Chapter 167. To appropriate three hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to equip all Army transports with all lifeboats and rafts necessary to accommodate every person for which transportation facilities are now provided on said transports, and the crew of said transports
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CHAP. 167.— An Act To appropriate three hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to equip all Army transports with all lifeboats and rafts necessary to accommodate every person for which transportation facilities are now provided on said transports, and the crew of said transports. June 14, 1912. [[H. R. 23626](/us/bill/62/hr/23626).] [[Public, No. 192](/us/pl/62/192).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Lifeboats, etc,, on Army transports.Appropriation for.
That the sum of three hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of equipping all Army transports with all lifeboats and rafts, including such number of steel self-righting, self-bailing motor lifeboats for each vessel as the Secretary of War may deem advisable, necessary to accommodate every person for whom transportation facilities are now provided on said transports, and the crew of said transports; said sum to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, who is hereby directed to make to Congress an itemized statement showing how the sum aforesaid has been expended.
Approved, June 14, 1912.