Department of Commerce Appropriation Bill, 1934: Hearing Before the Subcommittee of House Committee on Appropriations, Consisting of ... in Charge of Departments of State, Justice, Commerce, and Labor Appropriation Bill for 1934. Seventy-second Congress, Second Session. [December 8, 1932].

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Página 20 - Department to foster, promote, and develop the foreign and domestic commerce, the mining, manufacturing, shipping, and fishery industries, the labor interests, and the transportation facilities of the United States...
Página 157 - They shall subject all boilers to the hydrostatic pressure ; and shall satisfy themselves by thorough examination that the boilers are well made, of good and suitable material; that the openings for the passage of water and steam, respectively, and all pipes and tubes exposed to heat, are of proper dimensions and free from obstruction...
Página 134 - ... nativity, parentage, literacy by race, color, nativity, and parentage, and such other questions relating to such subjects as the Secretary deems proper. (c) In addition to the decennial collections authorized by subsections (a) and (b) of this section, the Secretary may compile and publish annually statistics relating to crime and to the defective, dependent, and delinquent classes.
Página 155 - ... the Board of Supervising Inspectors. The executive committee may also approve instruments, machines, and equipment required to be used on steam vessels for the better security of life. Each of the local districts into which the various supervising inspection districts are divided is presided over by a board of local inspectors, consisting of a local inspector of hulls and a local inspector of boilers. It is the duty of this board to inspect, at least once a year, each steam vessel within its...
Página 131 - ... under the supervision of the Secretary of State. The State Department continued to have charge of census enumerations until the Interior Department was established in 1849, when the work was transferred to that department. From 1790 to 1900 the Census Office was not a permanent establishment, a temporary organization being assembled for each successive enumeration.
Página 157 - ... flues, boilers, furnaces, safety valves, fusible plugs, low-water indicators, feed-water apparatus, gauge cocks, steam gauges, water and steam pipes connecting boilers, means of prevention of sparks and flames from fire doors...
Página 55 - The board shall collect information concerning advance construction plans and estimates by States, municipalities, and other public and private agencies which may indicate the probable volume of construction within the United States or which may aid the construction agencies in formulating their advance plans.
Página 314 - Alaska, general service : For protecting the seal fisheries of Alaska, including the furnishing of food, fuel, clothing, and other necessities of life to the natives of the Pribilof Islands, of Alaska...
Página 155 - Congress to provide for the better security of the lives of passengers on board vessels propelled, in whole or in part, by steam, has claimed the attention of the department.

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