Customs Administration and Personnel: Hearings Before a Subcommittee, October 24-25, November 8-9, 11, 1927, Volume 36, Parts 1-21928 - 291 pages |
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Page 38 - The heads of the several executive departments and independent establishments are authorized and directed to adjust the compensation of certain civilian positions in the field services, the compensation of which was adjusted by the Act of December 6, 1924 (43 Stat.
Page 253 - States, or to prevent the establishment of such an industry, or to restrain or monopolize trade and commerce in the United States, are hereby declared unlawful, and when found by the President to exist shall be dealt with, in addition to any other provisions of law, as hereinafter provided.
Page 204 - Comptrollers of Customs shall examine the collector's accounts of receipts and disbursements of money and receipts and disposition of merchandise and certify the same to the Secretary of the Treasury for transmission to the General Accounting Office. They shall perform such other duties as the Secretary of the Treasury may from time to time prescribe, and their administrative examination shall extend to all customs districts assigned to them by the Secretary of...
Page 129 - They may be inserted in the record. (The papers referred to are as follows:) Treasury Department, United States Customs Service, New Orleans, La., October 19, 1927.
Page 115 - The Constitution of the United States provides that Congress shall have the power to raise and support armies and to provide and.
Page 239 - Section 7 of this act provides that section 1 of the act entitled "An act fixing the compensation of certain officials in the customs service, and for other purposes.
Page 37 - ... ^Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That on and after the first day of...
Page 116 - A ministerial duty, the performance of which may, in proper cases, be required of the head of a department, by judicial process, is one in respect to which nothing is left to discretion. It is a simple, definite duty, arising under conditions admitted or proved to exist, and imposed by law.
Page 197 - Whenever duties have been paid on household or personal effects which by law were not subject to duty, notwithstanding a protest was not filed within the time and in the manner prescribed by law. (b) The necessary moneys to make such refunds are hereby appropriated, and this appropriation shall be deemed a permanent and indefinite appropriation.
Page 37 - An act to limit the immigration of aliens into the United States," approved May 19, 1921, as amended and extended, shall, notwithstanding its expiration...