United States Congressional Serial Set, Issue 6470U.S. Government Printing Office, 1913 - United States Reports, Documents, and Journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. |
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Adjutant General's Office Administrative Division alphabetical annual appointment Archives Division Army Army Medical Museum arranged assigned boxes Bureau of Insular carbon copy chief of division circulars clerk in charge clerks of class commission communications compilation Confederate Armies consolidated contained Correspondence and Examining cost custody Department deserters desk detailed discontinued distribution document files draft duty employees Examining Division file number floor furnished Government handling and filing inclosures index cards indorsement inquiries Insular Affairs jackets letter located Mail and Record Medical Division ment messenger methods military record cards Miscellaneous Division muster rolls Navy Building organization outgoing personal papers personnel Philippine Islands prepared present received recommended recruiting referred Regimental Records Division reply requests Rolls Division salary expense saving Secretary of War sent serial number Seventeenth Street branch showing statement of service statements of military statistics submitted Tenth Street branch tion transferred War Department
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Page 915 - An Act for preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded, or poisonous, or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes...
Page 4 - Never has a complete description been given of the agencies through which these activities are performed. At no time has the attempt been made to study all of these activities and agencies with a view to the assignment of each activity to the agency best fitted for its performance, to the avoidance of duplication of plant and work, to the integration of all administrative agencies of the government, so far as may be practicable, into a unified organization for the most effective and economical dispatch...
Page 29 - ... prescribed by a Board. consisting of the Secretary of the Treasury, the Commissioner of Internal Revenue and the Secretary of Labor, or issued by state authorities. The section also provides in paragraph (b) that " the tax imposed by this title...
Page 5 - ... the work to be done by the commission the first controlling fact was that there was no basis in information for judgment as to what changes should be made or what would be the effect of any recommended change, no matter how simple it might at first appear. As was stated in my message of January 17, 1912, on the subject: This vast organization has never been studied in detail as one piece of administrative mechanism. Never have the foundations been laid for a thorough consideration of the relations...
Page 491 - It is also charged with the river and harbor improvements, with military and geographical explorations and surveys, with the survey of the lakes, and with any other engineer work specially assigned to the corps by acts of Congress or orders of the Secretary of War.
Page 918 - Government, including the Department of State, the Department of the Treasury, the Department of War, the Department of Justice, the Department of the Navy, the Department of the Interior, the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Commerce, and the Department of Labor.
Page 496 - And the services of skilled draughtsmen, civil engineers, and such other services as the Secretary of War may deem necessary may be employed in the office of the Chief of Engineers to carry into effect the various appropriations for rivers and harbors, fortifications, and...
Page 21 - As a matter of fact, the expenditures for personal services during that year were more nearly $400,000,000, as we have just learned by the inquiry now in progress under the authority given me by the last congress. The only balance sheet provided to the administrator...
Page 15 - ... government establishments, with the view of inaugurating new or changing old methods of transacting such public business so as to attain greater efficiency and economy therein, and to ascertain and recommend to Congress what changes in law may be necessary to carry into effect such results of his inquiry as cannot be carried into effect by executive action alone...
Page 915 - Navy, when on investigation he is of the opinion that it will be for the best interests of the public to make the transfer. 4. That provision be made also for certain new bureaus under said Public Health Service to take charge of lines of work not covered by other subdivisions of said services or other bureaus, divisions, or branches of the government.