Annual Reports of the War Department, Volume 2U.S. Government Printing Office, 1908 |
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... four set bachelor officers ' quarters . Post exchange and gymnasium . Jefferson Barracks , Mo .: 1 hospital . Lawton , Wash .: 1 set teamsters ' quarters . Leavenworth , Kans .: do . M. P. E B. & Q 24 , 719.00 19,931.00 2,500.00 ...
... four set bachelor officers ' quarters . Post exchange and gymnasium . Jefferson Barracks , Mo .: 1 hospital . Lawton , Wash .: 1 set teamsters ' quarters . Leavenworth , Kans .: do . M. P. E B. & Q 24 , 719.00 19,931.00 2,500.00 ...
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... four vessels of 30 feet draft at one time , and when completed will be of inestimable benefit in the in- creased facilities for handling , storing , and shipping supplies for the army on the Pacific coast , and in Hawaii and the ...
... four vessels of 30 feet draft at one time , and when completed will be of inestimable benefit in the in- creased facilities for handling , storing , and shipping supplies for the army on the Pacific coast , and in Hawaii and the ...
Page 35
... four or five lay days at the home port , only emergency repairs can be accom- plished between voyages , so that it is necessary to withdraw the active transport occasionally for more extensive repairs . The vessels out of commission ...
... four or five lay days at the home port , only emergency repairs can be accom- plished between voyages , so that it is necessary to withdraw the active transport occasionally for more extensive repairs . The vessels out of commission ...
Page 38
... four 90 - foot launches and nineteen smaller craft , at a total cost of $ 81,149.09 . There was realized during the same period from the sale of condemned and unserviceable means of water transportation the sum of $ 6,141.17 . There was ...
... four 90 - foot launches and nineteen smaller craft , at a total cost of $ 81,149.09 . There was realized during the same period from the sale of condemned and unserviceable means of water transportation the sum of $ 6,141.17 . There was ...
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... Four hundred and fifteen claims were on hand at the beginning of the fiscal year and 70 received during the fiscal year , a total of 485. Of these , 66 were approved and payment authorized and 27 disallowed , a total of 93 , leaving on ...
... Four hundred and fifteen claims were on hand at the beginning of the fiscal year and 70 received during the fiscal year , a total of 485. Of these , 66 were approved and payment authorized and 27 disallowed , a total of 93 , leaving on ...
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Page 214 - Declaration, such denunciation shall not take effect until a year after the notification made in writing to the Netherlands Government, and by it forthwith communicated to all the other Contracting Powers. This denunciation shall only affect the notifying Power.
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Page 264 - ... arms, cartridges, projectiles, fuses, explosives, torpedoes, armor plates, and other implements and engines of war, and to purchase or cause to be manufactured, under authority of the Secretary of War, such guns, carriages, armor plates, and other war material as may, in the judgment of the board, be necessary in the proper discharge of the duty devolved upon it by the Act approved September twenty-second, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight...
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Page 264 - Fortification, fifty thousand dollars, the expenditure of which shall be made by the several bureaus of the War Department heretofore having jurisdiction of the...
Page 264 - That before any money shall be expended in the construction or test of any gun, gun carriage, ammunition, or implements under the supervision of the said board, the board shall be satisfied, after due inquiry, that the Government of the United States has a lawful right to use the inventions involved in the construction of such gun, gun carriage, ammunition, or implements, or that the construction or test is made at the request of a person either having such lawful right or authorized to convey the...
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Page 105 - ... the hygiene of the post or command to which he is attached, and the recommendation of such measures as he may deem necessary to prevent or diminish disease among troops.
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