Annual Report of the Secretary of War

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1909
 

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Page 93 - April twelfth, nineteen hundred, "temporarily to provide revenues and a civil government for Porto Rico, and for other purposes...
Page 286 - States and other official sources, a complete roster of the officers and enlisted men of the Union and Confederate armies.
Page 284 - An act to provide for the appropriate marking of the graves of the soldiers and sailors of the Confederate Army and Navy who died in northern prisons and were buried near the prisons where they died...
Page 93 - That all reports required by law to be made by the governor or heads of departments to any official of the United States shall hereafter be made to an executive department of the Government of the United States to be designated by the President, and the President is hereby authorized to place all matters pertaining to the government of Porto Rico in the jurisdiction of such department.
Page 241 - That for the purpose of securing a list of persons specially qualified to hold commissions in any volunteer force which may hereafter be called for and organized under the authority of Congress, other than a force composed of organized militia...
Page 313 - States who, being duly subpoenaed to appear as a witness before a general courtmartial of the Army, willfully neglects or refuses to appear, or refuses to qualify as a witness or to testify or produce documentary evidence which such person may have been legally...
Page 96 - Under the direction of the President of the United States, I now transfer to you as the duly elected representatives of the people of Cuba the government and control of the island, to be held and exercised by you, under the provisions of the constitution of the Republic of Cuba, heretofore adopted by the constitutional convention...
Page 312 - May 30, 1908, so as to considerably lessen the penalty, providing that the offender "shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than two years and by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars.
Page 162 - University of the Philippines," we read: By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Legislature, that: SECTION 1. The Governor-General is hereby authorized, within the powers and limitations hereinafter specified, to establish in the city of Manila, or at the point he may deem most convenient, a university which shall be known by the designation of "University of the Philippines...
Page 98 - May 8, submitting the report, with accompanying exhibits, of Hon. Charles E. Magoon, provisional governor of Cuba, for the period from December 1, 1908, to January 28, 1909, when the provisional government was terminated and the island again turned over to the Cubans. I recommend, in accordance with the suggestion of the Acting Secretary of War, that this report and the exhibits be printed.

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