Interior Department and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1956: Hearings ... 84th Congress, 1st Session

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Page 650 - Whereas it is the policy of Congress, as rapidly as possible, to make the Indians within the territorial limits of the United States subject to the same laws and entitled to the same privileges and responsibilities as are applicable to other citizens of the United States, to end their status as wards of the United States, and to grant them all of the rights and prerogatives pertaining to American citizenship...
Page 377 - The holders of the preferred stock shall be entitled to receive, when and as declared, from the surplus or net profits of the corporation yearly dividends at the rate of seven per centum per annum, and no more, payable quarterly on dates to be fixed by the by-laws.
Page 382 - Interior, shall be entitled to a salary of four thousand dollars a year, and shall give bond for the faithful performance of his duties in such sum and with such securities as may be required by the Secretary of the Interior.
Page 383 - ... shall not have been paid thereon, the deficiency shall be payable before any dividends shall be paid upon or set apart for the common stock.
Page 653 - Is now on file in my office; that the same contains a full, true and correct transcript therefrom and of the whole thereof . Witness my hand and the seal of said Board of Supervisors, this 14th day of July. 1982 _ . PORTER D. CREMANS Clerk of the Board of Supervisors...
Page 724 - ... construction and maintenance of all other improvements necessary for the proper and economical administration, protection, development, and use of the national forests, including experimental areas under Forest Service administration...
Page 382 - The officers of the company shall be a president, a vice president, a secretary, and a treasurer, who shall be elected for 1 year and shall hold office until their successors are elected and qualified.
Page 724 - That this appropriation shall be available for the operation and maintenance of aircraft and the purchase of not to exceed four, of which two shall be for replacement only: Provided further.
Page 724 - States; to advise the owners of woodlands as to the proper care of the same; to investigate and test American timber and timber trees and their uses, and methods for the preservative treatment of timber; to seek, through investigations and the planting of native and foreign species, suitable trees for the treeless regions; to erect necessary buildings: Provided, That the cost of any building purchased, erected, or as improved, exclusive of the cost of constructing a water supply or sanitary system...
Page 734 - Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin.

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