Annual Report of the Boston Board of Trade, Merchants Exchange ..., Volume 12Boston Board of Trade, 1866 |
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... contracts , 12 Tin , 40 Tobacco , Tongues and sounds , 21 Tonnage of Boston , 79 Tonnage of United States , 27 Transit , committee on , 120 Treasurer's report and account , Reciprocity Treaty , 47 , 48 , 49 , 50 , 59 , 60 Trout , Report ...
... contracts , 12 Tin , 40 Tobacco , Tongues and sounds , 21 Tonnage of Boston , 79 Tonnage of United States , 27 Transit , committee on , 120 Treasurer's report and account , Reciprocity Treaty , 47 , 48 , 49 , 50 , 59 , 60 Trout , Report ...
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... contracts , in a busi- ness of a million and a quarter of dollars , and of the delivery of articles so numerous as to cover twelve hun- dred and five pages of record , they remark that they " do not hesitate to express the opinion ...
... contracts , in a busi- ness of a million and a quarter of dollars , and of the delivery of articles so numerous as to cover twelve hun- dred and five pages of record , they remark that they " do not hesitate to express the opinion ...
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... should not also exist in the transit of freight per rail : therefore , Resolved , That the question of time should enter into all contracts gers for the delivery of freight by the principal railroad lines BOSTON BOARD OF TRADE . 45.
... should not also exist in the transit of freight per rail : therefore , Resolved , That the question of time should enter into all contracts gers for the delivery of freight by the principal railroad lines BOSTON BOARD OF TRADE . 45.
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... contract , a small additional charge is made , - much below , how- ever , the usual express charges . Way - bills , giving the particulars of lading of each car by its number , are mailed every day ; and , as the agent at the end of the ...
... contract , a small additional charge is made , - much below , how- ever , the usual express charges . Way - bills , giving the particulars of lading of each car by its number , are mailed every day ; and , as the agent at the end of the ...
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... contract at one end of the route , and the agent col- lecting the freight money at the other end , are practically the same : there is no division of responsibility to make reclamations difficult of adjustment ; but there is a company ...
... contract at one end of the route , and the agent col- lecting the freight money at the other end , are practically the same : there is no division of responsibility to make reclamations difficult of adjustment ; but there is a company ...
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Page 4 - The purest treasure mortal times afford Is spotless reputation ; that away, Men are but gilded loam or painted clay.
Page 62 - ... every alternate section of public land, not mineral, designated by odd numbers, to the amount of twenty alternate sections per mile, on each side of said railroad line, as said company may adopt, through the Territories of the United States...
Page 66 - But in regulating commerce with foreign nations, the power of congress does not stop at the jurisdictional lines of the several states. It would be a very useless power, if it could not pass those lines. The commerce of the United States with foreign nations is that of the whole United States. Every district has a right to participate in it. The deep streams which penetrate our country in...
Page 125 - Association, with all the powers and privileges, and subject to all the duties, liabilities, and restrictions, set forth in the forty-fourth chapter of the Revised Statutes ; and...
Page 47 - The long and very frank discussion so cleared the atmosphere that at its close the following resolution was adopted by unanimous vote: "Resolved, That this convention do respectfully request the President of the United States...
Page 127 - Government may appoint, a majority of the members present being necessary to constitute an election, and such officers shall continue in office for the term of one year, or until their successors are elected and qualified to take their places.
Page 66 - Commerce, undoubtedly, is traffic, but it is something more ; it is intercourse/^ It describes the commercial intercourse between nations, and parts of nations, in all its branches, and is regulated by prescribing rules for carrying on that intercourse.
Page 127 - SECTION 1. It shall be the duty of the president or, in his absence, of one of the vice-presidents...
Page 19 - Texas by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings or by the powers vested in the marshals by law...
Page 36 - ... court-martial shall adjudge ; and any person who shall contract to furnish supplies of any kind or description for the army or navy he shall be deemed and taken as a part of the land or naval forces of the United States...