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Page 127 - shall consist of a central library and such number of branch libraries so located and so supported as to furnish books and other printed matter and information service convenient to the homes and offices of all residents of the said District.
Page 45 - The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized and directed to...
Page 361 - Resolved that copies of these Resolutions be transmitted to the American Ambassador in Paris and to the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York.
Page 394 - No department of the Government shall expend, in any one fiscal year, any sum in excess of appropriations made by Congress for that fiscal year, or involve the Government in any contract for the future payment of money in excess of such appropriations.
Page 47 - As far as the record shows, it was eliminated solely because it is in opposition to a policy adopted by the House against the reappropriation of balances of former appropriations. Senator THOMAS. Then, if we make a direct appropriation, there will be the same thing, exactly, as if it were carried, as suggested here, as a reappropriation? Mr. DONOVAN. It would. Of course, there would be this difference, Mr. Chairman: If you make a direct appropriation, it increases the amount of the Budget by that...
Page 183 - ... regular meeting assembled this 16th day of February 1935, that we urgently request that funds be provided at the earliest possible date for the construction of a new modern and adequate bridge over the Anacostia River in line of Pennsylvania Avenue, southeast; and be it further Resolved, That copies of this resolution be sent to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia and to each member of the House and Senate Subcommittees on Appropriations for the District of Columbia.
Page 349 - Claims to hear and determine the claims listed on page 678 of the hearings before the subcommittee of the House Committee on, Appropriations on the...
Page 5 - Act shall not be used for or in connection with the preparation, issuance, publication, or enforcement of any regulation or order of the Public Service Commission requiring the installation of meters in taxicabs, or for or in connection with the licensing of any vehicle to be operated as a taxicab except for operation in accordance with such system of uniform zones and rates and regulations applicable thereto as shall have been prescribed...
Page 162 - SEC. 212 (a) After the date of the enactment of this act, no person holding a civilian office or position appointive or elective, under the United States Government or the municipal government of the District of Columbia...
Page 440 - Our unanimous conclusion is that the rate of taxation in the District should be fixed and certain; that the Congress should pursue a definite policy of regular and liberal appropriations, having in view not only the permanent moral and physical advancement of the city, but also its preeminent beauty and grandeur as the municipal expression of the Nation's home and its people's pride.