Reduced Power for Ships Near a Government Station.

Tenth. No station on shipboard, when within fifteen nautical miles of a naval or military station, shall use a transformer input exceeding one kilowatt, nor, when within five nautical miles of such a station, a transformer input exceeding one-half kilowatt, except for sending signals of distress, or signals or radiograms relating thereto.

Intercommunication.

Eleventh. Each shore station open to general public service between the coast and vessels at sea shall be bound to exchange radiograms with any similar shore station and with any ship station without distinction of the radio systems adopted by such stations, respectively, and each station on shipboard shall be bound to exchange radiograms with any other station on shipboard without distinction of the radio systems adopted by each station, respectively.

It shall be the duty of each such shore station, during the hours it is in operation, to listen in at intervals of not less than fifteen minutes and for a period not less than two minutes, with the receiver tuned to receive messages of three hundred meter wave lengths.

Division of Time.

Twelfth. At important seaports and at all other places where naval or military and private or commercial shore stations operate in such close proximity that interference with the work of naval and military stations can not be avoided by the enforcement of the regulations contained in the foregoing regulations concerning wave lengths and character of signals emitted, such private or commercial shore stations as do interfere with the reception of signals by the naval and military stations concerned shall not use their transmitters during the first fifteen minutes of each hour, local standard time. The Secretary of Commerce and Labor may, on the recommendation of the department concerned, designate the station or stations which may be required to observe this division of time.

Government Stations to Observe Divisions of Time.

Thirteenth. The naval or military stations for which the above-mentioned division of time may be established shall transmit signals or radiograms only during the first fifteen minutes of each hour, local standard time, except in case of signals or radiograms relating to vessels in distress, as hereinbefore provided.

Special Restrictions in the Vicinities of Government Stations.

Sixteenth. No station of the character mentioned in regulation fifteenth situated within five nautical miles of a naval or military station shall use a transmitting wave length exceeding two hundred meters or a transformer input exceeding one-half kilowatt.

Limitations for Future Installations in Vicinities of Government Stations. Eighteenth. No station on shore not in actual operation at the date of the passage of this Act shall be licensed for the transaction of commercial business by radio communication within fifteen nautical miles of the following naval or military stations, to wit: Arlington, Virginia; Key West, Florida; San Juan, Porto Rico; North Head and Tatoosh Island, Washington; San Diego, California; and those established or which may be established in Alaska and in the Canal Zone; and the head of the department having control of such Govern

ment stations shall, so far as is consistent with the transaction of governmental business, arrange for the transmission and receipt of commercial radiograms under the provisions of the Berlin convention of nineteen hundred and six and future international conventions or treaties to which the United States may be a party, at each of the stations above referred to, and shall fix the rates therefor, subject to control of such rates by Congress. * *

Secrecy of Messages.

Nineteenth. No person or persons engaged in or having knowledge of the operation of any station or stations, shall divulge or publish the contents of any messages transmitted or received by such station, except to the person or persons to whom the same may be directed, or their authorized agent, or to another station employed to forward such message to its destination, unless legally required so to do by the court of competent jurisdiction or other competent authority. Any person guilty of divulging or publishing any message, except as herein provided, shall, on conviction thereof, be punishable by a fine of not more than two hundred and fifty dollars or imprisonment for a period of not exceeding three months, or both fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court. * Sec. 4, act of Aug. 13, 1912 (37 Stat. 304-307).

The expression “radio communication” as used in this Act means any system of electrical communication by telegraphy or telephony without the aid of any wire connecting the points from and at which the radiograms, signals, or other communications are sent or received. Sec. 6, act of Aug. 13, 1912 (38 Stat. 308). This Act shall not apply to the Philippine Islands. Sec. 10, act of Aug. 13, 1912 (37 Stat. 308).

See note to 655, ante.

658. Radio signals sent from foreign ships.-A person, company, or corpora tion shall not use or operate any apparatus for radio communication on a foreign ship in territorial waters of the United States otherwise than in accordance with the provisions of sections four and seven of this Act and so much of section five as imposes a penalty for interference. Save as aforesaid, nothing in this Act shall apply to apparatus for radio communication on any foreign ship. Sec. 8, act of Aug. 13, 1912 (37 Stat. 308).

