Persons honorably discharged from the military or naval service by reason of disability resulting from wounds or sickness incurred in the line of duty, shall be preferred for appointments to civil offices, provided they are found to possess the business... Disabled Soldiers and Sailors Pensions and Training - Page 38by Edward Thomas Devine - 1919 - 471 pagesFull view - About this book
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations - 1922 - 412 pages
...department or in the post offices and relieved from service in said cars as rapidly as practicable, provided they are found to possess the business capacity necessary for the proper discharge of the duties of the offices to which they may be transferred. Ex-railway postal clerks who have been separated from... | |
| Lewis Mayers - Political Science - 1922 - 638 pages
...controlled for half a century. Preference is extended not merely, as in 1865, to persons discharged by reason of disability resulting from wounds or sickness incurred in the line of duty, but to all "honorably discharged soldiers, sailors and marines." A mere term of service in the Army... | |
| Theodore Calvin Pease - World War, 1914-1918 - 1923 - 564 pages
...ground of alleged religious or conscientious objections against war, shall be preferred for appointment to civil offices provided they are found to possess...the proper discharge of the duties of such office, and it shall be the duty of the examiner or commissioner certifying the list of eligibles, who have... | |
| Almanacs, American - 1892 - 494 pages
...not apply to any person honorably discharged from the military or naval service of the United States by reason of disability resulting from wounds or sickness incurred In the line of duty. Such persons are preferred in appointments under 51754, RS, and certified to appointing officers before... | |
| United States. Department of Justice - Administrative law - 1926 - 412 pages
...Section 1754 of the Revised Statutes gives a preference in the matter of appointment to civil offices to persons honorably discharged from the military or...resulting from wounds or sickness incurred in the h'ne of duty without regard to where these offices may be located, and while this section is more restricted... | |
| Attorneys general's opinions - 1926 - 410 pages
...considerations, must be construed in connection with section 1754, Revised Statutes, which provides that persons honorably discharged from the military or naval service by reason of disability, etc., incurred in the line of duty, shall be preferred for appointments to civil offices where they... | |
| United States - 1927 - 362 pages
...the department or in post offices and relieved from service on said cars as rapidly as practicable, provided they are found to possess the business capacity necessary for the proper discharge of the duties of the offices to which they may be transferred " ; and Whereas the preference therein given should... | |
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