Independent Offices Appropriation Bill for 1944: Hearings ... 78th Congress, 1st Session

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Page 204 - for the upkeep of the National Gallery of Art and the administrative expenses and costs of operation thereof, including the protection and care of works of art acquired by the Board, so that the National Gallery of Art shall be at all times properly maintained and the
Page 783 - within the United States, or for any period during such emergency. to requisition or charter the use of any such property. * When any such property or the use thereof is so requisitioned, the owner thereof shall be paid just compensation for the property taken or for the use of such property, but in no case
Page 568 - (The statement referred to is as follows:) JuSTIFIcATIoNS FOR APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1944 CREATION AND AUTHORITY As created under the Federal Water Power Act of June 10, 1920 (41 Stat. 1063. 16 USC 791—823), the Federal Power Commission was originally composed of the Secretaries of War, Interior, and Agriculture. It was reorganized on
Page 219 - On page 32, line 5, of Public, No. 630, Seventy-seventh Congress (Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1943), It is requested that the words “transfer of household goods and effects as provided by the act of October 10, 1940, and regulations promulgated thereunder ;“ be eliminated because of the general provision to be provided to cover these allowances. ITEMS
Page 280 - under investigation by the Commission ; and not to exceed $7,500 for allowances for living quarters, including heat, fuel, and light, as authorized by the Act approved June 26, 1930 (5 USC 118a), but not to exceed $1,700 for any one person : Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be used to pay the salary of any member of the Tariff Commission who shall
Page 735 - emergency, such office for emergency management as the President shall determine.” on May 25, 1940, the President issued an administrative order (5 FR 2109) establishing the Office for Emergency Management in the Executive Office of the President and prescribing regulatIons governing its activities. This administrative order opens with the premise
Page 210 - $200,000. Pensions : For the payment of compensation, pensions, gratuities, and allowances, now authorized under any Act of Congress, or regulation of the President based thereon, or which may hereafter be authorized, including emergency officers' retirement pay and annuities, the administration of which Is now or may hereafter be placed In the Veterans' Administration, accruing during
Page 783 - statutes are as follows: Section 902, Merchant Marine Act, 1936, as amended, provides that.— “ (a) Whenever the President shall proclaim that the security of the national defense makes it advisable or during any national emergency declared by
Page 737 - be used for commercial operation, except that any such obsolete vessel, or any such vessel in the laid-up fleet may be used during any period In which vessels may be requisitioned under section 902 of this act, as amended, and except as
Page 237 - in line of duty or becomes disabled in line of duty, shall be deemed to have applied for and to have been granted insurance in the aggregate sum of $5,000. Public, No. 667, SeventySeventh Congress, July 11,

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