Independent Offices Appropriation Bill for 1939, Hearings Before ... 75-3, on H.R. 8837

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Page 34 - Federal ; to select, employ, and fix the compensation of such officers, employees, attorneys, and agents as shall be necessary for the transaction of the business of the corporation, without regard to the provisions of other laws applicable to the employment and compensation of officers or employees of the United States...
Page 34 - ... a claim, the ascertainment of the amount due, and the issuing of a warrant for the payment thereof. Such transfers, assignments, and powers of attorney, must recite the warrant for payment, and must be acknowledged by the person making them, before an officer having authority to take acknowledgments of deeds, and shall be certified by the officer; and it must appear by the certificate that the officer, art the time of the acknowledgment, read and fully explained the transfer, assignment, or warrant...
Page 34 - all transfers and assignments made of any claim upon the United States, or of any part or share thereof, or interest therein, whether absolute or conditional, and whatever may be the consideration therefor, and all powers of attorney, orders, or other authorities for receiving payment of any such claim, or of any part or share thereof, shall be absolutely null and void, unless they are freely made and executed in the presence of at least two attesting witnesses, after the allowance of such a claim,...
Page 14 - And you have State attorneys also? Mr. RUSSELL. Well, in California we have two divisions. We have a division attorney at Los Angeles and one at San Francisco. Senator McAooo. Now, you mean, in each State, you have an attorney for the State acting under the regional attorney? Mr. RUSSELL. We have a State counsel in every State, except California, and we have two divisions in California. We have three divisions in Texas. Senator McAooo. You have two State attorneys in California; one in the southern...
Page 34 - The Corporation shall be entitled to the free use of the United States mails in the same manner as the executive departments of the Government.
Page 34 - The board shall be entitled to the free use of the United States mails for its official business in the same manner as the executive departments of the Government ; and shall determine its necessary expenditures under this act and the manner in which they shall be incurred, allowed, and paid.
Page 34 - Federal. (5) To appoint and to fix the compensation, by its board of trustees, of such officers, employees, attorneys^ or agents, as shall be necessary for the performance of its duties under this title, without regard to the provisions of any other laws relating to the employment or compensation of officers or employees of the United States.
Page 34 - ... agents as shall be necessary for the performance of its duties under this act without regard to the provisions of other laws applicable to the employment or compensation of officers, employees, attorneys, and agents of the United States. No such officer, employee, attorney, or agent shall be paid compensation at a rate in excess of the rate provided in the case of members of the board.
Page 34 - No such officer, employee, attorney, or agent shall be paid compensation at a rate in excess of the rate provided by law in the case of the members of the Board.
Page 34 - ... or of any part or share thereof, shall be absolutely null and void, unless they are freely made and executed in the presence of at least two attesting witnesses, after the allowance of such a claim, the ascertainment of the amount due, and the issuing. of a warrant for the payment thereof. Such transfers, assignments, and powers of attorney, must recite the warrant for payment...

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