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the Acting Attorney General has put it, the sailor, or civilian, coming with a full pocket treats his casual acquaintance the Soldier. - A law forbidding the publican to sell to the Soldier would this be inoperative? Is it intended to deny the soldier the right to public House? - to drink in a
I should be glad to see the vice of drunkenness diminished among Soldiers and men of like class, but I am not prepared to recommend stringent legislative measures to this effect, if they trench unduly on civil liberty.
As regards General Grant's second suggestion, I have to say that under permission of the Government the spirit Ordinance has been enforced as to Regimental Canteens, and I suppose that however the unit has its Canteen within the Barracks, just as the Regiments which preceded it.
I agree with Mr.