Hearings Before the Committee on Expenditures in the Post-Office Department, of the House of Representatives ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1908 |
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allowances amount appointed appropriation Assistant Postmaster-General assistant superintendents Auditor bond BRIGGS building bureau cents CHAIRMAN chief clerk COCHRAN Company CONGRESS THE LIBRARY CONRARD contract contractor conventions cost COVERT Cunard Line delivery division of supplies Doctor MARSHALL duties elevator employees expense FAIRCHILD fiscal Fourth Assistant Postmaster-General furnished Government GRANDFIELD GRAW ink tablets inspection June 30 jute LAWSHE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS machines mail matter MCCLEARY McMILLIN ment miles money orders money-order o'clock a. m. Otis Elevator Company paid paper parcels pneumatic tube Post-Office Department postal cards postal service postmaster pouches pounds present purchasing agent railroad railway mail service receipts received recommendation record requisitions RHODERICK route rural carriers salaries Second Assistant second quality SHAW star routes statement steamers surety Third Assistant tion trip twine Wanger Washington weight York
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Page 32 - America or its duly appointed or authorized officer or officers; to the payment of which, well and truly to be made and done, we bind ourselves, our heirs, executors, administrators, successors, and assigns, jointly and severally, firmly by these presents.
Page 28 - No contract or order, or any interest therein, shall be transferred by the party to whom such contract or order is given to any other party, and any such transfer shall cause the annulment of the contract or order transferred, so far as the United States are concerned. All rights of action, however, for any breach of such contract by the contracting parties, are reserved to the. United States.
Page 29 - Assigns, for the which payment well and truly to be made and done, we bind ourselves, our Heirs, Executors and Administrators jointly and severally, firmly by these presents, sealed with our seals, and dated this 23d day of May AD l8l2.
Page 30 - And the said party of the second part, for himself, his heirs, executors, and administrators, doth covenant and agree to and with the said party of the first part...
Page 125 - ... departments ; and the accounts are finally settled by a third set, who are wholly independent of them. If, from any cause, an illegal expenditure be directed by the head of a department, it is the duty of the disbursing agent not to pay the money ; and if he does pay it, it is the duty of the auditors and comptrollers to reject the item in the settlement of his account.
Page 78 - Departments of the government and the manner of keeping the same; the economy, justness, and correctness of such expenditures; their conformity with appropriation laws; the proper application of public moneys; the security of the government against unjust and extravagant demands; retrenchment; the enforcement of the payment of moneys due to the United States; the economy and accountability of public officers; the abolishment of useless offices; the reduction or increase of the pay of officers...
Page 28 - Statutes it is provided that no contract or order, or any interest therein, shall be transferred by the party to whom such contract or order is given to any other party, and any such transfer shall cause the annulment of the contract or order transferred, so far as the United States are concerned.
Page 117 - An Act making appropriations for the service of the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918, and for other purposes...
Page 49 - This bureau is charged with the duty of collecting, collating, publishing, and distributing information of every kind which concerns the international postal service ; of giving, at the request of the parties concerned, an opinion upon questions in dispute ; of making known proposals for modifying the acts of the congress ; of notifying alterations adopted ; and, in general, of taking up such studies and labors as may be confided to it in the interest of the postal union.