Nominations to the Department of Transportation, the Department of Commerce, the Federal Trade Commission by United States. Congress. Senate. (2011, Trade Paperback)
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 edition. Excerpt: ... George W. Bolt, deceased; that said George W. Bolt was enrolled in the military service on August 9, 1862, as first lieutenant Company F, Ninety-seventh Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and was honorably discharged August 13, 1863; that no subsistence in kind was furnished at time of his discharge, nor was free transportation given for the whole or any part of the journey from place of discharge to place of enrollment, and neither item was included in his final pay; that he has a claim against the United States for $114.96 for travel allowances under the act of January 29, 1813 (2 State., 796), and War Department General Order No. 43, dated July 10, 1861, legalized by the act of August 6, 1861 (12 Stats., 326), which order provides that: Commissioned officers of Volunteers received into the service of the United States for two and three years, or for the period of the war, will be entitled to receive one days pay and subsistence for every twenty miles travel from the place of enrollment to the place of muster into service of the United States and from the place of discharge to the place of enrollment; the distance to be estimated by the most direct mail route." The case was brought to a hearing on its merits on the 28th day of May, 1917. C. D. Pennebaker, Esq.; appeared for the claimant, and the Attorney General, by P. G. Walker, Esq., his assistant and under his direction, appeared for the defense and protection of the interests of the United States. The court, upon the evidence and after considering the briefs and arguments of counsel on both sides, makes the following FINDINGS OP PACT. I. The claimant, Sarah A. Robertson, is a citizen of the United States, residing at Ramsey, State of Illinois, and is the widow (remarried) of...
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Nominations to the Department of Transportation, the Department of Commerce, the Federal Trade Commission