FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. ll. Rss. 38-41. 1898. 7 45 Sec. G. That the chief of the United States Auxiliary Naval Force or www •>*` ¤=v¤l such officers as the Navy Department may detail for such service, may, m`h°°` with the consent of the Governor of any State, muster into the said Force the whole or any part of the organizations of the Naval Militia of any State to serve in said Auxiliary Naval Force, and shall report to the Secretary of the Navy, for his action, the names and grades for which commissions in said United States Auxiliary Naval Force shall be issued to the officers of such Naval Militia, and shall have the power to appoint and disrate the petty officers thereof. Sec. 7. That the odlcers, warrant officers, petty officers, and enlisted ,gPi¤°v¤‘*·¤°¤ emimen and boys of the United States Auxiliary Naval Force thus created ° ° °r my' shall be paid from the appropriation “Pay of the Navy;" and the sum Hire M--¤fv¤¤¤¤1¤· of three million dollars, or so much thereof as may be required, is hereby appropriated, from any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purchase or hire of vessels necessary for the purposes of this resolution. Approved, May 26, 1898. [No. 39.] Joint Resolution Ratifying and condrming certain temporary appoint- Mw NJN9- ments of officers of the Navy. ""—‘"‘-"‘*‘ Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the temporary appoint- g¤r,{1; i f ments made by the President on and after April twenty-first, eighteen m..°°mT§l:;y° ii.? hundred and ninety-eight, and up to the date of the passage of this P°‘“"“°" *“· joint resolution, of olllcers of the line and staif of the Navy, are hereby ratified and confirmed, to continue in force during the exigency under which their services are required in the existing war: Provided, That {;g·¤·¤· d the officers so appointed shall be assigned to duty with rank and pay °° P"` of the grades established by existing law, and shall be paid from the appropriation “· Pay of the N avy." Approved, May 26, 1898. [No. 40.] J ointfResolution Declaring the lands within the former Mille Lac Indian Mw 27. 1898- gsxgation, in Minnesota, to be subject to entry under the land laws of the United """`_;"" Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States ofA·mer·éea in Congress assembled, That all public lands formerly within f:},’},*§},'{"§,§,,° IM the Mille Lac Indian Reservation, in the State of Minnesota, be, and Indian Rvnerrsfivu. the same are hereby, declared to be subject to entry by any bona iide Mm" °"°“ °°"""" qualified settler under the public land laws of the United States; and all preemption filings heretofore made prior to the repeal of the preemption law by the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety- Vol- 26. P-109% one, and all homestead entries or applications to make entry under the homestead laws, shall be received and treated in all respects as if made upon any of the public lands of the United States subject to preemption or homestead entry: Provided, That lot four in section twenty- {god?-t_ of In eight, and lots one and two in section thirty-three, township forty;three .1;,.. Yiriiilgitm, ` north, of range twenty-seven west of the fourth principal meridian, be, and the same are hereby, perpetually reserved as a burial place for the Mille Lac Indians, with the right to remove and reinter thereon the bodies of those buried on other portions of said former reservation. Approved, May 27, 1898. K [No. 41.] Joint Resolution Calling upon the Secretary of War for information M¤y28.189¤- concerning the port of Sabine Pass. """_`_" Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, and §{,°f,'Q°,1;Q“,§,,,,, ,,,- he is hereby, directed to furnish Congress as soon as possible all infor- ship <=•¤·1 i¤ Mrber mation and copies of such reports as he may have relative to any enter- °'"
