A Synopsis of the Commercial and Revenue System of the United States: As Developed by Instructions and Decisions of the Treasury Department for the Aministration of the Revenue Laws: Accompanied with a Supplement ...J. & G. S. Gideon, 1847 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 100
Page v
... heads of the Department , and investigating committees of Congress after Congress , if I may be permitted to judge from the public documents I have had occasion to examine . And it is perhaps more particularly worthy of remark here ...
... heads of the Department , and investigating committees of Congress after Congress , if I may be permitted to judge from the public documents I have had occasion to examine . And it is perhaps more particularly worthy of remark here ...
Page vi
... heads of Departments in 1833 , and their notes of approbation appended to it , may be considered as a corroboration ... head of the department in whose custody it ' may be found , rather than to attempt myself , the making of a selection ...
... heads of Departments in 1833 , and their notes of approbation appended to it , may be considered as a corroboration ... head of the department in whose custody it ' may be found , rather than to attempt myself , the making of a selection ...
Page viii
... heads of Departments to compile and print even such portions of the laws and treaties as well as the instructions , regulations , opinions , decisions , and forms , deemed necessary to elucidate , and give uniformity to their ...
... heads of Departments to compile and print even such portions of the laws and treaties as well as the instructions , regulations , opinions , decisions , and forms , deemed necessary to elucidate , and give uniformity to their ...
Page xiv
... heads ,. 177 II . Books kept in the Pay Division - relating to the pay of contractors for transporting the mails ... heads , .... ( C ) -Books kept by the SIXTH AUDITOR . I. Books kept in the General Division - relating to matters that ...
... heads ,. 177 II . Books kept in the Pay Division - relating to the pay of contractors for transporting the mails ... heads , .... ( C ) -Books kept by the SIXTH AUDITOR . I. Books kept in the General Division - relating to matters that ...
Page xv
... heads of appro priation - definite or indefinite ,. IV . Warrant evidences ( a summary ) of expenditures made from " indefinite " appropriation , during the year , sum- med up in a general appropriation warrant at the end of the year ...
... heads of appro priation - definite or indefinite ,. IV . Warrant evidences ( a summary ) of expenditures made from " indefinite " appropriation , during the year , sum- med up in a general appropriation warrant at the end of the year ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Abstract accounts of disbursements aforesaid amount appertaining army Auditor's office Auditor's table balances bonds book are recorded book contains BUREAU RELATING certificates certificates of registry Chickasaw claimants claims of individuals clerical duties clerks and messengers collectors Commissioner compensation Congress contingent expenses contractors countersigned current of advances debit deposited depositories disbursing agent disbursing officers district drafts emoluments estimates expenditures Fifth Auditor fund heads of appropriation incidental Indian issued Land Office ledger LETTER BOOK licenses light-house ment military miscellaneous naval officer Navy Departments ordnance paid patent pay warrants paymaster payment pensions Post Office Department postage postmasters public money quarter quarterly accounts current quarterly returns Quartermaster receipts registry requisitions respective revenue revision and final salaries Second Auditor Second Comptroller Secretary Secretary of War settled superintendent surveyors Tables of Details thereof Third Auditor transmitted Treasury Department treasury notes United vessels vouchers War Department
Popular passages
Page 197 - Army, shall be considered as a common fund for the use and benefit of such of the United States as have become, or shall become members of the confederation or federal alliance of the said States...
Page 201 - President may prescribe, to cause the lands thus situated to be surveyed in tracts of two acres in width, fronting on any river, bayou, lake, or watercourse...
Page 49 - ... recorded by the register, and not otherwise; he shall take receipts for all moneys paid by him, and all receipts for moneys received by him shall be endorsed upon warrants signed by the secretary of the treasury, without which warrant, so signed, no acknowledgment for money received into the public treasury shall be valid.
Page 164 - It is proved to the satisfaction of the court that the defendant is, at the time of the trial, in possession of vouchers not before in his power to procure, and that he was prevented from exhibiting a claim for such credit at the Treasury by absence from the United States or by some unavoidable accident.
Page 193 - That there shall be in the said department an inferior officer, to be appointed by the said principal officer, to be employed therein as he shall deem proper, and to be called the chief clerk in the department of war, and who, whenever the said principal officer shall be removed from office by the President of the United States, or in any other case of vacancy, shall, during such vacancy, have the charge and custody of all records, books and papers, appertaining to the said department.
Page 213 - An act to appropriate the proceeds of the sales of the public lands, and to grant preemption rights...
Page 96 - And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Auditor to receive all public accounts, and after examination to certify the balance, and transmit the accounts with the vouchers and certificate to the Comptroller for his decision thereon...
Page 213 - State has already received, as aforesaid, make 500,000 acres ; the selections in all of the said States to be made within their limits, respectively, in such manner as the Legislatures thereof shall direct, and located in parcels conformably to sectional divisions and subdivisions, of not less than three hundred and twenty acres in any one location...
Page 49 - Treasurer to receive and keep the moneys of the United States, and to disburse the same upon warrants drawn by the Secretary of the Treasury, countersigned by the Comptroller, recorded by the Register, and not otherwise...
Page 2 - That there shall be established and attached to the Department of State, an office to be denominated the Patent Office; the chief officer of which shall be called the Commissioner of Patents...