Chapter 129. to amend section sixteen hundred and sixty-one of the Revised Statutes, making an annual appropriation to provide arms and equipments for the militia
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CHAP. 129.— An Act to amend section sixteen hundred and sixty-one of the Revised Statutes, making an annual appropriation to provide arms and equipments for the militia.Feb. 12, 1887. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Arms for militia. That section sixteen [R. S., sec. 1661, p. 290, amended](/us/rs/t/s1661/p290).hundred and sixty-one of the Revised Statutes be, and the same is hereby, amended and reenacted so as to read as follows:
" “Section 1. That the sum of four hundred thousand dollars is herebyAnnual appropriation. annually appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of providing arms, ordnance stores, quartermaster’s stores, and camp equipage for issue to the militia. 402 “Sec. 2. Apportionment.*Proviso*.States having uniformed militia only, entitled. “Sec. 3. That the purchase or manufacture of arms, ordnance stores,Secretary of War to direct purchase of arms, etc. quartermaster’s stores, and camp equipage for the militia under the provisions of this act shall be made under the direction of the Secretary of War, as such arms, ordnance and quartermaster’s stores and camp equipage are now manufactured or otherwise provided for the use of the Regular Army, and they shall be receipted for and shall remain the property of the United States, and be annually accounted for by the governors of the States and Territories, for which purpose the Secretary of War shall prescribe and supply the necessary blanks and make such regulations as he may deem necessary to protect the interest of the United States.
“Sec. 4. That all arms, equipments, ordnance stores, or tents whichUnserviceable arms, etc. may become unserviceable or unsuitable shall be examined by a board of officers of the militia, and its report shall be forwarded by the governor of the State or Territory direct to the Secretary of War, who shall direct what disposition, by sale or otherwise, shall be made of them; and, if sold, the proceeds of such sale shall be covered into the Treasury of the United States.” " Received by the President, February 1, 1887. [Note by the Department of State.—The foregoing act having been presented to the President of the United States for his approval and not having been returned by him to the house of Congress in which it originated within the time prescribed by the Constitution of the United States, has become a law without his approval.]