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States for the period between the date of assem- 

 bly at the rendezvous and the date they were 

 mustered into the service of the United States: 

 Provided further, That for all officers and men 

 of the National Guard, or militia, or naval re- 

 serves of the States and Territories, who ap- 

 peared at the rendezvous for muster, and were 

 rejected by the medical examiner or mustering 

 officer, pay shall be allowed for the same to the 

 States and Territories or the governors of States 

 and Territories, at the several rates as fixed as 

 aforesaid from the date of assembly to the date 

 of their rejection: Provided further, That where 

 States and Territories have not paid amounts to 

 the officers and men or any part thereof the pay 

 allowed them by this act, the same shall be paid 

 by the States and Territories direct to the officers 

 and men, and no money allowed by this act for 

 officers and men shall be covered into the treas- 

 ury of the State or Territory. 



" SEC. 2. That under the appropriation made by 

 said act the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby 

 authorized to reimburse the governor of any 

 State or Territory for reasonable expenses in- 

 curred by him for the actual transportation of 

 the members of organized militia, or National 

 Guard, or naval reserves of his State from the 

 place of company, battalion, or regimental ren- 

 dezvous to the State rendezvous, or place desig- 

 nated for examination and acceptance of the 

 members of such organization into the volunteer 

 army of the United States, and the actual trans- 

 portation from such State rendezvous, or such 

 place designated for examination and acceptance, 

 to their respective company, battalion, or regi- 

 mental rendezvous of such men as were rejected 

 by the medical examiner or mustering officer: 

 Provided, That no reimbursement shall be made 

 for the transportation of any man who did not 

 present himself for enrollment in the volunteer 

 army of the United States as provided by law: 

 And provided further, That the provisions of this 

 section shall apply also to payments made by 

 the governor of any State or Territory for the 

 actual transportation of individual volunteers 

 who presented themselves for enrollment in the 

 volunteer army of the United States and who 

 were rejected by the medical examiner or mus- 

 tering officer. 



" SEC. 3. That nothing in said act of July 8, 

 1898, shall be so construed as to prohibit the 

 reimbursement of the governor of any State or 

 Territory for reasonable expenses incurred for 

 the subsistence of the members of any organiza- 

 tion of the organized militia or National Guard, 

 or naval reserves of his State or Territory after 

 having been called out by the governor on or 

 after April 25, 1898: Provided, That such organ- 

 izations shall afterward have been accepted into 

 the volunteer army of the United States. 



" SEC. 4. That the expenses incurred by the 

 governors of States in carrying out the provisions 

 of this act shall be paid to them, notwithstanding 

 any unsettled accounts, claims, or indebtedness 

 of the United States against their States, and 

 without prejudice to such unsettled accounts: 

 Provided, That when such unsettled account is 

 caused by a default in payment of principal or 

 interest on any bonds or stock issued or guaran- 

 teed by any State, the ownership of which is 

 vested in the United States, the Secretary of the 

 Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and 

 directed to institute any act or proceeding which 

 lie may consider advisable against such State 

 or its representatives to secure the payment of 

 the principal and interest of said bonds or stocks : 

 And provided further, That where the governor 



of any State or Territory, or any officer of the 

 army detailed as mustering officer of volunteers, 

 or any commander of a company or companies, 

 or troop or troops, or battery or battalion, or 

 regiment or brigade has purchased or authorized 

 the purchase of supplies or equipments, or in- 

 curred any necessary expense for the comfort of 

 the men in camp or rendezvous, and said sup- 

 plies were used and equipments were subse- 

 quently taken into the United States service by 

 said volunteers, and no receipts given to such 

 military officer, the certificate to that effect of 

 the governor of the State or Territory to which 

 the volunteers belonged, shall be held sufficient 

 to authorize the settlement and payment of such 

 account on investigation, if the Treasury Depart- 

 ment shall be satisfied of the fact of such pur- 

 chase of such equipment and supplies, or that 

 such necessary expenses were incurred and such 

 use of such supplies, or such taking of such equip- 

 ments into the United States service, and the 

 voucher or vouchers of said officers be produced 

 by said governor. 



" SEC. 5. That the Secretary of the Treasury 

 be, and is hereby, authorized to pay, out of any 

 money in the Treasury not otherwise appropri- 

 ated, the just and proper account or claim of 

 any railroad, transportation company, or person 

 for transportation of men or troops from place 

 of enrollment to point of rendezvous, furnished 

 at the request of the quartermaster general of the 

 army or his agents, or at the request of any 

 United States mustering officer or other officer 

 authorized by the Secretary of War to enroll, 

 muster, or mobilize volunteers for the war with 

 Spain; and also to pay such just and proper 

 accounts as may be presented for transportation 

 back from point of rendezvous to place of en- 

 rollment of men who volunteered and were re- 

 jected by the medical examiner or mustering of- 

 ficer: Provided, That the amount allowed and 

 paid for such transportation shall not be in ex- 

 cess of the rates charged for transporting troops' 

 of the United States under like circumstances. 



" All claims under the provision of this act 

 must be filed in the office of the auditor for the 

 War Department, and must be supported by 

 proper vouchers or other conclusive evidence of 

 interest. 



" SEC. 6. That all claims for reimbursement 

 under this act or the act of July 8, 1898, shall 

 be presented in itemized form to the Treasury 

 Department on or before Jan. 1, 1902, or be for- 

 ever barred." 



Mount Rainier Park. The following act was 

 passed, creating a new national park: 



"Be it enacted, etc., That all those certain 

 tracts, pieces, or parcels of land lying and being 

 in the State of Washington, and within the 

 boundaries particularly described as follows, to 

 wit: Beginning at a point 3 miles east of the 

 northeast corner of township No. 17 north, of 

 range 6 east of the Willamette meridian; thence 

 south through the central parts of townships 

 Nos. 17, 16, and 15 north, of range 7 east of the 

 Willamette meridian, 18 miles more or less, sub- 

 ject to the proper easterly or westerly offsets, 

 ito a point 3 miles east of the northeast corner 

 of township No. 14 north, of range 6 east of the 

 Willamette meridian; thence east on the town- 

 ship line between toAvnships Nos. 14 and 15 north, 

 18 miles more or less, to a point 3 miles west 

 of the northeast corner of township 14 north, 

 of range 10 east of the Willamette meridian; 

 thence northerly, subject to the proper easterly 

 or westerly offsets, 18 miles more or less, to a 

 point 3 miles west of the northeast corner of 



