Disposing of Rural Rehabilitation Funds: Hearings Before ..., 80-2 on H.R. 5905 and H.R. 6210, May 26 and 27, 1948

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Page 48 - No member of or delegate to Congress or resident commissioner, shall be admitted to any share or part of this Agreement, or to any benefit that may arise therefrom; but this provision shall not be construed to extend to this Agreement if made with a corporation for its general benefit.
Page 48 - In every contract or agreement to be made or entered into, or accepted by or on behalf of the United States, there shall be inserted an express condition that no Member of or Delegate to Congress shall be admitted to any share or part of such contract or agreement, or to any benefit to arise thereupon.
Page 29 - The foregoing clauses shall be construed both as objects and powers; and it is hereby expressly provided that the foregoing enumeration of specific powers shall not be held to limit or restrict in any manner the powers of this corporation.
Page 30 - The management of the business of the Company shall be vested in the Directors who in addition to the powers and authorities by these presents or otherwise expressly conferred upon them may exercise all such powers and do all such acts and things as may be exercised or done by the Company, and are not hereby or by statute expressly directed or required to be exercised or done by the Company in general meeting...
Page 28 - To borrow or raise moneys for any of the purposes of the corporation and, from time to time, without limit as to amount to draw, make, accept, endorse, execute, and issue promissory notes, drafts, bills of exchange, warrants, bonds, debentures, and other negotiable or nonnegotiable instruments and evidences of indebtedness, and to secure the payment of any thereof and of the interest thereon by mortgage...
Page 12 - The Congress hereby declares that the present economic depression has created a serious emergency, due to widespread unemployment and increasing inadequacy of State and local relief funds, resulting in the existing or threatened deprivation of a considerable number of families and individuals of the necessities of life, and making it imperative that the Federal Government co-operate more effectively with the several States and Territories and the District of Columbia in furnishing relief to their...
Page 2 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as "The Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act.
Page 77 - No public money shall be expended upon any site or land purchased by the United States for the purposes of erecting thereon any armory, arsenal, fort, fortification, navy yard, customhouse, lighthouse, or other public building, of any kind whatever, until the written opinion of the Attorney General shall be had in favor of the validity of the title, nor until the consent of the legislature of the State in which the land or site may be, to such purchase, has been given.
Page 76 - For this reason the resolution which each corporation has been asked to adopt contains the following agreement: "(b) Effective immediately and until such time as all the assets of the corporation have been transferred pursuant to paragraph (a), this corporation hereby authorizes the Resettlement Administrator or his duly authorized agent to manage and direct the administration of its assets and the expenditure of its funds in such manner as said Administrator shall determine to be necessary to so...
Page 30 - Corporation, shall have and may exercise the powers of the board of directors in the management of the business and affairs of the Corporation, and may authorize the seal of the Corporation to be affixed to all papers which may require it.

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