SIXTY·FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. CHS. 236, 240, 241. 1916. 355 " That the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to ant er- ·*‘€’°'*°lm·,,,_, mits, as provided for in section thirty-two hundred and nixigty-sgren tayliii wllesefnhg of the Revised Statutes of the United States for the withdrawal of °lt‘.iij§5fi,_,g,,m,¤. alcohol from bond free of tax to any scientific university or college °°· of learningl created and constituted as such by any State or Territory under its laws, thoug;1 not incorporated or chartered, and to any hospital maintained é endowment or otherwise, and not con- °°“*““°”s· ducted for profit, upon e same terms and subject to the same restrictions and penaltiw already provided by said section thirty-two hundred and ninety-seven: Provided, however, That alcohol so obtained us, by hospitals may be used in surgical operations and, except as a beverage, m the treatment of patients, under such r lations as the Secret of the Treasury may prescribe: And ·urther, That B°“°‘ the bdiird required by said section thirty-two undr and ninety- seven may be executed by an officer of such hospital or institution or by any other person for it, and on its behalf, with two good and sufficient sureties, upon like conditions, and to be approved as by said section is provided. " ‘ Approved, July 8, 1916. _ — 1 11, mc. CHAP. 240.-An Act Confarring jurkdictiou on the Court of Claims to adjudlcate ‘lz.33“~] the claims of the State of Mamachusetts. [rutile, Nu. 155.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House owéfepresentatives of the United States oi America in Oongresa assembled, at the claim' of the State of ummmm Massac usetts for premium paid for coin with which it aid the otgkgxvgmdg interest and principal of its bonds issued in the year eighteenlhundred ot dum. and sixty-one for money borrowed and used to furnis troo s of the State for the service of the United States during the Civil Wear, and also its claim for interest and premium paid for coin used in payment of such interest on bonds issued for money borrowed and tixlpended at the request, duringbsgaid war, of the President of the Uni States in protecting the har rs and fortifying the coast, which claims were rejected bg, the Comptroller of the Treasury Department, be, and the same are ereby, re erred to the Court of Claims for a determination of the law and the facts and report to Congress. The evidence of E'*d•¤°• °°¤**°°°· the amount of said expenditures and of the computations of such premiums made by the accounting officers of the Treasury on Hle · in said department, as furnished by the State, may be considered by the court so as to relieve the State of the necessity of again filing said evidence in court. Approved, July 11, 1916. cnn. s41.-an Act mmsae mmm, Umm sam min ua me sam in as i§`?'ri}%§ construction of rm-al post s, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and Hausigf Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembl , That the Secretary of Agri- §m“’;nPf§*m”dj,,h Culture is authorized to cooperate with the States, through their smtgsmgpznngém me respective State highway departments in the construction of rural "°“ ’°° ‘ post roads; but no money apportioned under this Act to any State shall be expended therein until its legislature shall have assented to the pkovisions of this Act, except that, until the final adjournment of the t regular session of the egislature held after the passage of this Act, the assent of the governor of the State shall be sufficient. The Secretary of Agriculture and the State highwtzg department of each State shall agree upon the roads to be construe therein and the
