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Page 27 - Senate, the chairman and the ranking minority member of the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds of the House of Representatives, and the Architect of the Capitol.
Page 89 - ... in the women's group. Later in the fall the floors in the eleven buildings of this group will be waxed and polished and the plastered walls painted, for all of which there is now money available. When all this is completed, the Villa Flora Group will be greatly improved, but there will still remain a vast amount of work to be done in the way of grading, making lawns, laying walks, and planting, that will require some years to accomplish. Sonyea Hall, the Peterson Hospital, the Laboratory, Willow,...
Page 4 - War, to build on practically the same line a new bridge in lieu thereof. said new bridge to be for railroad purposes only and to be adapted for two or more railway tracks, the Long Bridge to be removed and the new bridge constructed within four years from the date of the passage of this Act.
Page 8 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United /States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to acquire, on behalf of the United States, by gift or purchase...
Page 79 - Bureau is unable to get these men from their homes for these long distances in order that they may be hospitalized in institutions having sufficient beds. Mr. TAYLOR. Is this the only hospital available for World War veterans in your State ? Mr. WILLIAMSON. This is the only hospital available — Battle Mountain Sanatarium. I might say it is one of the best institutions of its kind in the country. I have visited a number of them, and while there may be some that are equipped with better facilities...
Page 5 - The Council has sanctioned an expenditure of £5,700 for the purchase of the land and the erection of the building, for which the tender of a local contractor has been accepted. The number of shipments from Lowestoft in 1900 was 285, of which 20 were first shipments.
Page 107 - Bureau, shall be available for veterans of the Spanish-American War, the Philippine insurrection, and the Boxer rebellion, suffering from neuropsychiatric or tubercular ailments and diseases, including transportation as granted to those receiving compensation and hospitalization under the War Risk Insurance Act.
Page 17 - to authorize an appropriation to enable the Director of the United States Veterans...