General Orders, Regulations and Rulings of the United States Fuel Administration: Including the Acts of Congress, Executive Orders, and Proclamations of the President Pursuant to which the United States Fuel Administration was Created and is Acting : August 10, 1917-December 31,1918

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1915 - 614 pages
 

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Page 20 - All of the expenses of the commission, including all necessary expenses for transportation incurred by the commissioners or by their employees under their orders, in making any investigation, or upon official business in any other places than in the city of Washington, shall be allowed and paid on the presentation of itemized vouchers therefor approved by the commission.
Page 25 - It shall be the duty of the various district attorneys, under the direction of the Attorney General of the United States, to prosecute for the recovery of forfeitures.
Page 25 - ... shall forfeit to the United States the sum of $100 for each and every day of the continuance of such failure, which forfeiture shall be payable into the treasury of the United States...
Page 24 - The commission may order testimony to be taken by deposition in any proceeding or investigation pending under this act at any stage of such proceeding or investigation. Such depositions may be taken before any person designated by the commission and having power to administer oaths.
Page 19 - Any commissioner may be removed by the President for .inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office.
Page 24 - Witnesses summoned before the commission shall be paid the same fees and mileage that are paid witnesses in the courts of the United States, and witnesses whose depositions are taken, and the persons taking the same shall severally be entitled to the same fees as are paid for like services in the courts of tbe United States.
Page 19 - That a commission is hereby created and established, to be known as the Federal Trade Commission (hereinafter referred to as the commission)which shall be composed of five commissioners, who shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Not more than three of the commissioners shall be members of the same political party.
Page 589 - ... implements, machinery, and equipment required for the actual production of foods, feeds, and fuel, hereafter in this Act called necessaries; to prevent, locally or generally, scarcity, monopolization, hoarding, injurious speculation, manipulations, and private controls, affecting such supply, distribution, and movement; and to establish and maintain governmental control of such necessaries during the war.
Page 18 - An Act to protect trade and commerce against unlawful restraints and monopolies...
Page 21 - Any person, partnership or corporation may make application, and upon good cause shown may be allowed by the Commission to Intervene and appear in said proceeding by counsel or in person.

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