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sota and North Dakota, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters," approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six.

. 2. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved.

, January 13, 1919.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section three hundred and thirty-six of the Revised Statutes of the United States be, and the same is hereby, amended by striking out the word "fiscal" immediately preceding the word "year" at the end of the first sentence of said section, and by inserting in lieu thereof the word "calendar."

, January 25, 1919.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President is hereby authorized to reappoint to the Cavalry Arm as an extra number, with such rank as he would have had if he had never been retired, Major Chalmers G. Hall, of the United States Army, retired.

, January 25, 1919.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the provisions of Senate joint resolution, approved October fifth, nineteen hundred and seventeen be amended so as to provide that the time for filing notices to hold said mining claims in the Territory of Alaska, under the said resolution, be, and the same is hereby, extended to the last day of April, nineteen hundred and nineteen.

, January 25, 1919.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House 06 Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the provisions of section twenty-four hundred and fifty-five of the Revised Statutes of the United States as amended by the Act of March twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and twelve (Thirty-seventh Statutes at Large, page seventy-seven), relating to the sale of isolated tracts of the public domain, be, and the same are hereby, extended and made applicable to ceded Chippewa Indian lands in the State of Minnesota; Provided, That the provisions of this Act shall not apply to lands which are not subject to homestead entry: Provided further, That purchasers of land under this Act must pay for the lands not less than the price fixed in the law opening the lands to homestead entry.

, February 4, 1919.