Second Deficiency Appropriation Bill, 1926: Hearing Before Subcommittee of House Committee on Appropriations in Charge of Deficiency Appropriations. Sixty-ninth Congress, First Session

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1926 - 1234 pages

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Page 32 - Indians by a committee chosen by them under the direction and approval of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs and the Secretary of the Interior...
Page 137 - Any witness appearing before a board of arbitration shall receive the same fees and mileage as witnesses in courts of the United States, to be paid by the party securing the subpoena.
Page 141 - Act is declared unconstitutional or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the validity of the remainder of the Act and the application of such provision to other persons and circumstances shall not be affected thereby. SEC.
Page 426 - Government accounts, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, TITLE I. — DEFINITIONS. SECTION 1. This act may be cited as the " Budget and Accounting Act, 1921." SEC. 2. When used in this act — The terms " department and establishment " and " department or establishment...
Page 24 - Claims be in excess of the amounts stipulated in the contracts approved by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs and the Secretary of the Interior...
Page 140 - Aircraft" means any contrivance now known or hereafter invented, used, or designed for navigation of or flight in the air.
Page 136 - interstate commerce " shall be construed to mean commerce between any State, Territory, or possession, or the District of Columbia, and any place outside thereof ; or between points within the same State, Territory, or possession, or the District of Columbia, but through any place outside thereof, or within any Territory or possession, or the District of Columbia.
Page 141 - The proceedings of such libel cases shall conform, as near as may be, to the proceedings in admiralty, except that either party may demand trial by jury of any issue of fact joined in any such case, and all such proceedings shall be at the suit of and in the name of the United States.
Page 139 - States from any place outside thereof and for the merchandise carried on such aircraft, by the Attorney General as a port of entry for aliens arriving on such aircraft, and by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare as a place for quarantine inspection.
Page 136 - Government agencies shall be open to the public, 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 House...

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