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Page 238 - United States, either the regular or the volunteer forces, and has been, or may be hereafter, honorably discharged, shall be admitted to become a citizen of the United States, upon his petition, without any previous declaration of his intention to become such...
Page 150 - An Act for making further and more effectual provision for the national defense, and for other purposes...
Page 237 - When any person is put in arrest for the purpose of trial, except at remote military posts or stations, the officer by whose order he is arrested shall see that a copy of the charges on which he is to be tried is served upon him within eight...
Page 14 - An Act to authorize the President to increase temporarily the Military establishment of the United States", approved May 18, 1917, or any.
Page 238 - Any alien, of the age of twenty-one years and upward who has enlisted, or may enlist, in the armies of the United States, either the regular or the volunteer forces, and has been, or may be hereafter, honorably discharged, shall be admitted to become a citizen of the United States...
Page 238 - Congress, are hereby placed under the control of the government of said islands to be administered or disposed of for the benefit of the inhabitants thereof...
Page 155 - ... to render professional aid and assistance to the Secretary of War and to general officers and other superior commanders, and to...
Page 150 - ... officers may be temporarily assigned to duty with any branch of the Army. Upon being relieved from duty in the General Staff Corps...
Page 344 - ... or enlisted men's club, which is being used at the time for military purposes under this Act. but the Secretary of War may make regulations permitting the sale and use of intoxicating liquors for medicinal purposes. It shall be unlawful to sell any intoxicating liquor, including beer, ale, or wine, to any officer or member of the military forces while in uniform, except as herein provided.
Page 258 - The Secretary of War, under such regulations as he may prescribe, is hereby authorized to issue to institutions at which one or more units of the Reserve Officers...