Hearings Before Subcommittee of House Committee on Appropriations ... in Charge of Sundry Civil Appropriation Bill for 1910

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1909 - United States - 1181 pages

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Page 892 - That for any sum or sums collected in any manner from inmates of such State or Territorial homes to be used for the support of said homes a like amount shall be deducted from the aid herein provided for, but this proviso shall not apply to any State or Territorial home into which the wives or widows of soldiers are admitted and maintained.
Page 919 - Naturalization," which said Bureau, under the direction and control of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, In addition to the duties now provided by law, shall have charge of all matters concerning the naturalization of aliens.
Page 138 - ... for detecting and bringing to trial and punishment persons guilty of violating the internal-revenue laws, or conniving at the same, in cases where such expenses are not otherwise provided for by law.
Page 214 - For payment of such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorized by the Attorney-General, for the United States courts and their officers, including the furnishing and collecting of evidence where the United States is or may be a party in interest, and moving of records, three hundred and twenty -five thousand dollars.
Page 220 - Each head of a Department may, from time to time, alter the distribution among the various bureaus and offices of his Department, of the clerks and other employees allowed by law, except such clerks or employees as may be required by law to be exclusively engaged upon some specific work, as he may find it necessary and proper to do...
Page 895 - For payment of amounts for arrears of pay and allowances on account of service of officers and men of the Army during the war with Spain and in the Philippine Islands...
Page 945 - The navy, under Porter, was all it could be, during the entire campaign. Without its assistance the campaign could not have been successfully made with twice the number of men engaged.
Page 891 - That no part of this appropriation shall be apportioned to any State or Territorial Home until its laws, rules, or regulations respecting the pensions of its inmates be made to conform to the provisions of section four of an Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, entitled "An Act prescribing regulations for the Soldiers...
Page 523 - To enable" the Secretary of the Interior to complete the unfinished drafting and field-note writing pertaining to surveys in the States of Minnesota, North Dakota, and Louisiana, caused by the discontinuance of the offices of surveyors-general in those States, six thousand and five hundred dollars.
Page 214 - That no part of any money appropriated by this Act shall be used during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen for the purchase of any typewriting machine at a price in excess of the lowest price paid by the Government of the United States for the same make and substantially the same model of machine during the period of the fiscal years nineteen hundred and...

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