Digest of Appropriations for the Support of the Government of the United States on Account of the Service of the Fiscal Year Ending ... and of Deficiencies for Prior Years ; Made by the ... Session of the ... Congress

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Page 27 - ... according to grade from among those graded highest as the results of such competitive examinations. Third, appointments to the public service aforesaid iii the Departments at Washington shall be apportioned among the several States and Territories and the District of Columbia upon the basis of population as ascertained at the last preceding census.
Page 78 - Treasury to pay the actual expenses of operating, maintaining, and keeping said works in repair, which warrants or requisitions shall be paid by the Secretary of the Treasury out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated...
Page 27 - ... of his duty. The commission shall have a secretary, to be appointed by the President. who shall receive a salary of one thousand six hundred dollars per annum.
Page 26 - FIRST. To aid the President, as he may request, in preparing suitable rules for carrying this act into effect; and when said rules shall have beeu promulgated it shall be the duty of all officers of the United States in the Departments and offices to which any such rules may relate to aid, in all proper ways, in carrying said rules, and any modifications thereof, into effect.
Page 136 - And all officers of the Navy shall be credited with the actual time they may have served as officers or enlisted men in the regular or volunteer Army or Navy, or both, and shall receive all the benefits of such actual service in all respects in the same manner as if all said service had been continuous and in the regular Navy in the lowest grade having graduated pay held by such officer since last entering the service...
Page 28 - ... representations concerning the same, or concerning the person examined, or who shall wilfully furnish to any person any special or secret information for the purpose of either improving or injuring the prospects or chances of any person so examined...
Page 25 - Hereafter it shall be the duty of the heads of the several executive departments, in the interest of the public service, to require of all clerks and other employees, of whatever grade or class, in their respective departments, not less than seven hours of labor each day, except Sundays and days declared public holidays by law or Executive order...
Page 160 - Survey, and the classification of the public lands and examination of the Geological Structure, mineral resources and products of the national domain...
Page 184 - An Act making appropriations for the service of the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty, and for other purposes...
Page 29 - No officer, clerk, or other person in the service of the United States shall, directly or indirectly, give or hand over to any other officer, clerk, or person in the service of the United States, or to any Senator or Member of or Delegate to Congress, or Resident Commissioner...

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