A Brief History of an Existing Controversy on the Subject of Assimilated Rank in the Navy of the United States

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C. Sherman, Printer, 1850 - 108 páginas

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Página 94 - President of the United States, to the President of the Senate and Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States, to each Member of Congress from the State of Washington, and to the Secretary of the Department of the Interior.
Página 8 - All sutlers and retainers to the camp, and all persons whatsoever, serving with the armies of the United States in the field, though not enlisted soldiers, are to be subject to orders, according to the rules and discipline of war.
Página 72 - Now time of memory hath been long ago ascertained by the law to commence from the beginning of the reign of Richard the First ; (u • and any custom may be destroyed by evidence of non-existence in any part of the long period from that time to the present...
Página 39 - An act to alter and amend the several acts for establishing a Navy Department by adding thereto a Board of Commissioners.
Página 73 - There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles II. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen.
Página 70 - He is limited in the exercise of his powers by the law ; but it does not follow that he must show a statutory provision for everything he does. No government could be administered on such principles. To attempt to regulate, by law, the minute movements of every part of the complicated machinery of government would evince a most unpardonable ignorance on the subject.
Página 5 - All officers, not holding commissions or warrants, or who are not entitled to them, except such as are temporarily appointed to the duties of a commissioned or warrant officer, are deemed petty officers.
Página 36 - ... when approved by the President of the United States, shall be respected and obeyed, until altered or revoked by the same authority.
Página 72 - So that, if any one can show the beginning of it, it is no good custom. For which reason no custom can prevail against an express act of parliament, since the statute itself is a proof of a time when such a custom did not exist.
Página 32 - ... three twentieths shall belong to her commander. II. To sea lieutenants, captains of marines, and sailing masters, two twentieths ; but where there is a captain, without a lieutenant of marines, these officers shall...

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