Urgent Deficiencies: 1917, Hearing ... 64th Congress, 2d Session1916 - 37 pages |
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alloys amount appeals building asking August 29 awaiting action bill called or drafted CANNON Census Building cent CHAIRMAN claim coinage comptroller CONTINGENT EXPENSES contributed court of appeals court rooms DECEMBER 18 declaration and application Denver Denver Mint dependent families dependent members depot quartermaster dimes discharge District of Columbia electrician ELLIOTT WOODS employees ENGELKEN families of enlisted fiscal Give names gold Government incidental and contingent JOYCE Judge COVINGTON June 18 marshal matter melt Militia or National National Guard necessary nickel nineteen hundred number of applications old courthouse Organized Militia paid paragraph pay receivable payment Philadelphia PHILADELPHIA MINT platinum procures or advises profit Quartermaster Corps quarters recorder of deeds Regular Army rent rental revenue San Francisco Secretary Secretary of War seniorage September SHARPE SISSON soldier space support of dependent Treasury United VARE VON ENGELKEN wages of workmen Washington
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Page 13 - Who, for the purpose of obtaining, or aiding others to obtain, the approval, allowance...
Page 13 - Shall, on conviction thereof, be punished by fine or imprisonment or by such other punishment as a court-martial may adjudge, or by any or all of said penalties.
Page 13 - Who presents or causes to be presented to any person in the civil or military service thereof, for approval or payment, any claim against the United States or any officer thereof, knowing such claim to be false or fraudulent...
Page 14 - And if any person, being guilty of any of the offenses aforesaid, while in the military service of the United States, receives his discharge, or is dismissed from the service, he shall continue to be liable to be arrested and held for trial and sentence by a court-martial, in the same manner and to the same extent as if he had not received such discharge nor been dismissed.
Page 13 - United States by obtaining, or aiding others to obtain, the allowance or payment of any false or fraudulent claim...
Page 7 - An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for other purposes...
Page 6 - ... the Secretary of War may deem necessary, and not more than such enlisted man has been contributing monthly to the support of his family at the time of his being called or drafted into the service of the United States or during his enlistment period in the Regular Army at the time of such call or draft of the Organized Militia or National Guard, the family of each enlisted man of the Organized Militia or National Guard called or drafted into the service of the United States until his discharge...
Page 14 - The sum of $2,000,000 therein appropriated to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War for the support of the family of each enlisted man of the Organized Militia or National Guard, or of the Regular Army, as therein provided, shall be available to be paid on the basis of and for time subsequent to June...
Page 14 - That the sum of $2,000,000 is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, and under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, for the support of, at a cost of not more than $50 per month, or...
Page 32 - Annexed to the second appropriation, which is for the sum of $4,488.86, is the following proviso, to wit: that hereafter no contract shall be made for the rent of any building or part of any building in Washington, not now in use by the Government, to be used for the purposes of the Government, until an appropriation therefor shall have been made in terms by Congress.