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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... received stat- ing that the office is greatly congested , and recommending that immediate action be taken to provide at least 7.000 additional square feet of floor space . This Department concurs in the recommendation of its ...
... received stat- ing that the office is greatly congested , and recommending that immediate action be taken to provide at least 7.000 additional square feet of floor space . This Department concurs in the recommendation of its ...
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... received a communication from a railroad company in New York saying that their barges were being tampered with by people from the shore , and that their prop- erty was being stolen . They called it piracy , and wanted us to look after ...
... received a communication from a railroad company in New York saying that their barges were being tampered with by people from the shore , and that their prop- erty was being stolen . They called it piracy , and wanted us to look after ...
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... receiving practically the same compensation that the 26 received ? Mr. ADLER . I am inclined to think , Mr. Chairman , that that is due . to several causes : First and foremost , that there was a practice of plac- ing upon the roll ...
... receiving practically the same compensation that the 26 received ? Mr. ADLER . I am inclined to think , Mr. Chairman , that that is due . to several causes : First and foremost , that there was a practice of plac- ing upon the roll ...
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... received for carrying exchanges . A good many years ago it was found that the demands upon this service were very great , and the regents of the institution fixed a charge to bureaus of the Government and State institutions at the rate ...
... received for carrying exchanges . A good many years ago it was found that the demands upon this service were very great , and the regents of the institution fixed a charge to bureaus of the Government and State institutions at the rate ...
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... received from the sun , that Mr. Langley has given most attention , and the possibilities of studies in this direction have been due entirely to instruments which he devised . The princi- pal of these instruments , the so - called ...
... received from the sun , that Mr. Langley has given most attention , and the possibilities of studies in this direction have been due entirely to instruments which he devised . The princi- pal of these instruments , the so - called ...
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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.