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... labor performed , and the saving to the Government . 5. Variety of duties performed , and no compensation . 6. Appropriation not expended , through his economy . 7. Selecting sites for light - houses , and the benefits resulting ...
... labor performed , and the saving to the Government . 5. Variety of duties performed , and no compensation . 6. Appropriation not expended , through his economy . 7. Selecting sites for light - houses , and the benefits resulting ...
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... labor of the soldier mechanics on extra duty cost the Government but 15 cents per day . All The following is a brief estimate of labor performed by this small com- mand , in one season , viz : Building a brick - kiln , and burning 575 ...
... labor of the soldier mechanics on extra duty cost the Government but 15 cents per day . All The following is a brief estimate of labor performed by this small com- mand , in one season , viz : Building a brick - kiln , and burning 575 ...
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... labor for our bread , we solicit at your hands . Your memorialists , in view of all these circumstances , are constrained to lay their case before you , and ask that you will , if it shall be found consist- ent with the public interests ...
... labor for our bread , we solicit at your hands . Your memorialists , in view of all these circumstances , are constrained to lay their case before you , and ask that you will , if it shall be found consist- ent with the public interests ...
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... labor ( October ) For horse For towels For almanac For copying For blank books For books For copying - For trunk for office For labor For copying- For labor 20 00 11 34 12.00 16 66 3.00 2. 00 8.75 48 00 1 50 6.00 17.00 19 13 7.00 12.00 ...
... labor ( October ) For horse For towels For almanac For copying For blank books For books For copying - For trunk for office For labor For copying- For labor 20 00 11 34 12.00 16 66 3.00 2. 00 8.75 48 00 1 50 6.00 17.00 19 13 7.00 12.00 ...
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... labor ( December ) For horse ( December ) For waiting - W. W. King - For extra clerk - hire E. II . & C. H. James For matches , & c . C. Pettit For couriers , & c . E. Lindsley For hardware W. Jones , postmaster For express postage M ...
... labor ( December ) For horse ( December ) For waiting - W. W. King - For extra clerk - hire E. II . & C. H. James For matches , & c . C. Pettit For couriers , & c . E. Lindsley For hardware W. Jones , postmaster For express postage M ...
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Page 90 - Declaration: that we believe him to be 84 years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
Page 20 - An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary war...
Page 29 - States, and leave a widow, or, If no widow, a child or children under sixteen years of age, such widow, or, if no widow, such child or children shall be entitled to and receive half the monthly pay...
Page 87 - Jersey, aged seventy three years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7, 1832.
Page 33 - ... Philosophical and scientific apparatus, utensils, instruments, and preparations, including bottles and boxes containing the same, specially imported in good faith for the use and by order of any society or institution incorporated or established solely for religious, philosophical, educational, scientific, or literary purposes, or for the encouragement of the fine arts, or for the use or by order of any college, academy, school or seminary of learning in the United States, or any State or public...
Page 6 - An act further to amend the several acts for the establishment and regulation of the Treasury, War, and Navy Departments.
Page 30 - An act supplementary to the act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution...
Page 14 - That any commissioned or non-commissioned officer, musician, soldier, marine or seaman, disabled in the actual service of the United States, while in the line of his duty, by known wounds received during the revolutionary war...
Page 30 - ... pledge, mortgage, sale, assignment, or transfer of any right, claim, or interest in any pension...
Page 86 - The following regulations have been adopted by the Secretary of War for carrying into effect the act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832, entitled " An act supplementary to ' An act for the relief of the surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution.