Official Congressional Directory

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1957

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Page 81 - Miss., in 1934; appointed to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Hon.
Page 620 - it extends to the protection of the lives, limbs, health, comfort, and quiet of all persons, and the protection of all property within the State.
Page 619 - To the extent to which Congress shall approve of said estimates, Congress shall appropriate the amount of fifty per centum thereof; and the remaining fifty per centum of such approved estimates shall be levied and assessed upon the taxable property and privileges in said District other than the property of the United States and of the District of Columbia.
Page 358 - BH Latrobe, architects. The north wing was finished in 1800 and the south wing in 1811. A wooden passageway connected them.
Page 717 - Senate and shall state in writing the names of all newspapers or publications or news associations by which they are employed and what other occupation or employment they may have, if any, and they shall further declare that they are not engaged in the prosecution of...
Page 619 - The local government of the District of Columbia Is a municipal corporation having Jurisdiction over the territory which " was ceded by the State of Maryland to the Congress of the United States for the permanent seat of the Government of the United States.
Page 617 - It was established under the authority and direction of Acts of Congress approved July 16, 1790, and March 3, 1791, which were passed to give effect to a clause in the eighth section of the first article of the Constitution of the United States, giving Congress the power: — ' To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever over such district (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular States and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the Government of the...
Page 393 - Secretary of State, Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary of Defense, Attorney General, Secretary of the Interior, Secretary of Agriculture, Secretary of Commerce, Secretary of Labor, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Secretary of Transportation, Secretary of Energy, Secretary of Education, Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
Page 619 - All taxes collected shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States, and the same, as well as the appropriations to be made by Congress as aforesaid, shall be disbursed for the expenses of said District, on itemized vouchers, which shall have been audited and approved by the auditor of the District of Columbia, certified by said Commissioners, or a majority of them...
Page 320 - JOHN PICKERING, judge of the United States district court for the district of New Hampshire; removed from office; Thursday, March 3, 1803, to Monday, March 12, 1804. SAMUEL CHASE, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States; acquitted; Friday, November 30, 1804, to March 1, 1805.

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