District of Columbia Appropriations

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Page 742 - That for the purpose of this act the term " persons disabled " shall be construed to mean any person who, by reason of a physical defect or infirmity, whether congenital or acquired by accident, injury, or disease, is, or may be expected to be, totally or partially incapacitated for remunerative occupation...
Page 61 - State, subject only to the two restrictions, that the taxation shall not be at a greater rate than is assessed upon other moneyed capital in the hands of individual citizens of such State, and that the shares of any national banking association owned by non-residents of any State shall be taxed in the city or town where the bank is located, and not elsewhere.
Page 211 - ... to order such reasonable improvements as will best promote the public interest, preserve the public health and protect those using such gas or electricity and those employed in the manufacture and distribution thereof, and have power to order reasonable improvements and extensions of the works, wires, poles, lines, conduits, ducts and other reasonable devices, apparatus and property of gas corporations...
Page 109 - ... the average of the compensation rates specified for the grade by such Act, as amended, and in grades in which only one position is allocated the salary of such position shall not exceed the average of the compensation rates for the grade...
Page 323 - Provided, That this appropriation shall not be available for the payment of hospitalization of members of the Home in United States Army hospitals at rates in excess of those prescribed by the Secretary of the Army, upon...
Page 215 - Reservation, in accordance with the plan of the permanent system of highways for the District of Columbia...
Page 142 - ... to collect all revenues of the District of Columbia and deposit the amounts collected daily with the Treasurer of the United States; $62,271,728 having been collected during 1944 fiscal year.
Page 83 - How about cars in private ownership ? Mr. DONOVAN. I would say the great majority of cars in private ownership — as a matter of fact, I have some information in the office about that — but the great majority of the total number are the so-called
Page 758 - Capital and its environs, which plan shall include recommendations to the proper executive authorities as to traffic and transportation; plats and subdivisions; highways, parks, and parkways; school and library sites; playgrounds; drainage, sewerage, and water supply; housing, building, and zoning regulations; public and private buildings; bridges and water fronts; commerce and industry; and other proper elements of city and regional planning.
Page 146 - WILLIAM H. NATCHER, Chairman, Subcommittee on Appropriations for the District of Columbia, House of Representatives, Washington, DC Dear MR.

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