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Page 340 - President of the United States of America. To all who shall see these presents, greeting: Know ye, that reposing special trust and confidence in the patriotism, valor, fidelity, and abilities...
Page 340 - And you are to observe and follow such Orders and Directions from Time to Time, as you shall receive from this or a future Congress...
Page 340 - He is, therefore, carefully and diligently to discharge the duty of major-general, by doing and performing all manner of things thereunto belonging. And I do strictly charge and require all officers and soldiers under his command to be obedient to his orders as major-general.
Page 340 - General by doing and performing all manner of things thereunto belonging, and I do strictly charge and require all officers and soldiers under his command to be obedient to his orders as Brigadier General, and he is to observe and follow such orders and directions from time to time as he shall receive from me or the...
Page 29 - November, 1886, and quadrennially thereafter, for the term of four years, commencing on the first day of June following their election.
Page 120 - Cleveland a member of the board of visitors to the United States military academy, and served as secretary of the board. Among his published writings are: "The Botanical Collector's HandBook...
Page 340 - And he is to observe and follow such orders and directions, from time to time, as he shall receive from me, or the future President of the United States...
Page 340 - The Commonwealth of Virginia, to JAJ Lightburn, greeting: Know You, That from special trust and confidence reposed in your fidelity, courage and good conduct, our GOVERNOR, in pursuance of the authority vested in him by the Constitution and Laws of this Commonwealth, doth Commission you Colonel of the Fourth Regiment of Virginia Volunteers, in the Service of the United States, to rank as such from the I4th day of August, 1861.
Page 22 - Anastaplo case stating adroitly that "justifiable pride in the performance of our court permits the desire to see it redeemed from occasional error." Since that time the United States Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the Supreme Court of Illinois by a sharply divided five to four opinion.
Page 216 - This case is brought before us by a writ of error directed to the judges of the Supreme Court of Appeals of the State of West Virginia.