Official Opinions of the Attorneys General of the United States: Advising the President and Heads of Departments, in Relation to Their Official DutiesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1903 - Attorneys general's opinions |
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... approval by it of the plans of the contemplated improvement , although such improvement be within the harbor line established by that board . The authority of the United States over that harbor is paramount and absolute . DEPARTMENT OF ...
... approval by it of the plans of the contemplated improvement , although such improvement be within the harbor line established by that board . The authority of the United States over that harbor is paramount and absolute . DEPARTMENT OF ...
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... approval , to employ special agents temporarily in the Census Office , upon special work com- mitted to them and with which they are familiar , not clerical in its nature . It is to be presumed that in enacting the law of 1899 , Con ...
... approval , to employ special agents temporarily in the Census Office , upon special work com- mitted to them and with which they are familiar , not clerical in its nature . It is to be presumed that in enacting the law of 1899 , Con ...
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... approval of the act , or to both the persons and the places which they then filled . ” I am of the opinion that the latter view was the intention of Congress . The section contemplates the transfer of the positions in question to the ...
... approval of the act , or to both the persons and the places which they then filled . ” I am of the opinion that the latter view was the intention of Congress . The section contemplates the transfer of the positions in question to the ...
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... approval of the President on January 2 , 1901 , and that Blunt has applied to your Department " for an adjustment of his record under the decision of the Supreme Court in the Deming case ' and for a certificate of discharge . " You ask ...
... approval of the President on January 2 , 1901 , and that Blunt has applied to your Department " for an adjustment of his record under the decision of the Supreme Court in the Deming case ' and for a certificate of discharge . " You ask ...
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... approval of the Congress of that country . The executive authority thereupon ex- tended the time for constituting the new company until October 31 , 1894 , and declared that the term of ten years mentioned in the proro- gation of 1890 ...
... approval of the Congress of that country . The executive authority thereupon ex- tended the time for constituting the new company until October 31 , 1894 , and declared that the term of ten years mentioned in the proro- gation of 1890 ...
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Page 698 - The head of each department is authorized to prescribe regulations not inconsistent with law, for the government of his department, the conduct of its officers and clerks, the distribution and performance of its business, and the custody, use, and preservation of the records, papers, and property appertaining to it.
Page 64 - Persons honorably discharged from the military or naval service by reason of disability resulting from wounds or sickness incurred in the line of duty, shall be preferred for appointments to civil offices, provided they are found to possess the business capacity necessary for the proper discharge of the duties of such offices.
Page 135 - States, shall, directly or indirectly, solicit; or receive, or be in any manner concerned in soliciting or receiving, any assessment, subscription, or contribution for any political purpose whatever, from any officer, clerk, or employee of the United States...
Page 512 - Panama and authorizes the New Panama Canal Company to sell and transfer to the United States its rights, privileges, properties and concessions as well as the Panama Railroad and all the shares or part of the shares of that company...
Page 701 - July first, nineteen hundred and two, entitled, "An Act temporarily to provide for the administration of the affairs of civil government in the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes...
Page 537 - Until Congress shall provide for the government of such islands all the civil, judicial and military powers exercised by the officers of the existing government in said islands shall be vested in such person or persons and shall be exercised in such manner as the President of the United States shall direct; and the President shall have power to remove said officers and fill the vacancies so occasioned.
Page 598 - Provided further, That such proclamation shall exclude from the benefits of the suspension herein authorized the vessels of any foreign country in whose ports the fees or dues of any kind or nature imposed on vessels of the United States, or the import or export duties on their cargoes, are in excess of the fees, dues, or duties imposed on the vessels of such country or on the cargoes of such vessels.
Page 604 - Interior be, and hereby is, authorized and empowered, under general regulations to be fixed by him, to permit the use of rights of way through the public lands, forest, and other reservations of the United States, and the Yosemite, Sequoia, and General Grant national parks, California, for electrical plants, poles, and lines for the generation and distribution of electrical power...
Page 537 - ... taxes, customs, duties, and imposts; the appropriation and expenditure of public funds of the islands; the establishment of an educational system throughout the islands; the establishment of a system to secure an efficient civil service; the organization and establishment of courts; the organization and establishment of municipal and departmental governments, and all other matters of a civil nature for which the military governor is now competent to provide by rules or orders of a legislative...
Page 538 - That the constitution and all laws of the United States which are not locally inapplicable, shall have the s*ame force and effect within the said territory of Nebraska as elsewhere within the United States...