First Annual Report of the Secretary, 1903U.S. Government Printing Office, 1903 - United States |
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... compared with the corresponding months of the two years immediately preceding . The annual volume of Commerce and Navigation has been enlarged so as to show not only the detailed movements of the year , stated by articles and countries ...
... compared with the corresponding months of the two years immediately preceding . The annual volume of Commerce and Navigation has been enlarged so as to show not only the detailed movements of the year , stated by articles and countries ...
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... compared with the yield in the years before the Bureau began its work , is upward of a million dollars . As a result of the cultivation of cod on the New England coast , a lucrative inshore fishery has been built up on grounds which ...
... compared with the yield in the years before the Bureau began its work , is upward of a million dollars . As a result of the cultivation of cod on the New England coast , a lucrative inshore fishery has been built up on grounds which ...
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... Compared with the results of other fisheries the Alaskan output was exceptionally large . It is estimated that the world's pack for the past season will amount to about 3,457,000 cases , or 860,000 cases less than in 1902. The run of ...
... Compared with the results of other fisheries the Alaskan output was exceptionally large . It is estimated that the world's pack for the past season will amount to about 3,457,000 cases , or 860,000 cases less than in 1902. The run of ...
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... compared standards of length , mass , and capacity , and in designing a set of model weights for purposes of comparison , the Bureau has provided means by which the weights and measures used in the entire wholesale and retail trade of ...
... compared standards of length , mass , and capacity , and in designing a set of model weights for purposes of comparison , the Bureau has provided means by which the weights and measures used in the entire wholesale and retail trade of ...
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... compared with the cost of doing the same work by hand , I am nevertheless convinced that the Government ought to take the steps necessary to a material reduction in the cost . Something has already been accomplished in that direction by ...
... compared with the cost of doing the same work by hand , I am nevertheless convinced that the Government ought to take the steps necessary to a material reduction in the cost . Something has already been accomplished in that direction by ...
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Page 15 - 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 103 - The canal shall be free and open to the vessels of commerce and of war of all nations observing these Rules, on terms of entire equality...
Page 9 - March 2, 1895, to publish a bulletin on the condition of labor in this and other countries, condensations of State and foreign labor reports, facts as to conditions of employment, and such other facts as may be deemed of value to the industrial interests of the United States. This bulletin is issued every other month. By sectiqn 76 of an act to provide a government for the Territory of Hawaii...
Page 72 - The said bureau shall investigate and report to said department 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.
Page 11 - Whereas the right of expatriation is a natural and Inherent right of all people, indispensable to the enjoyment of the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; and whereas in the recognition of this principle this Government has freely received emigrants from all nations, and invested them with the rights of citizenship...
Page 13 - ... who have been induced, assisted, encouraged, or solicited to migrate to this country by offers or promises of employment, whether such offers or promises are true or false, or in consequence of agreements, oral, written or printed, express or implied, to perform labor in this country of any kind, skilled or unskilled...
Page 27 - The said Commissioner shall have power and authority to make, under the direction and control of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor...
Page 13 - States, deported as having been induced or solicited to migrate as above described ; any person whose ticket or passage is paid for with the money of another, or who is assisted by others to come, unless it is affirmatively and satisfactorily shown that such person does not belong to one of the foregoing excluded classes...
Page 12 - ... /That whenever the President shall be satisfied that passports issued by any foreign government to its citizens to go to any country other than the United States or to any insular possession of the United States or to the Canal Zone are being used for the purpose of enabling the holders...
Page 9 - The Bureau of Labor Statistics is charged with the duty of acquiring and diffusing among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with labor in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word, and especially upon its relations to capital, the hours of labor, the earnings of laboring men and women, and the means of promoting their material, social, intellectual, and moral prosperity.