A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Volume 9Bureau of national literature, 1911 |
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Page 6161
... officers who are familiar with this system and its operation express the decided opinion that its results have been to vastly improve the char- acter of the work done at our yards and greatly reduce its cost . Discipline among the officers ...
... officers who are familiar with this system and its operation express the decided opinion that its results have been to vastly improve the char- acter of the work done at our yards and greatly reduce its cost . Discipline among the officers ...
Page 6259
... officers of other powers calls for the definition of their relations to the parties to the contest . Considered as a question of expediency , I regard the accordance of bellig- erent rights still to be as unwise and premature as I ...
... officers of other powers calls for the definition of their relations to the parties to the contest . Considered as a question of expediency , I regard the accordance of bellig- erent rights still to be as unwise and premature as I ...
Page 6269
United States. President. of war , and for an increased number of officers and enlisted men . Some additions are also necessary to our navy - yards , for the repair and care of our large number of vessels . As there are now on the stocks ...
United States. President. of war , and for an increased number of officers and enlisted men . Some additions are also necessary to our navy - yards , for the repair and care of our large number of vessels . As there are now on the stocks ...
Page 6270
... officers , under command of Lieutenant - Colonel Ran- dall , of the Eighth Infantry , has been sent to St. Michael to establish a military post . As it is to the interest of the Government to encourage the develop- ment and settlement ...
... officers , under command of Lieutenant - Colonel Ran- dall , of the Eighth Infantry , has been sent to St. Michael to establish a military post . As it is to the interest of the Government to encourage the develop- ment and settlement ...
Page 6273
... officers of the Army , and one from the medical officers of the Navy . The Union Pacific Railway , Main Line , was sold under the decree of the United States Court for the District of Nebraska , on the 1st and 2d of November of this ...
... officers of the Army , and one from the medical officers of the Navy . The Union Pacific Railway , Main Line , was sold under the decree of the United States Court for the District of Nebraska , on the 1st and 2d of November of this ...
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Page 6313 - Third, that the President of the United States be, and he hereby is, directed and empowered to use the entire land and naval forces of the United States, and to call into the actual service of the United States the militia of the several States to such extent as may be necessary to carry these resolutions into effect.
Page 6297 - Second, that it is the duty of the United States to demand, and the government of the United States does hereby demand, that the government of Spain at once relinquish its authority and government in the island of Cuba, and withdraw its land and naval forces from Cuba and Cuban waters.
Page 6196 - When two steam vessels are meeting end on, or nearly end on, so as to involve risk of collision, each shall alter her course to starboard, so that each may pass on the port side of the other.
Page 6195 - A sailing vessel under way shall sound, at intervals of not more than one minute, when on the starboard tack one blast, when on the port tack two blasts in succession, and when with the wind abaft the beam three blasts in succession.
Page 6196 - ... respective courses, pass clear of each other. The only cases to which it does apply are when each of the two vessels is end on, or nearly end on, to the other; in other words, to cases in which, by day, each vessel sees the masts of the other in a line, or nearly in a line, with her own ; and by night, to cases in which each vessel is in such a position as to see both the side-lights of the other. It does not apply by day to cases in which a vessel sees another ahead crossing her own course;...
Page 6191 - visible" in these rules when applied to lights shall mean visible on a dark night with a clear atmosphere. ARTICLE 1. The rules concerning lights shall be complied with in all •weathers from sunset to sunrise, and during such time no other lights which may be mistaken for the prescribed lights shall be exhibited.
Page 6192 - Whenever, as in the case of small vessels under way during bad weather, the green and red side lights can not be fixed, these lights shall be kept at hand, lighted and ready for use, and shall on the approach of or to other vessels be exhibited on their respective sides...
Page 6191 - In the following rules every steam vessel which is under sail and not under steam is to be considered a sailing vessel, and every vessel under steam, whether under sail or not, is to be considered a steam vessel. The words " steam vessel" shall include any vessel propelled by machinery. A vessel is
Page 6196 - Every vessel which is directed by these rules to keep out of the way of another vessel shall, if the circumstances of the case admit, avoid crossing ahead of the other.
Page 6197 - As by day the overtaking vessel can not always know with certainty whether she is forward of or abaft this direction from the other vessel, she should if in doubt assume that she is an overtaking vessel and keep out of the way.