Remarks on Army Regulations and Executive Regulations in General, by G. Norman Lieber

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1898 - 189 pages

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Page 116 - ... in relation to any proceeding, contract, claim, controversy, charge, accusation, arrest, or other matter or thing in which the United States is a party or directly or indirectly interested, before any department, court-martial, bureau, officer or any civil, military, or naval commission whatever...
Page 136 - The President is authorized to prescribe such regulations for the admission of persons into the civil service of the United States as may best promote the efficiency thereof, and ascertain the fitness of each candidate in respect to age, health, character, knowledge, and ability for the branch of service into which he seeks to enter...
Page 87 - No. 100, of 1863 (Instructions for the Government of the Armies of the United States in the Field), and to have been decided in favor of the permanency of these regulations.
Page 106 - Scott case, plant themselves upon the fifth amendment, which provides that no person shall be deprived of " life, liberty, or property without due process of law;" while Senator Douglas and his peculiar adherents plant themselves upon the tenth amendment, providing that " the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution" " are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Page 154 - ... to make rules for the government of the land and naval forces...
Page 162 - If, upon marches, guards, or in quarters, different corps of the Army happen to join or do duty together, the officer highest in rank of the line of the Army, Marine Corps, or militia, by commission, there on duty or in quarters, shall command the whole, and give orders for what is needful to the service, unless otherwise specially directed by the President, according to the nature of the case.
Page 10 - The head of each department is authorized to prescribe regulations, not inconsistent with law, for the government of his department, the conduct of its officers and clerks, the distribution and performance of its business, and the custody, use, and preservation of the records, papers, and property appertaining to it.
Page 153 - June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and for other purposes," as requires the system of general regulations for the Army therein authorized to be reported to Congress at its next session, and approved by that body, be, and the same is hereby, repealed ; and the President is hereby authorized, under said section, to make and publish regulations for the government of the Army in accordance with existing laws.
Page 24 - Territory, shall acquire any right of pre-emption under this act ; no lands included in any reservation, by any treaty, law or proclamation of the President of the United States, or reserved for salines, or for other purposes...
Page 99 - Punctuation is a most fallible standard by which to interpret a writing ; it may be resorted to when all other means fail ; but the court will first take the instrument by its four corners, in order to ascertain its true meaning ; if that is apparent on judicially inspecting the whole, the punctuation will not be suffered to change it.

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