Reorganization and Home Rule for the District of Columbia: Hearings...Subcommittee on Home Rule and Reorganization... June 30 - July 25, 1947, Parts 63-64 |
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administration ALLEN answer appointed appropriation attorney AUCHINCLOSS believe bill Board of Education Board of Public budget Bureau Chairman charter citizens Civil Service Commission Colonel WHITE Columbia government committee Congress cost DEANE delegated DEMARAY Department Director district court District government District of Columbia duties East Potomac Park elected Elizabeths Hospital employees Employment Service executive Federal Government fiscal functions funds GALLOWAY GARTSIDE home rule institutions interest JONES June 30 jurisdiction legislative licenses ment merit system Metropolitan Police MILLER municipal court National Capital Parks National Park Service operation opinion Park and Planning Park Police park system patients percent personnel PIERCE positions present prisoners problem Public Welfare question Recreation regulations residents responsibility retirement Rock Creek Park RUHLAND RULE AND REORGANIZATION statement Subcommittee on Home submitted Superintendent Territories tion trict United United States attorney vote Washington
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Page 4 - ... 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 217 - Annual Report of the Business of the Municipal Court for the District of Columbia for the Fiscal Year, July 1.
Page 136 - Act, other than subsection (h) of section 1, shall apply in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia and the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
Page 493 - I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging the future but by the past...
Page 119 - By Executive order of June 10, 1933, the functions of the Federal Board for Vocational Education were transferred to the Department of the Interior and assigned to the Commissioner of Education, who became responsible for the administration of rehabilitation services in the District.
Page 209 - And when in any suit mentioned in this section there shall be a controversy which is wholly between citizens of different states, and which can be fully determined as between them, then either one or more of the defendants actually interested in such controversy may remove said suit into the circuit court of the United States for the proper district.
Page 210 - States for the proper district, at any time before the trial thereof, when it shall be made to appear to said district court that from prejudice or local influence he will not be able to obtain justice in such State court...
Page 237 - It is undoubtedly true that the District of Columbia is a separate political community in a certain sense, and in that sense may be called a State : but the sovereign power of this qualified State is not lodged in the corporation 'of the District of Columbia, but in the government of the United States. Its supreme legislative body is Congress. The subordinate...
Page 183 - Columbia, or by any justice thereof, whereby the possession of property is changed or affected, such as orders for the appointment of receivers, granting injunctions, dissolving writs of attachment, and the like...
Page 158 - Thank you very much. The committee will stand adjourned until tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock. (Thereupon at 12 noon the...