Senate Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Public Documents and Executive Documents: 14th Congress, 1st Session-48th Congress, 2nd Session and Special Session, Volume 4 |
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Page 993 - General in due time, for failing to take from or deliver at a post office the said letter mail or any part of it ; for suffering it to be wet, injured, lost, or destroyed ; for carrying it in a place or manner that exposes it to depredation, loss, or injury...
Page 995 - That the contract shall require the service to be performed with good four-horse coaches or spring wagons, suitable for the conveyance of passengers as well as the safety and security of the mails.
Page 988 - An Act making appropriations for the service of the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, and for other purposes," approved February 28, 1919, and all other Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto.
Page 992 - Now, therefore, the said contractor and his sureties do, jointly and severally, undertake, covenant, and agree with the United States of America...
Page 641 - The works upon which expenditures have been made, but which are not yet complete, are: 1.
Page 990 - From St. Louis, Missouri, and from Memphis, Tennessee, converging at Little Eock, Arkansas ; thence, via Preston, Texas, or as nearly so as may be found advisable, to the best point of crossing the Rio Grande, above El Paso, and not far from Fort Fillmore; thence, along the new road being opened and constructed under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, to Fort Yuma, California ; thence, through the best passes, and along the best valleys for safe and expeditious staging, to San Francisco.
Page 993 - It is hereby also stipulated and agreed by the said contractors and their sureties, that in all cases there is to be a forfeiture...
Page 992 - California, as follows, viz: from St. Louis, Missouri, and from Memphis, Tennessee, converging at Little Rock, Arkansas; thence, via Preston, Texas, or as near so as may be found advisable, to the best point of crossing the Rio Grande above El Paso, and not far from Fort Fillmore ; thence, along the new road being opened and constructed under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, to or near Fort Yuma, California ; thence, through the best passes and along the best valleys for safe and expeditious...
Page 583 - ... disapproval, will not vary the result, but leave the parties in statu quo, as if there had been no inquiry. The President having no power to change the state of any person already in the navy, except by dismissal, or by promotion with the advice and consent of the Senate, or to restore any person to it except by a new appointment, with the advice and consent of the same body, it is obvious that little could be done to remove or palliate the presumed evil which it was the object of that act to...
Page 944 - For contingencies, viz : freight, ferriage, toll, cartage, wharfage, compensation to judges advocate, per diem for attending courts-martial, courts of inquiry, and for constant labor, house rent in lieu of quarters, burial of deceased marines, printing, stationery, postage, apprehension of deserters, oil. candles, forage, straw, furniture, bed sacks, spades, shovels, axes, picks, carpenters' tools, keep of a horse for the messenger, pay of matron, washerwoman, and porter at hospital, headquarters...