Congressional Serial Set, Issue 4275Reports, Documents, and Journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. |
What people are saying - Write a review
Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when it's identified
LibraryThing Review
User Review - PhilSyphe - LibraryThingI'm reviewing the short story of 'The Valley of the Worm' and not a collection by that name. Howard presents another of his reincarnation tales, this time his main character recalls a previous life ... Read full review
POINT TO POINT NAVIGATION: A Memoir
User Review - KirkusIn this successor to the first volume of his memoir, Palimpsest (1995), prolific novelist/essayist/gadfly Vidal mixes mournful minor keys among his usual trumpet blasts against what he regards as an ... Read full review
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
American amount appointed Army assistant August authorized band board of health bridges buildings Calle Capt Captain carried casualties Cavalry charge chief city of Manila civil collected commanding commissary commission Company condition construction Corps cost courts detachment disease district division duty engineer established fire fiscal force Fourth funds furnished governor headquarters hospital houses Inclosure Infantry inspection insurgents islands issued July June 30 killed license Lieut Lieutenant Luzon Major Manila March material ment meters miles military month municipal native necessary Northern officers organized period person Philippine places police present prisoners Private property province provost provost-marshal-general quarters ration received records regulate repair respectfully rifles River road scouts Second stations Stone streets submitted supply Third Transferred troops United Volunteers wounded
Popular passages
Page 78 - This city, Its Inhabitants, Its churches and religious worship, Its educational establishments and Its private property of all descriptions, are placed under the special safeguard of the faith and honor of the American army.
Page 135 - ... provide for the collection of a direct annual tax to pay, and sufficient to pay the interest on such debt as it falls due, and also to pay and discharge the principal of such debt within eighteen years from the time of the contracting thereof.
Page 171 - Secretary of the Board of Health of the Department of Health of the City of New York...
Page 142 - ... and shall have such other powers and perform such other duties as may be prescribed by the board of directors or by the bylaws.
Page 133 - President in such sum, and with such sureties, as shall be approved by the Executive Committee.
Page 78 - The government established among you by the United States is a government of military occupation; and for the present it is ordered that the municipal laws such as affect private rights of persons and property, regulate local institutions, and provide for the punishment of crime, shall be considered as continuing in force, so far as compatible with the purposes of military government, and that they be administered through the ordinary tribunals substantially as before occupation, but by officials...
Page 105 - All churches and buildings devoted to religious worship and to the arts and sciences, all schoolhouses, are, so far as possible, to be protected, and all destruction or intentional defacement of such places, of historical monuments or archives, or of works of science or art, is prohibited, save when required by urgent military necessity.
Page 121 - And be it further enacted, That it -shall be the duty of each officer, assigned as aforesaid, to protect all persons in their rights of person and property, to suppress insurrection, disorder and violence, and to punish, or cause to be punished, all disturbers of the public peace and criminals...
Page 104 - ... not to make war upon the inhabitants of Cuba, nor upon any party or faction among them, but to protect them in their homes, in their employments, and in their personal and religious rights.
Page 128 - ... to devote their attention in the first instance to the establishment of municipal governments in which the natives of the islands, both in the cities and in the rural communities, shall be afforded the opportunity to manage their own local affairs to the fullest extent of which they are capable, and subject to the least degree of supervision and control which a careful study of their capacities and observation of the workings of native control show to be consistent with the maintenance of law,...