Interior Department Appropriation Bill for 1950: Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Eighty-first Congress, First Session ...

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1949 - 80 pages

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Page 502 - United Nations Special Committee on Information transmitted under article 73 (e) of the Charter.
Page 548 - President as the date of the termination of hostilities in the present war, or the date specified in a concurrent resolution of the two Houses of Congress as the date of such termination, whichever is. the earlier.
Page 712 - ... centum of such amount, which shall be used for paying the costs of administering the State plan or for old-age assistance, or both, and for no other purpose...
Page 506 - Secretary to reflect the changes in the series for food away from home of the Consumer Price Index published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Department of Labor.
Page 84 - ... the National Park Service, the Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Page 486 - An amount equal to the revenue accruing during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1939, and each fiscal year thereafter, from the tax imposed by section 610, title IV, of the Revenue Act of 1932 (47 Stat. 169), as heretofore or hereafter extended and amended, on firearms, shells, and cartridges, is hereby authorized to be set apart in the Treasury as a special fund to be known as "The Federal aid to wildlife-restoration fund...
Page 684 - April, 1792, making in the whole $4,500. which shall be expended yearly forever, in purchasing clothing, domestic animals, implements of husbandry, and other utensils suited to their circumstances, and in compensating useful artificers, who shall reside with or near them, and be employed for their benefit.
Page 684 - ... thousand dollars. And for the same considerations, and with a' view to promote the future welfare of the Six Nations, and of their Indian friends aforesaid, the United States will add the sum of...
Page 684 - The United States agrees to pay to the Pawnees the sum of $30,000 per annum, as a perpetual annuity to be distributed annually among them per capita, in coin unless the President of the United States shall from time to time otherwise direct. But it is further agreed that the President may, at any time in his discretion, discontinue said perpetuity by causing a value of a fair computation thereof to be paid to or expended for the benefit of said Indians in such manner as to him shall seem proper.
Page 771 - Grass is the forgiveness of nature — her constant benediction . . . Forests decay, harvests perish, flowers vanish, but grass is immortal ... Its tenacious fibers hold the earth in its place and prevent its soluble components from washing into the wasting sea...

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