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00 April 00 Bills absolute or contingent Abstract exhibiting accused Amount of debts Answer Attorney August Balances due banks and depositors banks on credit banks on demand banks on hand Bills in circulation Bills of solvent Bills of suspended Bonds and mortgages Captain Dupereau Cash items charge circulation not registered Commander Johnston Congress court court-martial Date debts due December 31 depositors on demand directors and brokers discounts to directors District of Columbia Due banks Due depositors due from brokers Due from solvent Due from suspended Due individuals Due treasurer Edward Stanly Estimated value expense account Fabius Stanly five dollars January judge advocate letter Lieut Lieutenant Stanly Loans and discounts Loss and expense Navy Department Notes in circulation November Number Over-drafts papers profits on hand Promissory notes Question Real estate Registered notes reserved profits Secretary Sibbald solvent banks Specie Statement suspended banks Synopsis Total liabilities Total resources Treasury York-Continued
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Page 76 - The secretary of war is the regular constitutional organ of the President for the administration of the military establishment of the nation ; and rules and orders publicly promulged through him must be received as the acts of the executive, and, as such, be binding upon all within the sphere of his legal and constitutional authority.
Page 51 - In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name, and caused the seal of the Navy Department of the United States...
Page 15 - This statement must also show whether such clerks or other persons, or such messengers have been usefully employed; whether the services of any of them can be dispensed with without detriment to the public service, and whether the removal of any particular persons, and the appointment of others in their stead, is required for the better dispatch of business.
Page 56 - ... under the authority of an officer or agent of the United States, shall be allowed and paid the amount of such damage : Provided, It shall appear that such occupation was the cause of its destruction.
Page 45 - No decree shall be reversed, altered or explained, being once under the great seal, but upon bill of review ; and no bill of review shall be admitted, except it contain either error in law, appearing in the body of the decree, without further examination of matters in fact, or some new matter which hath risen in time after the decree, and not any new proof which might have been used when the decree was made...
Page 73 - All offences, committed by persons belonging to the navy while on shore, shall be punished in the same manner as if they had been committed at sea.
Page 52 - The United States will cause satisfaction to be made for the injuries, if any, which, by process of law, shall be established to have been suffered by the Spanish officers, and individual Spanish inhabitants, by the late operations of the American army in Florida.
Page 76 - The power of the Executive to establish rules and regulations for the government of the Army is undoubted. The power to establish implies, necessarily, the power to modify or repeal, or to create anew. The Secretary of War is the regular, constitutional organ of the President for the administration of the military establishment of the Nation, and...
Page 61 - That it shall be the duty of the Comptroller to superintend the adjustment and preservation of the public accounts ; to examine all accounts settled by the Auditor, and certify the balances arising thereon to the Register...
Page 52 - That in all cases where the judges shall decide in favor of the claimants, the decisions, with the evidence on which they are founded, shall be by the said judges reported to the secretary of the treasury, who, on being satisfied that the same is just and equitable, within the provisions of the treaty, shall pay the amount thereof to the person or persons in whose favor the same is adjudged.