SIXTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Crrs. 195-197. 1918. 10].7 Act, which, together with the former entry, shall not exceed six him- Limitdred and forty acres, subject to the requirements of law as to residence and improvements, except that no residence shall be required d,§g¤’§*g;*}g°mf¤ 3** on such additional entry if the entryman owns and is residing on his S€,e;,,0,, 0, 00;,,,, former entry: Promdedfurther, That the entryman shall be required ous lands- ° to enter contiguous areas of the character herein described open to entry rplrlior to the entry of any_noncontiguous land: And promded Improvements is {urther at mstead of cultivation as required by the homestead §}_’Q{j{_‘_‘”"°°° °‘°'“m‘ aws the entqman shall be regfuired to make permanent improvements upon the land entered b ore final proof IS submitted tending to increase the value of the same for stock-raising p oses of the value of not less than $1.25 per acre, and at least oriii·-lialf of such improvements shall be placed upon the land within three years after the date of entry thereof." Approved, October 25, 1918. CHAP. 196.—Joint Resolution To establish a reserve of the Public Health llglll Service. . · [Pub. nas., Nc. 45.] Resolved by the Senate and House o Re eaentatives of the United · _ States of America in Congress aeeernflul, lllhat for the purpose of iwliumm H:I;1;m securini a reserve for duty in the Public Health Service in time of g.%°”"° °" nation emergenc there shall be organized, nmder the direction of the Secretary of, the Treasiuy, imder such rules and regulations _ _ _ as the President shall prescribe, a reserve of the Public Health ,,2,§,’g§,{§},,°?“°“‘“ Service. The President alone shall be authorized to appoint and commission as officers in the said reserve such citizens as, u on examination rescribed by the President, shall be fonmd physically mentally, and) morally qualified to hold such commissions, and said T¤¤‘¤· ¤*¤· commissions shall be in force for a period of Eve years, unless sooner terminated in the discretion of the President, but commission in said reserve shall not exempt the holder from military or naval service: Provided, That the officers commissioned under this Act, none of whom shall have rank above that of assistant sur- ' geon general, shall be distributed in the several grades in the same proplortion as now obtains ameri? the commissioned medical officers of the United States Public He th Service and shall at all times be _ subject to call to active duty by the Surgeon General and when on d,,*Q;§' "‘“'° °° °°"’° such active duty shall receive the same pay and allowances as are now provided by law and regulation for the commissioned medical officers in the said regular commissioned medical corps. Approved, October 27, 1918. CHAP. 197.-—An Act Providing for the protection of the users of the telephone 0¤l¤l>¤r i'¥'·}91$- and telemph service and the properties and flmds belonging thereto during G<>v~ ernment operation and control. [Public, Nc. 230.] Be it enacted b the Senate and House of Representat-ires ¢y' the United States of gilmerica in Congress assem led, hat whoever dur- Telfpelggigeand weing the period of governmental operation of the telephone and tele- gmnfinurneyuka mmgra h s stems of the United States by the Postmaster General, §f);‘;°,_‘j,m;",;§°;0¤'§,!g,‘}f‘ under tlie Act of Congress approved July sixteenth, nineteen hun- .uw¢,p·w4· dred and eighteen, and the proclamation of the President dated P°"*l" lg"` July twenty-second, nineteen hundred and eighteen, shall, without authority and without the knowledge and consent of the other users thereof, except as may be necessary for operation of the service, tap any telegra h or telephone line, or wi lfully interfere with the operation of suclli telephone and telegraph systems or with the
