Investigation of Procurement and Buildings: Hearings Before the Procurement and Buildings Subcommittee of the Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Departments, House of Representatives, Eightieth Congress, First[-second] Session, Volumes 5-7U.S. Government Printing Office, 1948 - 1375 pages |
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Page 490 - The Secretary of the Treasury, in his discretion, is authorized to purchase any bonds issued hereunder, and for such purpose the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to use as a public-debt transaction the proceeds from the sale of any securities hereafter issued under the Second Liberty Bond Act, as amended...
Page 505 - States, or on its behalf, except that the foregoing provision shall not apply to the transportation of military or naval property of the United States moving for military or naval and not for civil use...
Page 525 - Now, therefore, in consideration of the entering into the arrangements and agreements herein above recited and in consideration of the premises and of the mutual covenants herein contained; it is agreed by and between the parties hereto as follows: ARTICLE I.
Page 529 - No member of or delegate to Congress or resident commissioner, shall be admitted to any share or part of this Agreement, or to any benefit that may arise therefrom; but this provision shall not be construed to extend to this Agreement if made with a corporation for its general benefit.
Page 1120 - All claims and demands whatever by the Government of the United States or against it, and all accounts whatever in which the Government of the United States is concerned, either as debtor or creditor, shall be settled and adjusted in the General Accounting Office...
Page 460 - ... unless such Act shall in specific terms declare an appropriation to be made or that a contract may be executed.
Page 899 - General, will enable Congress to determine whether public funds have been economically and efficiently administered and expended. Reports on such analyses shall be submitted by the Comptroller General, from time to time, to the Committees on Expenditures in the Executive Departments, to the Appropriations Committees, and to the legislative committees having jurisdiction over legislation relating to the operations of the respective agencies, of the two Houses.
Page 529 - Commissioner, shall be admitted to any share or part of any contract resulting from offers submitted hereunder or to any benefit that may arise therefrom, but this provision shall not be construed to extend to such a contract if made with a corporation for its general benefit.
Page 1120 - Moreover, that determination is reached ordinarily upon voluminous and conflicting evidence, for the adequate appreciation of which acquaintance "with many intricate facts of transportation is indispensable ; and such acquaintance is commonly to be found only in a body of experts. But what construction shall be given to a railroad tariff presents ordinarily a question of law which does not differ in character from those presented when the construction of any other document is in dispute.
Page 1030 - Payment for transportation of the United States mail and of persons or property for or on behalf of the United States by any common carrier subject to the Interstate Commerce Act, as amended...