Hearings Before the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of AgricultureU.S. Government Printing Office, 1907 - 1179 pages |
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... kind enough to state to the committee how much call there is at the document room for that report ? Mr. GRAYSON . That is not the Yearbook ? The CHAIRMAN . No ; I should say not ; it is the annual report . Mr. GRAYSON . We do not have ...
... kind enough to state to the committee how much call there is at the document room for that report ? Mr. GRAYSON . That is not the Yearbook ? The CHAIRMAN . No ; I should say not ; it is the annual report . Mr. GRAYSON . We do not have ...
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... kind of formal authority , and would not like to be caught in the act of sell- ing them for waste paper or burning them . Mr. SAMUEL . Is it not a fact that they are doing that now ? Mr. HILL . I don't know . Mr. FLOOD . They only do ...
... kind of formal authority , and would not like to be caught in the act of sell- ing them for waste paper or burning them . Mr. SAMUEL . Is it not a fact that they are doing that now ? Mr. HILL . I don't know . Mr. FLOOD . They only do ...
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... kind of binding , as far as material is con- cerned , would be best for our heavy newspapers . The CHAIRMAN . That is whether sheep would be best , or cloth , or what ? Mr. MEYER . Buckram , or duck , or various other kinds of cloth ...
... kind of binding , as far as material is con- cerned , would be best for our heavy newspapers . The CHAIRMAN . That is whether sheep would be best , or cloth , or what ? Mr. MEYER . Buckram , or duck , or various other kinds of cloth ...
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... kind in the Department ? Mr. ZAPPONE . No ; not in the Department of Agriculture . May I read here the duties of the solicitor as given in the Congressional Directory ? The CHAIRMAN . Yes . Mr. ZAPPONE ( reading ) : The solicitor acts ...
... kind in the Department ? Mr. ZAPPONE . No ; not in the Department of Agriculture . May I read here the duties of the solicitor as given in the Congressional Directory ? The CHAIRMAN . Yes . Mr. ZAPPONE ( reading ) : The solicitor acts ...
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... kind of work ? Mr. ZAPPONE . The private secretary does some of it ; yes , sir . His duties , however , are confined more exclusively to confidential work and the receiving of the many committees and individuals calling upon the ...
... kind of work ? Mr. ZAPPONE . The private secretary does some of it ; yes , sir . His duties , however , are confined more exclusively to confidential work and the receiving of the many committees and individuals calling upon the ...
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amount animals annual appropriation ASHION assistant boll weevil building BURCH Bureau of Chemistry Bureau of Plant cattle Census cent CHAIRMAN character charge chemical chief clerk committee Congress connection copies cost cotton course crop Department of Agriculture disease distribution division Doctor GALLOWAY Doctor HOWARD Doctor MELVIN Doctor MERRIAM Doctor TRUE Doctor WILEY documents duties efficiency employees estimate examination expenditures expense experiment stations fact farmers FERGUSON fiscal forest reserves Forest Service give Government grade GRAYSON Grazing HILL increase inspection instance investigations kind labor laboratory land matter ment methods Miss CLARK OLMSTED Philippine PINCHOT Plant Industry practically printed produce Professor MOORE Professor WHITNEY promotion proposition purpose question record salary SAMUEL Secretary of Agriculture seed Senate sheep simply soil Special privileges statistics statutory roll stenographer thing Timber sales tion Total Treasury Washington weevil Witness ZAPPONE
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Page 816 - ... list and describe the same by metes and bounds, or otherwise, and file the lists and descriptions with the Secretary of the Interior, with the request that the said lands be opened to entry in accordance with the provisions of the homestead laws and this Act.
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Page 816 - ... plat, together with a notice of the time and place of offering proof, in a conspicuous place on the land embraced in such plat during the period prescribed by law for the publication of his notice of intention to offer proof, and that a copy of such plat and field notes shall also be kept posted in the office of the register of the land office for the land district in which such lands are situated for a like period; and further, that any agricultural lands within forest reserves may, at the discretion...
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Page 167 - ... thousand dollars; and the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized to use any part of this sum he may deem necessary or expedient...