Reports of Committees: 30th Congress, 1st Session - 48th Congress, 2nd Session, Band 1 |
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... present a memorial for that purpose , stating in what respect the committee have erred in their report , or that new evidence has been discovered since the report , and setting forth the new evidence in the memorial . " To bring this ...
... present a memorial for that purpose , stating in what respect the committee have erred in their report , or that new evidence has been discovered since the report , and setting forth the new evidence in the memorial . " To bring this ...
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... presents the following state of facts as the basis for the relief asked : On the 27th of March , 1857 , he was consul of the ... present minister to France recommends the relief of Mr. Vesey . The Secretary of the Treasury makes no ...
... presents the following state of facts as the basis for the relief asked : On the 27th of March , 1857 , he was consul of the ... present minister to France recommends the relief of Mr. Vesey . The Secretary of the Treasury makes no ...
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... present with the company during the period specified , and that no person has been paid for the services claimed to have been rendered by Smith . In view of these facts , your committee recommend that Henry C. Smith , late of Company H ...
... present with the company during the period specified , and that no person has been paid for the services claimed to have been rendered by Smith . In view of these facts , your committee recommend that Henry C. Smith , late of Company H ...
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... present disability has any connection with the cause al- leged in his application , which is disease of the heart , and ask to be discharged from the further consideration of his petition . 1st Session . IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED ...
... present disability has any connection with the cause al- leged in his application , which is disease of the heart , and ask to be discharged from the further consideration of his petition . 1st Session . IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED ...
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... present possession of more than three hundred and fifty dollars back pay . We are now asked to extend that act backward for a period of twenty - two years . But for the respectability of the eminent gentlemen who have indorsed this ...
... present possession of more than three hundred and fifty dollars back pay . We are now asked to extend that act backward for a period of twenty - two years . But for the respectability of the eminent gentlemen who have indorsed this ...
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1st Session affidavit alleged allowed amount appears April Army Associated Press authority bales building Captain centimes cents certificate charge claimant clerk command Commissioner Committee on Claims Committee on Pensions compensation Congress consideration construction contract cost cotton Court of Claims damages disability discharged dollars duty entitled evidence expenses facts February FEBRUARY 17 following REPORT furnished further Government granted House HUBBARD hundred increase Indians January July June lands letter lieutenant March MARCH 27 memorialist ment MERRIMON messages miles military month opinion ORTON paid papers payment petitioner postal-telegraph Postmaster-General pounds PRATT submitted present printed railroad rates receipts received recommend referred the bill referred the petition regiment relief road Secretary SENATE soldier submitted the following surgeon telegrams Territory testimony tion Treasury Union Pacific Railroad United Volunteers Western Union Company York
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Seite 10 - I have voluntarily given no aid, countenance, counsel, or encouragement to persons engaged in armed hostility thereto ; that I have never sought nor accepted, nor attempted to exercise, the functions of any office whatever, under any authority or pretended authority in hostility to the United States...
Seite 45 - ... absolute conversion of real property to the uses of the public it can destroy its value entirely, can inflict irreparable and permanent injury to any extent, can, in effect, subject it to total destruction without making any compensation, because, in the narrowest sense of that word, it is not taken for the public use. "Such a construction would pervert the constitutional provision into a restriction upon the rights of the citizen, as those rights stood at the common law, instead of the government,...
Seite 5 - An act [to amend an act entitled an act] to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean, and to secure to the Government the use of the same for postal, military, and other purposes, approved July first, eighteen hundred and sixty-two," approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-four.
Seite 100 - States may at any time after the expiration of five years from the date of the passage of this act, for postal, military, or other purposes, purchase all the telegraph lines, property, and effects of any or all of said companies at an appraised value, to be ascertained by five competent disinterested persons, two of whom shall be selected by the Postmaster-General of the United States, two by the company interested, and one by the four so previously selected.
Seite 45 - ... if the Government refrains from the absolute conversion of real property to the uses of the public, it can destroy its value entirely, can inflict irreparable and permanent injury to any extent, can, in effect, subject it to total destruction without making any compensation, because, in the narrowest sense of that word, it is not taken for the public use.
Seite 3 - The consequences iu all such cases give rise to questions which must be met by the political department of the Government. They are beyond the sphere of judicial cognizance.
Seite 9 - ... respective offices, it shall be lawful for the President of the United States, in case he shall think it necessary, to authorize any person or persons at his discretion to perform the duties of the...
Seite 7 - It is a general principle of both international and municipal law that all property is held subject, not only to be taken by the government for public uses, in which case, under the Constitution of the United States, the owner is entitled to just compensation, but also subject to be temporarily occupied, or even actually destroyed, in times of great public danger, and when the public safety demands it ; and in this latter case governments do not admit a legal obligation on their part to compensate...
Seite 8 - River to the initial point aforesaid, may construct its road and telegraph line so as to connect with the Union Pacific Railroad at any point westwardly of such initial point, in case such company shall deem such westward connection more practicable or desirable; and in aid of the construction of so much of its road and telegraph line as shall be a departure from the route hereinbefore provided for its road, such company shall be entitled to all the benefits, and be subject to all the conditions...
Seite 45 - It would be a very curious and unsatisfactory result. If In construing a provision of constitutional law, always understood to have been adopted for protection and security to the rights of the individual as against the government, and which has received the Commendation of jurists, statesmen, and commentators as placing the just principles of the common law on that subject beyond the power of ordinary legislation to change or control them, it shall be held that if the government refrains from the...