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Page 21 - An act to provide for the better security of the lives of passengers on board of vessels propelled in whole or in part by steam...
Page 218 - ... required for the transportation of supplies, and for garrison purposes ; for drayage and cartage at the several posts ; hire of teamsters ; transportation of funds for the pay and other disbursing departments ; the expense of sailing public transports on the various rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic and Pacific...
Page 360 - An act to provide for the better organization of the treasury, and for the collection, safe-keeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public revenue...
Page 15 - ... department or officer of the Government to be transferred or paid out; and when such orders for transfer or payment are received, faithfully and promptly to make the same as directed, and to do and perform all other duties as fiscal agents of the Government, which may be imposed by this or any other acts of Congress, or by any regulation of the Treasury Department, made in conformity to law...
Page 336 - ... appeal, the analysis made by the analytical chemist is expected to be full and in detail, setting forth clearly and accurately the name, quantity, and quality of the several component parts of the article in question ; to be reported to the collector under oath or affirmation. On such report being made a copy of the same will be immediately furnished by the collector to the special examiner of drugs and medicines, who, if the report be in conflict with his return made to the collector, and he...
Page 362 - ... books, maps and charts imported by authority of the joint library committee of Congress, for the use of the library of Congress ; Provided, That if, in any case, a contract shall have been made with any bookseller, importer, or other person, for books, maps or charts, in which contract the bookseller, importer, or other person aforesaid, shall have paid the duty, or included the duty in said contract, in such case the duty shall not be remitted...
Page 135 - The Secretary of War shall from time to time define and prescribe the kinds as well as the amount of supplies to be purchased by the Subsistence and Quartermaster Departments of the Army, and the duties and powers thereof respecting such purchases; and shall prescribe general regulations for the transportation of the articles of supply...
Page 217 - March sixteenth, eighteen hundred and two; extra pay to soldiers employed, under the direction of the quartermaster's department, in the erection of barracks, quarters, storehouses, and hospitals ; in the construction of roads and...
Page 215 - ' to raise for a limited time an additional military force, and for other purposes...
Page 336 - Patent or secret medicines" are by law subject to the same examination and disposition after examination as other medicinal preparations, and cannot be permitted to pass the custom-house for consumption, but must be rejected and condemned, unless the special examiner be satisfied, after due investigation, that they are fit and safe to be used for medicinal purposes.
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| Title | House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents: 13th Congress, 2d Session-49th Congress, 1st Session, Volume 2 United States congressional serial set |
| Author | United States. Congress. House |
| Published | 1854 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 8 Dec 2006 |
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