Interior Department Appropriation Bill for 1950: Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Eighty-first Congress, First Session ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1949 |
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1949 appropriation 1950 estimate compared acres additional administration agencies Alaska Highway Alaska Railroad amount Appropriation Act appropriation and increase appropriation for 1949 areas authorized base salaries due BOYD Budget estimate buildings Chairman Change for 1950 CLAWSON coal committee compared with 1950 Congress construction contract cost decreases and increases Department due to Public employees equipment estimate for 1950 facilities Federal FENTON fiscal year 1950 fisheries Government grasshoppers Increase in base Indian Service industry Interior JACKSON JENSEN JOHNSON KIRWAN land maintenance ment mineral National Park Service Navajo NORRELL Olympic National Park operation percent personnel point a statement present problem projects proposed Public Law 900 Puerto Rico RECONCILIATION OF ESTIMATES record requested roads ROHWER Salaries and expenses Secretary KRUG Statement of decreases supply Taylor Grazing Act Territory tion TOLSON Total Within-grade salary advancements WRATHER ZIMMERMAN
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Page 644 - 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...