Annual Reports of the War Department, Volume 4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1913 |
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agricultural Agusan Ambos Camarines American amount annual appointed appropriation approved March authorized Baguio Benguet bonds buildings Bukidnon bureau of science Cebu cent city of Manila completed constabulary construction cost court crop decrease director disease district division employees ending June 30 executive expenditures expenses exports Filipino fiscal year 1912 fiscal year ending forest funds Governor hectares Ifugao Ilocos Ilocos Norte Ilocos Sur Iloilo important increase industrial insular government interest investigations irrigation July June 30 justices kilometers labor legislation loans ment meters Mindoro Mountain Province Nueva Ecija Nueva Vizcaya operation Palawan Pangasinan pending Philippine Commission Philippine Islands Philippine Legislature port Porto Rico present providing provincial and municipal purchase purposes quarantine receipts registration result revenue rice road sanitary sanitation secretary shows subprovince sugar survey Tarlac taxes tion total number trade treasurer United
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Page 4 - The Bureau of Labor Statistics is charged with the duty of acquiring and diffusing among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with labor in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word, and especially upon its relations to capital, the hours of labor, the earnings of laboring men and women, and the means of promoting their material, social, intellectual, and moral prosperity.
Page 203 - States, and shall execute such requirements as may be imposed by law with respect thereto, and shall perform such other duties as may be prescribed by law, and make such reports through the governor to the Secretary of the Interior of the United States as he may require, which shall annually be transmitted to Congress.
Page 6 - ... the coin so deposited shall be retained in the Treasury and held for the payment of such certificates on demand, and used for no other purpose.
Page 5 - ... in that part of the Philippine Islands inhabited by Moros or other non-Christian tribes.
Page 76 - ... nor more than five years, or by a fine of not less than one hundred pesos nor more than one thousand pesos, or by both such imprisonment and fine in the discretion of the court.
Page 7 - LEGISLATION. During the last session of the Legislature a final effort was made by the Philippine Commission to secure legislation prohibiting and penalizing slavery, involuntary servitude, peonage, and the sale or purchase of human beings in the Philippine Islands. On October 24, 1912, that body passed an act designed to accomplish this end. It was tabled by the Philippine Assembly on January 8, 1913, without discussion. I subsequently prepared a report on slavery and peonage in the Philippine Islands...
Page 203 - They have the power to hold title to property, and may, under certain legal restrictions, negotiate loans. They may, with the approval of the commissioner of education, as may also the supervising principals, dismiss pupils from the schools and may suspend teachers pending the action of the commissioner. They must submit annually, three months before the beginning of the school year, to the commissioner of education for his approval, a list of teachers...
Page 37 - Reduced the amount to the credit of the government at the end of the year in available resources and trust funds to 3, 123, 383.
Page 284 - That writs of error and appeals from the final judgments and decrees of the Supreme Court of Porto Rico may be taken and prosecuted to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and to the Supreme Court of the United States, as now provided by law.
Page 203 - School boards submit to the commissioner of education, previous to the beginning of each fiscal year, a detailed statement of their desired expenditures for that year, and the approval of such a budget by the commissioner is the warrant for the expenditure of the school funds as thus set forth. Subsequent transfers of funds from one subhead to another within the budget necessitate separate approval.