REPORTS OF THE COMMITTEES OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES FOR THE FIRST SESSION OF THE FORTY-THIRD CONGRESS |
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... duty performed , hardships , and exposure . Patrick Flynn , late major of the same regiment , says in his affidavit that he is well acquainted with the claimant , and swears positively of his own personal knowledge that the wounds and ...
... duty performed , hardships , and exposure . Patrick Flynn , late major of the same regiment , says in his affidavit that he is well acquainted with the claimant , and swears positively of his own personal knowledge that the wounds and ...
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... duty , or by a cause occurring at the time he was engaged in the line of duty , recommend the passage of the bill . 1st Session . JENNET H. NISBET . No. 277 . 2 LUCINDA JONES .
... duty , or by a cause occurring at the time he was engaged in the line of duty , recommend the passage of the bill . 1st Session . JENNET H. NISBET . No. 277 . 2 LUCINDA JONES .
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... duty , 1815 - '17 ; in garrison at New York Harbor , 1817-19 ; on coast survey , 1819-20 ; on recruiting service , 1820 ; in garrison at Fort Gadsden , Florida , 1820-21 , and Baton Rouge , La . , 1821-225 ; in Creek Nation , 1825-26 ...
... duty , 1815 - '17 ; in garrison at New York Harbor , 1817-19 ; on coast survey , 1819-20 ; on recruiting service , 1820 ; in garrison at Fort Gadsden , Florida , 1820-21 , and Baton Rouge , La . , 1821-225 ; in Creek Nation , 1825-26 ...
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... duty , April 18 to August 19 , 1861 ; superintendent of general - recruiting service at Fort Columbus , New York , August 19 , 1861 , to August 10 , 1864 ; on court - martial duty , 1864 , to June , 1869 ; unemployed to March 5 , 1872 ...
... duty , April 18 to August 19 , 1861 ; superintendent of general - recruiting service at Fort Columbus , New York , August 19 , 1861 , to August 10 , 1864 ; on court - martial duty , 1864 , to June , 1869 ; unemployed to March 5 , 1872 ...
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... duty at Fort Spelling , Minn . , 1849–50 , and Fort Laramie , Dak . , 1850 ; superintendent general recruiting service October 1 , 1850 , to July 15 , 1851 ; on frontier duty at Fort Belknap , Texas , 1852–53 ; Fort McIntosh , Texas ...
... duty at Fort Spelling , Minn . , 1849–50 , and Fort Laramie , Dak . , 1850 ; superintendent general recruiting service October 1 , 1850 , to July 15 , 1851 ; on frontier duty at Fort Belknap , Texas , 1852–53 ; Fort McIntosh , Texas ...
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1st Session accompany bill H. R. acting assistant surgeon Adjutant-General agent ALBRIGHT amount Answer April Army arsenal artillery Bureau Camp cavalry cent CHAIRMAN City claimant clerks command Commissioner Committee on Claims Committee on Invalid company infantry Congress cost Department of Dakota duty employed employés engineers expense following REPORT force Fort Sill frontier Garrison Government grant GUNCKEL guns Harbor House and ordered hundred Indians infantry Invalid Pensions Iowa January JOHN COBURN July labor Land-Office lands lieutenant March MARCH 27 MCDOWELL ment miles Missouri Missouri River Moines River officers opinion ordnance paid paymaster Paymaster-General payment posts present quartermaster Quartermaster's Department Question Raccoon Fork reduced referred regiment reservation respectfully Secretary BELKNAP Secretary of War SHERMAN Sioux soldiers station submitted the following Territory tion Treasury treaty tribes troops Union Pacific Railroad United United States Army vessels War Department Washington Whole House
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Page 4 - But in case it shall appear that the United States have, when the lines or routes of said roads are definitely fixed, sold any sections, or any parts thereof, granted as aforesaid, or that the right of pre-emption has attached to the same, then it shall be lawful for any agent or agents to be appointed by the governor of said State to select...
Page 343 - No advertisement, notice, or proposal for any Executive Department of the Government, or for any bureau thereof, or for any office therewith connected, shall be published in any newspaper whatever, except in pursuance of a written authority for such publication from the head of such Department ; and no bill for any such advertising, or publication, shall be paid, unless there be presented, with such bill, a copy of such written authority.
Page 415 - East by a line to be drawn along the middle of the river St Croix, from its mouth in the bay of fundy to its source, and from its source directly north to the aforesaid highlands which divide the rivers that fall into the Atlantic ocean from those which fall into the river St Lawrence...
Page 4 - That any and all lands heretofore reserved to the United States by any act of Congress, or in any other manner by competent authority, for the purpose of aiding in any object of internal improvement, or for any other purpose whatsoever, be, and the same are hereby reserved to the United States from the operation of this act...
Page 4 - State only in manner following : that is to say, that a quantity of land not exceeding one hundred and twenty sections for each of said roads, and included within a continuous length of twenty miles of each of said roads...
Page 4 - ... every alternate section of land, designated by odd numbers, for six sections in width on each side of said roads.