Legislative Establishment Appropriation BillU.S. Government Printing Office, 1914 - Courts |
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... SISSON . What particular department is this ? Mr. DAVIS . The State Department . Mr. SISSON . I understand that , but what particular bureau did you refer to ? I could not be here when you began your statement . Mr. DAVIS . All of the ...
... SISSON . What particular department is this ? Mr. DAVIS . The State Department . Mr. SISSON . I understand that , but what particular bureau did you refer to ? I could not be here when you began your statement . Mr. DAVIS . All of the ...
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... SISSON . He does not apportion them for the year at so much per quarter ? Mr. DAVIS . No , sir : we simply used that appropriation as we needed it . Mr. SISSON . Does not the law require you to apportion your appropriations ? Mr. DAVIS ...
... SISSON . He does not apportion them for the year at so much per quarter ? Mr. DAVIS . No , sir : we simply used that appropriation as we needed it . Mr. SISSON . Does not the law require you to apportion your appropriations ? Mr. DAVIS ...
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... SISSON . There was a proviso in that act that the money fur- nished to citizens in Europe should be paid back to the Government by the citizens . Mr. DAVIS . Yes , sir . Mr. SISSON . Then , the chairman has just read to you the portion ...
... SISSON . There was a proviso in that act that the money fur- nished to citizens in Europe should be paid back to the Government by the citizens . Mr. DAVIS . Yes , sir . Mr. SISSON . Then , the chairman has just read to you the portion ...
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... SISSON . Let me see if we understand each other with reference to that fund . The money that is paid back to the Government would go back into this million - dollar fund and could be expended , I be- lieve , in the settlement of ...
... SISSON . Let me see if we understand each other with reference to that fund . The money that is paid back to the Government would go back into this million - dollar fund and could be expended , I be- lieve , in the settlement of ...
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... SISSON . Have you any statement showing the increase in the number of cases investigated within the last 12 months and those investigated prior to the outbreak of the war ? Mr. DAVIS . No , sir . There are so many being investigated ...
... SISSON . Have you any statement showing the increase in the number of cases investigated within the last 12 months and those investigated prior to the outbreak of the war ? Mr. DAVIS . No , sir . There are so many being investigated ...
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additional clerks Admiral McGOWAN amount appointed asking assistant AVERILL AYERS banks bill BUCHANAN building bureau Bureau of Navigation BYRNS census cent chief clerk Civil Service clerk of class commission commissioner Congress cost course DAVIS detailed District District of Columbia duties efficiency division eligibles employees estimate examination fair standard field filing fiscal fund Government increase Indian inspectors investigation JOHNSON June 30 KRAM laborers law clerks LELAND STANFORD Library machines MALBURN matter McILHENNY ment MERITT messenger months Naval Navy Navy Department necessary OSBORN paid Pension position Post Office Department present purchase question received record reduced reference roll salary SALTZGABER Secretary REDFIELD Secretary's SISSON solicitor STAFFORD standard of efficiency statement subtreasuries survey TALLMAN thing tion Treasurer's office Treasury Department typewriters vacancies War Department Washington watchmen WETMORE WILMETH
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Page 312 - That the heads of executive departments and other Government establishments are authorized to prescribe per diem rates of allowance not exceeding $4 in lieu of subsistence to persons engaged in field work or traveling on official business outside of the District of Columbia and away from their designated posts of duty when not otherwise fixed by law.
Page 651 - GOVERNOR'S OFFICE Mr. TAYLOR. The next item is : For contingent expenses, to be expended by the Governor for stationery, postage, and Incidentals, $1,000; private secretary to the Governor, $3,100; temporary clerk hire, $500; for traveling expenses of the Governor while absent from the capital on official business, $1,250; in all, $5,850.
Page 390 - June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, shall not exceed ten thousand dollars; and that the Secretary of War shall each year, in the annual estimates, report to Congress the number of persons so employed, their duties, and the amount paid to each.
Page 606 - For investigating the question of public use or sale of inventions for two years or more prior to filing applications for patents...
Page 390 - And the services of skilled draftsmen, civil engineers, and such other services as the Secretary of War may deem necessary, may be employed only in the office of the Chief of Engineers to carry into effect the various appropriations for rivers and harbors...
Page 401 - ... for the benefit of the people, and not for the benefit of the officer, that removal is proper.
Page 11 - I go to work knowing my child is somewhere safe from 8 o'clock in the morning until 4 o'clock in the afternoon.
Page 588 - For purchase, repair, and exchange of adding machines, addressing machines, typewriters, check-signing machines, and other labor-saving devices, furniture, filing cabinets, and postage on foreign mail, $6,000.
Page 19 - ... directory, stationery, mail and delivery service, and all incidental expenses in connection with the custody, care, and maintenance of said building and grounds, $14,000. For furniture, including partitions, screens, shelving, and electrical work pertaining thereto, including not exceeding $7,000 for the extension and completion of the steel stack for storage of catalogue cards in the card section, $17,000. Provisions in "An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government...
Page 209 - For the purchase or exchange of professional and scientific books, law and medical books, and books to complete broken sets, periodicals, directories, and other books of reference relating to the business of the department...