Hearings Before Subcommittee of House Committee on Appropriations Consisting of Messrs. J. A. Tawney, W. I. Smith, George R. Malby, J. J. Fitzgerald, and Swagar Sherley in Charge of Sundry Civil Appropriation Bill for 1912U.S. Government Printing Office, 1911 - 976 pages |
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ACKER acres additional Alaska ALESHIRE Allotted amount estimated Appropriated to date approved asked Balance available bill Bureau cent CHAIRMAN charge clerk coal commission committee completed Congress construction contract COSBY cost current appropriation DARNALL DENNETT Deputy Commissioner SMITH Director SMITH district District of Columbia do.a do.b DONNELLY Ellis Island employees expenditures expenses fiscal year 1910 FITZGERALD force Fort Trumbull Geological Survey Government HARRIS HOLMES hospital increase installation Interior Interior Department investigation Island June 25 June 30 LA Dow light maintenance MALBY ment months to run necessary paid plant Post office present priation prior to July public buildings purchase purpose PUTNAM repairs road salaries Secretary MACVEAGH statement station superintendent TAYLOR THIRKIELD tion TITTMANN topographic Total authorization Treasury Department UCKER unexpended balance United vessels WADSWORTH Washington watchmen WICKERSHAM WYMAN
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Page 354 - That any settler who has settled, or who shall hereafter settle, on any of the public lands of the United States, whether surveyed or unsurveyed, with the intention of claiming the same under the homestead laws, shall be allowed, the same time to file his homestead application and perfect his original entry in the United States...
Page 873 - States; and if there be used for covering or holding imported merchandise, whether dutiable or free, any unusual article or form designed for use otherwise than in the bona fide transportation of such merchandise to the United States, additional duty is levied and collected upon such material or article at the rate to which the same would be subject if separately imported. The words "value
Page 355 - There shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, a register of the land office and a receiver of public moneys for each land district established by law...
Page 240 - for continuing the preservation, exhibition, and increase of the collections from the surveying and exploring expeditions of the Government, and from other sources, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, and all other necessary expenses, $180,000, of which sum $5,500 may be used for necessary drawings and illustrations for publications of the National Museum, and all other necessary incidental expenses" (sundry civil act of April 28, 1904) *1S0, 000.
Page 520 - All loss or damage arising out of the nature of the work to be done under this agreement, or from any unforeseen obstructions or difficulties which may be encountered in the prosecution of the...
Page 891 - Canada, whose duty it shall be to investigate and report upon the conditions and uses of the waters adjacent to the boundary lines between the United States and Canada...
Page 873 - That hereafter no part of the public moneys, or of any appropriation heretofore or hereafter made by Congress, shall be used for the payment of compensation or expenses of any commission, council, board, or other similar body, or any members thereof, or for expenses in connection with any work or the results of any work or action of any commission, council, board, or other similar body, unless the creation of the same shall be or shall have been authorized by law...
Page 873 - ... government establishments, with the view of inaugurating new or changing old methods of transacting such public business so as to attain greater efficiency and economy therein, and to ascertain and recommend to Congress what changes in law may be necessary to carry into effect such results of his inquiry as cannot be carried into effect by executive action alone...
Page 795 - Hereafter the application of any person for membership in the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers and the admission of the applicant thereunder shall be and constitute a valid and binding contract...
Page 354 - In all cases where any person has contested, paid the land office fees, and procured the cancellation of any pre-emption, homestead, or timber-culture entry, he shall be notified by the Register of the land office of the district in which such land is situated of such cancellation, and shall be allowed thirty days from date of such notice to enter said lands...