Annual Reports of the War Department, Part 1

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1890
 

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Page 458 - ... the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college, where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the Legislatures of the States may respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions in life.
Page 738 - Telegrams between the several departments of the government and their officers and agents, in their transmission over the lines of any telegraph company to which has been given the right of way, timber, -or station lands from the public domain shall have priority over all other business, at such rates as the Postmaster-General shall annually fix.
Page 855 - RESOURCES AND EXPENDITURES. . The following statement exhibits the aggregate fiscal resources and expenditures of the department for the year mentioned and the balances at the close of the fiscal year : ' RESOURCES. Amounts in the Treasury to the credit of appropriations of the Subsistence Department on June 30...
Page 82 - Maine New Hampshire Vermont Massachusetts Rhode Island Connecticut . . New York New Jersey . . . Pennsylvania. Delaware Maryland Virginia West Virginia North Carolina South Carolina Georgia. Florida..
Page 280 - ... whether the disbursing officers of the army comply with the law in keeping their accounts and making their deposits...
Page 509 - Refuses to produce any document in his power or control legally required by a court-martial to be produced by him ; or...
Page 738 - ... words, exclusive of place from and date, the rates here prescribed shall, as to such company, thenceforth during the year be reduced to the rates so charged to the public. The...
Page 738 - States sending such telegrams should indorse thereon the words "official business," and should report to the Postmaster-General any failure to transmit them in such priority and any charge made in excess of the rates above prescribed. Each company will be allowed to charge for messages received from another line at the same rate as if received from the Government direct at the point of transfer for transmission over its own line.
Page 217 - The corps of cadets shall consist of one from each Congressional district, one from each Territory, one from the District of Columbia, and ten from the United States at large. They shall...
Page 670 - MILITARY POSTS. For the construction of buildings at and the enlargement of such military posts as in the judgment of the Secretary of War may be necessary...

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