Amend Sections 1 and 2 of the Act of March 3, 1891-- Protection of Watersheds-- Gift of Certain Lands in Clayton County, Iowa-- Mississippi River Wild Life Amendment-- Beal Nursery at East Tawas, Mich.-- Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge-- New Uses of Cotton-- Tobacco Statistics-- Expanding Foreign Service-- Plant Quarantine Act Amendment: Hearings Before ..., 70-1 on H.J. Res. 140 ..., S. 1181 ..., February 27, 1928

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Page 17 - United States commissioners, may, within their respective jurisdictions, upon proper oath or affirmation showing probable cause, issue warrants in all such cases.
Page 17 - ... shall have power to execute any warrant or other process issued by an officer or court of competent jurisdiction...
Page 23 - MER shall end on January 1, April 1, July 1, and October 1 of each year.
Page 3 - That the sum of $25,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and hereby is, appropriated, out of any money in the United States Treasury not otherwise appropriated...
Page 5 - An act to establish the upper Mississippi River wild life and fish reluge," approved June 7. 1924 Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 10 of the act entitled " An act to establish the upper Mississippi River wild life and fish refuge...
Page 14 - An Act to provide for the protection of forest lands, for the reforestation of denuded areas, for the extension of national forests, and for other purposes, in order to promote the continuous production of timber on lands chiefly suitable therefor...
Page 2 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That sections 1 and 2 of the act entitled "An act to prohibit the importation and the use of opium for other than medicinal purposes...
Page 2 - Agriculture is hereby authorized to examine all vessels which are to carry export cattle from the ports of the United States to foreign countries, and to prescribe by rules and regulations or orders the accommodations which said vessels shall provide for export cattle, as to space, ventilation, fittings, food and water supply and such other requirements as he may decide to be necessary for the safe and proper transportation and humane treatment of such animals.
Page 26 - District, or possession, or department, agency or political subdivision thereof, or any person; and shall have the power to appoint, remove, and fix the compensation of such officers and employees, not in conflict with existing law, and make such expenditures for rent outside the District of Columbia...
Page 23 - ... two hundred and fifty thousand cigars, or from any manufacturer of cigarettes who, during the preceding calendar year, manufactured less than one million cigarettes, or from any dealer in leaf tobacco who, on the average, had less than fifty thousand pounds in stock at the ends of the four quarters of the preceding calendar year.

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