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... officers to form a court - martial ; and in no part of the empire , ex- cept Botany Bay , or the slave coast , was so small a number of officers required to compose a court - martial , as in Ireland . The impolicy of continuing martial ...
... officers to form a court - martial ; and in no part of the empire , ex- cept Botany Bay , or the slave coast , was so small a number of officers required to compose a court - martial , as in Ireland . The impolicy of continuing martial ...
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... officers not having made their returns at the time appointed by law . Many of them were prevented from making the re- turns , for want of the arms being distributed , which made it impossi- ble to certify that the members of their ...
... officers not having made their returns at the time appointed by law . Many of them were prevented from making the re- turns , for want of the arms being distributed , which made it impossi- ble to certify that the members of their ...
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... officers , but the exercise of this power , in filling up vacancies which might afterwards occur , would be highly dangerous , and was not re- cognized by any act . It should now therefore be clearly understood , that the volunteers had ...
... officers , but the exercise of this power , in filling up vacancies which might afterwards occur , would be highly dangerous , and was not re- cognized by any act . It should now therefore be clearly understood , that the volunteers had ...
Page 144
... officers by a popular election , was contrary to every idea of military discipline ; and although it might be admitted , in the first instance , yet it could not be continued after the corps were regularly formed as military bodies ...
... officers by a popular election , was contrary to every idea of military discipline ; and although it might be admitted , in the first instance , yet it could not be continued after the corps were regularly formed as military bodies ...
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... officers ; secondly , in the power of the committees ; and thirdly , as to the right of resigna- tion . As to the committees , it was to be clearly understood , that they must not at all interfere in any part of the military regulation ...
... officers ; secondly , in the power of the committees ; and thirdly , as to the right of resigna- tion . As to the committees , it was to be clearly understood , that they must not at all interfere in any part of the military regulation ...
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Page 104 - ... GENERAL LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN. THE Hagerman Collection HISTORY AND POLITICAL SCIENCE JAMES J. HAGERMAN OF CLASS OF '61 IN THE HANDS OF Professor Charles Kendall Adams. 1883. HA' ) = ..R887 JOURNAL STATISTICAL SOCIETY OP LONDON.
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