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Page 17 - The muffled drum's sad roll has beat The soldier's last tattoo; No more on Life's parade shall meet That brave and fallen few. On Fame's eternal camping ground Their silent tents are spread, And Glory guards, with solemn round, The bivouac of the dead.
Page 17 - It is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work that they have thus far so nobly carried on. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us...
Page 17 - SIR : I have the honor herewith to submit my annual report of the condition of Indian affairs within the Territory of New Mexico for the current year.
Page 66 - approved the eleventh day of June, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine, und fixing a time for closing of said schools and discharging orphans and children therein.
Page 66 - AN ACT to provide for the expenses required by an Act entitled " An Act to provide for the continuance of the education and maintenance of the destitute orphans of the deceased soldiers and sailors and the destitute children of permanently disabled soldiers and sailors of the State.
Page 65 - A further supplement to an act for the regulation and continuance of a system of education by common schools,' approved the eighth day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, approved the ninth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.
Page 66 - The second section of that act provided "that so much of the second section of an act entitled ' An act to regulate the pay of the navy of the United States...
Page 52 - ... the time of holding each examination must be made to include the day of visitation of the officers named below. Said officers will conduct the examinations, calling upon such persons to assist them as they may deem proper; and it is hereby directed that the examination of the lower classes be limited to some one branch of instruction, reserving most of the time for a more general examination of the higher classes, or classes containing pupils soon to leave the institutions. The reports of the...
Page 64 - ... in the sum of twenty thousand dollars, for the faithful performance of said duties by himself and his deputies.
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