...acts even though recommended by him. His powers are defined by statute. He "is authorized to present regulations, not inconsistent with law, for the government...records, papers, and property appertaining to it." LINE OF PROVISIONAL SUCCESSION. The statutory enactment of 1792 for the succession to the Presidential...

...first question in the affirmative, in view of section 161 of the Revised Statutes, which is as follows: "The head of each Department is authorized to prescribe...records, papers, and property appertaining to it." It would hardly seetn to admit of doubt that the regulation under consideration was within the powers...

...section 101 of the Revised Statutes, which is as follows: "The head of each Department is anthorized to prescribe regulations not inconsistent with law...records, papers, and property appertaining to it." It would hardly seem to admit of doubt that the regulation under consideration was within the powers...

...necessary, as they are in various departments of the public service. By § 161 of the Revised Statutes, the head of each department is authorized " to prescribe...custody, use and preservation of the records, papers and Opinion of the Court. property appertaining to it;" and, by § 251,- the Secretary of the Treasury...

...provision of the Constitution, Congress, as early as the 27th day of July. 1789, passed an act that " the head of each department is authorized to prescribe...and performance of its business, and the custody, nse, ami preservation of the records, papers, and property appertaining to it." That act ha* been in...

...virtue of the authority conferred by section 161, Revised Statutes, on the head of each Department "to prescribe regulations not inconsistent with law,...business, and the custody, use, and preservation of its records, papers, and property appertaining thereto." ' Mere repetitions of legislative enactments...

...virtue of the authority conferred by section 161, Revised Statutes, on the head of each Department ' ' to prescribe regulations not inconsistent with law,...business, and the custody, use, and preservation of its records, papers, and property appertaining thereto." ' Mere repetitions of legislative enactments...

...each department Is authorized to presciibe regulations, not Inconsistent with law, for its government, the conduct of its officers and clerks, the distribution...and preservation of the records, papers and property pertaining to it. Prom the first day of October until the first day of April, in each year, all the...

...319. And the Secretary of the Treasury, as the head of an Executive Department of the Government, was authorized " to prescribe regulations, not inconsistent...records, papers and property appertaining to it." Rev. Stat. § 161. Now, the reports or copies of reports in the possession of the Collector — for...

...United States, which authorized that officer, as the head of an executive department of the Government, "to prescribe regulations, not inconsistent with law,...records, papers, and property appertaining to it. " The collector having been arrested under the order of the State authorities sued out a writ of habeas...