Official Congressional Directory, Volume 51, Issue 1, Part 2U.S. Government Printing Office, 1890 - Directories, Governmental |
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Page 206 - Washington, a department of education, for the purpose of collecting such statistics and facts as shall show the condition and progress of education in the several states and territories, and of diffusing such information respecting the organization and management of schools and school systems and methods of teaching as shall aid the people of the United States in the establishment and maintenance of efficient school systems, and otherwise promote the cause of education throughout the country.
Page 206 - Survey and the classification of the public lands and examination of the geological structure, mineral resources, and products of the national domain.
Page 205 - ... for vessels of the Navy, according to the authorized scale of allowance; under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, issues orders for the movement of officers and troops, and such other orders and instructions for their guidance as may be necessary; and has charge and exercises general supervision and control of the recruiting service of the corps, and of the necessary expenses thereof, including the establishment of recruiting offices.
Page 34 - Republican elector for his Congressional district (then the Eighteenth) and cast the vote of the district for...
Page 206 - ... principal examiners. COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS. The Commissioner of Pensions supervises the examination and adjudication of all claims arising under laws passed by Congress granting bounty land or pension on account of service in the Army or Navy during the Revolutionary war and all subsequent wars in which the United States has been engaged. He is aided by two Deputy Commissioners and...
Page 202 - The Inspector-General, with his assistants, inspects all military commands and stations, the schools of application, the military department of all colleges and schools at which officers of the Army are detailed, all depots, rendezvous, armories, arsenals...
Page 164 - Rotunda is 97 feet 6 inches in diameter, and its height from the floor to the top of the canopy is 180 feet 3 inches. The Senate Chamber is 113 feet 3 inches in length by 80 feet 3 inches in width and 30 feet in height. The galleries will accommodate 1,000 persons. The Representatives' Hall is 139 feet in length by 93 feet in width and 36 feet in height.
Page 213 - All claims (except for pensions) founded upon the Constitution of the United States or any law of Congress, upon any regulation of an Executive Department, upon any contract, express or implied, with the Government of the United States...
Page 173 - The applications required by above rule shall be authenticated in a manner that shall be satisfactory to the Standing Committee of Correspondents, who shall see that the occupation of the...
Page 31 - University; was first secretary of legation and charge! d'affaires ad interim at Paris from December, 1874, until March, 1881; was Assistant Secretary of State in 1881; was elected to the Forty-seventh Congress November 7, 1882, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Hon. RMA Hawk; was elected to the Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, Fifty-first, Fifty-second, Fifty-third.