Reinbursement of the State of Nevada: Hearing ... on H.R. 170331928 - 64 páginas |
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12 Stat 1st sess 70th Cong accrued act of Congress actually expended adjutant advanced and expended allowed amount ARENTZ Army officers authority bond issue bounties and extra Carson City cent CHRISTOPHERSON Civil claims examiners commanding committee companies of Cavalry Comptroller Court of Claims Department disallowed DYER east enlisted equity expenses properly incurred extra pay fact February 20 four companies Government Governor of Nevada honor horses and equipments Indian Infantry interest January 26 July 27 June 27 KAPPLER military MONTAGUE moral mustered necessary necessity Nevada Territory Nevada volunteers NORCROSS obligation overland route Overland Trail Pacific coast plain act principal sum proper question raising troops recruiting regiment Secretary Secretary of War Senate Report session Seventieth Congress soldiers STOBBS supra Supreme Court Territorial act Territorial debt Territorial legislature Territorial volunteers act Territory of Nevada thereof tion Treasury United States Army urgent calls Wright York
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Página 21 - State, or to his duly authorized agents, the costs, charges, and expenses properly incurred by such State for enrolling, subsisting, clothing, supplying, arming, equipping, paying, and transporting its troops employed in aiding to suppress the present insurrection against the United States, to be settled upon proper vouchers to be filed and passed upon by the proper accounting officers of the Treasury.
Página 43 - All laws now in force in the Territory of Michigan, which are not repugnant to this constitution, shall remain in force until they expire by their own limitations, or be altered or repealed by the legislature.
Página 19 - ... day of December in each year, to the President of the United States, and, at the same time, two copies of the laws to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President of the Senate, for the use of Congress.
Página 42 - Territories of Colorado, Dakota, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming, shall be submitted to Congress, and, if disapproved, shall be null and of no effect.
Página 14 - Government by enrolling, subsisting, clothing, supplying, arming, equipping, paying, and transporting troops to be employed in putting down the rebellion. Immediately after Fort Sumter was fired upon its legislature passed an act appropriating $3,000,000 or so much thereof as was necessary, out of any moneys in its treasury not otherwise appropriated, to defray any expenses incurred for arms, supplies, or equipments for such forces as were raised in that State and mustered into the service of the...
Página 20 - Liberally interpreted, it is clear that the acts of July 27, 1861, and March 8, 1862, created on the part of the United States an obligation to indemnify the States for any costs, charges, and expenses properly incurred for the purposes expressed in the act of 1861, the title of which shows that its object was "to indemnify the States for expenses incurred by them in defense of the United States.
Página 12 - President has directed me to invite your consideration to the subject of the improvement and perfection of the defences of the State over which you preside, and to ask you to submit- the subject to the consideration of the Legislature when it shall have assembled. Such proceedings by the State would require only a temporary use of its means.
Página 15 - It could not have borrowed money any more than the General Government could have borrowed money, without stipulating to pay such interest as was customary in the commercial world. Congress did not expect that any State would decline to borrow and await the collection of money raised by taxation before it moved to the support of the nation. It expected that each loyal State would, as did New York, respond at once in furtherance of the avowed purpose of Congress, by whatever force necessary, to maintain...
Página 14 - The duty of suppressing armed rebellion, having for its object the overthrow of the National Government, was primarily upon that Government and not upon the several States composing the Union. New York came promptly to the assistance of the National Government by enrolling, subsisting, clothing, supplying, arming, equipping, paying, and transporting troops to be •employed in putting down the rebellion.
Página 19 - That no higher rate shall be allowed for the services of said forces, and for supplies, transportation, and other proper expenses than was allowed and paid by the United States for similar services in the same grade and for the same time in the United States Army serving in said States and Territories, and for similar supplies, transportation, and other proper expenses during the same time furnished the United States Army in the same country; and...