Congressional Serial SetU.S. Government Printing Office, 1919 - United States Reports, Documents, and Journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. |
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... Provided further , That nothing herein contained shall deprive the Secretary of the Navy of the authority to order repairs of ships damaged in foreign waters or on the high seas , so far as may be necessary to bring them home .
... Provided further , That nothing herein contained shall deprive the Secretary of the Navy of the authority to order repairs of ships damaged in foreign waters or on the high seas , so far as may be necessary to bring them home .
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... appraised in like manner , of a new ship of the same size and like material : Provided , That nothing herein contained shall deprive the Secretary of the Navy of the authority to order repairs of ships damaged in foreign waters or ...
... appraised in like manner , of a new ship of the same size and like material : Provided , That nothing herein contained shall deprive the Secretary of the Navy of the authority to order repairs of ships damaged in foreign waters or ...
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... of a new ship of the same size and like material : Pro, vidad further , That nothing herein contained shall deprive the Secretary of the Navy of the authority to order repairs of ships damaged in foreign waters or on the high seas ...
... of a new ship of the same size and like material : Pro, vidad further , That nothing herein contained shall deprive the Secretary of the Navy of the authority to order repairs of ships damaged in foreign waters or on the high seas ...
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Page 565 - President is unsatisfactory to the person entitled to receive the same, such person shall be paid 75 per centum of the amount so determined by the President and shall be entitled to sue the United States to recover such further sum as, added to said 75 per centum, will make up such amount as will be just compensation therefor...
Page 522 - States without license of the owner thereof or lawful right to use or manufacture the same, such owner's remedy shall be by suit against the United States in the Court of Claims for the recovery of his reasonable and entire compensation for such use and manufacture...
Page 370 - States, either the regular or the volunteer forces, and has been or may be hereafter honorably discharged, shall be admitted to become a citizen of the United States, upon his petition, without any previous declaration of his intention to become such...
Page 466 - It is hereby declared to be the policy of the United States to adjust and settle its international disputes through mediation or arbitration, to the end that -war may be honorably avoided. It looks with apprehension and disfavor upon a general increase of armament throughout the world, but it realizes that no single nation can disarm, and that without a common agreement upon the subject every considerable power must maintain a relative standing in military strength.
Page 322 - That should any officer of the Medical Corps fail in his physical examination and be found incapacitated for service by reason of physical disability contracted in the line of duty, he shall be retired with the rank to which his seniority entitled him to be promoted...
Page 53 - Navy, and by him referred to and approved in his letter to the chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs...
Page 614 - That all officers of the Navy who; since the third day of March, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, have been advanced or may hereafter be advanced in grade or rank pursuant to law shall be allowed the pay and allowances of the higher grade or rank from the dates stated in their commissions.
Page 521 - For commissions and interest; transportation of funds ; exchange; mileage to officers while traveling under orders in the United States, and for actual personal expenses of officers while traveling abroad under orders, and for traveling expenses of civilian employees, and for actual and necessary traveling expenses of midshipmen while proceeding from their homes to the Naval Academy for examination and appointment as midshipmen...
Page 285 - That the accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized and directed to allow, in the settlement of ™jgjjjr'*»~l11 accounts of disbursing officers involved, payments made under the appropriation "Contingent, Navy,1...
Page 959 - That an enlistment shall not be regarded as complete until the soldier shall have made good any time...