Hearing on Army Appropriation Bill for Fiscal Year 1908-9U.S. Government Printing Office, 1908 - 262 pages |
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ALESHIRE allotment amount appropriation asked barracks and quarters batteries BELL bill buildings CAPRON cavalry CHAIRMAN clerks Coast Artillery committee CONGRESS THE LIBRARY construction contract cost CROZIER Cuba depots Dept duty employees engineers enlisted equipment Established expenses extra-duty pay field artillery fiscal year 1907 forage Fort Leavenworth Fort Monroe Fort Riley Fort Sam Houston Fort Yellowstone funds garrison Government guns heating horses Hospital Corps increase infantry land grant Leavenworth lieutenants Major WINSLOW maneuvers ment military posts militia Minn MURRAY National Guard noncommissioned officers noncommissioned staff officers number of officers O'REILLY OLIVER Pacific Philippine Islands Philippine Scouts Philippines Division Plumb post exchange PRINCE purchase Quartermaster Quartermaster's Department recruits Regular Army regular supplies repairs schools Secretary of War Secretary TAFT SHARPE Signal Corps SLAYDEN stable stations STEVENS storehouse tion Total transportation troops United War Department Washington Barracks WHIPPLE
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