As long as there is the least pretense of limiting the bestowal of pensions to disability or death in some way related to the incidents of military and naval service, claims of this description can not consistently be allowed.
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I transmit herewith a treaty for the arbitration of all matters in difference between the United States and Great Britain.
The civil-service rules as revised May 6, 1896, are hereby amended as follows.
I do hereby declare, proclaim, and make known that the Executive order of June 22, 1890, making said reservations of lands in the Territory of Alaska, therein particularly described, is hereby modified.
No modification of the existing regulations shall be made without the approval of the Civil Service Commission.
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