Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volume 21F. Hunt, 1849 - Commerce |
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... dollars for each violation , which shall be sued for and recovered in the name of the people , by the District Attorney of the county in which the agent or company so violating shall be situated , and the said penalty when recovered ...
... dollars for each violation , which shall be sued for and recovered in the name of the people , by the District Attorney of the county in which the agent or company so violating shall be situated , and the said penalty when recovered ...
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... dollar and fifty cents for each of such passengers , in lieu of such bonds , which commutation money when received shall be paid over to the Chamberlain of the city of New York , to be expended by the commissioners of emigration for the ...
... dollar and fifty cents for each of such passengers , in lieu of such bonds , which commutation money when received shall be paid over to the Chamberlain of the city of New York , to be expended by the commissioners of emigration for the ...
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... dollars a day , from the commence- ment of the session , but such pay shall not exceed in the aggregate three hundred dollars . " It would have been better to have declared that the pay should be " three hundred ( or four hundred ) dollars ...
... dollars a day , from the commence- ment of the session , but such pay shall not exceed in the aggregate three hundred dollars . " It would have been better to have declared that the pay should be " three hundred ( or four hundred ) dollars ...
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... dollar charge upon the Treasury ; and it might almost be said without any means from the government , as he proposes to pay ten cents the acre for the land he asks to have set apart for the purpose , which every one must admit , is all ...
... dollar charge upon the Treasury ; and it might almost be said without any means from the government , as he proposes to pay ten cents the acre for the land he asks to have set apart for the purpose , which every one must admit , is all ...
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... dollars . Until the sixteen millions of land - bounty scrip is out of market , the public land required cannot be expected to exceed from one and a half to two millions . The expenses of the road on this route , with the difficulty of ...
... dollars . Until the sixteen millions of land - bounty scrip is out of market , the public land required cannot be expected to exceed from one and a half to two millions . The expenses of the road on this route , with the difficulty of ...
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Page 254 - ... from the end of one line to the beginning of the next, but writes them just below the rest of the word and draws a loop around them.
Page 180 - Be it therefore enacted, that whensoever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect or default, and the act, neglect or default is such as would (if death had not ensued) have entitled the party injured to maintain an action and recover damages in respect thereof...
Page 63 - Persons severally liable upon the same obligation or instrument, including the parties to bills of exchange and promissory notes, and sureties on the same or separate instruments, may all or any of them be included in the same action, at the option of the plaintiff...
Page 64 - In pleading the performance of conditions precedent in a contract, it shall not be necessary to state the facts showing such performance; but it may be stated generally that the party duly performed all the conditions on his part...
Page 607 - ... it is of infinite moment, that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national union, to your collective and individual happiness ; that you should cherish a cordial, habitual and immovable attachment to it ; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity...
Page 47 - DO not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you.
Page 506 - That no contract for the sale of any goods, wares, and merchandises, for the price of ten pounds sterling or upwards shall be allowed to be good, except the buyer shall accept part of the goods so sold, and actually receive the same, or give something in earnest to bind the bargain, or in part payment...
Page 605 - reading makes a full man, conversation a ready man, and writing an exact man.
Page 172 - It is agreed that it shall at all times be free to His Majesty's subjects, and to the citizens of the United States, and also to the Indians dwelling on either side of the said boundary line, freely to pass and repass by land or inland navigation, into the respective territories and countries of the two parties, on the continent of America...
Page 180 - ... in every such action the jury may give such damages as they shall deem fair and just, with reference to the pecuniary injury resulting from such death to the wife and next of kin of such deceased person: provided, that every such action shall be commenced within two years after the death of such deceased person.