Annual Report, Issue 4

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1917 - Children
 

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Page 132 - The purpose of the Department of Labor shall be to foster, promote, and develop the welfare of the wage earners of the United States, to improve their working conditions, and to advance their opportunities for profitable employment.
Page 461 - that all men are created equal, and endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights — among which are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness," I shall strenuously contend for the immediate enfranchisement of our slave population.
Page 163 - States, whose fathers were or may be at the time of their birth citizens thereof, are declared to be citizens of the United States; but the rights of citizenship shall not descend to children whose fathers never resided in the United States." 2. 48 Stat. 797. "Any child hereafter born out of the limits and jurisdiction of the United States...
Page 132 - The said Secretary shall cause a seal of office to be made for the said department of such device as the President shall approve, and judicial notice shall be taken of the said seal.
Page 132 - ... than in the city of Washington, shall be allowed and paid on the presentation of itemized vouchers therefor approved by the commission.
Page 132 - An Act granting to certain employees of the United States the right to receive from it compensation for injuries sustained in the course of their employment...
Page 467 - America does not consist of groups. A man who thinks of himself as belonging to a particular national group in America has not yet become an eo American, and the man who goes among you to trade upon your nationality is no worthy son to live under the Stars and Stripes.
Page 132 - He shall perform such duties as shall be prescribed by the Secretary or required by law. There shall also be one chief clerk and a disbursing clerk and such other clerical assistants as may from time to time be authorized by Congress...
Page 149 - ... injury received in the course of such employment, leaving a widow, or a child or children under sixteen years of age, or a dependent parent, such widow and child or children and dependent parent shall be entitled to receive, in such portions and under such regulations as the Secretary of Commerce and Labor may prescribe, the same amount, for the remainder of the said year, that said artisan or laborer would be entitled to receive as pay if such employee were alive and continued to be employed...
Page 437 - It shall be made to appear to the satisfaction of the court admitting any alien to citizenship that Immediately preceding the date of his application he has resided continuously within the United States five years at least...

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