Guide to the National Archives of the United States

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Page 546 - Commission (hereinafter referred to as the commission), which shall be composed of the Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Interior, and the Secretary of Agriculture.
Page 63 - In all cases involving ambassadors, ministers, and consuls, and those in which a State is a party, the Supreme Court has original jurisdiction.
Page 14 - ... (6) personnel and medical files and similar files the disclosure of which would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy ; (7) investigatory files compiled for law enforcement purposes except to the extent available by law to a party other than an agency...
Page 516 - States at all times and is a service within the Department of Transportation except when operating as part of the Navy in time of war or when the President directs. The predecessor of the Coast Guard, "The Revenue Marine," was established in 1 790 as a Federal maritime law enforcement agency.
Page 458 - Department are to foster, promote, and develop the foreign and domestic commerce, the manufacturing and shipping industries, and the transportation facilities of the United States.
Page 162 - ... entrance and clearance of vessels and aircraft, regulation of vessels in the coasting and fishing trades, and...
Page 383 - Survey, and the classification of the public lands and examination of the Geological Structure, mineral resources and products of the national domain...
Page 27 - Philadelphia for the sole and express purpose of revising the articles of Confederation and reporting to Congress and the several legislatures such alterations and provisions therein as shall, when agreed to in Congress and confirmed by the States, render the federal Constitution adequate to the exigencies of government and the preservation of the Union.
Page 14 - ... agency responsible for the regulation or supervision of financial institutions; and (9) geological and geophysical information and data (including maps) concerning wells.
Page 553 - Act and the employees of such carrier, seriously interrupting or threatening to interrupt the business of said carrier, the chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Commissioner of Labor shall, upon the request of either party to the controversy, with all practicable expedition, put themselves in communication with the parties to such controversy, and shall use their best efforts, by mediation and conciliation, to amicably settle the same...

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