Home Rule in the District of Columbia: Hearings Before the Judiciary Subcommittee of the Committee on the District of Columbia, House of Representatives, Eighty-second Congress, Second Session, on S. 1976, to Provide Home Rule in the District of Columbia

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1952 - 231 páginas

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Página 8 - Any failure to obey such order may be punished by such court as a contempt thereof.
Página 22 - An act to regulate and improve the civil service of the United States...
Página 74 - The Congress shall have 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 Government of the United States...
Página 27 - Elections under authority of this title, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned for not more than six months, or both.
Página 15 - An Act to fix and regulate the salaries of teachers, school officers, and other employees of the Board of Education of the District of Columbia...
Página 11 - Act shall be sold at public sale upon sealed proposals after (1) at least ten days' notice published at least once in a publication carrying municipal bond notices and devoted primarily to financial news or to the subject of State and municipal bonds, and (2) fit least ten days' notice published at least once in a daily newspaper of general circulation in the District. No such proposal shall be considered unless there is deposited with it, as a down payment, a certified check for an amount equal...
Página 12 - District shall be and is hereby pledged for the payment of the principal of and the interest on all bonds and notes of the District hereafter issued pursuant to this title whether or not such pledge be stated in the bonds or notes or in the Act authorizing the issuance thereof.
Página 176 - Congress may by law direct, shall be, and the same is hereby forever ceded and relinquished to the Congress and Government of the United States, in full and absolute right, and exclusive jurisdiction, as well of soil as of persons residing or to reside thereon, pursuant to the tenor and effect of the eighth section of the first article of the Constitution of the government of the United States.
Página 14 - The representatives of the General Accounting Office shall have access to all books, accounts, financial records, reports, files, and all other papers, things, or property belonging to or in use by the respective corporations and necessary to facilitate the audit, and they shall be afforded full facilities for verifying transactions with the balances or securities held by depositaries, fiscal agents, and custodians.
Página 14 - Office in accordance with the principles and procedures applicable to commercial corporate transactions and under such rules and regulations as may 'be prescribed by the Comptroller General of the United States.

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