Chapter 109.
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CHAP. 109.— Joint Resolution Authorizing the expenditure of money upon lands purchased for use of the Ordnance Department of the Army without reference to section three hundred and fifty-five of the Revised Statutes. October 6, 1917.[[H. J. Res. 162](/us/bill/65/hjres/162).][[Pub. Res., No. 16](/us/bill/65/pubres/16).] Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section three hundred Army.Use of land for Ordnance prior to title vested.[R.
S., sec. 355, p. 60](/us/rs/s355/p60).*Ante*, p. 353.and fifty-five of the Revised Statutes of the United States shall not apply to the expenditure of appropriations for the Ordnance Department of the Army now available for the purchase of land and for improvements upon such land. Approved, October 6, 1917. PUBLIC LAWS OF THE SIXTY-FIFTH CONGRESS of the UNITED STATES *Passed at the second session, which was begun and held at the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the third day of December, 1917, and was adjourned without day on Thursday, the twenty-first day of November, 1918.* Woodrow Wilson, President;
Thomas R. Marshall, Vice President ;Willard Saulsbury, President of the Senate *pro tempore*; John H. Bankhead, Acting President *pro tempore*, January 17, July 5, 22 to 29, August 1 to 12, September 30, October 17 to 21, 1918; Josiah H. Wolcott, Acting President *pro tempore*, March 26 and 27, 1918; Joseph T. Robinson, Acting President *pro tempore*, October 24 to November 1, 1918; Oscar W. Underwood, Acting President *pro tempore*, November 2, 1918; Morris Sheppard, Acting President *pro tempore*, November 4, 1918;
Champ Clark, Speaker of the House of Representatives; Claude Kitchin, Speaker *pro tempore*, April 16 to 20, May 11, August 8, 19, and 29, 1918; Finis J. Garrett, Speaker *pro tempore*, September 11 and 12, November 1 to 7, 1918; Charles R. Crisp, Speaker *pro tempore*, September 21, 1918; Courtney W. Hamlin, Speaker pro tempore, September 25, 1918; Martin T. Foster, Speaker *pro tempore*, September 28 and 30, 1918.