Library Services: S. 205 and H.R. 2840. May 1956 |
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27 million adequate library service adults allotment American Library Association annually believe better library bookmobile Catholic Library Association centers cents per capita Chairman citizens Commissioner county libraries CULBERTSON D. C. DEAR SENATOR DEAR SENATOR MURRAY demonstration Education Subcommittee established expenditure favorable Federal aid Federal funds Federal library services fiscal George Aiken Hancock County hearings improve inadequate services interest JAMES E Jersey Labor and Public legislation librarians library administrative agency Library Commission library facilities library services bill library systems LISTER HILL Massachusetts MCDONOUGH Miss CULBERTSON municipalities Nation opportunity passage percent population President public library service Public Welfare Committee regional library rural areas Senate bill 205 Senate Labor Senator AIKEN Senator HILL Senator JAMES Senator SMITH serve services to rural Sincerely South Dakota statement stimulate tion towns United States Senate urban urge Washington Wiscon
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Page 6 - Federal share' for any State shall be 100 per centum less that percentage which bears the same ratio to 50 per centum as the per capita income of such State bears to the per capita income of the continental United States...
Page 7 - United States for the three most recent consecutive years for which satisfactory data are available from the Department of Commerce. Such promulgation shall be conclusive for each of the two fiscal years in the period beginning July 1 next succeeding such promulgation...
Page 4 - State for such period. The Secretary of the Treasury shall thereupon, prior to audit or settlement by the General Accounting Office, pay to the State, at the time or times fixed by the Commissioner, the amount so certified. (c) For the purposes of this Section the "Federal share...
Page 6 - Board for such prior quarter. (3) The Secretary of the Treasury shall thereupon, through the Division of Disbursement of the Treasury Department and prior to audit or settlement by the General Accounting Office, pay to the State, at the time or times fixed by the Board, the amount so certified.
Page 75 - ... the one condition of success, your sole safeguard, is the moral worth and intellectual clearness of the individual citizen. Education cannot give these, but it may cherish them and bring them to the front in whatever station of society they are to be found; and the universities ought to be, and may be, the fortresses of the higher life of the nation.
Page 4 - Until he is so satisfied he shall make no further certification to the Secretary of the Treasury with respect to such State.
Page 4 - Administrator may find necessary. "(2) The Administrator shall then certify to the Secretary of the Treasury the amount so estimated by the Administrator for any period, reduced or increased, as the case may be, by any sum by which he finds that his estimate for any, prior period was greater or less than the amount which should have been paid to the State...
Page 7 - State educational agency shall not make further payments under this title to specified local educational agencies affected by the failure) until he is satisfied that there is no longer any such failure to comply. Until he is so satisfied...
Page 38 - Whereas there is now pending in the Congress of the United States...
Page 5 - The provisions of this Act shall not be so construed as to interfere with State and local initiative and responsibility in the conduct of public library services.