Congressional Serial Set, Issue 2709U.S. Government Printing Office, 1890 - United States |
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1st Session accompany H. R. amendment amount Army bill granting bill H. R. Board captain Chilton Manufacturing claimant Classified statement Colonel ABBOT Commissioner Committee on Invalid Committee on Pensions Company Condensed milk contract cost Court of Claims death Department diarrhea disability Disbursements discharged disease duty enlisted examined filed following REPORT Government granting a pension granting an increase guns hereto HOUSE REPORT Immigrant Fund increase of pension Indian Invalid Pensions John July July 15 July 31 June 23 June 30 Koster & Bial labor manufacture March Metropolitan Telephone military month mortar Name of payee Nature of expenditures Navy Ordnance party pass Pension Office printed recommend the passage referred the bill Regiment relief Repairs Sandy Hook SCHOFIELD Secretary Senator DAWES Senator PLUMB Sept soldier submitted the following surgeon testifies tion Treasury United Volunteers widow William wound
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Page 8 - All claims founded upon the Constitution of the United States or any law of Congress, except for pensions, or upon any regulation of an Executive Department, or upon any contract, express or implied, with the Government of the United States...
Page 5 - By the ist section of that act it was provided that "eight hours shall constitute a day's work for all laborers, workmen, mechanics, or other persons now employed, or who may hereafter be employed by or on behalf of the state of Kansas, or by or on behalf of any county, city, township, or other municipality of said state...
Page 12 - ... as to render them unable to earn a support, shall, upon making due proof of the fact according to such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may provide, be placed upon the list of invalid pensioners...
Page 4 - That every person who served ninety days or more in the Army, Navy, or Marine Corps of the United States during the Civil War, and who has been honorably discharged from all contracts of service, or who, having so served less than ninety days was discharged for a disability incurred in the service and in the line of duty...
Page 8 - Court, where the same are affirmed in favor of the claimant, the sum due thereby shall be paid out of any general appropriation made by law for the payment and satisfaction of private claims, on presentation to the secretary of the treasury of a copy of said judgment...
Page 5 - States, and there take, steal or destroy any horse, horses, or other property, belonging to any citizen or inhabitant of the United States, or of either of the territorial districts of the United States...
Page 13 - That persons who are now receiving pensions under existing laws, or whose claims are pending in the Pension Office, may, by application to the Commissioner of Pensions, in such form as he may prescribe, showing themselves entitled thereto, receive the benefits of this act...
Page 13 - That if any officer or enlisted man who served ninety days or more in the army or navy of the United States during the late war of the rebellion.
Page ci - ... shall be appointed for one year, one for two years, one for three years, one for four years, and one for five years.
Page 105 - States, in any court having jurisdiction of such proceedings, for the acquirement, by condemnation, of any land, or right pertaining thereto, needed for the site, location, construction, or prosecution of works for fortifications and coast defenses, such proceedings to be prosecuted in accordance with the laws relating to suits for the condemnation of property of the States wherein the proceedings may be instituted...