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Pagina xxiv - The board, whenever it finds an officer incapacitated for active service, will report whether, in its judgment, the said incapacity result from long and faithful service, from wounds or injury received in the line of duty, from sickness or exposure therein, or from any other incident of service.
Pagina 131 - ... office to the other office. The articles of a like nature addressed to persons who have changed their residence shall be mutually forwarded or returned, charged with the rate that would have originally been paid by the receivers.
Pagina 65 - ... railroad companies in the United States, for the transportation of the mail, it shall be the duty of the postmaster general to arrange and divide the railroad routes...
Pagina xxvi - ... who may be entitled to receive the same; and if the said fund shall be insufficient for the purpose, the public faith is hereby pledged to make up the deficiency; but if it should be more than sufficient, the surplus shall be applied to the making of further provision for the comfort of the disabled officers, seamen, and marines...
Pagina 3 - Near the centre is a valve, under the control "f the officer of the deck, and as he turns it the water is thrown with great force, either forward or aft; thus propelling the vessel ahead or astern at his will. So soon as we got on board we proceeded out of the harbor, and to my amazement she went ahead at a speed of seven or eight miles }>cr hour, against a fresh breeze and quite a sea.
Pagina 246 - Ordinary or registered letters, book packets, and patterns of merchandise misdirected or missent shall be reciprocally returned without delay through the respective offices of exchange, for the same weight and amount of postage at which they were charged by the despatching office to the other office.
Pagina 53 - ... thousand dollars ; two clerks of class four ; two clerks of class three ; one clerk of class two ; one clerk of class one ; one clerk, at one thousand dollars; one copyist...
Pagina xxvi - States from the sale of prizes, shall be and remain forever a fund for the payment of pensions and half pay, should the same be hereafter granted, to the officers and seamen who may be entitled to receive the same, and if the said fund shall be insufficient for the purpose, the public faith is hereby pledged to make up the deficiency; but if it should be more than sufficient, the surplus shall be...
Pagina 267 - The following named offices, twenty-seven in number, are denominated •• depositories," and are required by the Postmaster General to receive and retain, subject to the drafts of the department, the funds of certain adjacent offices as well as the revenues of their own: Albany, New York.
Pagina 235 - Ireland being desirous of modifying the present system of exchange of Money Orders between the two countries, the undersigned, duly authorized for that purpose, have agreed upon the following Articles : f ARTICLE 1.

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