Annual Reports of the War Department, Volume 1U.S. Government Printing Office, 1895 |
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... Army .. Subsistence of the Army . Regular supplies , Quartermaster's Department ... Incidental expenses , Quartermaster's Department ... Barracks , quarters , and hospital construction ...... Shooting ranges , and contingencies of the Army ...
... Army .. Subsistence of the Army . Regular supplies , Quartermaster's Department ... Incidental expenses , Quartermaster's Department ... Barracks , quarters , and hospital construction ...... Shooting ranges , and contingencies of the Army ...
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... Army is better fed , clothed , and housed than ever before , and the policy zealously pursued of promoting the personal comfort of the officers and men has resulted in a devotion to the service which is everywhere apparent . It can be ...
... Army is better fed , clothed , and housed than ever before , and the policy zealously pursued of promoting the personal comfort of the officers and men has resulted in a devotion to the service which is everywhere apparent . It can be ...
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... Army garrisons were scattered throughout the remote frontiers and the needs of the discharged soldier to enable him to reach the place of enlistment were much greater than now . At the end of five years each man would have due him $ 72 ...
... Army garrisons were scattered throughout the remote frontiers and the needs of the discharged soldier to enable him to reach the place of enlistment were much greater than now . At the end of five years each man would have due him $ 72 ...
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... Army up to the nominal strength now fixed by law . By these changes the Army will be increased in efficiency 20 per cent , in numbers about 163 per cent , and in cost of maintenance only about 6 per cent . In brief , it is proposed that ...
... Army up to the nominal strength now fixed by law . By these changes the Army will be increased in efficiency 20 per cent , in numbers about 163 per cent , and in cost of maintenance only about 6 per cent . In brief , it is proposed that ...
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... Army would be about 25,000 soldiers and 40 field guns . The formation desired admits of rapid and great expansion to meet the exigencies of actual warfare , and is especially adaptable to the small force constituting the peace ...
... Army would be about 25,000 soldiers and 40 field guns . The formation desired admits of rapid and great expansion to meet the exigencies of actual warfare , and is especially adaptable to the small force constituting the peace ...
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Page 331 - For construction of quarters for hospital stewards at military posts already established and occupied, including the extra-duty pay of enlisted men employed on the same, seven thousand dollars.
Page 145 - Except as otherwise expressly provided by law, the general laws of the United States as to the punishment of offenses committed in any place within the sole and exclusive jurisdiction of the United States, except the District of Columbia, shall extend to the Indian country.
Page 143 - And every Indian born within the territorial limits of the United States to whom allotments shall have been made under the provisions of this act, or under any law or treaty, and every Indian born within the territorial limits of the United States...
Page 143 - That upon the completion of said allotments, and the patenting of the lands to said allottees, each and every member of the respective bands or tribes of Indians to whom allotments have been made shall have the benefit of and be subject to the laws; both civil and criminal, of the State or Territory in which they may reside...
Page 875 - SIR: in compliance with your instructions, I have the honor to submit the following report of the...
Page 844 - February twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and for the necessary traveling expenses of said member when traveling on duty as contemplated in said Act; for the payment of the necessary expenses of the board, including a per diem allowance to each officer detailed to serve thereon, when employed on duty away from his permanent station, of two dollars...
Page 653 - Visitors to inquire into the actual state of the discipline, instruction, police administration, fiscal affairs, and other concerns of the Academy. The visitors appointed by the President shall report thereon to the Secretary of War, for the information of Congress...
Page 845 - ... be made for a further supply of not less than fifty, and not more than one hundred, at such reasonable cost as the Board herein provided for shall determine, not to exceed six thousand five hundred dollars each. The entire number to be delivered iu one year from date of contract. Said mortar and all which may be contracted for under this provision shall be subject to inspection at each stage of manufacture.
Page 844 - Board to make all needful and proper purchases, experiments, and tests to ascertain, with a view to their utilization by the Government, the most effective guns, small arms, cartridges, projectiles, fuses, explosives, torpedoes, armor plates...
Page 268 - Department, furniture, text-books, papers, and equipment for post schools, reading matter for post libraries, wagons, ambulances, carts, saddles, harness, water supply, sewerage, plumbing, illuminating supplies, and heating for all military posts and buildings. The Department is also charged with the duty of...