United States Congressional Serial SetU.S. Government Printing Office, 1914 - United States |
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Page 65
... present compensation of the higher clerical positions in this bureau is decidedly inadequate and it has been found difficult with such a large number of $ 1,000 positions to induce the more promising young men to remain in the service ...
... present compensation of the higher clerical positions in this bureau is decidedly inadequate and it has been found difficult with such a large number of $ 1,000 positions to induce the more promising young men to remain in the service ...
Page 80
... present salary was fixed years ago , when the duties of the position required attention only to a very small portion of the work now devolved on this office . Three thousand dollars is ridicu- lously incommensurate with the service ...
... present salary was fixed years ago , when the duties of the position required attention only to a very small portion of the work now devolved on this office . Three thousand dollars is ridicu- lously incommensurate with the service ...
Page 81
... present fiscal year purchases to the amount of 8600 which should have been charged to the last fiscal year . This will cause a cor- responding shortage in the appropriation for the present fiscal year . Library , Department of the ...
... present fiscal year purchases to the amount of 8600 which should have been charged to the last fiscal year . This will cause a cor- responding shortage in the appropriation for the present fiscal year . Library , Department of the ...
Page 88
... present no provision for an assistant of this grade , and the entire time of the present assistant examiners of trade - marks and designs at $ 1,500 , is taken up with the examination of cases . The work of deciding the many legal ...
... present no provision for an assistant of this grade , and the entire time of the present assistant examiners of trade - marks and designs at $ 1,500 , is taken up with the examination of cases . The work of deciding the many legal ...
Page 121
... present incumbent , or require his reappointment ( same acts ) ...... .. Solicitor for the Post Office Department ( in lieu of assistant attorney general for the Post Office Department ) : Provided , That this change of title shall not ...
... present incumbent , or require his reappointment ( same acts ) ...... .. Solicitor for the Post Office Department ( in lieu of assistant attorney general for the Post Office Department ) : Provided , That this change of title shall not ...
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Page 225 - Agriculture, the general designs and duties of which shall be to acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with Agriculture, in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word, and to procure, propagate and distribute among the people, new and valuable seeds and plants.
Page 276 - That in expending the money appropriated by this act, a railroad company which has not received aid in bonds of the United States, and which obtained a grant of public land to aid in the construction of its railroad on condition that such railroad should be a post route and military road subject to the use of the United States for postal, military, naval, and other government services, and also, subject to such regulations as Congress may impose restricting the charges for such government transportation...
Page 265 - ... have been defrayed, shall be deposited in the Treasury to the credit of the appropriation from which the cost of operation of such plant is paid. For the purchase of the necessary instruments, office furniture, stationery, and other authorized articles required for the equipment and use of the officers' schools at the several military posts, ten thousand dollars.
Page 276 - Army; for the hire of employees; for the payment of Army transportation lawfully due such land-grant railroads as have not received aid in Government bonds (to be adjusted in accordance with the decisions of the Supreme Court...
Page 276 - ... transportation of such troops and munitions of war and military supplies and property as the Secretary of War shall deem just and reasonable under the foregoing provision, such rate not to exceed fifty per centum of the compensation for such Government transportation as shall at that time be charged to and paid by private parties to any such company for like and similar transportation ; and the amount so fixed to be paid shall be accepted as in full for all demands for such service...
Page 433 - Company or otherwise, dry docks, repair shops, yards, docks, wharves, warehouses, storehouses, and other necessary facilities and appurtenances for the purpose of providing coal and other materials, labor, repairs, and supplies for vessels of the Government of the United States and, incidentally, for supplying such at reasonable prices to passing vessels...
Page 151 - Washington or elsewhere as he may deem necessary; to purchase in the open market samples of all tuberculin, serums, antitoxins, or analogous products, of foreign or domestic manufacture, which are sold in the United States, for the detection, prevention, treatment, or cure of diseases of domestic animals, to test the same, and to disseminate the results of said tests...
Page 321 - Army; for hire of quarters for officers serving with troops where there are no public quarters belonging to the Government, and where there are not sufficient quarters possessed by the United States to accommodate them...
Page 209 - The Department of Agriculture is hereby authorized and directed to adopt suitable regulations to give effect to the previous paragraph by prescribing and fixing closed seasons, having due regard to the zones of temperature, breeding habits, and times and line of migratory flight...
Page 273 - War, no part of this appropriation shall be paid out for horses not purchased by contract after competition duly invited by the Quartermaster Corps and an inspection under the direction and authority of the Secretary of War. %When practicable, horses...