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Common terms and phrasesacres agency agents amount annual report appropriation Army assay offices authorized average bill bonds buildings bullion bureau capital census cent Central Pacific Railroad charge circulation City claims coin coinage Commissioner Congress Court debt Department Department of Dakota deposits district division dollars duty earnings ending June 30 estimated examination expenditures expenses fiscal year ending fund gold important increase Indian Indian Territory interest issued July June 30 ment miles military Missouri Missouri River national banks naval Navy notes October officers operations Pacific Railroad paid payment pension present public lands purchase receipts received recommended redeemed redemption repairs reservation revenue River road Saint Paul Secretary silver Sioux City Statutes Subsistence supplies survey Territory timber tion Total Treasury Union Pacific Union Pacific Railroad United United States notes vessels Washington Washington Territory Willets Point York Popular passagesPage 744 - An act [to amend an act entitled an act] to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean, and to secure to the government the use of the same for postal, military, and other purposes, approved July first, eighteen hundred and sixty-two," approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-four. Page 691 - The powers thus granted are not confined to the instrumentalities of commerce, or the postal service known or in use when the Constitution was adopted, but they keep pace with the progress of the country, and adapt themselves to the new developments of time and circumstances. Page 163 - ... any portion of its capital. If losses have at any time been sustained by any such association equal to or exceeding its undivided profits then on hand, no dividend shall be made ; and no dividend shall ever be made by any association while it continues its banking operations, to an amount greater than its net profits then on hand, deducting therefrom its losses and bad debts. Page 691 - They extend from the horse with its rider to the stage coach, from the sailing vessel to the steamboat, from the coach and the steamboat to the railroad, and from the railroad to the telegraph, as these new agencies are successively brought into use to meet the demands of increasing population and wealth. They were intended for the government of the business to which they relate, at all times and under all circumstances. Page 176 - SEC. 3. That every association organized, or to be organized, under the provisions of the said act, and of the several acts amendatory thereof, shall at all times keep and have on deposit in the Treasury of the United States, in lawful money of the United States, a sum equal to five per centum of its circulation, to be held and used for the redemption of such circulation... Page 100 - ... for detecting and bringing to trial and punishment persons guilty of violating the internal revenue laws, or conniving at the same, in cases where such expenses are not otherwise provided for by law. Page 72 - Treasury co-operate with and aid state and municipal boards of health in the execution and enforcement of the rules and regulations of such boards... Page 6 - The President is authorized to prescribe such regulations for the admission of persons Into the civil service of the United States as may best promote the efficiency thereof, and ascertain the fitness of each candidate in respect to age, health, character, knowledge, and ability for the branch of service into which he seeks to enter... Page 669 - That the affidavit required to be made by sections twenty-two hundred and sixty-two and twentythree hundred and one of the Revised Statutes of the United States, may be made before the clerk of the county court or of any court of record, of the county and State or district and Territory in which the lands are situated... Page 673 - Report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office to the Secretary of the Interior for the year 1873. 8. Washington, 1874. Statement of the Public Debt of the United States, July 1, 1874. Bibliographic information
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