Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation Bill, 1913 |
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additional clerks Admiral ANDREWS amendment amount appointed appropriation Army asked Assistant Attorney bill building Bureau of Trade CABLE Capt Census cent CHAIRMAN chief clerk Chief of Engineers CLAXTON clerical force clerk of class Commerce and Labor commissioner committee CONGRESS THE LIBRARY contingent expenses course CROWDER disbursing District of Columbia DURAND duties efficiency employees estimated examination executive department fill fiscal General's Office give Government HOLMES House increase Judge Advocate law clerk legislation LIBRARY OF CONGRESS matter McILHENNY MCINTYRE ment Military NAGEL necessary Ordnance Patent Office Pension Office PINDELL position printed promotion PUTNAM question reduction roll salary SCOFIELD Secretary KNOX Secretary of War Secretary STIMSON Senator FOSTER Senator OVERMAN Senator WETMORE statement STRATTON submitted telephone thing tickets tion Trade Relations transfer UCKER understand vacancies War Department Washington watchmen WICKERSHAM word
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Page 156 - No Executive Department or other Government establishment of the United States shall expend, in any one fiscal year, any sum in excess of appropriations made by Congress for that fiscal year, or involve the Government in any contract or other obligation for the future payment of money in excess of such appropriations unless such contract or obligation is authorized by law.
Page 156 - Nor shall any department or any officer of the Government accept voluntary service for the Government or employ personal service in excess of that authorized by law, except in cases of sudden emergency involving the loss of human life or the destruction of property.
Page 25 - Judge-Advocate-General is directed by law to " receive, review, and cause to be recorded the proceedings of all courts-martial, courts of inquiry, and military commissions.
Page 86 - Provided, That in the event of reductions being made in the force in any of the executive departments no honorably discharged soldier or sailor whose record in said department is rated good shall be discharged or dropped, or reduced in rank or salary.
Page 58 - That no money appropriated by this or any other act shall be expended for telephone service installed in any private residence or private apartment...
Page 49 - June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, shall not exceed ten thousand dollars; and that the Secretary of War shall each year, in the annual estimates, report to Congress the number of persons so employed, their duties, and the amount paid to each.
Page 96 - Hereafter the administrative examination of all public accounts, preliminary to their audit by the accounting officers of the Treasury, shall be made as contemplated by the so-called Dockery Act, approved July thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninetyfour, and all vouchers and pay rolls shall be prepared and examined by and through the administrative heads of divisions and bureaus in the executive departments and not by the disbursing clerks of said departments, except those vouchers heretofore prepared...
Page 83 - ... through the administrative heads of divisions and bureaus in the executive departments and not by the disbursing clerks of said departments, except those vouchers heretofore prepared o.utside of Washington may continue to be so prepared and the disbursing officers shall make only such examination of vouchers as may be necessary to ascertain whether they represent legal claims against the United States.
Page 188 - For investigating the question of public use or sale of inventions for two years or more prior to filing applications for patents...
Page 292 - ... duration persons having had previous experience in operating mechanical appliances in census work whose efficiency records in operating such appliances are satisfactory to him, and may accept such records in lieu of the...