Sundry Civil Bill, 1916, Hearings . . . 63rd Congress, 3d Session1915 - 1010 pages |
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ACKER additional Alaska ALESHIRE amount annum appro appropriated_ Appropriations to date asking Attorney authorized BERTHOLF building under present Bureau CAMINETTI Capt cent CHAIRMAN CHAIRMAN interposing clerk coal coast commencement of building commission committee completion of building Congress construction court CROZIER current appropriation Department District employees Estimate for 1916 expenditures expenses Federal reserve Federal reserve notes fiscal year 1916 funds GILLETT Government HARRIS HARTS hospital hundredweight increase Island June 25 June 30 land Limit of cost McGLASSON MONDELL month necessary office and courthouse paid park placed under contract Post office present limit priation printing quarters railroad RALPH repairs road salaries Schooner Secretary REDFIELD sheets SHERLEY SMITH Special assistant statement station supplies survey TALLMAN tion TITTMANN Treasury unexpended balance United United States attorney vessels Washington WENDEROTH WETMORE
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Page 317 - An Act to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by compelling common carriers engaged in interstate commerce to equip their cars with automatic couplers and continuous brakes, and their locomotives with driving-wheel brakes, and for other purposes...
Page 108 - Representatives and two other members of said committee, to be appointed by said chairman, the chairman of the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds of the House of Representatives...
Page 123 - 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 205 - Federal reserve notes, to be issued at the discretion of the Federal Reserve Board for the purpose of making- advances to Federal reserve banks through the Federal reserve agents as hereinafter set forth and for no other purpose, are hereby authorized. The said notes shall be obligations of the United States...
Page 659 - ... development, and conserving resources through the prevention of waste in the mining, quarrying, metallurgical, and other mineral industries; to inquire into the economic conditions affecting these industries; to investigate explosives and peat; and on behalf of the Government to investigate the mineral fuels and unfinished mineral products belonging to, or for the use of, the United States, with a view to their most efficient mining, preparation, treatment and use; and to disseminate information...
Page 621 - ... scales, elevator scales, and other scales used in weighing commodities for interstate shipments and to secure equipment and assistance for testing the scales used by the Government in its transactions with the public, such as...
Page 662 - Interior, to conduct inquiries and scientific and technologic investigations concerning mining, and the preparation, treatment, and utilization of mineral substances with a view to improving health conditions, and increasing safety, efficiency, economic development, and conserving resources through the prevention of waste in the mining, quarrying, metallurgical, and other mineral industries...
Page 499 - The following persons only shall be entitled to the benefits of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, and may be admitted thereto upon the order of a member of the board of managers, namely...
Page 421 - Crater Lake National Park, Oregon: For continuation of a wagon road and the necessary bridges through the park, together. with a system of tanks and water-supply pipes for sprinkling, in accordance with the recommendations in House Document Numbered Three hundred and twenty-eight, Sixty-second Congress, second session...
Page 447 - WAKEFIELD, VIRGINIA : For repairs to fences and cleaning up and maintaining grounds about the monument, $100.