General OrdersThe Department, 1903 |
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17th Infantry 1st Lieutenant ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE ammunition appropriation approved Army Regulations authorized Barracks Battery Betah Boise City Bushfield Cadet Captain Cavalry Central Branch certificate charge Chief coast artillery Colonel COMMAND OF LIEUTENANT commanding officer competition competitor court-martial department commander direction duty ELIHU ROOT engineer enlisted examination feet field artillery firing point Fort Lawton furnished grade Guilty gunners guns H. C. CORBIN HEADQUARTERS honor inches information and guidance instruction issued LIEUTENANT GENERAL MILES March ment MILITARY RESERVATION militia National Bank nineteen hundred objects specified Ordnance Department paragraph Philippine Islands post commander prescribed purchase Quartermaster's Department range officer rapid fire regimental rifle score Secretary Secretary of War shot Signal slow fire soldier Specification station subsistence target thence thousand dollars tion transportation Treasury troops U. S. Army U. S. Infantry United United States Army War Department Washington yards
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Page 15 - ... after the allowance of such a claim, the ascertainment of the amount due, and the issuing of a warrant for the payment thereof.
Page 17 - Hereafter, except in cases of emergency or where it is impracticable to secure competition, the purchase of all supplies for the use of the various departments and posts of the Army and of the branches of the Army service shall only be made after advertisement and shall be purchased where the same can be purchased the cheapest, quality and cost of transportation and the interests of the Government considered...
Page 12 - Corps shall be to prepare plans for the national defense and for the mobilization of the military forces in time of war; to investigate and report upon all questions affecting the efficiency of the Army and its state...
Page 15 - An Act temporarily to provide for the administration of the affairs of civil government in the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes...
Page 24 - Hereafter the purchase of supplies and the procurement of services for all branches of the Army service may be made in open market, in the manner common among business men, when the aggregate of the amount required does not exceed five hundred dollars; but every such purchase exceeding one hundred dollars shall be promptly reported to the Secretary of War for approval, under such regulations as he may prescribe.
Page 9 - States, such officer or enlisted man shall receive from the annual appropriation for the support of the army the same travel allowances and quarters or commutation of quarters to which an officer or enlisted man of the Regular Army would be entitled for attending such school or college under orders from proper military authority...
Page 20 - For continuing the construction, equipment, and maintenance of suitable buildings at military posts and stations for the conduct of the post exchange, school, library, reading, lunch, amusement rooms and gymnasium...
Page 21 - That in expending the money appropriated by this act a railroad company which has not received aid in bonds of the United States, and which obtained a grant of public land to aid in the construction of its railroad on condition that such railroad should be a post route and military road, subject to the use of the United States...