Hearings Before Subcommittee of House Committee on Appropriations, Consisting of Messrs. J. A. Tawney, W. I. Smith, W. P. Brownlow, G. W. Taylor, and J. A. Sullivan, in Charge of Sundry Civil Appropriation Bill for 1907U.S. Government Printing Office, 1906 - 1466 pages |
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... reason we put it in specific- ally for the maintenance of our vessels in the waters of Alaska . Mr. TAYLOR . So it could not be used for any other purpose ? Captain Ross . Yes , sir . Mr. SMITH . Is that the same reason why you inserted ...
... reason we put it in specific- ally for the maintenance of our vessels in the waters of Alaska . Mr. TAYLOR . So it could not be used for any other purpose ? Captain Ross . Yes , sir . Mr. SMITH . Is that the same reason why you inserted ...
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... reason at all why you did not send this in in the regular annual estimates as required by law ? Do you not know that these estimates are required by law to be in here in the fall ? Captain Ross . Yes ; I know that these estimates are ...
... reason at all why you did not send this in in the regular annual estimates as required by law ? Do you not know that these estimates are required by law to be in here in the fall ? Captain Ross . Yes ; I know that these estimates are ...
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... reason the special estimate was put in . Mr. SMITH . You have no engineer corps ? Captain Ross . Oh , yes ; we have an engineer corps . Mr. SMITH . Are they graduates of this school at Arundel Cove ? Captain Ross . No , sir ; we take ...
... reason the special estimate was put in . Mr. SMITH . You have no engineer corps ? Captain Ross . Oh , yes ; we have an engineer corps . Mr. SMITH . Are they graduates of this school at Arundel Cove ? Captain Ross . No , sir ; we take ...
Page 142
... reason that there is asked in this appropriation authority to continue investi- gations at stations of higher altitude . Mr. SMITH . Does the amount of wind deceive you in the results attained by your instruments as to how much heat ...
... reason that there is asked in this appropriation authority to continue investi- gations at stations of higher altitude . Mr. SMITH . Does the amount of wind deceive you in the results attained by your instruments as to how much heat ...
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... reason why that appropriation , in view of the large balance that there is on hand , should not bear the expense of the entire inves- tigation incident to the question of whether or not the antitrust law in this particular has been ...
... reason why that appropriation , in view of the large balance that there is on hand , should not bear the expense of the entire inves- tigation incident to the question of whether or not the antitrust law in this particular has been ...
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Page 530 - as used in this act shall be understood to mean that certain act of the Congress of the United States approved June 17, 1902, entitled ' An act appropriating the receipts from the sale and disposal of public lands in •certain States and Territories to the construction of irrigation works for the reclamation of arid lands,' and the acts amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto.
Page 513 - For gauging the streams and determining the water supply of the United States, and for the investigation of underground currents and artesian wells, and for the preparation of reports upon the best methods of utilizing the water resources.
Page 175 - An Act to regulate commerce," approved February fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and all Acts amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto, and other Acts mentioned in said appropriation, made in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and...
Page 493 - That hereafter no part of the appropriations made for printing and binding shall be used for any illustration, engraving, or photograph in any document or report ordered printed by Congress unless the order to print expressly authorizes the same, nor in any document or report of any Executive Department or other Government establishment until the head of the Executive Department or Government establishment shall certify in a letter transmitting such report that the illustration is necessary and relates...
Page 441 - No officer in any branch of the public service, or any other person whose salary, pay or emoluments are fixed by law or regulations...
Page 688 - Every officer or agent of the United States who receives public money which he is not authorized to retain as salary, pay, or emolument, shall render his accounts monthly. Such accounts, with the vouchers necessary to the correct and prompt settlement thereof, shall be sent by mail, or otherwise, to the Bureau to which they pertain, within ten days after the expiration of each successive month, and, after examination there, shall be passed to the proper accounting officer of the Treasury for settlement.
Page 549 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Mates of America in Congress assembled, That...
Page 549 - That the Director of the Geological Survey be, and is hereby, authorized and directed, on the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, to dispose of the topographic and geologic maps and atlases of the United States, made and published by the Geological Survey...
Page 689 - The Secretary of the Treasury shall, on the first Monday of January in each year, make report to Congress of such officers as are then delinquent in the rendering of their accounts or in the payment of balances found due from them for the last preceding fiscal year.
Page 688 - ... shall be deemed guilty of embezzlement, and shall be fined in a sum equal to the amount of the money embezzled, and shall be imprisoned not less than six months nor more than ten years.