Trusts and Miscellaneous1900 |
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... duty of government to hold them meantime to strict account . The statistician should be pressed into service , the keeping of books should be regarded as of paramount importance , and the rule according to which accounts are kept and ...
... duty of government to hold them meantime to strict account . The statistician should be pressed into service , the keeping of books should be regarded as of paramount importance , and the rule according to which accounts are kept and ...
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... duty should be to prepare a program for each session and provide rules governing special conditions , and recommended as such committee : Henry W. Blair , New Hampshire ; L. D. Sutherland , Nebraska ; J. W. Gaines , Tennessee ; J. C. ...
... duty should be to prepare a program for each session and provide rules governing special conditions , and recommended as such committee : Henry W. Blair , New Hampshire ; L. D. Sutherland , Nebraska ; J. W. Gaines , Tennessee ; J. C. ...
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... duties on imports so that the productions of other countries may compete with those controlled by the trusts . This much Congress can and should do . In the meantime let the states perform their duty . " I have lately assumed to suggest ...
... duties on imports so that the productions of other countries may compete with those controlled by the trusts . This much Congress can and should do . In the meantime let the states perform their duty . " I have lately assumed to suggest ...
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... duty to prompt- ly accept your invitation to submit a critical comment upon what has been known in Birmingham as the " Smithsonian System " of Trades Combination . It has been my lot to watch the evo- lution of this system and its ...
... duty to prompt- ly accept your invitation to submit a critical comment upon what has been known in Birmingham as the " Smithsonian System " of Trades Combination . It has been my lot to watch the evo- lution of this system and its ...
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... duty in return . Seven years ' experience has somewhat dimmed the brightness of the prospect held out , yet I think the fact is undeniable that a majority of the workmen consider that they acted wisely in giving their support to Mr ...
... duty in return . Seven years ' experience has somewhat dimmed the brightness of the prospect held out , yet I think the fact is undeniable that a majority of the workmen consider that they acted wisely in giving their support to Mr ...
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Page 505 - ... in the absence of fraud in the transaction the judgment of the directors as to the value of the property purchased shall be conclusive...
Page 43 - Perpetuities and monopolies are contrary to the genius of a free government, and shall never be allowed; nor shall the law of primogeniture or entailments ever be in force in this state.
Page 416 - A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. Being the mere creature of law. it possesses only those properties which the charter of its creation confers upon it, either expressly, or as incidental to its very existence.
Page 132 - It must not be forgotten that you are not to extend arbitrarily those rules which say that a given contract is void as being against public policy, because if there is one thing which more than another public policy requires it is that men of full age and competent understanding shall have the utmost liberty of contracting, and that their contracts, when entered into freely and voluntarily, shall be held sacred, and shall be enforced by courts of justice.
Page 8 - January, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, whenever, and so often as the President shall be satisfied that the government of any country producing and exporting sugars, molasses, coffee, tea, and hides,, raw and uncured, or any of such articles, imposes duties or other exactions upon the agricultural or other products of the United States...