District of Columbia Appropriation Bill for 1931: Hearings ... 71st Congress, 2d Session

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Page 413 - An act for preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded, or poisonous, or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes...
Page 176 - The commission may, from time to time, ascertain and determine and by order fix the proper and adequate rates of depreciation of the several classes of property of each public utility.
Page 229 - shall consist of a central library and such number of branch libraries so located and so supported as to furnish books and other printed matter and information service convenient to the homes and offices of all residents of the said District.
Page 590 - That the total amount to be expended under this item shall not exceed 15 per centum of the total amount appropriated for pay and allowances of officers and members of the Metropolitan police force.
Page 173 - An Act to provide compensation for employees of the United States suffering injuries while in the performance of their duties, and for other purposes", approved September 7, 1916, as amended, shall extend to persons given employment under the provisions of this Act.
Page 176 - ... within five days after such valuation is determined serve a statement thereof upon the public utility interested, and shall file a like statement with the...
Page 500 - For board and care of all children committed to the guardianship of said board by the courts of the District, and for temporary care of children pending investigation or while being transferred from place to place, with authority to pay not more than...
Page 577 - That for the purpose of this act the term " persons disabled " shall be construed to mean any person who, by reason of a physical defect or infirmity, whether congenital or acquired by accident, injury, or disease, is, or may be expected to be, totally or partially incapacitated for remunerative occupation...
Page 13 - June 30, 1936, any revenue (not including the proportionate share of the United States in any revenue arising as the result of the expenditure of appropriations made for the fiscal year 1924 and prior fiscal years) now required by law to be credited to the District of Columbia...
Page 31 - Administration, the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital, the District of Columbia, the Architect of the Capitol, and the Panama Canal. (e) The term "construction...

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