Official Opinions of the Attorneys General of the United States: Advising the President and Heads of Departments, in Relation to Their Official DutiesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1922 - Attorneys general's opinions |
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Page 101 - States as may be designated, and the Academy shall, whenever called upon by any department of the Government, investigate, examine, experiment, and report upon any subject of science or art, the actual expense of such investigations, examinations, experiments, and reports to be paid from appropriations which may be made for the purpose, but the Academy shall receive no compensation whatever for any services to the Government of the United States.
Page 204 - Every employee coming within the provisions of this act shall be deemed to consent and agree to the deductions from salary, pay, or compensation as provided herein, and payment less such deductions shall be a full and complete discharge and acquittance of all claims and demands whatsoever for all...
Page 122 - That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of War, of the Secretary of the Navy, and of the Secretary of the Interior, immediately after the passage of this act, to cause and require every contract made by them severally on behalf of the government, or by their officers under them appointed to make such contracts, to be reduced to writing, and signed by the contracting parties with their names at the end thereof...
Page 358 - March, appropriating $50,000,000 "for the national defense and for each and every purpose connected therewith, to be expended at the discretion of the President.
Page 147 - Continental Paper Bag Co. v Eastern Paper Bag Co. 210 US 405, 52 L Ed 1122, 28 S Ct 748 (1908) ; Crown Die & Tool Co.
Page 93 - No person shall on or after the date when the eighteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States goes into effect, manufacture, sell, barter, transport, import, export, deliver, furnish or possess any intoxicating liquor except as authorized in this Act, and all the provisions of this Act shall be liberally construed to the end that the use of intoxicating liquor as a beverage may be prevented.
Page 556 - So it is said that an independent contractor is one who, exercising an independent employment, contracts to do a piece of work according to his own methods, and without being subject to the control of his employer, except as to the result of the work.
Page 336 - ... gains, profits, and income derived from salaries, wages or compensation for personal service of whatever kind and in whatever form paid, or from professions, vocations...
Page 444 - All property of the wife, owned by her before marriage, and that acquired afterwards by gift, bequest, devise, or descent, with the rents, issues, and profits thereof, is her separate property.
Page 523 - The Federal Water Power Act of June 10, 1920 (41 Stat. 1063; 16 USC sec. 800): Federal Power Commission "shall give preference to applications ... by States and municipalities" for permits and licenses to build and operate works upon navigable waters.