New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-08-06
Providing for property loss by sea-

Providing FOR property loss by sea.
men.
Permission to take public land af.
f1davits before military authority.
Permitting coastwise trade t,v for.
eign vessels.
Providing six months gratuitv tt
! dependents of deceased sailors in the
navy,
! Providing commissions in army
| staff corps and removing age limits
of reserve corps officers requiring
discharge.
Prescribing court martial procedure
in navy.
Appointing chaplains at large in
army.
Protection Of War Inventions.
Preventing publication of military
Inventions.
Relating to Medical and Dental
Corps.
Establishing new rating for engine
men, blacksmiths, etc. in Navy.
Distribution of cavalry units in
Army, provided for.
Providing military and naval insur-
ance.
Regulating trading with enemy.
Appropriation to continue $780,
100000 fund to be used by the Presi-
dent and for other purposes
Increasing Naval Academy enroll
ment.
Auth GRITTY for absence of home
steaders during war for farm la Dor
requirements.
Authority to call Philippine forces
into war service.
Authority for marines to serve I'M
der Dominican Republic.
Providing for housing and lands for
shipyard and munition workers, $50
100000.
Civil rights law for soldiers and
sailors.
Authority to grant furloughs in
Army for agricultural and other nee
essary pursuits.
Railroad control law.
Urgent deficiency appropriations
(second SESSION. on account of war
expenditures.
Providing disposal of effects of de-
ceased sailors.
To pay gun pointers and captains In
Navy while absent
Authority to appoint as officers
Restoring discharged enlisted men
to former grades if discharged to ac-
cept commissions.
Authority to discharge recalcitrant
Navy officers.
Reducing instruction period a Nav
al cademy to three years.
Third Liberty Loan authorization.
War finance corporation law.
To appoint additional Assistant Sec
retaries of War.
Regulating pay of retired chief
warrant officers. Navy.
To promote export trade.
Providing for quarters for officers
in field or abroad.
Law Against Woman Spies.
Delegating powers for suppression
of espionage among woman enemy
aliens.
Relating to military training in col
leges and to reserve officers training
camps.
Allowing indemnities to France for
damages caused by American forces.
Preventing interference with use of
homing pigeons.
Sabotage law, preventing destruc-
ton of war materials, etc.
when ION duty under competent or
ders.''
To promote officers TEN porarily
when filing vacancies of officers to
higher grades in Regular Army
For transportation of shipyard en-
ployes.
Appropriating 100000 for ord
nance testing in Navy.
Authorizing President TO sell sup
plies, equipment, etc, acquired or
by the United States
incidental to the war.
Regulating the differing and man
ming of vessel subject to the fnspec-
ton laws OF the United States.
Authority to seize enemy vessels.
Authority to Red Cross to erect
temporary building.
Permission to War Department to
erect building on Smithsonian
grounds
Relating to eligibility OF retired
Army engineering officers.
Extending time for Niagara water |
diversions.
Excusing soldiers and sailors from |