| Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Constitutional history - 1891 - 456 pages
...establish postoffices and post-roads, provide for the construction of competing lines.. These powers " keep pace with the progress of the country, and adapt themselves to the new developments of times and circumstances. They extend from the 1 Const., Art. I. ยง 8, cl. 3. 2 Gibbons v. Ogden, 9... | |
| John Ordronaux - Constitutional law - 1891 - 716 pages
...along any of the military and post-roads of the United States, because its power is not confined to the postal service known or in use when the Constitution was adopted, but may keep pace with the progress of the country, and adapt itself to any new developments which time... | |
| Marshall Henry Cushing - Postal service - 1892 - 1050 pages
...instrumentalities of the postal service which were known or in use at the time of the adoption of that instrument. They keep pace with the progress of the country and...extend from the horse with its rider to the stage coach, from the sailing vessel to the steamboat, from the coach and steamboat to the railroad, and... | |
| Railroads - 1893 - 294 pages
...Telegraph Company (96 US 9), the court, referring to the powers of Congress under this grant, said: "They keep pace with the progress of the country,...extend from the horse with its rider to the stage coach, from the sailing vessel to the steamboat, from the coach and the steamboat to the railroad,... | |
| Lawrence Lewis, Adelbert Hamilton, John Houston Merrill, William Mark McKinney, James Manford Kerr, John Crawford Thomson - Railroad law - 1893 - 770 pages
...subject in Pensacola Tel. Co. v. Western Union Tel. Co., 96 US i, says : " The powers thus granted keep pace with the progress of the country, and adapt...time and circumstances. They extend from the horse and its rider to the stage coach, from the sailing vessel to the steamboat, from the coach and the... | |
| William Weeks Morrill - Electric utilities - 1894 - 928 pages
...operation, they should be under the protecting care of the national government. The powers thus granted are not confined to the instrumentalities of commerce,...extend from the horse with its rider to the stage coach, from the sailing vessel to the steamboat, from the coach and steamboat to the railroad, and... | |
| William Weeks Morrill - Electric utilities - 1894 - 928 pages
...operation, they should be under the protecting care of the national government. The powers thus granted are not confined to the instrumentalities of commerce,...extend from the horse with its rider to the stage coach, from the sailing vessel to the steamboat, from the coach and steamboat to the railroad, and... | |
| Law - 1895 - 914 pages
...Justice Waite says: " The powers thus granted are not defined to the instrumentalities of commerce * * * known or in use when the Constitution was adopted,...extend from the horse with its rider to the stage coach, from the sailing vessel to the steamboat, and from the coach and the steamboat to the railroad,... | |
| John Lewis - Corporation law - 1895 - 826 pages
...to establish postottices and post roads are not confined to the instrumentalities of commerce or of the postal service known or in use when the Constitution was adopted, but keep pace with the progress of the country, and were intended for the government of the business to... | |
| Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1895 - 1038 pages
...establish postoffices and post-roads, are not confined to the instrumentalities of commerce, or of the postal service known or in use when the constitution was adopted, but keep pace with the progress of the country, and were intended for the government of the business to... | |
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