Appendix to the Military Laws of the United States: Containing the Legislation Affecting the Military Establishment Enacted Subsequent to March 4, 1897, and Including May 18, 1898 |
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29 Stat according to seniority act of April advice and consent aids-de-camp authorized anno Domini appointed April 22 army corps ARMY-THE assistant adjutant-general authorized by law battalion battery brevet brigade Cavalry CHAPTER Chief Signal Officer clerk or employee colonel command commissioned officers companies Congress copies of Manual Cuba discretion Drill Regulations eighteen hundred engineer entitled Executive Department field artillery Five hundred copies Government grade Hereafter hereby authorized House of Representatives hundred and ninety-eight ibid Indian country Indian Territory Infantry Drill Island of Cuba Kingdom of Spain land and naval March 15 ment military establishment Military Laws militia misdemeanor musicians NATIONAL HOME organized pay and allowances person Provided further purchase purposes quartermaster regiment Regular Army returns and muster second lieutenants Secretary Secretary of War Section Senate sergeant stores and supplies Three thousand copies total enlisted Treasury troops United vacancy Volunteer Army volunteer forces volunteer signal corps YUKON RIVER
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Page 24 - Second. That it is the duty of the United States to demand, and the Government of the United States does hereby demand, that the Government of Spain at once relinquish its authority and government in the Island of Cuba and withdraw its land and naval forces from Cuba and Cuban waters.
Page 24 - Whereas the abhorrent conditions which have existed for more than three years in the island of Cuba, so near our own borders, have shocked the moral sense of the people of the United States...
Page 24 - ... three years in the Island of Cuba, so near our own borders, have shocked the moral sense of the people of the United States, have been a disgrace to Christian civilization, culminating, as they have, in the destruction of a United States battle ship, with two hundred and sixty-six of its officers and crew, while on a friendly visit in the harbor of Havana...
Page 20 - ... any essence, extract, bitters, preparation, compound, composition, or any article whatsoever, under any name, label, or brand, which produces intoxication, to any Indian to whom allotment of land has been made while the title to the same shall be held in trust by the Government...
Page 8 - 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 24 - That the United States hereby disclaims any disposition or intention to exercise sovereignty, jurisdiction, or control over said island except for the pacification thereof, and asserts its determination when that is accomplished to leave the government and control of the island to its people.
Page 3 - Departments, in the interest of the public service, to require of all clerks and other employees, of whatever grade or class in their respective departments, not less than seven hours of labor each day, except Sundays and days declared public holidays by law or executive order...
Page 5 - Whereas, for the reasons thus recited, it was enacted by the said statute that all able-bodied male citizens of the United States, and persons of foreign birth who shall have declared on oath their intention to become citizens under and in pursuance of the laws thereof, between the ages of twenty and...
Page 20 - Indian country, which term shall include any Indian allotment while the title to the same shall be held in trust by the Government, or while the same shall remain inalienable by the allottee without the consent of the United States...
Page 3 - That hereafter it shall be the duty of the heads of the several Executive Departments, in the interest of the public service, to require of all clerks and other employees, of whatever grade or class, in their respective departments not less than seven hours of labor each day...