Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events, Volume 17D. Appleton & Company, 1893 |
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... bill then pending in Parliament , was recommended for adoption in the following language : " If any beneficed priest shall by reason of any crime or immorality proved against him become legally disqualified from holding preferment , it ...
... bill then pending in Parliament , was recommended for adoption in the following language : " If any beneficed priest shall by reason of any crime or immorality proved against him become legally disqualified from holding preferment , it ...
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... bill that was hurried through the Legislature which provides that no bank or other corporation or individual can be forced into liquidation except on the de- mand of one third of the creditors . In the general election which took place ...
... bill that was hurried through the Legislature which provides that no bank or other corporation or individual can be forced into liquidation except on the de- mand of one third of the creditors . In the general election which took place ...
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... bill of last year , the present bill reserves to the Central Gov- ernment the sole right of levying customs duties , thus securing uniformity of tariff throughout the colony . With this exception , so far as the infor- mation to hand ...
... bill of last year , the present bill reserves to the Central Gov- ernment the sole right of levying customs duties , thus securing uniformity of tariff throughout the colony . With this exception , so far as the infor- mation to hand ...
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... bill to indict him for violating the laws of 1868 , which provide that the Govern- ment has the right to create new courts , but has to take the sense of the respective Landtag first , whereas the last Bohemian Landtag had refused to ...
... bill to indict him for violating the laws of 1868 , which provide that the Govern- ment has the right to create new courts , but has to take the sense of the respective Landtag first , whereas the last Bohemian Landtag had refused to ...
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... bill that has been passed by Parliament , or any legislative proposal on which Parliament has not yet taken action ... bills that have been passed . Beyond a cer- tain discretion in the selection of the politician whom he thinks able to ...
... bill that has been passed by Parliament , or any legislative proposal on which Parliament has not yet taken action ... bills that have been passed . Beyond a cer- tain discretion in the selection of the politician whom he thinks able to ...
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Page 125 - All taxes shall be uniform, upon the same class of subjects, within the territorial limits of the authority levying the tax, and shall be levied and collected under general laws...
Page 177 - It would, I believe, be entirely compétent for Congress to make offenses against the treaty rights of foreigners domiciled in the United States cognizable in the Federal courts. This has not, however, been done, and the Federal officers and courts have no power in such cases to intervene either for the protection of a foreign citizen or for the punishment of his slayers.
Page 192 - That any Chinese person or person of Chinese descent arrested under the provisions of this act or the acts hereby extended shall be adjudged to be unlawfully within the United States unless such person shall establish, by affirmative proof, to the satisfaction of such justice, judge, or commissioner, his lawful right to remain in the United States.
Page 154 - I have not even a blanca for an offering; and in spiritual things, I have ceased here in the Indies from observing the prescribed forms of religion. Solitary in my trouble, sick, and in daily expectation "of death, surrounded by millions of hostile savages full of cruelty, and thus separated from the blessed sacraments of our holy Church, how will my soul be. forgotten if it be separated from the body in this foreign land ? Weep for me, whoever has charity, truth, and justice ! I did not come...
Page 190 - Chinese subjects, whether proceeding to the United States as teachers, students, merchants or from curiosity, together with their body and household servants, and Chinese laborers who are now in the United States shall be allowed to go and come of their own free will and accord, and shall be accorded all the rights, privileges, immunities, and exemptions which are accorded to the citizens and subjects of the most favored nation.
Page 192 - Upon freight of whatever kind or description not to exceed $2 per ton, upon passengers not to exceed $5 each, as shall be from time to time determined by the President: Provided, That no tolls shall be charged or collected upon freight or passengers carried to and landed at Ogdensburg, or any port west of Ogdensburg and south of a line drawn from the northern boundary of the State of New York through the St. Lawrence River, the Great Lakes, and their connecting channels to the northern boundary of...
Page 192 - That any such Chinese person or person of Chinese descent convicted and adjudged to be not lawfully entitled to be or remain In the United States shall be imprisoned at hard labor for a period of not exceeding one year and thereafter removed from the United States, as hereinbefore provided.
Page 194 - An act to provide for celebrating the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus by holding an international exhibition of arts, industries, manufactures, and the products of the soil, mine, and sea, in the city of Chicago, in the State of Illinois...
Page 193 - The Government of Her Britannic Majesty engages to urge upon the Government of the Dominion of Canada to secure to the citizens of the United States the use of the Weiland, St. Lawrence, and other canals in the Dominion on terms of equality with the inhabitants of the Dominion...
Page 192 - States, and may be arrested by any United States customs official, collector of internal revenue, or his deputies, United States marshal or his deputies, and taken before a United States judge...