1869-1881Bureau of National Literature and Art, 1907 - United States |
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... Department of the Missouri temporarily to the next senior officer . 4. Major - General W. S. Hancock is assigned to command the Depart ment of Dakota . 5. Brigadier and Brevet Major General E. R. S. Canby is assigned to command the ...
... Department of the Missouri temporarily to the next senior officer . 4. Major - General W. S. Hancock is assigned to command the Depart ment of Dakota . 5. Brigadier and Brevet Major General E. R. S. Canby is assigned to command the ...
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... Departments of the South and Louisiana , of the Fourth Military District , and of the States composing the present Department of the Cumberland ; headquar- ters , Louisville , Ky . Major - General Halleck will proceed to his new command ...
... Departments of the South and Louisiana , of the Fourth Military District , and of the States composing the present Department of the Cumberland ; headquar- ters , Louisville , Ky . Major - General Halleck will proceed to his new command ...
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... Department of the Cumberland , the department will be discontinued , and the States composing it will be added to other depart- ments , to be hereafter designated . The records will be forwarded to the Adjutant - General of the Army ...
... Department of the Cumberland , the department will be discontinued , and the States composing it will be added to other depart- ments , to be hereafter designated . The records will be forwarded to the Adjutant - General of the Army ...
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... Department , and all vouchers must conform to the same laws and requirements and pass through the ordinary channels . 8. All the officers of the Government connected with the Indian serv- ice are enjoined to afford every facility and ...
... Department , and all vouchers must conform to the same laws and requirements and pass through the ordinary channels . 8. All the officers of the Government connected with the Indian serv- ice are enjoined to afford every facility and ...
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... department of this Government and relating to public business of whatever kind , including suggestions for legislation , claims , contracts , employment , ap- pointments , and removals from office , and pardons , must be transmitted ...
... department of this Government and relating to public business of whatever kind , including suggestions for legislation , claims , contracts , employment , ap- pointments , and removals from office , and pardons , must be transmitted ...
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Page 54 - Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.
Page 12 - I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same, that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.
Page 86 - The neutral flag covers enemy's goods, with the exception of contraband of war ; 3. Neutral goods, with the exception of contraband of war, are not liable to capture under enemy's flag; 4. Blockades, in order to be binding, must be effective ; that is to say, maintained by a force sufficient really to prevent access to the coast of the enemy.
Page 450 - No executive department or other Government establishment of the United States shall expend, In any one fiscal year, any sum in excess of appropriations made by Congress for that fiscal year, or involve the Government in any contract or other obligation for the future payment of money in excess of such appropriations unless such contract or obligation is authorized by law.
Page 432 - ... or to such other matters respecting foreign affairs as the President of the United States shall assign to the said Department...
Page 593 - States shall have power and authority and it shall be their duty to swear out process and to arrest and take into custody, with or without process, any person who may violate any of said provisions: Provided.
Page 368 - No contract or purchase on behalf of the United States shall be made unless the same is authorized by law or is under an appropriation adequate to its fulfillment, except in the War and Navy Departments, for clothing, subsistence, forage, fuel, quarters, or transportation, which, however, shall not exceed the necessities of the current year.
Page 184 - Germany, who, having regard to the above-mentioned article of the said treaty, shall decide thereupon, finally and without appeal, which of those claims is most in accordance with the true interpretation of the treaty of June 15, 1846.
Page 446 - Provided always, that whenever it may be necessary in the judgment of the president to use the military force hereby directed to be called forth, the president shall forthwith, and previous thereto, by proclamation, command such insurgents to disperse, and retire peaceably to their respective abodes within a limited time...
Page 303 - An act to provide for the appointment of a commission of engineers to investigate and report a permanent plan for the reclamation of the alluvial basin of the Mississippi River subject to inundation," I appointed a commission of engineers.