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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1886 - Budget - 324 pages

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Page 319 - River, which sum shall be immediately available and shall be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War in accordance with the plans, specifications, and recommendations of the Mississippi River...
Page 208 - This includes base measure, triangulation, topography, and hydrography along said coasts; the survey of rivers to the head of tide-water or ship navigation; deep-sea soundings, temperature, and current observations along...
Page 246 - Army depots, and from those depots to the troops in the field; of horse equipments and of subsistence stores from the places of purchase and from the places of delivery, under contract, to such places as the circumstances of the...
Page 221 - ... for identification of lands for purposes of evidence in any suit or proceeding in behalf of the United States...
Page 184 - And the services of skilled dranghtsman, civil engineers, and such other services as the Secretary of War may deem necessary may be employed in the office of the Chief of Engineers to carry into effect the various appropriations for rivers and harbors, fortifications, and surveys for military defenses, to be paid from such...
Page 35 - An act making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, and for other purposes," approved August 15, 1876, by and between George W.
Page 174 - An Act to amend section fiftythree hundred and fifty-two of the Revised Statutes of the United States, in reference to bigamy, and for other purposes...
Page 144 - For expenses of recruiting for the naval service, rent of rendezvous and expenses of maintaining the same,' advertising for men and boys, and all other expenses attending the recruiting for the naval service and for the transportation of enlisted men and boys at home and abroad, thirty thousand dollars. . CONTINGENT, BUREAU OF EQUIPMENT AND RECRUITING: For extraexpenses of training-ships, freight and transportation of equipment stores, printing, advertising, telegraphing, books and models, postage...
Page 142 - ... compasses; logs and other appliances for measuring the ship's way, and leads and other appliances for sounding; lanterns and lamps, and their appendages, for general use on board ship...
Page 246 - Army depots: freights, wharfage, tolls and ferriages; the purchase and hire of horses, mules, oxen and harness, and the purchase and repair of wagons, carts, and drays, and of ships and other sea-going vessels and boats required for the transportation of supplies, and for garrison purposes; for drayage and cartage at the several posts; hire of teamsters; transportation of funds for the pay and other disbursing departments; the expenses of sailing public transports on the various rivers, the Gulf...

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