Hearings Before Subcommittee of House Committee on Appropriations, Consisting of Messrs Bingham, Hemenway, Littauer, Livingston, and Taylor in Charge of the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation Bill for 1903

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1902 - 299 páginas

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Página 20 - Such examinations shall be practical in their character and shall relate to those matters which will fairly test the relative capacity and fitness of the persons examined to discharge the duties of the particular service to which they seek to be appointed, and shall include tests of physical qualifications and health and when appropriate, of manual .skill.
Página 15 - ... be employed at the seat of government in any executive department or subordinate bureau or office thereof or be paid from any appropriation made for contingent expenses, or for any specific or general purpose, unless such employment is authorized and payment therefor specifically provided in the law granting the appropriation...
Página 105 - An Act to regulate and improve the civil service," approved January sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three...
Página 255 - Office, a library of such scientific works and periodicals, both foreign and American, as may aid the officers in the discharge of their duties, not exceeding the amount annually appropriated for that purpose.
Página 120 - Where the person or persons entitled to any beneficial interests in such property shall be the brother or sister of the grandfather or grandmother or a descendant of the brother or sister of the grandfather or grandmother of the decedent, at the rate of four per centum of the clear value of such interest in such property.
Página 119 - An Act to provide ways and means to meet war expenditures, and for other purposes...
Página 204 - That the park watchmen now provided for under the above heading of public buildings and grounds, and those that may hereafter be provided for by law for service in any of the public squares and reservations in the District of Columbia, shall receive free medical attendance, the same as the Metropolitan Police of said District.
Página 54 - ... extra services of employees and additional employees under the superintendent of Library building and grounds to provide for the opening of the Library building from 2 until 10 o'clock post meridian on Sundays and legal holidays, $2,800.
Página 255 - For purchase of law, professional, and other reference books and publications and scientific books, and expense of transporting publications of patents issued by the Patent Office to foreign Governments, $10,000.
Página 49 - To enable the Library of Congress to be kept open for reference use from 2 until 10 o'clock post meridian on Sundays and legal holidays, within the...

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