Deficiency BillU.S. Government Printing Office, 1913 - 704 pages |
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additional amount appointment appropriation approved Assistant August 24 authorized BARTLETT bids bill buoys Bureau Capt Census cent CHAIRMAN Civil Service Clerk collector and inspector Commerce and Labor commission committee compensation construction contract Corps court CURTIS deficiency Department of Labor Deputy collector district Ellis Island employees engineer estimate examination expenditures expenses feet ground area fireproof fiscal year 1912 furnish GILLETT Government HAVENNER immigration increase interposing July July 27 June 13 June 25 June 30 land Lighthouse limit of cost LINTHICUM March matter MCGINTY McILHENNY ment Messenger months necessary Ohio paid post office Postmaster present PROUTY public buildings purchase PUTNAM railroad rent request salaries Secretary REDFIELD Secretary WILSON SHERLEY SISSON square feet ground statement submitted sundry civil Supervising Architect thing THURMAN tion Treasury Department TWEEDALE valuation voucher Washington WATSON WENDEROTH York
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Page 6 - Such examinations shall be practical in their character, and so far as may be shall relate to those matters which will fairly test the relative capacity and fitness of the persons examined to discharge the duties of the service, into which they seek to be appointed.
Page 443 - When committed upon the high seas, or on any other waters within the admiralty and maritime jurisdiction of the United States and out of the jurisdiction of any particular State...
Page 360 - June thirteenth, eighteen hundred and eightyeight, that established the same, which especially charged it "to ascertain, at as early a date as possible, and whenever industrial changes shall make it essential, the cost of producing articles at the time dutiable in the United States, in leading countries where such articles are produced, by fully specified units of production, and under a classification showing the different elements of cost, or approximate cost, of such articles of production, including...
Page 360 - ... industrial changes shall make it essential, the cost of producing articles at the time dutiable in the United .States in leading countries where such articles are produced, by fully specified units of production, and under a classification showing the different elements of cost or approximate cost of such articles of production, including the wages paid in such industries per day, week, month, or year, or by the piece, and hours employed per day, and the profits of the manufacturers and producers...
Page 396 - Each state should make provision for a system of inspection in which women should take part, in order to ensure the enforcement of the laws and regulations for the protection of the employed.
Page 106 - That hereafter fourth-class mail matter shall embrace all other matter, including farm and factory products, not now embraced by law in either the first, second, or third class, not exceeding eleven pounds in weight, nor greater in size than seventy-two inches in length and girth combined, nor in form or kind likely to injure the person of any postal employee or damage the mail equipment or other mail matter and not of a character perishable within a period reasonably required for transportation...
Page 336 - States district judge of the district in which the arbitration is held before they are presented to the accounting officers of the Treasury Department for settlement...
Page 339 - For payment of assistants to the Attorney General and to United States district attorneys employed by the Attorney General to aid in special cases, $200,000.
Page 521 - Labor, be, and the same hereby are transferred from the Department of Commerce and Labor to the Department of Labor, and the same shall hereafter remain under the jurisdiction and supervision of the last-named department.
Page 11 - No person In the executive civil service shall use his official authority or Influence for the purpose of interfering with an election or affecting the result thereof. Persons who by the provisions of these rules are In the competitive classified service, while retaining the right to vote as they please and to express privately their opinions on all political subjects, shall take no active part in political management or In political campaigns.