyiduals, companies, or corporations which are now actually producing p_ower from the waters of said river, in additional quantities which, with present_d1ver·sions, shall in no case exceed the capacity of theieneratrng machinery of the pcrmittee and tenant compames now mst ed_and ready for operation, nor an amount sufficient to enable the perrmttee to supply the now existing hydroelectric demands of the rndrvidualshcompanres, or corporations which said permittee and tenant companies are now supply- ing, but not in excess of the capacity of power-using appliances o said Hmm consumers now installed and ready for operation: Prograded, That in mmm no event shall the total quantity of water diverted rn the [lmted States from said river above the Falls for power purposes exceedin the aggregate a daily diversion at the rate o twenty t _ ousand cubrcfeet Hmmm of P. r second: An providedfurther, That this resolution shall remam rn mm lidrce rmtil the first day of July, nineteen hundred andseventeen, and D0 lou er, at,  cxpuation     time au     Rjgh;5;·g$\ric1,gd_ hereunder sliall terminate, unless sooner revoked; an nothing herein contained shall be held to_con’rirm, establish, or confer in or nlpon any such permittee any right in or to the water which he is now vertrng