Chapter 863. To authorize the Secretary of the Navy to loan naval equipment to certain military schools
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CHAP. 863.— An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Navy to loan naval equipment to certain military schools. March 3, 1901. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Loan of naval equipment to military schools authorized. That the President be, and he is hereby, authorized, upon the application of the governor of any State having seacoast line or bordering on one or more of the Great Lakes, to direct the Secretary of the Navy to furnish to one well-established military school in that State, desiring to afford its cadets instruction in elementary seamanship, one fully equipped man-of-war’s cutter for every fifty cadets in actual attendance, and such other equipment as may be spared and be deemed adequate for instruction in elementary*Provisos*.—conditions. seamansnip: *Provided,* That the said school shall have adequate facilities for cutter drill, and shall have in actual attendance at least one hundred and forty cadets in uniform receiving military instruction and quartered in barracks under military regulation, and shall have the capacity to quarter and educate at the same time one hundred —bond.and fifty cadets: *And provided further*, That the Secretary of the Navy shall require a bond in each ease in double the value of the property, for the care and safe keeping thereof, and for the return of the same when required.
Approved, March 3, 1901.