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... discharge , it might be that a pathological connection could be presumed . It seems , however , that claimant's memory is badly impaired , and it is clear that the best evidence obtainable has already been supplied . Claimant has been ...
... discharge , it might be that a pathological connection could be presumed . It seems , however , that claimant's memory is badly impaired , and it is clear that the best evidence obtainable has already been supplied . Claimant has been ...
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... discharge of the obligation of the United States to those Indians , and that the States themselves should be in a no worse position when the United States used its lands to discharge its obligations than when the lands were sold for ...
... discharge of the obligation of the United States to those Indians , and that the States themselves should be in a no worse position when the United States used its lands to discharge its obligations than when the lands were sold for ...
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... discharge are also deceased . The only testimony filed by her is the testimony of Dr. Bagley to the effect that he attended the soldier in his last illness ; that he died of tuberculosis December 15 , 1879 ; that the beneficiary is the ...
... discharge are also deceased . The only testimony filed by her is the testimony of Dr. Bagley to the effect that he attended the soldier in his last illness ; that he died of tuberculosis December 15 , 1879 ; that the beneficiary is the ...
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... discharged October 1 , 1898. At the battle of Santiago de Cuba , July 2 , 1898 , he received a shell wound of mouth and was treated in hospi- tal for such wound from that date until the date of his discharge . The hospital records show ...
... discharged October 1 , 1898. At the battle of Santiago de Cuba , July 2 , 1898 , he received a shell wound of mouth and was treated in hospi- tal for such wound from that date until the date of his discharge . The hospital records show ...
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... discharged the service May 18 , 1866 , to date April 25 , 1866. He was appointed brevet brigadier - general , United ... discharge , and it is also shown in evidence that from about 1871 or 1872 he was troubled with disease of urinary ...
... discharged the service May 18 , 1866 , to date April 25 , 1866. He was appointed brevet brigadier - general , United ... discharge , and it is also shown in evidence that from about 1871 or 1872 he was troubled with disease of urinary ...
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$12 per month 1st Session accompany H. R. act of June alleged amended April April 30 Army August BARCUS beneficiary bill H. R. bill is recommended BODMER captain Cavalry CHAIRMAN Chickasaw claimant Clayton-Bulwer treaty Commissioners Committee on Claims Committee on Distribution Committee on Invalid Committee on Pensions Congress contract Department diarrhea disability discharge District of Columbia duty examined February filed following REPORT Government granting a pension granting an increase hereto appended House of Representatives HOUSE REPORT increase of pension Indians Invalid Pensions January July June 27 lands letter manual labor manufacturers March Messages and Papers military mustered officer paid passage Pension Bureau Philadelphia Commercial Museum President printed received records referred the bill regiment respectfully rheumatism RICHARDSON Secretary Secretary of War Senator ELKINS soldier SPOFFORD submitted the following surgeons testimony trade treaty United United States Army United States Senate War Department Washington widow
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Page 61 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.
Page 10 - ... there are public lands in a State subject to sale at private entry at one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre...
Page 6 - Philippine insurrection, his widow, if unmarried, or in case of her death or marriage, then his minor orphan children or his or their legal representatives, may...
Page 13 - Secretary aforesaid ; which certificates shall express the usual and legal obligations, and pledge the faith of the State, for the safe keeping and repayment thereof, and shall pledge the faith of the States receiving the same, to pay the said moneys, and every part thereof, from time to time, whenever the same shall be required, by the Secretary of the Treasury, for the purpose of defraying any wants of the public treasury, beyond the amount of the five millions aforesaid...
Page 5 - States by virtue of the third section of an act approved February thirteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and every seaman, marine, and officer who has served in the Navy of the United States or in the Marine Corps during the rebellion for ninety days, and who was honorably discharged and has remained loyal to the Government, and every private soldier and officer who has served in the Army of the United States during the Spanish war, or who has served, is serving, or shall...
Page 2 - That five per centum of the net proceeds of sales of all public lands lying within said State, which shall be sold by Congress after the admission of said State into the Union, after deducting all the expenses incident to the same, shall be paid to said State for the purpose of making public roads and internal improvements as the legislature shall direct...
Page 10 - State may be entitled under the provisions of this act, land scrip to the amount in acres for the deficiency of its distributive share: said scrip to be sold by said States and the proceeds thereof applied to the uses and purposes prescribed in this act, and for no other use or purpose whatsoever...
Page 5 - That all persons who have served in the United States Army, Navy, or Marine Corps during the war with Germany, the war with Spain, or in the suppression of the insurrection in the Philippines...
Page 3 - An act to settle certain accounts between the United States and the State of Alabama. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the Commissioner of the General Land Office be, and he is hereby required, to state an account between the United States and the State of Alabama...
Page 7 - ... respective offices, it shall be lawful for the President of the United States, in case he shall think it necessary, to authorize any person or persons, at his discretion, to perform the duties of the said respective offices until a successor be appointed, or until such absence or inability by sickness shall cease.