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... Present : Senators Keyes ( chairman ) Fess , Smoot , Shipstead , Swanson , and Tydings . The CHAIRMAN . The committee will come to order . We can con- sider a quorum present because several Senators have authorized me to count them for ...
... Present : Senators Keyes ( chairman ) Fess , Smoot , Shipstead , Swanson , and Tydings . The CHAIRMAN . The committee will come to order . We can con- sider a quorum present because several Senators have authorized me to count them for ...
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... Present Routing . " The main lines of the present railway trackage are here indicated in color ; new public buildings authorized or contemplated are indi- cated by shaded cross section . You will notice the east - west trunk in red ...
... Present Routing . " The main lines of the present railway trackage are here indicated in color ; new public buildings authorized or contemplated are indi- cated by shaded cross section . You will notice the east - west trunk in red ...
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... present street - car crossing in C. Street . The present tracks are to be moved some distance to the north and curved around the fountain , which is axiated with North Capitol and C Street . You will see on the second photostat , which ...
... present street - car crossing in C. Street . The present tracks are to be moved some distance to the north and curved around the fountain , which is axiated with North Capitol and C Street . You will see on the second photostat , which ...
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... present able to displace the large capacity , high - powered street - car unit in these essential services , certainly not with as low a fare . The so - called " unsightli- ness " of modern street cars must be a matter of personal ...
... present able to displace the large capacity , high - powered street - car unit in these essential services , certainly not with as low a fare . The so - called " unsightli- ness " of modern street cars must be a matter of personal ...
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... present zoning regulations prescribe , but he prescribed a minimum height and he prescribed materials of which buildings were to be built and provided for their being located on building lines to be set or established by the com ...
... present zoning regulations prescribe , but he prescribed a minimum height and he prescribed materials of which buildings were to be built and provided for their being located on building lines to be set or established by the com ...
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Page 54 - An Act to amend an Act approved August thirteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, entitled 'An Act for the protection of persons furnishing materials and labor for the construction of public works...
Page 53 - ... and who has not been paid in full therefor before the expiration of a period of ninety days after the day on which the last of the labor was done or performed by him or material was furnished or supplied by him for which such claim is made, shall have the right to sue on...
Page 3 - An Act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1891, and for other purposes," approved August 30, 1890, as amended.
Page 9 - An Act to provide for the construction of certain public buildings, and for other purposes", approved May 25, 1926, as amended (44 Stat.
Page 53 - Whenever the total amount payable by the terms of the contract shall be not more than $1,000,000 the said payment bond shall be in a sum of one-half the total amount payable by the terms of the contract. Whenever the total amount payable by the terms of the contract shall be more than...
Page 54 - ... claim is made, stating with substantial accuracy the amount claimed and the name of the party to whom...
Page 54 - States marshal of the district in which the public improvement is situated is authorized by law to serve summons. (b) Every suit instituted under this section shall be brought in the name of the United States for the use of the person suing, in the United States District Court for any district in which the contract was to be performed and executed and not elsewhere, irrespective of the amount in controversy in such suit, but no such suit shall be commenced after the expiration of one year after the...
Page 4 - Representatives and two other members of said committee, to be appointed by said chairman, the chairman of the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds of the House of Representatives...
Page 3 - ... height and appearance, color, and texture of the materials of exterior construction, shall be submitted by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to the Commission of Fine Arts; and...
Page 2 - An Act to create a Commission to be known as the Corregidor-Bataan Memorial Commission", approved August 5, 1953 (67 Stat. 366), as amended, is amended as follows: By inserting immediately after the subparagraph "(f...