President, amendment of Canal Zone codes by executive order. authority over diversion of water from Niagara River. to revoke order of dismissal and reinstate Page. 344 217 457 neutrality proclamation, radio stations.. purchase of railways in Alaska... 291 332 recess appointment, postmaster. workmen's compensation, Alaskan Railroad. Printing and binding, Government contract for paper... production, purchase of articles used in, Prisoners, Federal, confinement in Bilibid prison, P. I.. 314 402 541 24 462 Provisions, exportation to Mexico. Public buildings, construction, eight-hour law.. contracts for dressed marble, eight-hour law.. Public Health Service, officers, retirement, Panama Canal.. indemnity school-land selections.... revocable license, electric power, Alaska.... 213 31, 133, 137, 150 211 406 572 485 389 moneys, postal and money-order funds, Federal reserve 555 Printer, annual report Commissioner of Education, 293 annual report Commissioner of Patents, copy to Quarters, light and fuel, Panama Canal employees..... 548 R. Radio communication. (See Wireless telegraph.) Reassignment of quarters in State, War and Navy building. 508 70 314 Reclamation project, contract of Pacific Gas & Electric Co..... 197 projects, transfer to water users.. 208 Reclamation Service, timber from Teton Forest for Jackson Lake 398 Dam... Page. Recorder of deeds, District of Columbia, transfer of office.... 119 450 Reports. (See name of department or bureau, and title of officials making them.) Reservations and parks. (See Military reservations; National Retired officers, Revenue Cutter Service, eligibility to civil office Revenue-Cutter Service, retired officers eligible to civil office.. Rights of way, Alaskan public lands, generation of electricity.. railroad, south end of Aqueduct Bridge... 470 Rio Grande boundary.... 369 Riparian rights, transfer of reclamation projects to water users.. 208 210 S. Saddles, exportation to Mexico..... 227 Sailors and soldiers, honorably discharged, reduction in compensation..... 167 St. Elizabeths Hospital. (See Government Hospital for Insane.) Saint Marys River, movement and anchorage of vessels............... Salary, payment to appointee before confirmation by Senate... employees of Panama Canal, privileges excluded.. reduction in, of soldiers and sailors honorably discharged. 459 314 548 167 Salt River reclamation project, contract between United States and Pacific Gas & Electric Co... 197 San Francisco, payment by contractor of losses in constructing customhouse... 46 School land indemnity selections, Colorado..... 485 558 section 14, lifeboats for vessels, when effective.......... Senate, vacancy in postmastership, recess appointment.... 314 558 167 Staff officers, Marine Corps, detail to duty outside of Washington. 234 511 430 Star route service, authority of Postmaster General to contract for 186 70 304 Stirrups, exportation to Mexico...... Stock certificates, Federal reserve banks, stamp tax. Subsidy bonds, Central Branch Union Pacific R. R. Supplies for Government, waiver of contracts.. Page. 227 511 273, 435 211 35, 318 259 301 T. Tariff. (See Customs laws.) Taurus, steam vessel, section 14 of the seamen's act.... 537 Taxation. (See Income tax; Internal revenues; Customs laws.) Tea board, rehearing by, authority of Secretary of Treasury to direct..... 134 Tennessee land titles.. 284 Teton National Forest, timber for Jackson Lake dam. 398 Timber from National Forest for Jackson Lake dam.. 398 222 Tolerances, food and drugs act.......... Transportation of merchandise from Seattle to Fairbanks via Transportation of passengers by foreign vessels, San Juan to Treasury, Comptroller of, Navy pay officers.. Treasury, Secretary of, authority to direct rehearing by tea drawback, Guam and Tutuila..... Treasury Department, Federal Reserve Board.. Treaties, Canadian boundary waters, foreign vessels. favored-nation clause, entry of wood pulp.. importation of cattle. (See also Table, p. xxi.) Troops, military movement of, advertising for proposals....... Trusts and monopolies. (See Antitrust laws.) Tutuila, drawback on articles shipped from United States..... 66 381 231 U. Union Pacific Railroad, Central Branch, subsidy bonds, status 35, 318 527 35,318 V. Page. Vacancy in postmastership, recess appointment by President.... 314 222 Vessels, American and foreign, neutrality.. crew space, seamen's act, section 6 shipping act, section 2 as amended... foreign, Canadian boundary waters, treaty... life-saving appliances, seaman's act, section 14. lading and unlading at night, meaning of "cargo". movement and anchorage, St. Marys River.. passing through Panama Canal, antitrust laws.. steam, apparatus for radio communication on. steamer Taurus, seamen's act, section 14... Voluntary service, retired Army officer, Indian school.... 316 558 558 351 441 3 44 123 334 459 355 84 537 51 W. War, Secretary of, authority to grant leave to officer, Engineer surrender of personal effects of Jefferson Davis. Washington, A. & F. C. R. R. Co., occupancy of site at south end 246 of Aqueduct Bridge.. 470 Water, diversion from Niagara River.. 217 power, lease of, Black Warrior River, Ala ..... Wong Gim Toon, admission into United States... 529 529 224 Workmen's compensation, railroad in Alaska........ 402 act, authority to determine claims... Works of art, copyright, lithographic prints................ 145 422 OPINIONS OF HON. GEORGE W. WICKERSHAM, OF NEW YORK. APPOINTED MARCH 5, 1909. DEPUTY COLLECTORS OF INTERNAL REVENUE-TENURE OF OFFICE. The term of office of deputy collectors of internal revenue expires automatically upon the appointment of a successor to their own collector, and this limitation of tenure is not affected by section 6 of the act of August 24. 1912 (37 Stat. 555). In order to continue in office after the appointment of a successor to their own collector, deputy collectors must be affirmatively reappointed and recommissioned. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, January 3, 1913. SIR: I have the honor to reply to your note of November 6, 1912, requesting my opinion on the question stated in a letter dated November 6, 1912, addressed to you by the United States Civil Service Commission. This question is as follows: "What is the effect of the provision of section 6 of the act of August 24, 1912 (37 Stat. 539, 555), upon the provision of section 3149, Revised Statutes, as interpreted by the Attorney General, in the matter of the termination or vacation of the office of deputy collector of Internal Revenue?" Section 6 of the act of August 24, 1912, reads, so far as is now material, as follows: "That no person in the classified civil service of the United States shall be removed therefrom except for such cause as will promote the efficiency of said service and for 83152°-v |