Second Emergency Bond Issue: Hearings Before the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, Sixty-fifth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 5901, a Bill to Authorize an Additional Issue of Bonds to Meet Expenditures for the National Security and Defense, And, for the Purpose of Assisting in the Prosecution of the War, to Extend Additional Credit to Foreign Governments, and for Other Purposes. August 28 and 29, 1917. Washington, Govt. Print. Off., 1917

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Page 86 - E will be held in safekeeping without charge by the Secretary of the Treasury if the...
Page 1 - An Act to authorize an issue of bonds to meet expenditures for the national security and defense, and, for the purpose of assisting in the prosecution of the war, to extend credit to foreign governments, and for other purposes...
Page 27 - ... representative of the comptroller or auditor to examine all books, records, and papers in any way connected with the receipt, disbursement, or disposal of public money and to render such accounts and at such times as may be required by the comptroller. No administrative examination by the War Department...
Page 27 - Any person appointed or employed under the provisions of this section who at the time is in the service of the United States shall, upon termination of his services hereunder, be restored to the position held by him at the time of such employment.
Page 27 - That for the payment of the expenses in carrying into effect this section, including traveling expenses, per diem of $4 in lieu of subsistence for officers and employees absent from Washington, rent, cablegrams and telegrams, printing, law books, books of reference, periodicals, stationery, office equipment and exchange thereof, supplies, and all other necessary expenses, there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth,...
Page 23 - If a subsequent series of bonds bearing interest at a higher rate than 4 per cent per annum should be issued by the United States before the end of the war, then the holders of these bonds will have the privilege, at their option, at any time within six months after such issue...
Page 26 - Department to exercise, either in person or through assistants, the powers and l>erform the duties of their offices at any place or places away from the seat of Government in the manner that is or may be required by law at the seat of Government and in accordance With the provisions of this section.
Page 27 - ... employed hereunder one or more to act in the absence or disability of such assistant comptroller and assistant auditor. He shall also prescribe the number and maximum compensation to be paid to agents, accountants, clerks, translators, interpreters, and other persons who may be employed in the work under this section by the comptroller and auditor. The assistant comptroller and assistant auditor shall have full power to perform in a foreign country all the duties with reference to the settlement...
Page 29 - ... to be in the public interest: Provided, That such reduction or increase of allotments of such bonds shall be made under general rules to be prescribed by said committee and shall apply to all subscribers similarly situated. Any portion of the bonds so offered and not taken may be otherwise disposed of by the committee in such manner and at such price or prices, not less than par, as it may determine.
Page 28 - The comptroller and the auditor, and such persons as may be authorized in writing by either of them, may administer oaths to American citizens in respect to any matter within the jurisdiction of either of said officers and certify the official character, when known, of any foreign officer whose jurat or certificate may be necessary on any paper to be filed with them.

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