659. Falso radio signals.—A person, company, or corporation within the jurisdiction of the United States shall not knowingly utter or transmit, or cause to be uttered or transmitted, any false or fraudulent distress signal or call or false or fraudulent signal, call, or other radiogram of any kind. The penalty for so uttering or transmitting a false or fraudulent distress signal or call shall be a fine of not more than two thousand five hundred dollars or imprisonment for not more than five years, or both, in the discretion of the court, for each and every such offense, and the penalty for so uttering or transmitting, or causing to be uttered or transmitted, any other false or fraudulent signal, call, or other radiogram shall be a fine of not more than one thousand dollars or imprisonment for not more than two years, or both, in the discretion of the court, for each and every such offense. Sec. 7, act of Aug. 13, 1912 (37 Stat. 308).

Provided, That on

660. Private telegrams over Government linesand after the first day of July, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, all moneys received for the transmission of private dispatches over any and all telegraph lines owned or operated by the United States, shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States, as required by section thirty-six hundred and seventeen of the Revised Statutes; and all acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith are

hereby repealed. Act of Mar. 3, 1883 (22 Stat. 616), making appropriations for sundry civil expenses.

R. S. sec. 3617, mentioned in this provision, is set forth ante, 253.

A provision permitting transmission of private messages over telephone lines controlled by the Treasury Department and requiring the proceeds thereof to be paid into the Treasury was made by act Apr. 28, 1901 (33 Stat. 460).

661. Civilian employees.-For additional employees in the Signal Office, $20,000: Provided, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum.

The services of skilled draftsmen and such other services as the Secretary of War may deem necessary may be employed only in the Signal Office to carry into effect the various appropriations for fortifications and other works of defense, and for the Signal Service of the Army, to be paid from such appropriations, in addition to the foregoing employees appropriated for in the Signal Office: Provided, That the entire expenditures for this purpose for the fiscal year 1922 shall not exceed $40,000, and the Secretary of War shall each year in the annual estimates report to Congress the number of persons so employed, their duties, and the amount paid to each. Act of Mar. 3, 1921 (41 Stat. 1277), making appropriations for legislative, executive, and judicial expenses: Signal Office. Similar provision appears in previous appropriation acts.

662. Radio engineer and assistants.-The services of one radio engineer and such radio assistants, as the Secretary of War may deem necessary, may be employed only in the Signal Office to carry into effect the appropriation for the Signal Service of the Army, to be paid from such appropriation, in addition to the foregoing employees appropriated for in the Signal Office: Provided, That the entire expenditures for this purpose for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen shall not exceed $5,000, and the Secretary of War shall each year in the annual estimates report to Congress the number of persons so employed, their duties, and the amount paid to each. Act of July 3, 1918 (40 Stat. 784), making appropriations for legislative, executive and judicial expenses: The Signal Office.

663. Vacant.

The act of July 18, 1914 (38 Stat. 514), entitled, "An Act to increase the efficiency of the Aviation Service of the Army, and for other purposes," created an Aviation Section in the Signal Corps and provided that in addition to the officers and enlisted men assigned from the Signal Corps at large to executive, administrative, scientific, or other duty in said section, there should be not to exceed 60 Aviation officers and 260 Aviation enlisted men, the Aviation officers chiefly to be selected from line officers below the rank of captain and detailed to serve for periods of four years, unless sooner relieved, A provision against the selection of married officers was abrogated by sec. 13 of the national defense act of June 3, 1916 (39 Stat. 175). The officers so selected were to be graded as Aviation students, junior military aviators, and military aviators, and were to receive additional pay. Enlisted men were to be trained as Aviation mechanics and pilots. In case of death, compensation was to be paid to dependents.

The limitation of the time of detached duty of officers of the line fixed by sec. 1, act of Aug. 24, 1912, as amended by resolution of Aug. 24, 1912, No. 53, post 2349, was not to apply to officers detailed for Aviation duty, by a proviso therein.

Provisions for detail to Aviation duty are also found in the acts of Mar. 2, 1913 (37 Stat. 705) and June 3, 1916, sec. 13 (39 Stat. 175).

The strength of the Aviation Section of the Signal Corps was fixed by sec. 13 of the national defense act of June 3, 1916 (39 Stat. 174), at 1 colonel, 1 lieutenant colonel, 8 majors, 24 captains, and 114 first lieutenants. This section was superseded by 646, ante. The Air Service was established by the following indorsement:

"1st Ind.

"War Department, A. G. O., May 29, 1918.-To the Chief, Division of Military Aeronauties.

"The following is furnished for your information:

"a. Under authority conferred by secs. 1, 2, 8 and 9 of the act of Congress Authorizing the President to increase temporarily the Military Establishment of the