Chapter 144. To appropriate $200,000 for training the Organized Militia or National Guard of any State, Territory, or of the District of Columbia
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CHAP. 144.— An Act To appropriate $200,000 for training the Organized Militia or National Guard of any State, Territory, or of the District of Columbia. June 12, 1916. [[H. R. 15005](/us/bill/64/hr/15005).] [[Public, No. 92.]](/us/pl/64/92) *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * National Guard. Appropriation for participating in Army encampments, etc. That for paying the expenses of the Organized Militia or National Guard of any State, Territory, or of the District of Columbia, which may be authorized by the Secretary of War to participate in such encampments as may be established for the field instruction of the troops of the Regular Army, as provided by sections fifteen and twenty-one of the ActVol. 32, p. 777;
Vol. 35, p. 402; Vol. 36, p. 329.Vol. 32, p. 779. of January twenty-first, nineteen hundred and three, entitled “An Act to promote the efficiency of the militia, and for other purposes,” as amended, or as may hereafter be authorized by law, to be immediately*Ante*, p. 206. available and to remain available until the end of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $200,000 is hereby appropriated: *Provided, *That when it is not practicable to obtain the*Proviso.*Use for militia encampments, etc.*Ante*, p. 207. presence of regular troops for a joint encampment, the funds herein appropriated shall be available for such encampments, maneuvers, and field instruction for the Organized Militia or National Guard as the Secretary of War may prescribe.
Approved, June 12, 1916.