Annual Reports of the War Department

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1903

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Page 49 - ... the officers and enlisted men of such militia while so engaged shall be entitled to the same pay, subsistence, and transportation or travel allowances as officers and enlisted men of corresponding grades of the Regular Army are or may hereafter be entitled by law...
Page 259 - For purchase and repair of instruments, to be issued to officers of the Corps of Engineers and to officers detailed and on duty as acting engineer officers, for use on public works and surveys...
Page 112 - Report on the Origin and Spread of Typhoid Fever in the United States Military Camps during the Spanish War of 1898, by Dr.
Page 298 - District of Columbia, out of the annual appropriation provided by section sixteen hundred and sixtyone of the Revised Statutes, as amended, or requiring payment therefor, and to exchange, without receiving any money credit therefor, ammunition, or parts thereof, suitable to the new arms, round for round, for corresponding ammunition suitable to the old arms...
Page 275 - SIR : I have the honor to submit the following report of the principal operations of the Ordnance Department during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1897, with such remarks and recommendations as the interests of this branch of the military service seem to require.
Page 298 - Army, and they shall be receipted for and shall remain the property of the United States, and be annually accounted for by the governors of the States and Territories...
Page 374 - That before any money shall be expended in the construction or test of any gun, gun carriage, ammunition, or implements under the supervision of the said Board, the Board shall be satisfied, after due inquiry, that the Government of the United States has a lawful right to use the inventions involved in the...
Page 244 - THE BOARD OF ENGINEERS. The regulations for the government of the Corps of Engineers provide for a board of engineers, consisting of not less than three officers designated by the Chief of Engineers, with the sanction of the Secretary of War. This board acts in an advisory capacity to the Chjef of Engineers upon important questions of engineering.
Page 50 - That the command of such military post or camp and of the officers and troops of the United States there stationed shall remain with the regular commander of the post without regard to the rank of the commanding or other officers of the militia temporarily so encamped within its limits or in its vicinity.
Page 48 - April, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, from which date war with Spain is declared to have existed, and the eighth day of July, nineteen hundred and one, inclusive, the date on which the last organization of the Volunteer Army was mustered out of the service of the United States, to allow such credits for payments and for losses of funds, vouchers, and property as may be recommended under authority of the Secretary of War by the heads of the military bureaus to which such accounts respectively...

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