Compilation of Laws (revised Statutes and Statutes at Large) Relating to the Quartermaster CorpsU.S. Government Printing Office, 1914 - 199 pages |
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... allowance of such a claim , the ascertainment of the amount due , and the issuing of a warrant for the payment thereof . Such transfers , assignments , and powers of attorney must recite the warrant for pay- ment , and must be ...
... allowance of such a claim , the ascertainment of the amount due , and the issuing of a warrant for the payment thereof . Such transfers , assignments , and powers of attorney must recite the warrant for pay- ment , and must be ...
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... allowances within the jurisdiction of the Auditor for the War Department or the Auditor for the Navy Department , presented and filed hereafter in which it is the present practice to make deductions of attorney's fees from the amount ...
... allowances within the jurisdiction of the Auditor for the War Department or the Auditor for the Navy Department , presented and filed hereafter in which it is the present practice to make deductions of attorney's fees from the amount ...
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... allowances authorized by the laws of the State or Territory for the grade in which he was accepted into the Volunteer Army of the United States . That the compensation allowed by the laws of the States and Territories to officers and ...
... allowances authorized by the laws of the State or Territory for the grade in which he was accepted into the Volunteer Army of the United States . That the compensation allowed by the laws of the States and Territories to officers and ...
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... ALLOWANCES TO CONGRESS . 74. The Secretary of the Treasury shall , at the commencement of each session of Congress , report the amount due each claimant whose claim has been allowed in whole or in part to the Speaker of the House of ...
... ALLOWANCES TO CONGRESS . 74. The Secretary of the Treasury shall , at the commencement of each session of Congress , report the amount due each claimant whose claim has been allowed in whole or in part to the Speaker of the House of ...
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... allowance of any claim or of any part of any claim against the United States shall , ipso facto , forfeit the same to the Government ; and it shall be the duty of the Court of Claims , in such cases , to find specifically that such ...
... allowance of any claim or of any part of any claim against the United States shall , ipso facto , forfeit the same to the Government ; and it shall be the duty of the Court of Claims , in such cases , to find specifically that such ...
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28 Stat 34 Stat Act of Mar amount annual appropriation appointed appropriation acts approved Attorney auditor authorized by law bond bureau certificate charged chief claimant clerks commissioned officers compensation Comptroller Confederate contract Court of Claims deposited detailed disbursing officer discharge District of Columbia dollars per month duty eighteen hundred employee entitled exceed executive departments expenses fiscal furnished grade hereafter hereby authorized horses hundred dollars ibid imprisoned July July 31 June June 12 June 25 June 30 jurisdiction laborers lieutenant ment national cemetery Navy nineteen hundred officers and enlisted Organized Militia paid pay and allowances paymasters payment person prescribed President Provided further public money purchase purpose Quartermaster Corps Quartermaster's Department rank receipt receive regimental Regular Army regulations Revised Statutes Secretary of War sergeants soldiers subsistence supplies surety Territory thereof thousand dollars transportation Treasury troops Volunteer vouchers War Department
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Page 27 - If two or more persons conspire either to commit any offense against the United States, or to defraud the United States in any manner or for any purpose, and one or more of such parties do any act to effect the object of the conspiracy, each of the parties to such conspiracy shall be fined not more than ten thousand dollars, or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.
Page 12 - All transfers and assignments made of any claim upon the United States, or of any part or share thereof, or interest therein, whether absolute or conditional, and whatever may be the consideration therefor, and all powers of attorney, orders, or other authorities for receiving payment of any such claim, or of any part or share thereof, shall be absolutely null and void, unless they are freely made and executed in the presence of at least two attesting witnesses, after the allowance of such a claim,...
Page 130 - The head of each department is authorized to prescribe regulations, not inconsistent with law, for the government of his department, the conduct of its officers and clerks, the distribution and performance of its business, and the custody, use. and preservation of the records, papers, and property appertaining to it.
Page 30 - No contract or purchase on behalf of the United States shall be made unless the same is authorized by law or is under an appropriation adequate to its fulfillment, except in the War and Navy Departments, for clothing, subsistence, forage, fuel, quarters, or transportation, which, however, shall not exceed the necessities of the current year.
Page 46 - No officer in any branch of the public service, or any other person whose salary, pay, or emoluments are fixed by law or regulations, shall receive any additional pay, extra allowance, or compensation in any form whatever for the disbursement of public money, or for any other service or duty whatever, unless the same is authorized by law, and the appropriation therefor explicitly states that it is for such additional pay, extra allowance, or compensation...
Page 22 - Every claim against the United States cognizable by the Court of Claims, shall be forever barred unless the petition setting forth a statement thereof is filed in the court, or transmitted to it by the Secretary of the Senate or the Clerk of the House of Representatives, as provided by law, within six years after the claim first accrues...
Page 10 - ... shall have a right of action, and shall be, and are hereby, authorized to bring suit in the name of the United States in the circuit court of the United States in the district in which said contract was to be performed and executed, irrespective of the amount in controversy in such suit, and not elsewhere, for his or their use and benefit, against said contractor and his sureties, and to prosecute the same to final judgment and execution...
Page 93 - No allowance or compensation shall be made to any officer or clerk, by reason of the discharge of duties which belong to any other officer or clerk in the same or any other Department ; and no allowance or compensation shall be made for any extra services whatever, which any officer or clerk may be required to perform, unless expressly authorized by law.
Page 22 - Aliens who are citizens or subjects of any government which accords to citizens of the United States the right to prosecute claims against such government in its courts, shall have the privilege of prosecuting claims against the United States in the Court of Claims, whereof such court, by reason of their subject matter and character, might take jurisdiction.
Page 34 - It shall be the duty of the Secretary of War, of the Secretary of the Navy, and of the Secretary of the Interior to cause and require every contract made by them severally on behalf of the government, or by their officers under them appointed to make such contracts, to be reduced to writing, and signed by the contracting parties with their names at the end thereof...