Style Manual, Volume 4"Essentially, it is a standardization device designed to achieve uniform word and type treatment, and aiming for economy of word use." -preface. |
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Page 214 - States, and for other purposes, having considered the same, report favorably thereon with amendments and recommend that the bill as amended do pass. The amendments are as follows : Page 2.
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Page 210 - CHANGES IN EXISTING LAW MADE RY THE BILL, AS REPORTED In compliance with clause 3 of rule XIII of the Rules of the House of Representatives, changes in existing law made by the bill, as reported, are shown as follows (existing law proposed to be omitted is enclosed in black brackets, new matter is printed in italic...
Page 219 - Senate in explanation of the effect of the action agreed upon by the managers and recommended in the accompanying conference report : The Senate amendment struck out all of the House bill after the enacting clause and inserted a substitute text.
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Page 156 - The question was taken; and (two-thirds having voted in favor thereof ) the rules were suspended and the bill was passed.
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Page 220 - February twenty-third, nineteen hundred and one, be amended by striking out all after the resolving clause and inserting in lieu thereof the following : That there shall be printed ten thousand five hundred copies of the report on field operations of the Division of Soils, Department of Agriculture...
Page 218 - Indian health care, and for other purposes, having met, after full and free conference, have agreed to recommend and do recommend to their respective Houses as follows: That the Senate recede from its disagreement to the amendment of the...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Style Manual, Volume 4 Style Manual, United States. Government Printing Office |
| Author | United States. Government Printing Office |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | U.S. Government Printing Office, 1959 |
| Length | 496 pages |
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