SIXTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ons. 143, 145. 1908. 61 diers, and of Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Homes, including those about to enter and those returning home after discharge and boards of managers of such Homes; to necessary care takers of live stock, poultry, and fruit; to employees on sleeping cars, express cars, and to linemen of telegraph and telephone companies; to railway mail service employees, postoffice inspectors, customs inspectors, and immigration inspectors; to " newsboys on trains, baggage agents, witnesses attending any legal investigation in which the common carrier is interested, persons injured in wrecks and physicians and nurses attending such persons: Hwided, fwvwg- I That this prov1sion shall not be construed to prohibit the interchange pI0x;,'::? e°i€i° °r°m` of (passes or_ the officers, agents, and employees of common carriers, ` an their families; nor to rohibit any common carrier from carryin passengers free with the object of providing relief in eases of generad gpidemic, pestilence, or other ealamitous visitation: Promfded further, s,F¤B¤g¤¤sh;¤· pwat the term ‘ e1:ployees’ as used in this paragraph shall include fur- ¤ii!i.¤éu°°s¤¤ii>1i$ir:¤!i: loughed, pension , and superannuated employees, persons who have °‘§’;;,}f‘°‘§,“°",,_ w, become disabled or infirm in the service of any such. common carrier, •m¤¤d¤¢-' ' and the remains of a peripn killed in the employment of a carrier and ex·employees traveling f r the pxupose of entering the service of any such common carrier; and the term ‘families’ as used in this para- umm; or term graph shall include the families of those persons named in this proviso, °°"“‘m°‘" also the families of persons killed while in the service of any such common carrier. Any common carrier violatin this provision shall be runny. deemed guiltv of a misdemeanor and for eacgh oiiense, on conviction, shall pay to the United States a penalt of not less than one hundred ` dollars nor more than two thousand dollhrs, and any person other than the persons excepted in this provision, who uses any such interstate free ticket, free pass, or free transportation shall be subflect to a like · penalty. J urisdnction of offenses under this provision sha be the same {,¤g1¤$¤¤<>gb as that provided for ofenses in an Act entitled ‘An Act to further'°' ' regplate commerce with foreign nations and among the Statesfapproved F e ruary nineteenth, nineteen hundred and three, and any amendment thereof. ’ Approved, April 13, 1908. CHAP. 145.-An Act To increase the eiiiciency of the personnel of the Revenue- APE'; lg, N09- °““°'S°"‘°°‘ . "51¤.:ss;;‘ssLifs.r Be it enacted by the Senate and House of R{presentativeo aft/le United States of America in Omagress assembled, at on and a ter the pas- “{};ge°¤¤¤·C¤**°* sage of this Act the President be, and is hereby, authorized to appoint APP0lntmentofoi\· in the Revenue-Cutter Service, b and with the advice and consent of °°” ““°°°"‘°d‘ the Senate, one captain commandant for a period of four years who dgnpim commumay be reappointed for further periods of our years each who shall ,,,, em act as chief of the division of Revenue—Cutter Service, with the rank of a colonel in the Army and a captain in the Navy, and who shall . have the pay and allowances of a colonel in the Army; six senior s::;: upmgr captains, who shall perform duty in connection with the construction J"' ° ‘ of vessels and the inspection of their armament and crews and such other duties as the Secretary of the Treasury or the President may prescribe, each with the rank of a lieutenant-colonel in the Army and a commander in the Navy, and who shall each have the pay and _ allowances of a lieuteuant—colonel in the Army; one engineer in chief §f,’_’§‘k‘f°,$,f,Sf‘,,‘}'gl°’· for a period of four years who may be reappointed for further periods of four years each, with the rank of a lieutenant-colonel in the Army and a commander in the Navy, and who shall have the pay and allowances of a lieutenant-colonel in the Army; and six senior engineers, senmensineuswho shall rform duty in connection with the construction and in- r>¤¤¤¤. ew. spection ope the machinery of vessels and such other duties as the ‘ 80893-voL 35, rr 1-00-6
