Interior Department Appropriation Bill, 1926: Hearing Before Subcommittee of House Committee on Appropriations ... in Charge of Interior Department Appropriation Bill for 1926. Sixty-eighth Congress, Second Session

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1924 - 1004 pages
 

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Page 37 - Mines, at the seat of government, as well as in the field outside of the District of Columbia, may be made in open market without compliance with section 3709 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, in the manner common among business men, when the aggregate amount of the purchase or the service does not exceed $100 in any instance...
Page 777 - Line" were startled upon reading the opinion rendered by the Supreme Court of the United States in what is known as the "Dred Scott case.
Page 862 - Oregon, said sum, or such part thereof as may be used, to be reimbursed to the tribe under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.
Page 660 - Into contracts for additional work not exceeding a total of $1,000,000, and his action in so doing shall be deemed a contractual obligation of the Federal Government for the payment of the cost thereof...
Page 269 - For incidental and contingent expenses, clerk hire, not to exceed $2,800; janitor service for the governor's office and the executive mansion, not to exceed $2,580 ; traveling expenses of the governor while absent from; the capital on official business...
Page 658 - Service, for fire fighting purposes, shall be made by the Secretary of the Interior, and then only after the obligation for the expenditure has been incurred...
Page 92 - The Secretary of the Treasury may detail medical officers of the Public Health Service for cooperative health, safety, or sanitation work with the Bureau of Mines, and the compensation and expenses of the officers so detailed may be paid from the applicable appropriations made herein for the Bureau of Mines...
Page 252 - For purchase of law, professional, and other reference books and publications and scientific books, including their exchange, and expense of transporting publications of patents issued by the Patent Office to foreign governments, and directories, $10,000.
Page 79 - Interior, to conduct inquiries and scientific and technologic investigations concerning mining, and the preparation, treatment, and utilization of mineral substances with a view to improving health conditions, and increasing safety, efficiency, economic development, and conserving resources through the prevention of waste in the mining, quarrying, metallurgical, and other mineral industries...
Page 795 - Interior is hereby authorized and directed to apportion the cost of any Irrigation project constructed for Indians and made reimbursable out of tribal funds of said Indians in accordance with the benefits received by each individual Indian so far as practicable from said irrigation project, said cost to be apportioned against such individual Indian under such rules, regulations, and conditions as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe...

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