Hearings Before Subcommittee of House Committee on Appropriations in Charge of Deficiency Appropriations for 1900 and Prior Years on Urgent DeficienciesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1900 - 132 pages |
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1st of July 20 per cent additional amount approved April 11 Army Assistant Postmaster-General authority balance BARNEY BATES BEAVERS BUFFINGTON building Bureau CAINDRY CALLOWAY Captain BEACH Captain PERRY cent increase CHAIRMAN clerks Colonel CLAY Colonel RAYMOND Committee on Appropriations Comptroller CONGRESS THE LIBRARY contract cost Cuba DASKAM deficiency appropriation deficiency bill deficiency estimate dollars enlisted exhibit expenditure expenses extra pay extra-duty pay force Fort Leavenworth fund Government GREELY January JOHNSON labor letter LIBRARY OF CONGRESS LIVINGSTON LUDINGTON MACHEN Major STRONG necessary Observatory Ordnance stores paid Paymaster-General PECK penitentiary Philippines present priation prison Puerto Rico question REDWAY regular rent repairs request respectfully ROBERTS rural free delivery salaries SCOFIELD Secretary SHALLENBERGER six months statement submit subsistence TAYLOR thing tion transportation Treasury notes troops United Universal Postal Union urgent VAN VOORHIS VOORHIS War Department Washington WESTON WILSON
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Page 46 - ... barges; wear, tear, and repair of vessels afloat; general care, increase, and protection of the Navy in the line of construction and repair; incidental expenses for vessels and navy-yards, inspectors...
Page 46 - ... wear, tear, and repair of vessels a-float; general care, increase, and protection of the Navy in the line of construction and repair...
Page 102 - No executive department or other Government establishment of the United States shall expend, In any one fiscal year, any sum in excess of appropriations made by Congress for that fiscal year, or involve the Government in any contract or other obligation for the future payment of money in excess of such appropriations unless such contract or obligation is authorized by law.
Page 47 - Provided, That no part of this sum shall be applied to the repair of any wooden ship when the estimated cost of such repairs, to be appraised by a competent board of naval officers, shall exceed ten per centum of the estimated cost, appraised in like manner, of a new ship of the same size and like material...
Page 23 - May 76', 1898. I. The following order of the Secretary of War is published for the information and guidance of all concerned: Tenders of resignation by volunteer officers in the United States service to receive attention must be submitted in writing, through the proper channel, to the Adjutant-General of the Army, for the consideration and action of the Secretary of War, or the President.
Page 28 - For the purchase of horses for the cavalry and artillery, and for the Indian scouts, and for such infantry...
Page 73 - Contingent expenses of land offices: For clerk hire, rent and other incidental expenses of the district land offices, including the expenses of depositing public...
Page 33 - The United States will, upon the signature of the present treaty, send back to Spain, at its own cost, the Spanish soldiers taken as prisoners of war on the capture of Manila by the American forces.
Page 17 - That in time of war every officer serving with troops operating against an enemy who shall exercise, under assignment in orders issued by competent authority, a command above that pertaining to his grade, shall be entitled to receive the pay and allowances of the grade appropriate to the command so exercised...
Page 46 - Construction and repair of vessels: For preservation and completion of vessels on the stocks and in ordinary...