United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court, Volume 96U.S. Government Printing Office, 1878 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... duty , of Congress to see to it that inter- course among the States and the transmission of intelligence are not obstructed or unnecessarily encumbered by State legis- lation . The electric telegraph marks an epoch in the progress of ...
... duty , of Congress to see to it that inter- course among the States and the transmission of intelligence are not obstructed or unnecessarily encumbered by State legis- lation . The electric telegraph marks an epoch in the progress of ...
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... duty , and for which such officer was and is held responsible ; and , in case the loss has been found to be without fault or negligence on the part of such officer , to make a decree setting forth the amount thereof , which shall be ...
... duty , and for which such officer was and is held responsible ; and , in case the loss has been found to be without fault or negligence on the part of such officer , to make a decree setting forth the amount thereof , which shall be ...
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... duty as paymaster , in the State of Texas , he had , without fault or neglect on his part , been robbed of gov- ernment funds in the sum of $ 15,979.87 , and praying that a decree be rendered relieving him from responsibility therefor ...
... duty as paymaster , in the State of Texas , he had , without fault or neglect on his part , been robbed of gov- ernment funds in the sum of $ 15,979.87 , and praying that a decree be rendered relieving him from responsibility therefor ...
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... duty of this court to obey it , leaving to Congress to make such changes in the rules of evidence as its views of public policy may suggest . It may be unfortunate for Clark if he be denied an opportunity to testify to the amount of his ...
... duty of this court to obey it , leaving to Congress to make such changes in the rules of evidence as its views of public policy may suggest . It may be unfortunate for Clark if he be denied an opportunity to testify to the amount of his ...
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... duty of sixty per cent " all goods , wares , and merchandise not herein otherwise provided for , made of silk , or of which silk is the component material of chief value , irrespective of the classification thereof for duty by or under ...
... duty of sixty per cent " all goods , wares , and merchandise not herein otherwise provided for , made of silk , or of which silk is the component material of chief value , irrespective of the classification thereof for duty by or under ...
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Page 441 - State in which a decision in the suit could be had, where is drawn in question the validity of a treaty or statute of, or an authority exercised under the United States, and the decision is against their validity; or where is drawn in question the validity of a statute of, or an authority exercised under any State, on the ground of their being repugnant to the constitution, treaties or laws of the United States...
Page 182 - States, and the decision is in favor of such their validity, or where any title, right, privilege, or immunity is claimed under the constitution or any treaty or statute of, or commission held or authority exercised under, the United States, and the decision is against the title, right, privilege, or exemption specially set up or claimed by either party, under such constitution, treaty, statute, commission, or authority...
Page 698 - All claims founded upon the Constitution of the United States or any law of Congress, except for pensions, or upon any regulation of an Executive Department, or upon any contract, express or implied, with the Government of the United States...
Page 133 - ... on such nonenumerated article the same rate of duty as is chargeable on the article which it resembles paying the highest...
Page 14 - An Act to aid in the Construction of Telegraph Lines, and to secure to the Government the use of the same for postal, military and other purposes...
Page 20 - Having no absolute right of recognition in other states, but depending for such recognition and the enforcement of its contracts upon their assent, it follows as a matter of course that such assent may be granted upon such terms and conditions as those states may think proper to impose.
Page 317 - In testimony, whereof I, Rutherford B. Hayes, President of the United States of America, have caused these Letters to be made Patent, and the Seal of the General Land Office to be hereunto affixed.
Page 568 - Concurrent with the Court of Claims, of all claims not exceeding ten thousand dollars founded upon the Constitution of the United States or any law of Congress, or upon any regulation of an Executive Department, or upon any contract, express or implied, with the Government of the United States...
Page 757 - Any agreement, declaration, or course of action on the part of an insurance company, which leads a party insured honestly to believe that by conforming thereto, a forfeiture of his policy will not be incurred, followed by due conformity on his part, will and ought to estop the company from insisting upon the forfeiture, though it might be claimed under the express letter of the contract.
Page 446 - It is sufficient for the present to say, generally, that when the importer has so acted upon the thing imported that it has become incorporated and mixed up with the mass of property in the country, it has, perhaps, lost its distinctive character as an import, and has become subject to the taxing power of the state...