House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents: 13th Congress, 2d Session-49th Congress, 1st Session, Volume 2,Parte 1

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Página 274 - Army, as exhibited in volumes one and two of the first part of the Medical and Surgical History of the war...
Página iv - An act legalizing and making appropriations for such necessary objects as have usually been included in the general appropriation bills without authority of law, and to fix and provide for certain incidental expenses of the departments and offices of the government, and for other purposes...
Página 288 - 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.
Página 104 - War be, and he hereby is, authorized and required to provide for taking meteorological observations at the military stations in the interior of the continent and at other points in the States and Territories of the United States, and for giving notice on the northern lakes and on the seacoast, by magnetic telegraph and marine signals, of the approach and force of storms.
Página 210 - From the time any State legislature shall have given, or shall hereafter give, the consent of such State to the purchase by the United States of any national cemetery, the jurisdiction and power of legislation of the United States over such cemetery shall in all courts and places be held to be the same as is granted by section eight, article one, of the Constitution of the United States...
Página 123 - ... while screwed up, gently inverted and hung up, when it can be unscrewed. While it has its cistern uppermost, the tube is full — is one solid mass of metal and glass — and not easily injured...
Página 18 - Congress at its coming session to build suitable offices and officers' quarters for the headquarters Department of the Missouri, such appropriation to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, and upon plans and estimates approved by him. INDIAN RESERVATIONS. While the military authorities under the present system, having no jurisdiction over Indian reservations, I trust it will not be considered improper to submit a few remarks on the subject for such consideration as may be given...
Página 313 - SIR : I have the honor to submit for the consideration of his excellency the President of the United States the following, report, called for by an act of Congress approved March 3, 1865...
Página 273 - Such information as the records of the office contain has been furnished in reply to inquiries from the Pension Bureau in 16,514 cases ; to the Adjutant General of the Army in 5,124 cases ; and to miscellaneous inquiries in 890 cases, making a total of 22,528 cases. The number of hospital stewards appointed for this important work, under the provisions of section 17 of the act of Congress approved July 28, 1866, is not sufficient to discharge it properly, with that promptitude which appears to me...
Página 287 - I have the honor to submit the following report of the principal operations of the Ordnance Department during the fiscal year ended June 30,1888, with such remarks and recommendations as the interests of this branch of the military service seem to require.

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