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Page 145 - That there shall be at the seat of Government a Department of Labor, the general design and duties of which shall be to acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with labor, in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word...
Page 78 - War period, the War of 1812, the Mexican War, the Civil War, and the Spanish-American War.
Page 55 - Treasury to digest and prepare plans for the improvement and management of the revenue, and for the support of public credit...
Page 12 - June 30, 1904, and for other purposes," approved February 25, 1903, hereby ordered to be transferred from the Department of State — with such exceptions and reservations in each collection herein enumerated, as in the discretion of the Secretary of State may be required for the continuity and completeness of the records and archives of the Department of State...
Page 175 - An Act for establishing Trading Houses with the Indian Tribes. SECTION 1. Be it enacted . . . , That it shall be lawful for the President of the United States, to establish trading houses at such posts and places on the western and southern frontiers, or in the Indian country, as he shall judge most convenient for the purpose of carrying on a liberal trade with the several Indian nations, within the limits of the United States.
Page 141 - ... belonging to Denmark together with all appurtenances thereto. In this cession shall also be included any government archives, records, papers or documents which relate to the cession or the rights and property of the inhabitants of the islands ceded, and which may now be existing either in the islands ceded or in Denmark.
Page 59 - 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 77 - W. Stull Holt, The Office of the Chief of Engineers of the Army...
Page 73 - to establish the Treasury Department," the 4th section of that act says: "It shall be the duty of the Treasurer to receive and keep the moneys of the United States, and to disburse the same upon warrants drawn by the Secretary of the Treasury, countersigned by the Comptroller, and recorded by the Register, and not otherwise.
Page 81 - September 24, 1789, provided for the appointment of "a meet person, learned in the law, to act as attorney general of the United States" and made it his duty "to prosecute and conduct all suits in the Supreme Court in which the United States shall be concerned...