Treasury and Post Office Departments Appropriations, 1961, Hearings Before the Subcommittee of ... , 86-2 on H.R. 105691960 - 386 pages |
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1960 appropriation accounts Activity actual 1960 estimate additional Adjustment in base administrative airlift airmail Analysis of appropriation appropriation base appropriation estimate audit Average Amount positions Average number Average positions Amount bank budget estimate Bureau Chairman checks Coast Guard committee Congress decrease disbursing effect equipment estimate 1961 estimate estimate for 1961 expenditures facilities Federal financing first-class mail fiscal year 1961 funds Government handling HEFFELFINGER highway post offices improvement included increase integrated postal service Internal Revenue Service June 30 LATHAM letter ment million MOORE Number of employees Ocean City operations payment percent personnel Post Office Department Postmaster processing proposed railroads railway post office record reduction referred to follows reimbursable requested savings bonds SCRIBNER Seattle Senator JOHNSTON Senator MONRONEY Senator ROBERTSON statement SUMMERFIELD tion Total appropriation transportation U.S. savings bonds U.S. Secret Service U.S. Senate United Washington workload
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Page 163 - All transfers and assignments made of any claim upon the United States, or of any part or share thereof, or interest therein, whether absolute or conditional, and whatever may be the consideration therefor, and all powers of attorney, orders, or other authorities for receiving payment of any such claim, or of any part or share thereof, shall be absolutely null and void...
Page 168 - ... after the allowance of such a claim, the ascertainment of the amount due, and the issuing of a warrant for the payment thereof.
Page 163 - Such transfers, assignments, and powers of attorney, must recite the warrant for payment, and must be acknowledged by the person making them, before an officer having authority to take acknowledgments of deeds, and shall be certified by the officer ; and it must appear by the certificate that the officer, at the time of the acknowledgment, read and fully explained the transfer, assignment, or warrant of attorney to the person acknowledging the same.
Page 99 - Subject to the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, the United States Secret Service, Treasury Department, is authorized to protect the person of the President of the United States, the members of his immediate family, the President-elect, the Vice President or other officer next in the order of succession to the office of President...
Page 331 - Program was initiated in 1948 by the Secretary of the Treasury, the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, and the Comptroller General...
Page 163 - Moneys (Sec. 3620). —It shall be the duty of every disbursing officer having any public money intrusted to him for disbursement to deposit the same with the Treasurer or some one of the assistant treasurers of the United States, and to draw for the same only as it may be required for payments to be made by him in pursuance of law...
Page 247 - POSTAGE ON MEDICINE Senator CURTIS. Well, Mr. Chairman, I will try to make it in 2 or 3 minutes. I am here to ask for legislation on the appropriation bill. It is to stop the charging of first-class postage on medical prescriptions when they are sent through the mail. It could be accomplished by inserting between lines 22 and 23 on page 14 this brief language : There may be enclosed with, attached to, or endorsed upon third- and fourthclass mail, either in writing or otherwise, the instructions and...
Page 198 - There has been much interest in the experimental airlift of first-class mail. Extension of this experiment would have far-reaching consequences. Any excess of costs over those of surface transportation would be a matter of direct concern to this committee, and, of course, any action which would further impair the condition of the railroads as an important element of our national economy •would concern every citizen. Proposals affecting airlift and surface transportation of the mails involve major...
Page 263 - ... after mailing, 41.5 percent could be delivered the second day after mailing, and the remaining 8.7 percent would be delivered on the third day. Analysis of present nonpreferential mail service showed wide variations in the time required for delivery of nonpreferential mail between the same points, depending upon the day of the week and the season of the year when the mailings occur. Variations depend upon sufficiency of volume at point of origin to make up direct sacks and load through cars....
Page 355 - Accordingly, the Committee recommends that there be no extension of the airlift until the Congress has taken legislative action on the question.