Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1913 - Government publications
 

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Page 425 - 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 527 - May thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, granting to certain employees of the United States the right to receive from it compensation for injuries sustained in the course of their employment.
Page 425 - That the following-named offices, bureaus, divisions, and branches of the public service now and heretofore under the jurisdiction of the Department of Commerce and Labor, and all that pertains to the same, known as the...
Page 527 - He shall perform such duties as shall be prescribed by the Secretary or required by law. There shall also be one chief clerk and a disbursing clerk and such other clerical assistants as may from time to time be authorized by Congress...
Page 302 - Part 3, which must be for the complete calendar year, is $3, payable in advance to the Superintendent of Documents, Washington, DC, by postal money order, express order, or New York draft. Under the provisions of the act of Congress approved...
Page 541 - Labor, be, and the same hereby are, transferred from the Department of Commerce and Labor to the Department of Labor, and the same shall hereafter remain under the jurisdiction and supervision of the last-named department.
Page 74 - The office establishments of the Quartermaster General, the Commissary General, and the Paymaster General of the Army are hereby consolidated and shall hereafter constitute a single bureau of the War Department, which shall be known as the Quartermaster Corps,1 and of which the Chief of the Quartermaster Corps created by this act shall be the head.
Page 527 - Statistics, be, and the same hereby are, transferred from the Department of the Treasury to the Department of Commerce and Labor, and the same shall hereafter remain under the jurisdiction and supervision of the last-named department...
Page 307 - We favor an amendment to the federal constitution providing for the election of United States Senators by direct vote of the people, and we favor direct legislation wherever practicable.
Page 129 - Congressional documents, and is authorized to sell at cost any public document in his charge, the distribution of which is not specifically directed.

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