Legislative History of the General Staff of the Army of the United States: (its Organization, Duties, Pay, and Allowances), from 1775 to 1901U.S. Government Printing Office, 1901 - 800 pages |
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accounts ACT making appropriations Act of July Act of March Adjutant-General aforesaid allowed approved April artillery assistant August authorized brigade major brigadier-general captain cavalry Chief of Engineers clothier-general clothing colonel Commander in Chief commanding officer commissary commissary-general of purchases commission commissioned officers committee Congress contract Corps of Engineers deputy commissary directed district dollars per month duty eighteen hundred elected employed ending June thirtieth enlisted entitled An act February forage furnished grade Headquarters hereafter hereby horses hospital hundredweight inspector Inspector-General judge-advocate July 16 July 28 June 18 lieutenant lieutenant-colonel ment military stores necessary Ordnance Department pay and emoluments paymaster Paymaster-General persons physician President prisoners proper purposes quartermaster Quartermaster-General Quartermaster's Department rank rations per day receive regiment regulations resolution Resolved respective returns Secretary Secretary of War separate army soldiers staff subsistence superintend supplies Surgeon-General surgeons thereof troops United vacancies volunteers
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Page 676 - 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 31 - I, AB, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I have never voluntarily borne arms against the United States since I have been a citizen thereof; that I have voluntarily given no aid, countenance, counsel, or encouragement to persons engaged in armed hostility thereto; that I have neither sought nor accepted nor attempted to exercise the functions of any office whatever, under any authority or pretended authority in hostility to the United States...
Page 407 - When immediate delivery or performance is required by the public exigency the articles or service required may be procured by open purchase or contract at the places and in the manner in which such articles are usually bought and sold, or such services engaged, between individuals.
Page 31 - I have neither sought, nor accepted, nor attempted to exercise the functions of any office whatever, under any authority or pretended authority in hostility to the United States; that I have not yielded a voluntary support to any pretended government, authority, power, or constitution within the United States, hostile or inimical thereto.
Page 650 - States to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, and give evidence, to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold and convey real and personal property, and to full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of person and property as is enjoyed by white citizens, and shall be subject to like punishment, pains and penalties, and to none other, any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, to the contrary notwithstanding.
Page 28 - 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...
Page 127 - States, but when the prisoner has made his plea, he shall so far consider himself counsel for the prisoner as to object to any leading question to any of the witnesses, and to any question to the prisoner, the answer to which might tend to criminate himself.
Page 203 - 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 44 - When the established route of travel shall, in whole or in part, be over the line of any railroad on which the troops and supplies of the United States are entitled to be transported free of charge...
Page 30 - That if any commissioned officer of the army, or of the marine corps, shall have become, or shall hereafter become incapable of performing the duties of his office, he shall be placed upon the retired list and withdrawn from active service and command, and from the line of promotion...