Second Deficiency Appropriation Bill for 1929: Hearing[s] Before the Subcommittee of House Committee on Appropriations in Charge of Deficiency Appropriations. Seventieth Congress, Second Session

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1929 - United States - 675 pages

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Page 623 - State to make a certificate of the amount of such expenditure as he may think it advisable not to specify; and every such certificate shall be deemed a sufficient voucher for the sum therein expressed to have
Page 103 - AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TESTING MATERIALS EXTRACT FROM CHARTER 1. The name of the proposed corporation is the "American Society for Testing Materials." 2. The corporation is formed for the promotion of knowledge of the materials of engineering, and the standardization of specifications and the methods of testing.
Page 228 - Act, including the same objects specified under this head in the Act making appropriations for the Treasury...
Page 187 - WATERWAYS TREATY, UNITED STATES AND GREAT BRITAIN! INTERNATIONAL JOINT COMMISSION, UNITED STATES AND CHEAT BRITAIN Canadian For salaries and expenses...
Page 186 - The custom which existed in my early days of hospital experience of sending every specimen of urine to the "pathologist" for a routine report — a report which never can consider enough the special points suggested by the case — should be replaced, and the sooner this is done, the better it will be for the patient, the physicians and the laboratory.
Page 635 - STATEMENT OF HON. ZEBULON WEAVER, A REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA The CHAIRMAN.
Page 440 - An Act authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to execute an agreement with the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District providing for conservation, irrigation, drainage, and flood control for the Pueblo Indian lands in the Rio Grande Valley, New Mexico, and for other purposes", approved March 13, 1928 (45 Stat., p.
Page 184 - ... Kettle Falls? What are the nature and extent of such benefits in each case? What is the cost of such storage and how should such cost be apportioned among the various interests so benefited? " Each Government will appoint from its public service such engineering and other technical assistance as may be necessary to enable the commission to make the desired examination and to submit their report.
Page 166 - ... the Commissioner General of Immigration, in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Commissioner General of Immigration, with the approval of the Secretary of Labor...
Page 280 - He is also authorized, in his discretion, to procure replicas of the furniture and other articles in use in the mansion during the period mentioned, with a view to restoring, as far as may be practicable, the appearance of the interior of the mansion to the condition of its occupancy by the Lee family.

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