Annual Reports of the War Department, Volume 1U.S. Government Printing Office, 1909 |
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act of Congress annual report applications Army of Cuban authorized Balances July Barracks Brownsville cadets Cavalry cent civil Coast Artillery Corps commanders Commission concessionary grant construction court court-martial Cuba Cuban Pacification Decree depots desertions designated the Southern discharged duty efficiency ended June 30 Engineer equipment excess of payments expenditures field artillery fiscal year 1909 fiscal year ended Fort Leavenworth Fort Sheridan Governor-General grant or contract Hospital Corps Improving harbor increase Infantry instruction Luzon Manila Manila Railroad Company ment Military Academy military establishment military posts national cemetery number of officers October 15 Ordnance organized militia past fiscal Philippine Islands Philippine Scouts Philippines Division Porto Rico Presidio of Monterey provisional government Quartermaster's Department Railroad Company recruiting reenlistments regiment Regular Army Repayments in excess Repayments July retired rifle River Secretary of War soldiers southern lines Staff Stat stations surplus fund tion Total Treasury troops War Department whole number
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Page 113 - 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. EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT SEC. 12. That the supreme executive power shall be vested in an executive officer, whose official...
Page 113 - That if at the termination of any session the appropriations necessary for the support of government shall not have been made, an amount equal to the sums appropriated in the last appropriation bills for such purposes shall be deemed to be appropriated; and until the legislature shall act in such behalf the treasurer may, with the advice of the governor, make the payments necessary for the purposes aforesaid.
Page 113 - April twelfth, nineteen hundred, "temporarily to provide revenues and a civil government for Porto Rico, and for other purposes...
Page 118 - THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES : I have the honor to transmit herewith an address to the President of the United States...
Page 30 - The present system of promotion by seniority should be modified as to all officers now or hereafter below field rank, by making a specific proportion of the promotions to each grade for seniority, and a specific proportion on the basis either of efficiency records in the war college, or heretofore in the service schools, including both elements of work done during actual attendance and subsequent thereto, or for gallantry in the field during war, or both, accompanied in each case by evidence of faithful...