Service Monographs of the United States Government, Issue 15D. Appleton & Company, 1923 - Administrative agencies |
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23 Stat 37 Stat 41 Stat act approved act of June act of March admeasurement of vessels administration amended American annual report apparatus and operators authorized bill boats Bureau of Navigation certificate certificates of registry Clerk collectors of customs Commerce and Labor Commis Commissioner of Navigation Cong Congress convention coöperation crew customs officers Department of Commerce Deputy Commissioner directed district employed enforcement examination fiscal foreign ports forfeitures Govt imposed increase inspection issued July July 23 June 19 June 25 laws relating legislation maritime ment merchant marine merchant seamen merchant vessels Motor vessel motor-boats Navigation Inspector navigation laws Navy Department official number organization penalties Radio Inspector radio service radio-communication registry regulations repealed respect Saint Marys River Seamen's act Secretary of Commerce Senate Serial shipment shipping commissioners Steamboat-Inspection Service steamers supervision tion ture tonnage duties tonnage taxes Treasury Department United Washington wireless apparatus wireless-ship
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Page 36 - Vessels built within the United States and belonging wholly to citizens thereof; and vessels which may be captured in war by citizens of the United States and lawfully condemned as prize, or which may be adjudged to be forfeited for a breach of the laws of the United States...
Page vii - THE INSTITUTE FOR GOVERNMENT RESEARCH '• STUDIES IN ADMINISTRATION. The System of Financial Administration of Great Britain. By WF Willoughby, WW Willoughby, and SM Lindsay.
Page 45 - States from any foreign port or place in North America, Central America, the West India Islands, the Bahama Islands, the Bermuda Islands, or the coast of South America bordering on the Caribbean Sea, or the Sandwich Islands, or Newfoundland...
Page 115 - EXPLANATORY NOTE The bibliographies appended to the several monographs aim to list only those works which deal directly with the services to which they relate, their history, activities, organization, methods of business, problems, etc. They are intended primarily to meet the needs of those persons who desire to make a further study of the services from an administrative standpoint. They thus do not include the titles of publications of the services themselves, except in so far as they treat of the...
Page 100 - A subhead under this class would be " chemical research." Under this head would appear the specific lines of investigation under way and the services in which they were being prosecuted. It is hardly necessary to point out the value of such information in planning for future work and in considering the problem of the better distribution and coordination of the work of the government. The Institute contemplates attempting such a general listing and classification of the activities of the government...
Page xi - To executive officials they offer valuable tools of administration. Through them, such officers can, with a minimum of effort, inform themselves regarding the details, not only of their own services, but of others with whose facilities, activities, and methods it is desirable that they should be familiar. Under present conditions services frequently engage in activities in ignorance of the fact that the work projected has already been done, or is in process of execution by other services. Many cases...
Page 94 - They furnish the essential basis for making plans for determining costs by organization division and subdivision. They afford the data for a consideration of the problem of classifying and standardizing personnel and compensation. Collectively, they make it possible to determine the number and location of organization...
Page 41 - Navigation shall be charged with the supervision of the laws relating to the admeasurement of vessels, and the assigning of signal letters thereto, and of designating their official number: and on all questions of interpretation growing out of the execution of the laws relating to these subjects, and relating to the collection of tonnage tax, and to the refund of such tax when collected erroneously or illegally, his decision shall be final.
Page 121 - An Act to promote the welfare of American seamen in the merchant marine of the United States; to abolish arrest and imprisonment as a penalty for desertion and to secure the abrogation of treaty provisions in relation thereto; and to promote safety at sea," approved March 4, 1915, as amended (ch.
Page 28 - States, by building or otherwise, specifying their number, rig, and motive power. He shall also investigate the operations of the laws relative to navigation., and annually report to the Secretary of the Treasury such particulars as may, in his judgment, admit of improvement or may require amendment.