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2d Lieutenant Adjutant ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE America in Congress Army Brevet Brevet Major Cadet Camp Camp Willow Grove Captain Cavalry COMMAND Congress assembled Congress is published Conn Department duty E. D. TOWNSEND eighteen hundred Fort Monroe Fort Snelling further enacted Grand Haven harbor HEADQUARTERS hereby House of Representatives Iowa Jeffersonville Joliet Keokuk Knoxville Lafayette Logansport Lynchburg Macon Marietta Mass Memphis Michigan City Miles Milledgeville Milwaukee Minn Miss Montgomery Montpelier Nashville Norfolk Ogdensburg Ohio Omaha Oregon Orleans Oswego Parkersburg Pensacola Philadelphia Pittsburg Port Huron Portland Prairie du Chien Quincy Raleigh Regiment RESOLUTION-No Richmond river Rock Island Rouse's Point Saint Louis Saint Paul Sandusky City Savannah Second Lieutenant Secretary Senate and House SHERMAN Sioux City Springfield Stevenson Syracuse Tallahassee Tenn Terre Haute Texas thousand dollars Toledo Trenton Troy unassigned United vice Vicksburg Washington Weldon West Point Wheeling William Wilmington Winona
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Page 3 - 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...
Page 2 - Department at the several posts and stations and with the armies in the field, and for the horses of the several regiments of cavalry, the batteries of artillery, and such companies of infantry and scouts as may be mounted, and for the authorized number of officers...
Page 2 - That any bridge constructed under this act, and according to its limitations, shall be a lawful structure, and shall be recognized and known as a post-route, upon which, also, no higher charge shall be made for the transmission over the same of the mails, the troops, and the munitions of war of the United States than the rate per mile paid for the transportation over the railroads or public highways leading to said bridge...
Page 2 - That said draw shall be opened promptly upon reasonable signal for the passage of boats whose construction shall not be such as to admit of their passage under the permanent spans of said bridge, except when trains are passing over the same ; but in no case shall unnecessary delay occur in opening the said draw during or after the passage of trains.
Page 25 - I, , do solemnly swear that I have never taken an oath as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, and afterward engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof, so help me God...