Service Monographs of the United States Government, Issue 12Brookings Institution, 1922 - United States |
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2d sess accompany H. R. administration Alaskan Engineering Commission appropriations awards beneficiary bill Bureau burial expenses cent centum Chairman Chief of Accounts child civil employees Claims Division claims for compensation commerce and labor Commissioners Compensation Commission compensation for injuries compensation fund compensation is payable compensation law compensation provided Congress decedent's District of Columbia duty entitled to compensation filed furnished government employees Govt hospital services House Rept immediate superior injured employee injuries sustained injury or death injury Sec Isthmian Canal Commission June 30 legislation loss of wages marriage medical examinations medical officers ment mission mistake of law monthly pay organization paid Panama Canal Panama Railroad Company partial disability payments pensation period person entitled personnel ployees Post Office Department President result safety engineers Senate September 15 Serial services and supplies Stat Stenographer surgical tion U. S. Congress wage-earning capacity Washington wholly dependent widow workmen's compensation
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Page v - THE INSTITUTE FOR GOVERNMENT RESEARCH STUDIES IN ADMINISTRATION. The System of Financial Administration of Great Britain. By WF Willoughby, WW Willoughby, and SM Lindsay. 378 pp. $3. The Budget. By Rene Stourm.
Page 63 - That a commission is hereby created, to be known as the United States Employees' Compensation Commission, and to be composed of three commissioners appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, one of whom shall be designated by the President as chairman.
Page vii - This vast organization has never been studied in detail as one piece of administrative mechanism. Never have the foundations been laid for a thorough consideration of the relations of all of its parts. No comprehensive effort has been made to list its multifarious activities or to group them in such a way as to present a clear picture of what the government is doing. Never has a complete description been given of the agencies through which these activities are performed. At no time...
Page 68 - An Act to provide compensation for employees of the United States suffering injuries while in the performance of their duties, and for other purposes", approved September 7, 1916, as amended, shall extend to persons given employment under the provisions of this Act.
Page 59 - The above percentages shall be paid if there is no widow, widower, child, or dependent parent. If there is a widow, widower, child, or dependent parent, there shall be paid so much of the above percentages as, when added to the total...
Page ix - ... a compilation of, or reference to, the laws and regulations governing its operations ; sixth, financial statements showing its appropriations, expenditures and other data for a period of years ; and finally, a full bibliography of the sources of information, official and private, bearing on the service and its operations. In the preparation of these monographs the Institute has kept steadily in mind the aim to produce documents that will be of direct value and assistance in the administration...
Page 19 - That the notice shall state the name and address of the employee, the year, month, day, and hour when and the particular locality where the injury occurred, and the cause and nature of the injury, and shall be signed by and contain the address of the person giving the notice.
Page 80 - An Act granting to certain employees of the United States the right to receive from it compensation for injuries sustained in the course of their employment...
Page viii - ... of all of its parts. No comprehensive effort has been made to list its multifarious activities or to group them in such a way as to present a clear picture of what the Government is doing. Never has a complete description been given of the agencies through which these activities are performed. At no time has the attempt been made to study all of these activities and agencies with a view to the assignment of each activity to the agency best fitted for its performance, to the avoidance of duplication...
Page 64 - ... all employees of the commission shall be appointed from lists of eligibles to be supplied by the Civil Service Commission and in accordance with the civil service law.