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Page 88 - of the military and hospital records of the volunteer armies and the pension and other business of the War Department connected therewith;" and of the publication and distribution of the Official Records of the War of the Rebellion.
Page 88 - The Adjutant General is charged with the duty of recording, authenticating, and communicating to troops and individuals in the military service all orders, instructions, and regulations issued by the Secretary of War through the Chief of Staff...
Page 105 - Department; the disbursement of its appropriations; the providing of rations and their issue to the Army; the purchase and distribution of articles authorized to be kept for sale to officers and enlisted men; the administrative examination of accounts of subsistence funds preliminary to their settlement by the proper accounting officers of the Treasury; and the examination and settlement of returns of subsistence supplies.
Page 59 - OF THE UNITED STATES. The Treasurer of the United States is charged with the receipt and disbursement of all public moneys that may be deposited in the Treasury at Washington and in the...
Page 111 - In the District of Columbia, as such square appears on the records In the Office of the Surveyor of the District of Columbia as of the date of the approval of this Act...
Page 220 - Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, District of Columbia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana.
Page 143 - Service has charge of the railway mail service and the railway post-office clerks, prepares for the Second Assistant Postmaster-General cases for the appointment, removal, promotion, and reduction of said clerks, conducts the correspondence, and issues the orders relative to moving the mails on railroad trains; has charge of the dispatch and distribution of mail matter in railway post-office cars and post-offices, and conducts the weighing of mails when ordered.
Page 145 - Mails has charge of all foreign postal arrangements ( except those relating to the money-order system), including the preparation of postal con•ventions and the regulations for their execution, as well as the consideration of questions arising under them; and conducts the correspondence relative thereto both with foreign Governments and private citizens. It also has the supervision of the ocean mail steamship service in all its details, including the settlement of the accounts with steamship companies...
Page 67 - The Auditor for the State and Other Departments shall receive and examine all accounts of salaries and incidental expenses of the office of the Secretary of...
Page xiv - No manuscript shall, at any time, be taken out of the Department except by order in writing of the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary. III. No manuscript shall be taken out of the Bureau of Rolls and Library, into any room of the Department, until a receipt in form and descriptive of the paper or volume be signed by the official taking the same and delivered to the Chief of the Bureau, or,, in his absence, to the person in charge. IV. No manuscript shall be detained from its place on the shelves...