First Supplemental National Defense Appropriation Bill for 1942: Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Seventy-seventh Congress, First Session...

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1941 - 523 pages
 

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Page 217 - Permanent barracks, or quarters and buildings and structures of a permanent nature, shall not be constructed, unless detailed estimates shall have been previously submitted to Congress, and approved by a special appropriation for the same, except when constructed by the troops ; and no such structures, the cost of which shall exceed twenty thousand dollars, shall be erected unless by special authority of Congress.
Page 217 - No public money shall be expended upon any site or land purchased by the United States for the purposes of erecting thereon any armory, arsenal, fort, fortification, navy yard, customhouse, lighthouse, or other public building of any kind whatever, until the written opinion of the Attorney General shall be had in favor of the validity of the title, nor until the consent of the legislature of the State in which the land or site may be, to such purchase, has been given.
Page 140 - Something is Q at such and such a place and time'. Thus, given the protocol 'Yellow here now', I can say something of the form 'There is something yellow in such and such a place at such and such a time'.
Page 48 - Act a flying officer in time of peace is defined as one who has received an aeronautical rating as a pilot of service types of aircraft...
Page 115 - Now, therefore, under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and statutes of the United States, and as President of the United States...
Page 217 - ... any assistance or information in their power in relation to the titles of the public property lying within their respective districts. And the Secretaries of the Departments, upon the application of the Attorney-General, shall procure "any additional evidence of title which he may deem necessary, and which may not be in the possession of the officers of the Government, and the expense of procuring it shall be paid out of the appropriations made for the contingencies of the Departments respectively.
Page 258 - Mr. TABER. The larger ones will probably take longer because they are something new for you? Admiral BLANDY. I do not think a great deal. Mr. TABER. Not a great deal longer? Admiral BLANDY. No. TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 1941. BUREAU OF SUPPLIES AND ACCOUNTS STATEMENTS OF REAR ADMIRAL RAY SPEAR, CHIEF OF THE BUREAU OF SUPPLIES AND ACCOUNTS, AND CAPT. AB ANDERSON, OFFICE OF NAVAL OPERATIONS NAVAL SUPPLY ACCOUNT FUND Mr. WOODRUM. The next is the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, for which there is a supplemental...
Page 115 - Retired officers of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard of the United States, while not on active duty...
Page 217 - Attorney-General shall be had in favor of the validity of the title, nor until the consent of the legislature of the State in which the land or site may be, to such purchase, has been given. The district attorneys of the United States, upon the application of the Attorney -General, shall furnish any assistance or information in their power in relation to the titles of the public property lying within their respective districts.
Page 316 - Martell has been brought in by the Secretary of the Navy and the Chief of Naval Operations to...

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