...appropriations for thn Military and Naval Establishments on account of war expenses for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for other purposes," approved June 15, 1917, I hereby direct that the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation shall...

...appropriations for the Military and Naval Establishments on account of war expenses for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for other purposes." This act authorized and empowered the President " to purchase, requisition, or take over the title...

...(39 Stats. 645) entitled, "An Act making appropriatiqns for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, Nineteen Hundred and Seventeen, and for other purposes," took over the possession, use. control and operation of certain railroads and systems of transportation...

...hundred and sixteen, entitled "An act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for other purposes," as follows: The President in time of war is empowered, through, the Secretary of War. to take possession...

...242— OKh Congress. HR 1749S.] An Act Making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for other purposes. [Aug. 29, 1916.] Sec. 3. Section thirteen hundred and forty-two of the Revised Statutes of the United...

...August 29, 1916, entitled 'An act making appropriations for the support of the army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for other purposes,' shall be made by initiating the necessary rates, fares, charges, classifications, regulations and practices...

...provisions of the Act entitled 'An Act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the riscal year ending June thirtieth, •nineteen hundred and...shall remain in force and effect except as expressly moditied and restricted by this Act ; and the President, in addition to the powers conferred by this...

...provisions of the act entitled "An act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen,...twentyninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, shall remain in fortfe and effect except as expressly modified and restricted by this act ; and the President, in addition...

...out of Federal control and, in section 9, states that the provisions of the Act of August 29, 1916, " shall remain in force and effect except as expressly modified and restricted by this Act." Section 12 of the Act provides for payment of expenses of operation out of receipts from operation...

...appropriations (or the military and naval establishments on account of war expenses tor the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for other purposes," approved June 15, 1917, I hereby direct that the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation shall...