The event is one of very high and, as I believe, of national interest, and the attendance of the surviving Union soldiers will, I do not doubt, be larger than at any annual encampment that has ever been held.
Message to Congress Requesting Appropriation for the Reception and Entertainment of the Twenty-sixth Annual Encampment of...
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The law creates two new officers, whose aggregate compensation may be $12,000 per annum, without, it seems to me, a justifying necessity.
I herewith transmit, for the information of Congress, a communication from the Acting Secretary of State, forwarding certain bulletins of the Bureau of the American Republics.
The law should at least have contained a provision for the continued discharge of their duties by the incumbents until the new officers were appointed and qualified.
No provision is made for a continued discharge of the duties of marshal and district attorney by the present incumbents.
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