Reorganization Plan No. 5 of 1950: Hearing ... Eighty-first Congress, Second Session on S. Res. 259 Disapproving Reorganization Plan No. 5 (Dept. of Commerce). April 26, 27, 1950 |
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Page 26 - The head of each department is authorized to prescribe regulations, not inconsistent with law, for the government of his department, the conduct of its officers and clerks, the distribution and performance of its business, and the custody, use, and preservation of the records, papers, and property appertaining to it.
Page 26 - Sec. 2. Performance of functions of Secretary. The Secretary of the Interior may from time to time make such provisions as he shall deem appropriate authorizing the performance by any other officer, or by any agency or employee, of the Department of the Interior of any function of the Secretary, including any function transferred to the Secretary by the provisions of this reorganization plan.
Page 31 - The National Bureau of Standards is the principal agency of the federal government for fundamental research in physics, mathematics, chemistry, and engineering. It has the custody of the national standards of physical measurement in terms of which all...
Page 61 - The examiners-in-chief shall be persons of competent legal knowledge and scientific ability, whose duty it shall be, on the written petition of the appellant, to revise and determine upon the validity of the adverse decisions of examiners upon applications for patents, and for re-issues of patents, and in interference cases; and, when required by the Commissioner, they shall hear and report upon claims for extensions, and perform such other like duties as he may assign them.
Page 31 - ... patents. It examines applications for patents to determine if the applicants are entitled to patents under the law and grants the patents when they are so entitled; it publishes issued patents...
Page 3 - We recommend that the department head should be given authority to determine the organization within his department. He should be given authority to assign funds appropriated by the Congress for a given purpose to that agency in his department which he believes can best effect the will of Congress.
Page 8 - I served as chairman of one and a member of several other task forces of the Commission on the Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government, the reports of which included many aspects of the operations and organization of the Department of Defense.