Federal Departmental Organization and Practice: The Executive Departments, Bureaus and Independent Establishments of the United States Government

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Vernon Law Book Company, 1925 - Executive departments - 1027 pages
 

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Page 533 - ... the costs and expenses of such prosecution shall be paid out of the appropriation for the expenses of the courts of the United States...
Page 533 - Such attendance of witnesses and the production of such documentary evidence, may be required from any place in the United States, at any designated place of hearing.
Page 533 - And any of the circuit courts of the United States within the jurisdiction of which such inquiry is carried on...
Page 533 - ... the commission is hereby authorized and required to execute and enforce the provisions of this act...
Page 428 - Every patent or any interest therein shall be assignable in law by an instrument in writing, and the patentee or his assigns or legal representatives may in like manner grant and convey an exclusive right under his patent to the whole or any specified part of the United States.
Page 533 - Act, and shall keep itself informed as to the manner and method in which the same is conducted, and shall have the right to obtain from such common carriers full and complete information necessary to enable the Commission to perform the duties and carry out the objects for which it was created...
Page 543 - (4) Whenever in any such investigation the Commission, after full hearing finds that any such rate, fare, charge, classification, regulation, or practice causes any undue or unreasonable advantage, preference, or prejudice as between persons or localities in intrastate commerce on the one hand and interstate or foreign commerce...
Page 185 - States, who shall be sworn or affirmed to a faithful execution of his office; whose duty it shall be to prosecute and conduct all suits in the supreme court in which the United States shall be concerned, and to give his advice and opinion upon questions of law when required by the president of the United States, or when requested by the heads of any of the departments, touching any matters that may concern their departments, and shall receive such compensation for his services as shall by law be...
Page 607 - ... corporation or other person, issue an order requiring such corporation or other person to appear before the commission, or to produce documentary evidence if so ordered, or to give evidence touching the matter in question; and any failure to obey such order of the court may be punished by such court as a contempt thereof.
Page 608 - Commission may also order testimony to be taken by deposition in any proceeding or investigation pending before it, at any stage of such proceeding or investigation. Such depositions...

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