| Postal service - 1882 - 1286 pages
...general authority to the heads of all the executive departments of the Government — is authorized to prescribe regulations, not inconsistent with law,...conduct of its officers and clerks; the distribution ami performance of its business, and the custody, use, and preservation of the records, papers, and... | |
| Postal service - 1882 - 1042 pages
...Statutes, sec. 1(51. The Revised Statutes provide as follows: Tlio head of each department is authori/ed to prescribe regulations, not inconsistent with law....for the government of his department, the conduct of his officers and clerks, the distribution and performance of his business, and the custody, nse, and... | |
| United States. Congress. House - United States - 1882 - 810 pages
...such performance. Section 161 of the Revised Statutes authorizes the head of each Executive Department to " prescribe regulations, not inconsistent with...law, for the government of his Department, * * » the distribution and performance of its business * * * ;" and section 248 provides that the Secretary of... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1897 - 798 pages
...by Congress ever since. The Revised Statutes also authorized, § 161, "The head of each department to prescribe regulations not inconsistent with law...department, the conduct of its officers and clerks, and distribution and performance of its business, and the custody and use and preservation of the records,... | |
| United States. Comptroller of the Treasury - Finance, Public - 1884 - 680 pages
...part thereof. ,It only becomes an item of evidence before the accounting officers. The Secretary may "prescribe regulations, not inconsistent with law, for the government of his Department," and these, subject to his control, have the force of law (Rev. Stat., 161). But the power, to prescribe... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1903 - 1156 pages
...161 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, by which the head of each department is authorized to prescribe regulations, not inconsistent with law,...department, the conduct of its officers, and clerks, etc. U. 8. v. Eliason, 10 Pet 291, 10 I,. Ed. 968; Landram v. U. S., 16 Ct. CI. 7-1, Gratlot v. US,... | |
| United States. President - United States - 1886 - 872 pages
...duly authorized to act for them. The statutes provide, that "the head of each Department is authorized to prescribe regulations, not inconsistent with law,...Department, the conduct of its officers, * * * and performance of its business" (Rev. Stat., 161) — the delivery of drafts to attorneys being a part... | |
| United States. Comptroller of the Treasury - Finance - 1896 - 764 pages
...provisions of section llil, Revised Statutes, which provide that "the head of each Department is authorized to prescribe regulations, not inconsistent with law,...Department, the conduct of its officers and clerks," * * * there being no law. of which I am aware, prohibiting such action on your part. It is respectfully... | |
| United States - Military law - 1898 - 596 pages
...Chief cleikutodintribuUMliitieH.ete. ., SEC. 101. The head of each Department is authorized to Title 4. prescribe regulations, not inconsistent with law,...government of his Department, the conduct of its officers r and clerks, the distribution and performance of its business, i, ("¿g'^pfiS; and the custody, use,... | |
| United States. Judge-Advocate-General's Department. War Department - 1898 - 204 pages
...Departmental regulations, under section 161, Revised Statutes, authorizing the head of each Department to ' prescribe regulations, not inconsistent with...for the government of his Department, the conduct of officers and clerks, the distribution and performance of its business, and the custody, use, and preservation... | |
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