Register of the Commissioned and Warrant Officers of the Navy of the United States and of the Marine Corps

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1860

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Page 117 - After which the president of the court shall administer to the recorder the following oath: "You, AB, do swear that you will, according to your best abilities, accurately and impartially record the proceedings of the court and the evidence to be given in the case in hearing : so help you God.
Page 130 - No officer in any branch of the public service, or any other person whose salary, pay, or emoluments are fixed by law or regulations, shall receive any additional pay, extra allowance, or compensation in any form whatever for the disbursement of public money, or for any other service or duty whatever, unless the same is authorized by law, and the appropriation therefor explicitly states that it is for such additional pay, extra allowance, or compensation...
Page 139 - That as soon as practicable after the passage of this act, the President of the United States shall...
Page 121 - ... the quality of every person rating, on pain of forfeiting his whole share of the prize money resulting from such capture, and suffering such further punishment as a court martial shall adjudge.
Page 124 - ... ["I, AB, do swear (or affirm) that I will truly try, without prejudice or partiality, the case now depending, according to the evidence which shall come before the court, the rules for the government of the Navy, and my own conscience...
Page 115 - ... in no case, where it can be avoided without injury to the service, shall more than one half the members, exclusive of the president, be junior to the officer to be tried.

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