District of Columbia Charter Act: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on the Judiciary of the Committee on the District of Columbia, United States Senate, Eighty-fifth Congress, First and Second Sessions, on S. 1289 ... and S. 1846Considers legislation to establish limited D.C. home rule through providing for an elected mayor, city council, school board and non-voting delegate to the House of Representatives. |
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84th Congress administration bill ALAN BIBLE amended American American Veterans Committee appointed governor appropriate approved authority ballot Board of Commissioners Board of Education Board of Elections Board of Trade bonds BROWNLOW budget candidate Chairman charter referendum Commissioner MCLAUGHLIN committee Congress Constitution Democratic District Council District government District of Columbia elected mayor enactment executive Federal Government Federal interest feel form of government functions hearing hereby home rule home-rule bill House of Representatives Judiciary legislative assembly legislature Lieutenant Governor matter ment municipal Nation's Capital nominated nonvoting Delegate officer or agency person Portwine President problems proposed pursuant qualified electors record registered regulations school board Secretary self-government Senator CLARK Senator JAVITS Senator MORSE statement subcommittee suffrage term territorial form thereof tion TOBRINER United States Capitol United States Senator veto vote voters ward Washington WAYNE MORSE Young Republican
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Page 214 - ... effective control over and accountability for all funds, property, and other assets for which the agency is responsible, including appropriate internal audit...
Page 9 - Council is hereby exempted with respect to such appointment, from the operation of sections 281, 283, 284, and 1914 of title 18 of the United States Code, and section 190 of the Revised Statutes (5 USC 99), except as otherwise specified in paragraph (2) of this subsection.
Page 9 - A report of each such audit for each fiscal year ending on June 30 shall be made by the Comptroller General to the Congress not later than January 15 following the close of the fiscal year for which such audit is made. The report shall set forth the scope of the audit and shall include a statement (showing intercorporate relations...
Page 9 - Any failure to obey such order may be punished by such court as a contempt thereof.
Page 9 - Corporation pertaining to its financial transactions and necessary to facilitate the audit, and they shall be afforded full facilities for verifying transactions with the balances or securities held by depositaries, fiscal agents, and custodians.
Page 220 - The subordinate legislative powers of a municipal character which have been or may be lodged in the city corporations, or in the District corporation, do not make those bodies sovereign. Crimes committed in the District are not crimes against the District, but against the United States. Therefore, whilst the District may, in a sense, be called a State, it is such in a very qualified sense.
Page 197 - ... will have had their voice in the election of the government, which is to exercise authority over them ; as a municipal legislature for local purposes, derived from their own suffrages, will of course be allowed them...
Page 2 - An Act to fix and regulate the salaries of teachers, school officers, and other employees of the Board of Education of the District of Columbia...
Page 9 - Elections under authority of this title, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned for not more than six months, or both.