[163] List of non-assessable Federal property, N. Y., 1914. [164] At present it is considered that one military flying machine in two months is good speed of production. [165] Result of inquiry made by U. S. Army after tests on Texas border had developed the high value of motor trucks for war. [166] Orders issued by War Department, March 6, 1911, for concentration at San Antonio, Texas, of maneuver division of three infantry brigades, one field artillery brigade, an independent cavalry brigade and the necessary auxiliary troops. Strength should have been 15,669 officers and men. On March 31 the division mustered only 11,254 men. On April 30 it had reached a strength of 12,598. On May 30 it numbered 12,809. It never reached its full required strength and it did not reach its maximum actual strength until three months after it had been ordered out. On Feb. 21 and 24, 1913, three brigades of the second division were ordered to mobilize at Texas City and Galveston. This force did not reach its maximum strength till June 30, 1913. See Report of Major General Carter, U. S. A. [167] Table 26, page 262, Report, Chief of Division of Militia Affairs, U. S. A., October 1, 1914. [168] Census of Manufactures, U. S., 1910. [169] Report, Brigadier General A. L. Mills, U. S. A., 1914. [170] Secretary of War Garrison says: “It will require six months at the lowest possible estimate to equip, organize, train, drill and make ready our volunteers.” [171] Census Bureau, Volume 8. [172] From Tax Lists, New York City and Boston, and assessable values of New England, U. S. Census Bureau. [173] Many so-called “non-intercourse acts” were passed during the Civil War. These authorized the President both to prohibit and to license and permit intercourse and trade with belligerent territory. Under these acts President Lincoln permitted the purchase of cotton in the south, and his procedure was upheld by the United States Supreme Court on the ground that “the United States has power to permit intercourse with an enemy during the time of war.” * * * * * Typographical error corrected by the etext transcriber: one of the men in Wash-ton=> one of the men in Washington {pg 156} End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Invasion of America, by Julius Washington Muller