Annual Reports of the Secretary of War, Volume 2

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Page 235 - 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, fuzes, 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...
Page 128 - APPARENTLY CURED. All constitutional symptoms and expectoration with bacilli absent for a period of three months ; the physical signs to be those of a healed lesion. CURED. All constitutional symptoms and expectoration witli bacilli absent for a period of two years under ordinary conditions of life.
Page 128 - Slight or no constitutional symptoms (including particularly gastric or intestinal disturbances, or rapid loss of weight) ; slight or no elevation of temperature or acceleration of pulse at any time during the twenty-four hours. Expectoration usually small in amount or absent. Tubercle bacilli may be present or absent.
Page 236 - Fortification, five thousand dollars, the expenditure of which shall be made by the several bureaus of the War Department heretofore having jurisdiction of the same, or by the Board itself, as the Secretary of War may direct...
Page 178 - ... page 353 of Official Records, in said county recorder's office ; thence due south to a point in the Pacific Ocean three nautical miles from said ordinary high water mark; thence in a general westerly direction, parallel with the ordinary high water mark of the Pacific Ocean to a point due south from the point of beginning...
Page 118 - I have the honor to transmit herewith draft of a bill to increase the efficiency of the Medical Department of the Army.
Page 128 - Slight Initial lesion in the form of infiltration limited to the apex or a small part of one lobe. No tuberculous complications. Slight or no constitutional symptoms (particularly including gastric or Intestinal...
Page 52 - To enable the Secretary of War, in his discretion, to cause to be transported to their homes the remains of officers and soldiers who die at military camps or who are killed in action, or who die in the field or hospital in Alaska, and at places outside of the limits of the United States, or who die while on voyage at sea, twentytwo thousand dollars.
Page 9 - SIR: I have the honor to submit the annual report of the operations of the Quartermaster's Department for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1900: FINANCIAL STATEMENT.
Page 235 - To enable the 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, and other implements and engines of war...

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