Smithsonian Institution: General Hearings, Ninety-first Congress, Second Session, July 1970, Volume 1

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Page 368 - States as ex-officio members, three members of the Senate, three members of the House of Representatives, and six citizens, two of whom shall be resident in the City of Washington and the other four shall be inhabitants of some state, but no two of them of the same state.
Page 388 - ... effective control over and accountability for all funds, property, and other assets for which the agency is responsible, including appropriate internal audit...
Page 447 - No contract or purchase on behalf of the United States shall be made unless the same is authorized by law, or is under an appropriation adequate to its fulfillment. except in the War and Navy Departments, for clothing, subsistence, forage, fuel, quarters or transportation, which, however, shall not exceed the necessities of the current year.
Page 507 - Act of 1949, as amended, and is authorized, subject to the civil-service laws, to employ such other officers and employees as may be necessary for carrying out its functions under this Act, and fix their compensation in accordance with the Classification Act of 1949, as amended.
Page 233 - Said national air museum shall memorialize the national development of aviation; collect, preserve, and display aeronautical equipment of historical interest and significance ; serve as a repository for scientific equipment and data pertaining to the development of aviation; and provide educational material for the historical study of aviation.
Page 6 - That, so soon as the Board of Regents sh'all have selected the said site, they shall cause to be erected a suitable building, of plain and durable materials and structure, without unnecessary ornament, and of sufficient size, and with suitable rooms, or halls, for the reception and arrangement, upon a liberal scale, of objects of natural history, including a geological and mineralogical cabinet; also a chemical laboratory, a library, a gallery of art, and the necessary lecture rooms...
Page 445 - No officer or employee of the United States shall make or authorize an expenditure from or create or authorize an obligation under any appropriation or fund in excess of the amount available therein...
Page 505 - Donor"); The Joseph H. Hirshhorn Foundation, Inc., a membership corporation organized under the laws of the State of New York (hereinafter sometimes referred to as the "Hirshhorn Foundation") ; and The Smithsonian Institution, an establishment created and existing under and by virtue of an Act of the Congress of the United States of America, approved August 10, 1846 (hereinafter referred to as the "Institution").
Page 515 - An act to provide for the establishment, maintenance and support of a bureau, to be known as the State Mining Bureau, and for the appointment and duties of a board of trustees, to be known as the board of trustees of the State Mining Bureau...
Page 445 - Hereafter, any appropriation required to be apportioned pursuant to section 3679 of the Revised Statutes, as amended, may be apportioned on a basis indicating the need for a supplemental or deficiency estimate of appropriation to the extent necessary to permit payment of such pay increases as may be granted those employees (commonly know as wageboard employees) whose compensation is fixed and adjusted from time to time in accordance with prevailing rates.

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