Service Monographs of the United States Government, Issue 24

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D. Appleton & Company, 1923

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Page 31 - Session, 1912, 2 vols. hopes that upon the completion of the present series, it will be able to prepare a complete classified statement of the technical and other facilities at the disposal of the government. The present monographs will then furnish the details regarding the organization, equipment, and work of the institutions so listed and classified. OUTLINE OF ORGANIZATION BUREAU OF EDUCATION DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR OCTOBER i, 1921 Annual Unit of Organisation; Salary Classes of Employees Number...
Page 67 - An Act for the retirement of employees in the classified civil service, and for other purposes," approved May 22, 1920, and Acts amendatory thereof (38 U.
Page 80 - EXPLANATORY NOTE' The bibliographies appended to the several monographs aim to list only those works which deal directly with the services to which they relate, their history, activities, organization, methods of business, problems, etc. They are intended primarily to meet the needs of those persons who desire to make a further study of the services from an administrative standpoint. They thus do not include the titles of publications of the services themselves except in so far as they treat of the...
Page 30 - They differ from those outlines, however, in that whereas the commission's report showed only organization units, the presentation herein has been carried far enough to show the personnel embraced in each organization unit. These outlines...
Page 44 - ... performed by the service to which they relate. Secondly, they lay the basis for a system of accounting and reporting that will permit the showing of total expenditures classified according to activities. Finally, taken collectively, they make possible the preparation of a general or consolidated statement of the activities of the government as a whole. Such a statement will reveal in detail, not only what the government is doing, but the services in which the work is being performed. For example,...
Page 30 - They furnish the essential basis for making plans for determining costs by organization division and subdivision. They afford the data for a consideration of the problem of classifying and standardizing personnel and compensation. Collectively, they make it possible to determine the number and location of organization...
Page 1 - APPROVED MARCH 4, 1917. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the widow of any officer or enlisted man who served ninety days or more in the Army, Navy, or Marine Corps of the United States during the War with Spain, the Chinese Boxer rebellion, or the Philippine insurrection, between April 21, 1898, and July 4, 1902...

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