Annual Reports of the War Department, Part 1U.S. Government Printing Office, 1904 |
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... improved mortality rates in the Philippines are no doubt largely due . The sanitary improvements in the condition of the soldiers have gradually lessened the rates of sickness and mortality since the war with Spain , and the rates of ...
... improved mortality rates in the Philippines are no doubt largely due . The sanitary improvements in the condition of the soldiers have gradually lessened the rates of sickness and mortality since the war with Spain , and the rates of ...
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... improved methods of con- struction , which have been developed since the construction of high - power batteries was commenced in 1890 , have made necessary slight additions and modifications to the emplacements of earliest construction ...
... improved methods of con- struction , which have been developed since the construction of high - power batteries was commenced in 1890 , have made necessary slight additions and modifications to the emplacements of earliest construction ...
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... improved , and that individual members of the National Guard have manifested an increased interest in its advancement . Discipline has been more rigidly insisted upon , and the more uniform enforce- ment of local laws requiring ...
... improved , and that individual members of the National Guard have manifested an increased interest in its advancement . Discipline has been more rigidly insisted upon , and the more uniform enforce- ment of local laws requiring ...
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... improving the personnel of the organized militia , raising the standard of its discipline , and increasing its efficiency , the new militia law has aroused the interest of the young men of the country in military affairs and has ...
... improving the personnel of the organized militia , raising the standard of its discipline , and increasing its efficiency , the new militia law has aroused the interest of the young men of the country in military affairs and has ...
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... improving the rivers and harbors of the country and the extended military works of public defense , and as the said department has from time to time been charged with the supervision of the govern- ment of all the island possessions of ...
... improving the rivers and harbors of the country and the extended military works of public defense , and as the said department has from time to time been charged with the supervision of the govern- ment of all the island possessions of ...
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12 companies Adjutant-general adopted standard appropriation Armed Barracks Battalion Battery Brig Brigade Camp of instruc camp of instruction cent absent Coast Artillery command Company D Company G Company H Company Conformity to U. S. days in Rifle-practice Department circular division drills ended June 30 enlistment or reenlistment examination for enlistment Field Artillery Fifth Cavalry figure of merit fiscal year ended Fort Riley Headquarters Company instruction sec ization January 21 July June 30 maneuvers Manila Military Secretary militia law National Guard Number of practice organized militia Organized strength Philippine Islands Philippine Scouts Philippines Division physical examination practice marches recruiting reenlistment as prescribed Regular Army rifle Rifle-practice figure River San Francisco Second Infantry SECRETARY OF WAR Signal Corps South Carolina Special inspection standard of physical Station target practice Territories Third Infantry tion days Total strength troops U. S. Army organ uniformed and equipped Yes Yes
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Page 36 - New Mexico New York North Carolina . North Dakota . . . Ohio Oklahoma Pennsylvania . . Rhode Island . South Carolina . South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington .... West Virginia . Wisconsin Wyoming UNITED STATES.
Page 24 - Corps shall be to prepare plans for the national defense and for the mobilization of the military forces in time of war; to investigate and report upon all questions affecting the efficiency of the Army and its state...
Page 67 - An Act to revise and amend the tariff laws of the Philippine Archipelago...
Page 188 - States, have been in continuous existence since the passage of the said act, under Its provisions and under the provisions of section two hundred and thirty-two and sections sixteen hundred and twenty-five to sixteen hundred and sixty, both inclusive, of title sixteen of the Revised Statutes of...
Page 87 - The present national militia law is a step in the right direction, but it does not go far enough.
Page 77 - District, respectively, and make returns to the Secretary of War, at such times and in such form as he shall from time to time prescribe, of the strength of the organized militia, and also make such reports as may from time to time be required by the Secretary of War. That the Secretary of War shall, with his annual report of each year, transmit to Congress an abstract of the returns and reports of the adjutantsgeneral of the States, Territories, and the District of Columbia, with such observations...
Page 45 - Inasmuch as it is impracticable for the President, with his other public duties, to give to the work of supervising the Commission's construction of the canal and government of the Zone the personal attention which seems proper and necessary, and inasmuch as the War Department is the department which has always supervised the construction of the great civil works for improving the Rivers and Harbors of the country and the extended military works of public...
Page 17 - Paymaster-General of the Navy, the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, or other like chief officers in any Department, by, through, or under whom stores, supplies, and other public property are received for distribution, or whose duty it is to receive or examine returns of such property, shall certify...
Page 190 - SEC. 7. That every officer and enlisted man of the militia who shall be called forth in the manner hereinbefore prescribed, shall be mustered for service without further enlistment...
Page 188 - ... sixteen hundred and twenty-five to sixteen hundred and sixty, both inclusive, of title sixteen of the Revised Statutes of the United States relating to the militia, shall be allowed to retain their accustomed privileges, subject, nevertheless, to all other duties required by law in like manner as the other militia.