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 April artillery assistant August authorized brevet 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 Continental Army contract Corps of Engineers deputy commissary directed district dollars per month duty eighteen hundred employed enlisted entitled An act forage furnished grade Headquarters hereafter hereby horses hospital hundredweight inspector Inspector-General judge-advocate July 16 June 18 lieutenant lieutenant-colonel master ment military stores necessary Ordnance Department ounces pay and emoluments Paymaster-General paymasters persons physician President prisoners proper purposes quartermaster Quartermaster-General Quartermaster's Department rank rations per day receive regiment regulations Resolved respective returns Secretary Secretary of War separate army soldiers Southern Army staff Stats subsistence superintend supplies Surgeon-General surgeons thereof troops United vacancies wagon
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Page 207 - Government, except for personal services, shall be made by advertising a sufficient time previously for proposals respecting the same when the public exigencies do not require the immediate delivery of the articles or performance of the service. 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,...
Page 31 - 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 656 - 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 126 - ... disclose or discover the vote or opinion of any particular member of the court-martial, unless required to give evidence thereof, as a witness, by a court of justice, in a due course of law. So help you God.
Page 131 - 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 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 342 - 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 518 - An Act making appropriations for the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes...
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...
Page 544 - That it be recommended to the legislatures of the several states to pass laws making it expressly the duty of the keepers of their jails to receive and safe keep therein all prisoners committed under the authority of the United States...