Annual Report of the Quartermaster-General of the Army to the Secretary of War for the Fiscal Year Ended ...C. Alexander, 1897 Provides information on the activities and accomplishments of the Quartermaster's Dept. regarding fiscal matters, transportation, clothing, equipment and other supplies of the Army; also discusses the maintenance of supplies and national military cemeteries. |
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Page 68 - For expenses of burying in the Arlington National Cemetery, or in the cemeteries of the District of Columbia...
Page 6 - Army with military stores and .supplies requisite for its use, such as clothing and equipage, tents, band instruments, tableware and mess furniture,- equipments for post bakeries, fuel, forage, stationery, lumber, .straw for bedding for men and animals, all materials for camp and for shelter for troops and stores, furniture for barracks, such as bunks, benches, chairs, tables, lockers, heating and cooking stoves for use in public barracks and quarters, tools for mechanics and laborers in the Quartermaster's...
Page 9 - MILITARY POSTS. For the construction of buildings at and the enlargement of such military posts as in the judgment of the Secretary of War may be necessary...
Page 6 - Department, furniture, text-books, papers, and equipment for post schools, reading matter for post libraries, wagons, ambulances, carts, saddles, harness, water supply, sewerage, plumbing, illuminating supplies, and heating for all military posts and buildings. The Department is also charged with the duty of transporting, by land and water, troops, munitions of war, equipments, and all articles of military supplies from the place of purchase to the several armies, garrisons, posts, and recruiting...
Page 7 - ... outer clothing, to cost not exceeding $10, to be issued upon release from confinement to each prisoner who has been confined under a court-martial sentence involving dishonorable discharge...
Page 26 - Militia, at regulation prices for cash at place of sale, such stores and supplies from any department of the Army as, in the opinion of the Secretary of War, can be spared.
Page 58 - For construction of quarters for hospital stewards at military posts already established and occupied, including the extra-duty pay of enlisted men employed on the same, seven thousand dollars.
Page 57 - Construction and repairs of hospitals. — For construction and repair of hospitals at military posts already established and occupied, Including the extraduty pay of enlisted men employed on the same, and including also all expenditures for construction and repairs required at the Army and Navy Hospital at Hot Springs, Arkansas, and for the construction and repair of general hospitals and expenses incident thereto...
Page 27 - ... has decreed to the War Department an award on the flags and uniforms exhibited by the Quartermaster's Department. Under the joint resolution of Congress approved January 26, 1877, 200 old-pattern woolen blankets have been issued to the superintendent of the Reform School of the District of Columbia. The attention of this office having been called to the fact that the forage-cap covers heretofore supplied were seldom, if ever, required by the enlisted men, the opinions of a...
Page 13 - SIR: I have the honor to submit a report of the operations of the Weather Bureau during the fiscal year that ended June 30, 1906.