The Abridgment ... Containing the Annual Message of the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress ... with Reports of Departments and Selections from Accompanying Papers |
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... Division , the work has been in progress on the coasts of Maine , Connecticut , New York , New Jersey , Pennsylvania , Delaware , Maryland , Virginia , Florida , Louisiana , and Mississippi , including the Mississippi river to Memphis ...
... Division , the work has been in progress on the coasts of Maine , Connecticut , New York , New Jersey , Pennsylvania , Delaware , Maryland , Virginia , Florida , Louisiana , and Mississippi , including the Mississippi river to Memphis ...
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... division , the chief clerk , and the head of the bureau . Promotions should be made strictly upon merit , after a ... divisions and persons occupying confidential relations to the heads of departments and bureaus should be subject to ...
... division , the chief clerk , and the head of the bureau . Promotions should be made strictly upon merit , after a ... divisions and persons occupying confidential relations to the heads of departments and bureaus should be subject to ...
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... divisions . 1880 . 1881 . $ 45 , 230 , 098 $ 40 , 468 , 340 157 , 563 , 757 958 , 470 176 , 873 , 889 1,073 , 460 ... divisions , the average amount of capital invested in United States bonds for the six months ending May 31 , in the ...
... divisions . 1880 . 1881 . $ 45 , 230 , 098 $ 40 , 468 , 340 157 , 563 , 757 958 , 470 176 , 873 , 889 1,073 , 460 ... divisions , the average amount of capital invested in United States bonds for the six months ending May 31 , in the ...
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... DIVISION OF CLAIMS . Claims involving difficult questions of law , which require not only much time , but special legal ability , for their proper investigation are constantly coming before this office for adjudication . If Congress ...
... DIVISION OF CLAIMS . Claims involving difficult questions of law , which require not only much time , but special legal ability , for their proper investigation are constantly coming before this office for adjudication . If Congress ...
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... DIVISIONS and MISCELLANEOUS DESKS . CUSTOMS DIVISION . Comprising the Accounts of Collectors of Customs for Receipts of Customs Revenue and Disbursements for the Expenses of Collecting the same , and also including Accounts of ...
... DIVISIONS and MISCELLANEOUS DESKS . CUSTOMS DIVISION . Comprising the Accounts of Collectors of Customs for Receipts of Customs Revenue and Disbursements for the Expenses of Collecting the same , and also including Accounts of ...
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Page 162 - State within which the association is located ; but the legislature of each state may determine and direct the manner and place of taxing all the shares of national banking associations located within the State, subject only to the two restrictions that the taxation shall not be at a greater rate than is assessed upon other moneyed capital in the hands of individual citizens of such state...
Page 630 - An act [to amend an act entitled an act] to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean, and to secure to the Government the use of the same for postal, military, and other purposes, approved July first, eighteen hundred and sixty-two," approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-four.
Page 767 - ... upon condition that said company shall pay said bonds at maturity, and shall keep said railroad and telegraph line in repair and use, and shall at all times transmit dispatches over said telegraph line, and transport mails, troops and munitions of war, supplies and public stores upon said railroad for the government, whenever required to do so by any department thereof, and that the government shall at all times have the preference in the use of the same for all the purposes aforesaid (at fair...
Page 428 - Except as otherwise provided by law, sums appropriated for the various branches of expenditure in the public service shall be applied solely to the objects for which they are respectively made, and for no others (RS 3678;31 DSC 628).
Page 663 - An act to create the office of surveyor general of the public lands in Oregon, and to provide for the survey, and to make donations to settlers of the said public lands...
Page 68 - An act to prevent the introduction of contagious and infectious diseases into the United States...
Page 226 - Treasury to continue to receive, examine, and consider the justice and validity of all claims under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of said section that may be brought before them within a period of five years.
Page 138 - To exercise by its board of directors, or duly authorized officers or agents, subject to law, all such incidental powers as shall be necessary to carry on the business...
Page 138 - Each director, when appointed or elected, shall take an oath that he will, so far as the duty devolves on him, diligently and honestly administer the affairs of such association, and will not knowingly violate, or willingly permit to be violated, any of the provisions of this Title...
Page 284 - The gross amount of all moneys received from whatever source for the use of the United States, except as otherwise provided in section 487 of this title, shall be paid by the officer or agent receiving the same into the Treasury, at as early a day as practicable, without any abatement or deduction on account of salary, fees, costs, charges, expenses, or claim of any description whatever.