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Page 95 - July in the year of our LORD CHRIST, One Thousand, Seven Hundred and Sixty one and in the First year of our Reign.
Page 78 - It is therefore obvious, that, when you have ascertained the current cash value of the whole funded debt, and the current cash value of the entire number of shares, you have, by the action of those who above all others can best estimate it, ascertained the true value of the road, all its property, its capital stock, and its franchises; for these are all represented by the value of its bonded debt and of the shares of its capital stock.
Page 50 - The struggle between rivals for the same trade at the same time ; the act of seeking or endeavoring to gain what another is endeavoring to gain at the same time.
Page 3 - Committee and a Council. ARTICLE VI. COUNCIL 1. The Council shall consist of an indefinite number of members of the society, chosen, with the exception of the original members, for three years. It shall have power to fill all vacancies in its membership, and may add to its number. 2. It shall elect the President, Vice-Presidents, Secretary, and Treasurer, which officers, with the Chairman of the Publication Committee, shall constitute an Execu1 NOTE.
Page 72 - Friendly Check from a Kind Relation. To the Chief Cannoneer. Founded on a late Information dated N.*E. Castle William 1720, 21.
Page 66 - This is always done, however, with great caution, and an anxious desire to place the final conclusion reached upon the fairest and most just construction of the Constitution in all its parts. In our opinion such a construction of the Constitution leads to the conclusion that no State has the right to lay a tax on interstate commerce in any form, whether by way of duties laid on the transportation of the subjects of that commerce, or on the receipts derived from that transportation, or on the occupation...
Page 15 - Proposals to the King and Parliament, or a large Model of a Bank, Shewing how a Fund of a Bank may be made without much charge or any hazard, that may give out Bills of Credit to a vast extent, that all Europe will accept of, rather than Money.
Page 296 - Price, 75c. 3. History of Military Pension Legislation in the United States. By William Henry Glasson, Ph.D. Price, $1.00.
Page 12 - That the maintaining of these actions upon such notes, were innovations upon the rules of the common law ; and that it amounted to the setting up a new sort of specialty unknown to the common law, and invented in Lombard street, which attempted in these matters of bills of exchange to give laws to Westminster Hall.
Page 48 - Gahriel and Raphael have won their rank by doing the maximum of worship on the minimum of grace! We shall know some day. In the meanwhile ' these are thy works, thou parent of all good ! ' Man eating man, eaten by man, in every variety of degree and method!