Publications of the Alabama Historical Society: Miscellaneous Collections, Volume 1

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Page 54 - All claims founded upon the Constitution of the United States or any law of Congress, except for pensions, or upon any regulation of an Executive Department, or upon any contract, express or implied, with the Government of the United States...
Page 75 - Blount, governor in and over the territory of the United States of America south of the river Ohio...
Page 61 - That there shall be at the seat of government an executive department to be known as the Department of Commerce and Labor, and a Secretary of Commerce and Labor, who shall be the head thereof...
Page 71 - ... suffering from a mental or physical disability of a permanent character, not the result of their own vicious habits, which incapacitates them from the performance of manual labor in such a degree as to render them unable to earn a support...
Page 328 - ADJUTANT-GENERAL. The adjutant-general is chief of staff to the governor, who is the commander in chief of "the active volunteer organized military forces of the State." The former is charged with a number of duties in the administration of the military department. Among other things, he is required to "keep a roster of all the officers of the Alabama National Guard and keep on file in his office all reports made to him.
Page 36 - All military records, such as muster and pay rolls, orders, and reports relating to the personnel or the operations of the armies of the Revolutionary war and of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve, now in any of the Executive Departments, shall be transferred to the Secretary of War, to be preserved, indexed, and prepared for publication.1 Act of Aug.
Page 70 - Corps, whether regularly mustered or not. disabled by reason of any wound or injury received, or disease contracted, while in the service of the United States and in the line of duty.
Page 71 - Any officer, soldier, sailor, or marine who served ninety days or more in the military or naval service of the United States during the late war of the rebellion...
Page 54 - That the Court of Claims is hereby authorized to take jurisdiction of and try all questions of difference...
Page 61 - States, who shall be sworn or affirmed to a faithful execution of his office ; whose duty it shall be to prosecute and conduct all suits in the Supreme Court in which the United States shaU be concerned, and to give his advice and opinion upon questions of law when required by the President of the United States, or when requested by the heads of any of the departments, touching any matters that may concern their departments...

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