Annual Report of the Attorney General of the United States

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U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Attorney General, 1892 - Justice, Administration of

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Page xvii - ... no civil suit shall be brought before either of said courts against any person by any original process or proceeding in any other district than that whereof he is an inhabitant...
Page xix - Act to protect trade and commerce against unlawful restraints and monopolies, approved July second, eighteen hundred and ninety, and amendments thereto, shall proceed to final determination as soon as may be, as if the United States had not assumed control of transportation systems: but in any such case the court...
Page 12 - Lámar delivered the opinion of the court: On the 2d day of December, 1887, the appellee, Tyler Davis, brought suit against the United States in the District Court of the United States for the District of Maryland, under the Act of March 3, 1887, giving...
Page viii - Suits against collectors of customs and other officers or agents of the government for refund of duties and acts done in the line of their official duty.
Page 11 - ... shrubs, etc., may be set out as early as possible, as every year's delay in this direction retards the work of permanent improvement. A tasteful and substantial front fence, either of wood or iron, with north and south gateways, is greatly needed, to give the grounds a neat and attractive appearance. In my last report I called attention to the necessity of some provision being made for the increased storage of water at the building, showing that in case of fire our supply would be entirely inadequate...
Page xi - Reform School for Girls: For the erection and completion, according to plans and specifications to be prepared by the inspector of buildings and approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, of a suitable building or buildings, to be used as a reform school for girls, thirty-five thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of said Commissioners. Said building shall be erected on land belonging to the United States, to be selected by the Attorney-General, the Secretary of War,...
Page 251 - States is interested not embraced in the other classes. 7. A general summary or abstract of all the other tables. An examination of the tables will show that the whole number of suits commenced within the year was...
Page 251 - OF THE SOLICITOR OF THE TREASURY. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, OFFICE OF THE SOLICITOR OF THE TREASURY, Washington, DC, November 20, 187C.
Page 279 - ... for additional labor or services, and for transportation and other necessary expenses incident to securing suitable homes for discharged boys, not exceeding five hundred dollars, all under the control of the Commissioners, twentysix thousand dollars 26, 000.
Page 282 - SIR: — I have the honor to submit herewith my annual report for the year 1914.

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