Hearings Before Subcommittee of House Committee on Appropriations, Consisting of Messrs. Hemenway, F. H. Gillett, Washington Gardner, Benton, and Pierce, in Charge of Sundry Civil Appropriation Bill for 1906

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1905 - 340 pages
 

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Page 55 - Chinese plague or black death, trachoma, or infantile paralysis, to aid State and local boards, or otherwise, in his discretion, in preventing and suppressing the spread of the same, and in such emergency in the execution of any quarantine laws which may be then in force, $400,000 : Provided, That a detailed report of the expenditures hereunder shall annually hereafter be submitted to Congress.
Page 302 - ... shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States...
Page 134 - Engineers is hereby authorized to enter into a contract or contracts for the construction of the...
Page 150 - For contingent expenses of the office of the Secretary of the Interior and the bureaus, offices, and buildings of the Interior Department, including the Civil Service Commission : For furniture, carpets, ice, lumber, hardware, dry goods, advertising, telegraphing, expressage, wagons and harness, food and shoeing for horses, diagrams, awnings, constructing model and other cases, cases for drawings, file holders, repairs of cases and furniture, and other absolutely necessary expenses, including fuel...
Page 144 - Unit (BTU) is the amount of heat required to raise one pound of water one degree Fahrenheit.
Page 134 - The appropriation of fifty thousand dollars made by the sundry civil appropriation act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four...
Page 302 - From and after July 1, 1919, sections 6, 8, 13, 14, 15, 16, and 18 of the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation Act, approved May 28, 1896, shall be applicable to the office of the district attorney for the District of Columbia and his assistants. Certificates to the effect that the public interest requires the appointment of assistants to the said district attorney shall be made by the chief justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia and the district attorney. The district...
Page 66 - To enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to keep informed regarding compliance with the "Act to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads.
Page 155 - Any payment so made shall be deposited in the Treasury to the credit of the appropriation for the purposes of this title.
Page 251 - For farm, namely: Pay of farmer, chief gardener, harness makers, farm hands, gardeners, horseshoers, stablemen, teamsters, dairymen, herders, and laborers, and for all tools, appliances, and materials required for farm, garden, and dairy work; for grain, hay...

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