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Page 111 - Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, District of Columbia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana.
Page xiii - An Act to further regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the States", approved February nineteenth, nineteen hundred and three, and in the Act entitled "An Act making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and four, and for other purposes...
Page 77 - The Chief Signal Officer is charged with the supervision of all military signal duties, and of books, papers, and devices connected therewith, including telegraph and telephone apparatus and the necessary meteorological instruments for use on target ranges and other military uses; the construction, repair, and operation of military telegraph lines, and the duty of collecting and transmitting information for the Army by telegraph or otherwise, and all other duties usually pertaining to military signaling.
Page 77 - Department; the disbursement of its appropriations; the providing of rations and their issue to the Army; the purchase and distribution of articles authorized to be kept for sale to officers and enlisted men; the administrative examination of accounts of subsistence funds preliminary to their settlement by the proper accounting officers of the Treasury; and the examination and settlement of returns of subsistence supplies.
Page xiii - No manuscript shall, at any time, be taken out of the Department except by order in writing of the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary. III. No manuscript shall be taken out of the Bureau of Rolls and Library, into any room of the Department, until a receipt in form and descriptive of the paper or volume be signed by the official taking the same and delivered to the Chief of the Bureau, or,, in his absence, to the person in charge. IV. No manuscript shall be detained from its place on the shelves...
Page 77 - In the District of Columbia, as such square appears on the records In the Office of the Surveyor of the District of Columbia as of the date of the approval of this Act...
Page 15 - D'Iberville et de Bienville, commandants pour le Roi au dit pays, et sur les decouvertes et recherches de M. Bernard de la Harpe nomine au commandement de la Baye St. Bernard.
Page 48 - The Auditor for the State and Other Departments shall receive and examine all accounts of salaries and incidental expenses of the office of the Secretary of...
Page 51 - Audits and adjusts the money-order accounts of postmasters, and conducts correspondence relating thereto ; adjusts money-order accounts of late postmasters by payment, transfer, or collection, as indicated by the balance; prepares quarterly and annual statements of money-order transactions of the United States, both domestic and international, with revenue derived therefrom for the information of the Secretary of the Treasury and the Postmaster-General.
Page 134 - ... (6) Certified copies of papers, plats, and records relating to mineral lands or coal lands. (7) Relinquishments and amendments of entries or filings in which the character of the land is in question. (8) Correspondence and instructions to registers and receivers and United States surveyors-general in all matters relating to the disposal of mineral and coal lands. (9) The preparation, recording, and transmitting of all mineral and coal patents. (10...