Defense-housing and Defense Public-works Statutes of the United States and Provisions of Other Laws and Executive Documents Relating to the Administration of Such Statutes, September 15, 1941

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1941 - Housing - 88 pages

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Page 60 - All purchases and contracts for supplies or services, in any of the Departments of the Government, except for personal services, shall be made by advertising a sufficient time previously for proposals respecting the same, when the public exigencies do not require the immediate delivery of the articles, or performance of the service.
Page 63 - ... for the protection of the United States. (2) A payment bond with a surety or sureties satisfactory to such officer for the protection of all persons supplying labor and material in the prosecution of the work provided for in said contract for the use of each such person.
Page 82 - ... to require or permit any such laborer or mechanic to work more than eight hours in any calendar day, except in case of extraordinary emergency.
Page 79 - Columbia, within the jurisdiction of which the inquiry is carried on or within the jurisdiction of which said person guilty of contumacy or refusal to obey is found or resides or transacts business...
Page 56 - 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...
Page 58 - Congress, or both, any defense article for the government of any country whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the United States.
Page 78 - President is hereby authorized to establish such agencies, to accept and utilize such voluntary and uncompensated services, to appoint, without regard to the provisions of the civil service laws, such officers and employees, and to utilize such Federal officers and employees, and, with the consent of the State, such State and local officers and employees...
Page 80 - If any provision of this Act or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the Act and the application of such provisions to other persons or circumstances shall not be affected thereby.
Page 76 - Labor which is attached hereto and made a part hereof, regardless of any contractual relationship which may be alleged to exist between the Contractor or Subcontractor and such laborers and mechanics...
Page 31 - States, it is hereby ordered as follows: 1. There is hereby established in the Office for Emergency Management of...

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