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14 Number air in Fahrenheit annual report Ariz Army Assistant Quartermaster atmospheric pressure Barracks brevet camp Capt Cavalry coal actually consumed coal consumed coal from atmospheric coal Number coal withdrawn combustible consumed combustible in coal command companies consumed per hour Department of Dakota depot Dept dist Duration of trial duty ending June 30 enlisted evaporated per hour evaporated per pound Fahrenheit deg fiscal year ending foot of grate Fort Brown Fort Keogh Fort Leavenworth grate surface hour per square Indians Infantry July June 30 Kans Leavenworth Lieut Mean barometer Number of pounds Percentage of combustible pounds of coal pounds of combustible pounds of refuse pounds of water pressure and 212 quartermaster Quartermaster-General Quartermaster's Department Regiment room in Fahrenheit Secretary of War square foot supplied to grate Temperature in boiler Temperature of external Temperature of feed troops water evaporated water in Fahrenheit withdrawn after trial
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Page 236 - No person shall be tried a second time for the same offense. ART. 103. No person shall be liable to be tried and punished by a general court-martial for any offense which appears to have been committed more than two years before the issuing of the order for such trial, unless, by reason of having absented himself, or of some other manifest impediment, he shall not have been amenable to justice within that period.
Page 339 - State shall be subject to the disposal of the legislature thereof, for the purposes aforesaid and no other; and the said railroad and branches shall be and remain a public highway, for the use of the government of the United States, free from toll or other charge upon the transportation of any property or troops of the United States.
Page 349 - ... expenses of expresses to and from the frontier posts and armies in the field ; of escorts to. paymasters and other disbursing officers, and to trains where military...
Page 238 - ... if the language of the section defining the offense is so entirely separable from the exception that the ingredients constituting the offense may be accurately and clearly defined without any reference to the exception, the pleader may safely omit any such reference, as the matter contained in the exception is matter of defense and must be shown by the accused.
Page 340 - Provided, That such compensation shall be computed upon the basis of the tariff or lower special rates for like transportation performed for the public at large, and shall be accepted as in full for all demands for such service...
Page 236 - Every soldier who deserts the service of the United States shall be liable to serve for such period as shall, with the time he may have served previous to his desertion, amount to the full term of his enlistment ; and such soldier shall be tried by a court-martial and punished, although the term of his enlistment may have elapsed previous to his being apprehended and tried.
Page 463 - Kiver and its tributaries caused the overflow of a large section of country, embracing parts of Kentucky, Tennessee, Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana, causing great destitution and suffering. Immediate relief was asked, and Congress, by joint resolutions approved February 25, March 21, and April 1, 1882, appropriated an aggregate of $350,000 to be used by the Secretary of War in the purchase and distribution of subsistence stores for the relief of the sufferers. The urst joint...
Page 340 - ... for the payment of army transp'ortation lawfully due such land-grant railroads as have not received aid in Government bonds (to be adjusted in accordance with the decisions of the Supreme Court in cases decided under such landgrant acts...
Page 192 - ... navigation. We have, therefore, the Honor to call the attention of the Honorable Secretary of War to the fact that in the Hudson River, opposite...
Page 452 - Grande frontier; but no part, of this appropriation shall be expended until the provisions of section three hundred and fifty-five of the Revised Statutes have been fully complied with.