Homepage
Login
Profile
BookClubs
dmBox
Read Ebook: The Footprints of Time And a Complete Analysis of Our American System of Government with a Concise History of the Original Colonies and of the United States in Chronological Order by Bancroft Charles
Font size:
Background color:
Text color:
Add to tbrJar First Page Next Page Prev Page
Ebook has 1485 lines and 176079 words, and 30 pages
NATIONAL BANKING 283
Relations of Currency to the Treasury--Government control of Banks and their issues--Security of Currency.
FINANCIAL CONDITION OF THE UNITED STATES 286
WAR DEPARTMENT 291
Secretary of War--Organization of his department--Various Bureaus--List of Secretaries of War.
Its history shows great military ability--The peaceful policy of the country.
THE MILITARY ACADEMY 295
Its object and location--The results secured.
DEPOTS OF WAR MATERIAL 298
Armories and Arsenals--Their uses--Location--Officers.
ARTICLES OF WAR 299
Peculiar relations of military forces to civil government--Object of Articles of War--Range and vigor of their provisions.
MILITARY HOSPITALS AND ASYLUMS 300
Their object--Their location--Their excellent management--Their success in the Civil War.
NAVY DEPARTMENT 302
Secretary of the Navy--His duties--Various Bureaus--List of Secretaries of the Navy.
THE UNITED STATES NAVY 306
The U. S. a commercial country--Gratifying success of the early navy--The importance of this arm to the country--Its value to us abroad--Number of U. S. vessels of war.
NAVY YARDS 309
Their location and number--Materials and stores--Workshops and repairs.
THE NAVAL ACADEMY 309
Its purposes, location and value.
THE NAVAL OBSERVATORY 311
Dependence of Navigation on Astronomical Science--Value of Observatory.
COAST SURVEY 312
Necessity of this work--Scientific accuracy--Value for commerce and defense.
LIGHT HOUSES 314
Why and where they are built--Official Superintendence--Light Money.
LETTERS OF MARQUE AND REPRISAL 316
Objects of Privateering--Immorality and injustice of it.
NAVY AND MARINE HOSPITALS 318
The purpose of those institutions--Their means of support--Their location.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 319
History of this department--Secretary of the Interior--Bureaus of the department--List of Secretaries.
PUBLIC LANDS 322
How the government obtained them--What disposition is made of them--Land offices--Sale of Lands--Pre-emption--Bounty Lands--Homesteads--School Lands.
HOW TO SECURE PUBLIC LANDS 326
Pre-emption Laws--Land Warrants--Soldiers' Homestead Laws--List of Land Offices.
PATENTS 336
Patent office--Commissioner of Patents--Mode of obtaining a Patent.
PENSIONS 339
The object of Pensions--Pension office--Amount of Pensions--How paid--Pension Laws of various dates.
INDIAN AFFAIRS 351
Aboriginal inhabitants--Mode of acquiring their lands--Indian Policy--Reservations--Annuities--Agents--Indian Territory--Condition and number of Indians--Their probable extinction.
CENSUS BUREAU 355
How the census is taken--Value of census statistics--Tables of Population.
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 357
The objects of this department--Commissioner of Agriculture--Buildings and grounds--Extent of information collected and circulated--Value of this department.
POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT 360
Postmaster General--Various Bureaus--Extent of organization--Its remarkable vigor and success--List of Postmasters General.
RATES OF POSTAGE 365
Add to tbrJar First Page Next Page Prev Page