Annual Reports of the War Department, Volume 1U.S. Government Printing Office, 1895 |
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... increased from 92 to 128 , and the number acting as Indian agents from 5 to 19 . THE RECRUITING SERVICE . Changes ... increase en- listments at posts , and thus reduce transportation , shows very satisfac- tory results . By the act of ...
... increased from 92 to 128 , and the number acting as Indian agents from 5 to 19 . THE RECRUITING SERVICE . Changes ... increase en- listments at posts , and thus reduce transportation , shows very satisfac- tory results . By the act of ...
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... increased in efficiency 20 per cent , in numbers about 163 per cent , and in cost of maintenance only about 6 per cent ... increase in the cavalry is proposed . The organization of the line of the Army has undergone no mate- rial change ...
... increased in efficiency 20 per cent , in numbers about 163 per cent , and in cost of maintenance only about 6 per cent ... increase in the cavalry is proposed . The organization of the line of the Army has undergone no mate- rial change ...
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... 625 Total 40 40 85 570 990 490 1,725 1,585 27 , 350 Now authorized 40 40 70 430 1,005 430 1,585 23 , 759 Increase 15 140 60 3,591 Decrease 15 The battalion of engineers would remain as now with 4 REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR . 9.
... 625 Total 40 40 85 570 990 490 1,725 1,585 27 , 350 Now authorized 40 40 70 430 1,005 430 1,585 23 , 759 Increase 15 140 60 3,591 Decrease 15 The battalion of engineers would remain as now with 4 REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR . 9.
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... increased number of enlisted men proposed an increase of $ 1,200,000 in annual appropriations will be required . Retrenchment in the administrative branches of the War Department has considerably reduced expenditures , and the estimates ...
... increased number of enlisted men proposed an increase of $ 1,200,000 in annual appropriations will be required . Retrenchment in the administrative branches of the War Department has considerably reduced expenditures , and the estimates ...
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... increase efficiency and at the same time permit the transfer of a fund of no small amount to purposes tending to promote the welfare of the whole service . Some of the staff departments have active and arduous employment of a strictly ...
... increase efficiency and at the same time permit the transfer of a fund of no small amount to purposes tending to promote the welfare of the whole service . Some of the staff departments have active and arduous employment of a strictly ...
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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...