Annual Reports of the War Department, Volume 1U.S. Government Printing Office, 1879 |
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Page 317 - State shall be subject to the disposal of the legislature thereof, for the purposes aforesaid and no other; and the said railroad and branches shall be and remain a public highway, for the use of the government of the United States, free from toll or other charge upon the transportation of any property or troops of the United States.
Page viii - No person shall be liable to be tried and punished by a general court-martial for any offense which appears to have been committed more than two years before the issuing of the order for such trial, unless, by reason of having absented himself, or of some other manifest impediment, he shall not have been amenable to justice within that period.
Page 375 - General to cause such claim to be examined, and, if convinced that it is just, and of the loyalty of the claimant, and that the stores have been actually received or taken for the use of, and used by, said army, then to report each case to the Third Auditor of the Treasury, with a recommendation for settlement.
Page xv - That 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 426 - Lauds was discontinued from the 30th une, 1872, and " all acts or parts of acts pertaining to the collection and payment of bounties or other moneys due to colored soldiers, sailors, or marines, or their heirs," were thereafter to be carried into effect by the Secretary of War.
Page 333 - That no part of the money appropriated by this act shall be paid to any railroad company for the transportation of any property or troops of the United States over any railroad which, in whole or in part, was constructed by the aid of a grant of public land, on the condition' that such railroad should be a public highway for the use of the government of the United States...
Page 393 - SIR : I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt, by reference from the department, of a letter of the honorable Secretary of War, dated April 14, 1879, inclosing one from R.
Page 419 - The Army Medical Examining Board convened in New York City on the 7th of November, 1877, for the examination of assistant surgeons for promotion, and of candidates for appointment in the medical corps of the Army, has been continued...
Page 318 - That no money shall hereafter he paid to any railroad company for the transportation of any property or troops of the United Sates over any railroad which, in whole or in part, was constructed by the aid of a grant of public land on the condition that such railroad should be a public highway for the use of the Government of the United States...
Page 327 - Moines shall be and forever remain a public highway for the use of the Government of the United States, free from any toll or other charge whatever, for any property of the United States...