Chapter 370. To authorize the Chief of Ordnance, United States Army, to receive twelve three and two-tenths inch breech-loading field guns, carriages, caissons, limbers, and their pertaining equipment from the State of Massachusetts
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CHAP. 370.— An Act To authorize the Chief of Ordnance, United States Army, to receive twelve three and two-tenths inch breech-loading field guns, carriages, caissons, limbers, and their pertaining equipment from the State of Massachusetts. June 23, 1910.[[H. R. 10280](/us/bill/61/hr/10280).][[Public, No. 256](/us/pl/61/256).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Army. Massachusetts may return field guns, etc.
That the Chief of Ordnance, United States Army, is hereby authorized and empowered to receive back from the State of Massachusetts the twelve three and two-tenths inch breech-loading field guns, carriages, caissons, limbers, and their pertaining material which were sold to the State by the Ordnance Department for the sum of forty-two thousand four hundred and twenty-three dollars and twenty-one cents in the year nineteen hundred. Sec. 2. Value credited to state quota. That no part of the value of this material shall be paid to the State of Massachusetts, but the value of all the material returned to the Ordnance Department by the State under the terms of this Act shall stand as a quota of the State, the same as though allotted from [R.
S., sec. 1661, p. 290](/us/rs/s1661/p290). the annual appropriations under the provisions of section sixteen hundred and sixty-one, Revised Statutes, as amended, and subject to all the conditions thereof. 603 Sec. 3. That the sum of forty-two thousand four hundred and twenty-three Appropriation. dollars and twenty-one cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, from any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of carrying this Act into effect: *Provided*, That hereafter whenever articles of government *Proviso*.
Restriction on receiving back articles sold for militia. property are sold for cash to any State, Territory, or to the District of Columbia, for the use of the organized militia, thereby ceasing to be the property of the United States, none of the articles so sold shall be received back by any department of the Government upon the basis of allowing any credit therefor, except when such articles form part of the equipment of troops mustered into the service of the United States in time of war.
Approved, June 23, 1910.