Volume 29 · 531
Public Law 54–236
To amend an Act entitled “An act making appropriations for the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes,” passed finally June third, eighteen hundred, and ninety-six.
Approved February 17, 1897
Statutory text
An Act
To amend an Act entitled “An act making appropriations for the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes,” passed finally June third, eighteen hundred, and ninety-six.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Act entitled “An act
Pacific deep-water harbor commission.
Ante, p. 213.
making appropriations for the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes,” passed by the House of Representatives June second, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and by the Senate June third, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, notwithstanding the objections of the President, be, and the same is hereby, amended by inserting on page two hundred and thirteen of the Statutes at Large, Fifty-fourth Congress, first session, after the word “War” and before the word “Provided,” on the thirty-ninth line of said page, the following language: The officer of the Navy detailed
Per diem to naval officer.
R. S., sec. 1566, p. 269.
to serve on this Board shall receive from said appropriation, in addition to his mileage provided for in section fifteen hundred and sixty-six of the Revised Statutes, and notwithstanding its provisions, such a per diem allowance for subsistence as the Secretary of War may deem proper.
Approved, .