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$488 additional pay 1847 Brevet major 1847 Captain bvt 1847 Major brevet 25 cents 31st Congress 33 per day 50 cents accounts are received adhesive envelopes Allowance for servants am'nt Amount April 18 April 21 ARMY LIST Name belong to fiscal Charles clerical services clerk cluded for service colonel bvt date of commission December 31 District of Columbia dozen pen-holders dozen tape ending June 30 extra faint ruling Females fiscal year 1851 fiscal year ending Forage fuel George George W gold pen governor gross pens gum arabic Henry James Joseph July June 28 June 30 Lieut Lieutenant colonel LINN BOYD Males March 31 missions of prior Number of months official envelopes paid pay accounts postages prior date quires rank Rations reams machine letter Red and faint Samuel Second lieutenants Sept service in California STATEMENT-Continued Thomas volumes William yards
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Page 47 - But it is an inquiry, which cannot be too solemnly pursued, whether the act " more effectually to provide for the national defence by establishing a uniform militia throughout the United States...
Page 5 - ... ever erect or maintain any fortifications commanding the same or in the vicinity thereof, or occupy, or fortify, or colonize, or assume, or exercise any dominion over Nicaragua, Costa Eica, the Mosquito coast, or any part of Central America...
Page 4 - The contracting parties will use whatever influence they respectively exercise with any state, states, or governments possessing or claiming to possess any jurisdiction or right over the territory which the said canal shall traverse, or which shall be near the waters applicable thereto, in order to induce such states or governments to facilitate the construction of the said canal by every means in their power.
Page 5 - First. Spain, instead of exercising absolute sovereignty over Central America and prohibiting all commerce on the coasts under her sway, has entirely lost her dominion over the continent from Cape Horn to Florida. "Seconil. The Mosquito Indians, instead of governing their own...
Page 13 - An act legalizing and making appropriations for such necessary objects as have usually been included in the general appropriation bills without authority of law, and to fix and provide for certain incidental expenses of the departments and offices of the government, and for other purposes...
Page 5 - April, 1850, to withdraw their protection from that company, and to transfer it to any other company which should undertake a canal on the original plan; it being deemed of the utmost importance by the British government that the great conception of an inter-oceanic canal, adapted to the accommodation of the vessels of the whole commercial world, should 839 not dwindle down to an ordinary transit route for coasting vessels which to distant nations would be comparatively destitute of value.
Page 131 - This statement must also show whether such clerks or other persons, or such messengers have been usefully employed; whether the services of any of them can be dispensed with without detriment to the public service, and whether the removal of any particular persons, and the appointment of others in their stead, is required for the better dispatch of business.
Page 4 - ... arise as to right or property over the territory through which the said canal shall pass between the States or Governments of Central America, and such differences should in any way impede or obstruct the execution of the said canal...
Page 5 - States, exercise the effective government of the country. In consequence of those changes, Great Britain, instead of having, as formerly, an interest in the defence of the Mosquito Indians, for the sake of exempting a part of the territory of Central America from Spanish control, and thereby obtaining admission for her commerce, has...