Third Deficiency Appropriation Bill, 1922: Hearing[s] Before Subcommittee of House Committee on Appropriations ... in Charge of Deficiency Appropriations. Sixty-seventh Congress, Second Session

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1922 - 323 pages
 

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Page 188 - An Act making supplemental appropriations for the Executive Office and sundry independent executive bureaus, boards, commissions, and offices, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1949, and for other purposes...
Page 65 - States is authorized and directed to cause an audit to be made of the financial transactions of the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation, in accordance with the usual methods of steamship or corporation accounting and under such rules and regulations as he shall prescribe.
Page 217 - ... of $500,000, to be expended in the discretion of the Attorney General, and to remain available until June 30, 1923: Provided, That this appropriation shall not be available for rent of buildings in the District of Columbia if suitable space is provided by the Public Buildings Commission: Provided further, That not more than one person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $10,000 per annum.
Page 272 - Necessaries shall be deemed to be hoarded within the meaning of this Act when either (a) held, contracted for, For proclamation concerning food licenses, see p. 173. or arranged for by any person in a quantity in excess of his reasonable requirements for use or consumption by himself and dependents for a reasonable time...
Page 217 - That In addition to the apportionment required by the so-called antldeflciency act, approved February twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and six (Statutes at Large, volume thirty-four, page forty -nine), the head of each executive department shall, on or before the beginning of each fiscal year, apportion to each office or bureau of his department the maximum amount to be expended therefor during the fiscal year out of the contingent fund or funds appropriated...
Page 90 - An act to extend protection to the civil rights of members of the Military and Naval Establishments of the United States engaged in the present war...
Page 217 - ... year out of the contingent fund or funds appropriated for the entire year for the department, and the amounts so apportioned shall not be • increased or diminished during the year for which made except upon the written direction of the head of the department, in which there shall be fully expressed his reasons therefor; and hereafter there shall not be purchased out of any other fund any article for use in any office or bureau of any executive department in Washington, District of Columbia,...
Page 87 - That if, on the final hearing of said cause, the said supreme court of the District of Columbia shall be of opinion that there exists any right, title, or interest in the land or water in this act mentioned in any person or corporation adverse to the complete and paramount right of the Unite_d States, the said court shall forthwith and in a summary way proceed to ascertain the value of any such right...
Page 237 - Germany, have become inequitable and unjust on account of increased cost of materials, labor, and other unforeseen conditions arising out of the war ; and to ascertain and report what amounts, if any, in addition to those fixed by the terms of said contracts, should in justice and equity be paid to contractors, for work performed between Apnl 6.

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