United States Compiled Statutes, Annotated, 1916: Embracing the Statutes of the United States of a General and Permanent Nature in Force at the Close of the First Session of the 64th Congress and Decisions Construing and Applying Same to April 1, 1916, Incorporating Under the Headings of the Revised Statutes the Subsequent Laws, Together with Explanatory and Historical Notes, Volume 1 |
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... ante , § 15 , and section 2 of that act , ante , § 16 . § 20. ( R. S. § 22. ) Reduction of representation under amend- ment 14 . Should any State deny or abridge the right of any of the male inhabitants thereof , being twenty - one ...
... ante , § 15 , and section 2 of that act , ante , § 16 . § 20. ( R. S. § 22. ) Reduction of representation under amend- ment 14 . Should any State deny or abridge the right of any of the male inhabitants thereof , being twenty - one ...
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... ante , § 35 , and in R. S. §§ 37 , 154 , 160 , post , §§ 38 , 226 , 234 . This section was repealed , in so far as it related to the annual compensa- tion of the Secretary of State , and his annual compensation was to be at the rate of ...
... ante , § 35 , and in R. S. §§ 37 , 154 , 160 , post , §§ 38 , 226 , 234 . This section was repealed , in so far as it related to the annual compensa- tion of the Secretary of State , and his annual compensation was to be at the rate of ...
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... ante , § 36 . Notes of Decisions Mileage not part of salary . - Congress has not made mileage an inseparable part of ... ante , § 35 , which was incorporated into this section of the Revised Statutes , and was restored to force by Act ...
... ante , § 36 . Notes of Decisions Mileage not part of salary . - Congress has not made mileage an inseparable part of ... ante , § 35 , which was incorporated into this section of the Revised Statutes , and was restored to force by Act ...
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... ante , §§ 49 , 50 ; and their passage as public accounts , and payment out of the public treasury were provided for by R. S. § 46 , ante , $ 48 . Whenever appropriations for salaries of Members and Delegates cannot be lawfully disbursed ...
... ante , §§ 49 , 50 ; and their passage as public accounts , and payment out of the public treasury were provided for by R. S. § 46 , ante , $ 48 . Whenever appropriations for salaries of Members and Delegates cannot be lawfully disbursed ...
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... ante , §§ 91-95 . The Door - keepers of the two Houses were required to provide fuel by R. S. $ 73 , ante , § 106 . Provisions for inspection of fuel purchased for the public service in the Dis- trict of Columbia were contained in R. S. ...
... ante , §§ 91-95 . The Door - keepers of the two Houses were required to provide fuel by R. S. $ 73 , ante , § 106 . Provisions for inspection of fuel purchased for the public service in the Dis- trict of Columbia were contained in R. S. ...
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Page 180 - The head of each department is authorized to prescribe regulations, not inconsistent with law, for the government of his department, the conduct of its officers and clerks, the distribution and performance of its business, and the custody, use. and preservation of the records, papers, and property appertaining to it.
Page 511 - The purpose of the Department of Labor shall be to foster, promote, and develop the welfare of the wage earners of the United States, to improve their working conditions, and to advance their opportunities for profitable employment.
Page 431 - The service thus established shall promote and regulate the use of the Federal areas known as national parks, monuments, and reservations hereinafter specified by such means and measures as conform to the fundamental purpose of the said parks, monuments, and reservations, which purpose is to conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and the wild life therein and to provide for the enjoyment of the same in such manner and by such means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment...
Page 517 - There is hereby established at the seat of Government of the United States a Department of Agriculture, the general designs and duties of which shall be to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word, and to procure, propagate, and distribute among the people new and valuable seeds and plants.
Page 54 - Houses of Congress, or by any committee of either House, upon the ground that his testimony to such fact or his production of such paper may tend to disgrace him or otherwise render him infamous.
Page 3 - In determining the meaning of the Revised Statutes, or of any act or resolution of Congress passed subsequent to February twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, words importing the singular number may extend and be applied to several persons or things...
Page 452 - Act. execute or cause to be executed all laws affecting public lands heretofore or hereafter reserved under the provisions of section twenty-four of the Act entitled, "An Act to repeal the timber-culture laws, and for other purposes...
Page 529 - Bureau shall investigate and report * * * upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people, and shall especially investigate the questions of infant mortality, the birth rate, orphanage, juvenile courts, desertion, dangerous occupations, accidents and diseases of children, employment, legislation affecting children in the several States and Territories * * *. SHEPPARD-TOWNER ACT (42 Stat.
Page 76 - Two tellers shall be previously appointed on the part of the Senate and two on the part of the House of Representatives, to whom shall be handed, as they are opened by the President of the Senate, all the certificates and papers purporting to be certificates of the electoral votes...
Page 460 - Agriculture, has charge of the forecasting of weather; the issue of storm warnings; the display of weather and flood signals for the benefit of agriculture, commerce, and navigation; the gaging and reporting of rivers; the maintenance and operation of seacoast telegraph lines, and the collection and transmission of marine intelligence for the benefit of commerce and navigation...