Departments of Commerce and Labor Appropriation Bill, 1923: Hearing[s] Before Subcommittee of House Committee on Appropriations ... in Charge of Departments of Commerce and Labor Appropriation Bill for 1923. Sixty-seventh Congress, Second Session

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1922 - United States - 914 pages

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Page 391 - In relation to the duties performed by and authority conferred by law upon such bureau, officer, office, board, branch, or division of the public service, whether of an appellate or revisory character or otherwise, shall hereafter be vested in and exercised by the head of the said Department of Labor.
Page 391 - In his judgment the interests of industrial peace may require it to be done ; and all duties performed and all power and authority now possessed or exercised by the head of any executive department In and over any bureau; office, officer, board, branch, or division of the public service by this act transferred to the Department of Labor, or any business arising therefrom or pertaining thereto...
Page 391 - ... the better security of life, and by Acts of Congress relating to tonnage tax, boilers on steam vessels, the carrying of inflammable, explosive or dangerous cargo on vessels, the use of petroleum or other similar substances to produce motive power and relating to the remission or refund of fines, penalties, forfeitures, exactions or charges incurred for violating any provision of law relating to vessels or seamen...
Page 391 - All duties, power, authority and jurisdiction, whether supervisory, appellate or otherwise, now imposed or conferred upon the Secretary of the Treasury by Acts of Congress relating to merchant vessels or yachts, their measurement, numbers, names, registers, enrollments, licenses, commissions, records, mortgages, bills of sale, transfers, entry, clearance, movements and transportation of their cargoes and passengers, owners, officers, seamen, passengers, fees, inspection, equipment for the better...
Page 735 - President, who shall receive a salary of five thousand dollars a year. He shall perform such duties as shall be prescribed by the Secretary or required by law. There shall also be one chief clerk and a disbursing clerk, and such other clerical assistants, inspectors, and special agents as may from time to time be provided for by Congress.
Page 511 - Government agencies, scientific institutions, and industrial enterprises: (1) the construction of physical standards; (2) the testing, calibration, and certification of standards and standard measuring apparatus; (3) the study and improvement of instruments and methods of measurements; (4) the investigation and testing of railroad track scales, elevator scales, and other scales used in weighing commodities for interstate shipment...
Page 461 - ... the determination of properties of building materials and structural elements, and encouragement of their standardization and most effective use, including investigation of fire-resisting properties of building materials and conditions under which they may be most efficiently used, and the standardization of types of appliances for fire prevention...
Page 184 - Agriculture in acquiring and diffusing useful information regarding agriculture, and for other purposes , approved June 5, 1930 (USC, Supp. VII, title 7, sees. 541-545), and for collecting and disseminating to American producers, importers, exporters, and other interested persons information relative to the world supply of and need for American agri•cultural products, marketing methods, conditions, prices, and other factors, a knowledge of which is necessary to the advantageous disposition of such...
Page 386 - ... space measurement, 100 cubic feet being called 1 ton. Gross tonnage is the capacity of the entire space within the frames and the ceiling of the hull, together with those closed-in spaces above deck available for cargo, stores, passengers or crew, with certain minor exemptions.
Page 684 - Propagation of food fishes : For maintenance, repair, alteration, improvement, equipment, and operation of fish-cultural stations, general propagation of food fishes and their distribution, including movement, maintenance, and repairs of cars, purchase of equipment (including rubber boots...

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