To Amend the Organic Act of Puerto Rico: Approved March 2, 1917, and to Extend the Provisions of Certain Laws to Puerto Rico |
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act of Porto act to provide agriculture and labor Alaska amend the organic American Federation appointed appropriations approved March beneficio benefits bill Board for Vocational citizens civilian rehabilitation Comisión Committee on Territories CUSHMAN department of agriculture department of labor enacted extend the provisions extended to Porto favor Federal Board Federal executive departments Federal Government Federation of Labor FÉLIX CÓRDOVA DÁVILA follows Foraker Act Governor of Porto HIRAM BINGHAM House of Representatives HUSHING incorporated Territories industrial Insular Affairs island of Porto Joint Resolution Labor of Porto legislation legislature of Porto letter ment organic act population Porto Rico present Presupuesto proposed RAFAEL ALONSO record REEVES Resident Commissioner DAVILA ROBINSON of Indiana SANTIAGO IGLESIAS Secretary Secretary of War Senate and House Senator IGLESIAS senator or representative Senator ROBINSON Seventy-first Congress Smith-Hughes Act special elections supplementary thereto Territories and Insular Territory of Hawaii tion Treasury United States Senate vocational education War Department welfare
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Page 3 - An act to provide for the promotion of vocational education ; to provide for cooperation with the states in the promotion of such education in agriculture and the trades and industries; to provide for cooperation with the states in the preparation of teachers of vocational subjects; and to appropriate money and regulate its expenditure," approved February 23, 1917, and will observe" and comply with all the requirements of said act.
Page 3 - Congress assembled to provide for the promotion of Vocational Rehabilitation of persons disabled in industry or otherwise and their return to Civil Employment, Approved June 2, 1920.
Page 16 - AN ACT To establish agricultural experiment stations In connection with the colleges established In the several States under the provisions of an act approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and of the acts supplementary thereto...
Page 33 - No Senator or Representative shall, during the time for which he shall have been elected, be appointed to any civil office of profit under this state, which shall have been created, or the emoluments of which shall have been increased during such term, except such offices as may be filled by elections by the people.
Page 4 - ... be allowed the same sum for stationery and for the pay of necessary clerk hire as is now allowed to...
Page 16 - An Act to provide for cooperative agricultural extension work between the agricultural colleges in the several States receiving the benefits of an Act of Congress approved July 2, 1862, and of Acts supplementary thereto, and the United States Department of Agriculture...
Page 33 - An Act to provide a civil government for Porto Rico, and for other purposes," approved March 2, 1917, as amended, shall be known and designated as "Puerto Rico.
Page 3 - President's decision therein made known. He shall annually, and at such other times as he may be required, make official report of the transactions of the government of Porto Rico to the executive department of the Government of the United States to be designated by the President as herein provided, and his said annual report shall be transmitted to Congress, and he shall perform such additional duties and functions as may in pursuance of law be delegated to him by the President.
Page 3 - The heads of the four remaining departments shall be appointed by the governor, by and with the advice and -consent of the Senate of Porto Rico.