Customs Administration and Personnel: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, Seventieth Congress, First Session, Parts 1-2 |
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administrative allocation amount annum Antwerp appraiser assistant average BACHARACH baggage believe bond Bureau of Efficiency cargo carriers cent Chairman charge classification collected collector of customs committee compensation CONGRESS THE LIBRARY cost CRISP customhouse customs court customs employees customs guard customs laws customs service DASTE deputy collector deputy surveyor diamonds discharging inspector district dutiable duties entrance salary entry clerk examination gentlemen Government grade important increase in salary inspectors of customs invoice ISAAC BACHARACH KEARNS Keddy laborers LIBRARY OF CONGRESS liquidators living LUFKIN ment merchandise MESSERSMITH Orleans overtime packages passengers personnel Philadelphia pier port of Boston positions present President receive recommended represent respectfully RESS revenue ROTHSCHILD San Francisco ship smugglers smuggling statement STUART submitted supervision tariff act tion to-day Treasury Department UNITED STATES CUSTOMS vessels WATSON week weighers York York City
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Page 134 - SEC. 3115. If the owner or master of such vessel shall, however, furnish good and sufficient evidence that such vessel, while in the regular course of her voyage, was compelled, by stress of weather or other casualty, to put into such foreign port and purchase such equipments, or make such repairs, to secure the safety of the vessel to enable her to reach her port of destination...
Page 36 - 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 250 - Unfair methods of competition and unfair acts in the importation of articles into the United States, or in their sale by the owner, importer, consignee, or agent of either, the effect or tendency of which is to destroy or substantially injure an industry, efficiently and economically operated, in the United States...
Page 236 - A consignee shall not be liable for any additional or Increased duties If (1) he declares at the time of entry that he Is not the actual owner of the merchandise, (2) he furnishes the name and address of such owner, and (3) within ninety days from the date of entry he produces a declaration of such owner conditioned that he will pay all additional and Increased duties, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe. Such owner shall possess all the rights of a consignee.
Page 236 - The Civil Service Commission shall, subject to the approval of the President, establish a system of efficiency ratings for the classified service in the several executive departments in the District of Columbia...
Page 250 - States or into any of its possessions (except the Philippine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutuila...
Page 127 - 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 278 - ... powers which the President has at present, to correct certain evils in the importation of goods which either unfairly compete with goods of American manufacture, or I believe the other section (I think section 315) is where the difference in the manufacturing cost appear at any time, the President has the right to increase duties up to 50 per cent, or decrease duties down to 50 per cent; but under sections 315 and 316 he has not the right to remove any article from the free list to the dutiable...
Page 250 - ... he shall, when he finds that the public interest will be served thereby, by proclamation specify and declare such new or additional rate...
Page 285 - I thank you, Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee, for your courtesy in inviting my views with regard to this matter.