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Assistant Postmaster-General Bureau Bureau of Navigation clerks of class Commissioners contract authorized court Department District of Columbia eight hundred dollars eighteen hundred eighty dollars employees engineer enlisted fifteen thousand dollars fifty dollars fifty thousand dollars fiscal year nineteen Five Civilized Tribes five hundred dollars five thousand dollars forty four hundred dollars House of Representatives hundred and eight hundred and fifty hundred and nine hundred and seven hundred and twenty hundred thousand dollars Indian Interior laborers lands limit of cost naval Navy Navy-yard necessary nine hundred nineteen hundred post-office and court-house purchase repairs salaries sand dollars Secretary Secretary of War six hundred dollars sixty South Dakota stations superintendent thereof thou thousand eight hundred thousand five hundred thousand four hundred thousand one hundred thousand six hundred thousand two hundred three thousand dollars Treasury twenty dollars twenty thousand dollars twenty-five thousand dollars United States post-office watchmen
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Page 451 - ... in any case where the violation by such common carrier of any statute enacted for the safety of employees contributed to the injury or death of such employee.
Page 451 - ... any contract, rule, regulation, or device whatsoever, the purpose or intent of which shall be to enable any common carrier to exempt itself from any liability created by this Act, shall to that extent be void: Provided, That in any action brought against any such common carrier under or by virtue of any of the provisions of this Act, such...
Page 284 - That this officer shall have the direction of the geological survey and the classification of the public lands and examination of the geological structure, mineral resources, and products of the national domain.
Page 451 - Act to recover damages for personal injuries to an employee, or where such injuries have resulted in his death, the fact that the employee may have been guilty of contributory negligence shall not bar a recovery, but the damages shall be diminished by the jury in proportion to the amount of negligence attributable to such employee...
Page 103 - That in expending the money appropriated by this act a railroad company which has not received aid in bonds of the United States, and which obtained a grant of public land to aid in the construction of its railroad on condition that such railroad should be a post route and military road, subject to the use of the United States for postal, military, naval, and other Government services, and also subject to such regulations as Congress may impose restricting the charge for such Government transportation...
Page 81 - 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 435 - An Act to simplify the laws in relation to the collection of revenues," approved June tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, as amended by an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the Government and to encourage the industries of the United States...
Page 545 - ... and if any person taking such oath shall swear falsely in the premises, he shall be subject to all the pains and penalties of perjury, and shall forfeit the money which he may have paid for said...
Page 112 - An act for the relief and civilization of the Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota...
Page 99 - That all material purchased under the foregoing provisions of this act shall be of American manufacture, except in cases when, in the judgment of the Secretary of War, it is to the manifest interest of the United States to make purchases in limited quantities abroad, which material shall be admitted free of duty.