Compilation of Navy and Other Laws from the Revised Statutes and Statutes at Large Passed by the Forty-third Congress, Ended March 4, 1875: With an Appendix Containing Such Private and General Relief Acts, Etc., as are of Interest to the Navy |
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... Senate for compensation and traveling expenses of Senators , shall commence on the first day of Commencement July in each year ; and all accounts of receipts and expenditures required by law to be published annually shall be prepared ...
... Senate for compensation and traveling expenses of Senators , shall commence on the first day of Commencement July in each year ; and all accounts of receipts and expenditures required by law to be published annually shall be prepared ...
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... Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled , That all persons who are now pen entitled to pensions under existing laws and who have lost either an arm at or above the elbow , or a leg at or ...
... Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled , That all persons who are now pen entitled to pensions under existing laws and who have lost either an arm at or above the elbow , or a leg at or ...
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... Senate . Appointment burse money on foreign stations . Title 19 . SEC . 1783. No officer or agent of any banking or other commercial corporation , and no member of any mercantile or trading firm , or person Persons inter- directly or ...
... Senate . Appointment burse money on foreign stations . Title 19 . SEC . 1783. No officer or agent of any banking or other commercial corporation , and no member of any mercantile or trading firm , or person Persons inter- directly or ...
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... Senate and House of Representatives , one copy of the Biennial Register ; to the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives , ten copies each , for the use of the respective Houses ; to the Library of Congress ...
... Senate and House of Representatives , one copy of the Biennial Register ; to the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives , ten copies each , for the use of the respective Houses ; to the Library of Congress ...
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... Senator , Representative , or Delegate , after his election Upon taking and during his continuance in office , and no head of a Department , or compensation in other officer or clerk in the employ of the Government , shall receive or ...
... Senator , Representative , or Delegate , after his election Upon taking and during his continuance in office , and no head of a Department , or compensation in other officer or clerk in the employ of the Government , shall receive or ...
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Page 175 - States, and to renounce forever all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty, and, particularly, by name, to the prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty of which the alien may be at the time a citizen or subject.
Page 151 - Of all civil causes of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, saving to suitors In all cases the right of a common-law remedy where the common law is competent to give it...
Page 153 - Impose and administer all necessary oaths, and to punish by fine or imprisonment, - at the discretion of the court, contempts of their authority: Provided, that such power to punish contempts shall not be construed to extend to any cases except the misbehavior of any person in their presence, or so near thereto as to obstruct the administration of Justice...
Page 331 - No person held to service or labour in one State, under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labour, but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such service or labour may be due. Section 3. New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other State ; nor any State be formed by the junction of two or more...
Page 56 - All purchases and contracts for supplies or services, in any of the departments of the Government, except for personal services, shall be made by advertising a sufficient time previously for proposals respecting the same, when the public exigencies do not require the immediate delivery of the articles or performance of the service.
Page 27 - ... with intent to influence him to commit or aid in committing, or to collude in, or allow, any fraud, or make opportunity for the commission of any fraud, on the United States, or to induce him to do or omit to do any act in violation of his lawful duty...
Page 82 - States shall be first satisfied ; and the priority established shall extend as well to cases in which a debtor, not having sufficient property to pay all his debts, makes a voluntary assignment thereof...
Page 119 - Is In custody for an act done or omitted in pursuance of a law of the United States...
Page 183 - States for any ship or vessel to the intent that she may be employed as aforesaid. 10. Increasing or augmenting, or procuring to be increased or augmented, or knowingly being concerned in increasing or augmenting the force of any ship of war, cruiser, or other armed vessel, which at...
Page 95 - States, or because of his having so exercised the same; or if two or more persons go in disguise on the highway, or on the premises of another, with intent to prevent or hinder his free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege so secured, they shall be fined not more than...