The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volume 51F. Hunt, 1864 - Commerce |
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... rivers and canals are common carriers ; and ferry- men are common carriers of passengers by their office , and may become common carriers of goods by taking up that business . A steamboat usually employed as a carrier may do something ...
... rivers and canals are common carriers ; and ferry- men are common carriers of passengers by their office , and may become common carriers of goods by taking up that business . A steamboat usually employed as a carrier may do something ...
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... River Canal - William I. Skinner 25,636 43 Genesee Valley Canal - Franklin A. Alberger . Oneida Lake Canal - William W. Wright Baldwinsville Canal - William W. Wright .. Cayuga Inlet - William W. Wright ... 64,407 50 8,147 44 4,529 14 ...
... River Canal - William I. Skinner 25,636 43 Genesee Valley Canal - Franklin A. Alberger . Oneida Lake Canal - William W. Wright Baldwinsville Canal - William W. Wright .. Cayuga Inlet - William W. Wright ... 64,407 50 8,147 44 4,529 14 ...
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... River Canal repairs .... do do do completion . Oswego Canal repairs ..... do do enlargement Such expenditures are $ 5,190 91 8,305 87 $ 1,168 67 3,255 36 4,424 03 $ 592 95 1,579 21 2,172 16 $ 908 09 901 46 1,809 55 Cayuga and Seneca ...
... River Canal repairs .... do do do completion . Oswego Canal repairs ..... do do enlargement Such expenditures are $ 5,190 91 8,305 87 $ 1,168 67 3,255 36 4,424 03 $ 592 95 1,579 21 2,172 16 $ 908 09 901 46 1,809 55 Cayuga and Seneca ...
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... River ... Skinner 94 20,884 64 21,674 85 790 21 Oneida River im- provement ... Wright ... 20 1,375 76 ... Baldwinsville ... do 12 .... 174 67 72 33 1,875 76 102 84 Excess of 1863 over 1862 ... $ 673,135 30 $ 700,594 00 $ 72,542 45 ...
... River ... Skinner 94 20,884 64 21,674 85 790 21 Oneida River im- provement ... Wright ... 20 1,375 76 ... Baldwinsville ... do 12 .... 174 67 72 33 1,875 76 102 84 Excess of 1863 over 1862 ... $ 673,135 30 $ 700,594 00 $ 72,542 45 ...
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... river , 820,680 square miles , about four times that of France , which is stated to be 207,145 , exclusive of Algeria . The purchase from France of Louisiana , in 1804 , added to this area 899,680 square miles . Pur- chases from Spain ...
... river , 820,680 square miles , about four times that of France , which is stated to be 207,145 , exclusive of Algeria . The purchase from France of Louisiana , in 1804 , added to this area 899,680 square miles . Pur- chases from Spain ...
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Page 67 - To exercise by its board of directors, or duly authorized officers or agents, subject to law, all such incidental powers as shall be necessary to carry on the business of banking; by discounting and negotiating promissory notes, drafts, bills of exchange, and other evidences of debt...
Page 83 - ... on real estate, or of judgments or decrees in its favor; all deposits of money, bullion, or other valuable thing for its use, or for the use of any of its shareholders or creditors; and all payments of money to either, made after the commission of an act of insolvency, or in contemplation thereof...
Page 79 - Nothing herein shall be construed to exempt the real property of associations from either State, county or municipal taxes, to the same extent, according to its value, as other real property is taxed...
Page 325 - ... points of division, and also at the upper and lower points of the depth extending each measurement to the average thickness of that part of the ceiling which is between the points of measurement...
Page 329 - Every steamship, when approaching another ship so as to involve risk of collision, shall slacken her speed, or if necessary stop and reverse ; and every steamship shall, when in a fog, go at a moderate speed.
Page 86 - First. A summary of the state and condition of every association from which reports have been received the preceding year, at the several dates to which such reports refer, with an abstract of the whole amount of banking capital returned by them, of the whole amount of their debts and liabilities, the amount of circulating notes outstanding, and the total amount of means and resources, specifying the amount of lawful money held by them at the times of their several returns, and such other information...
Page 325 - ... area (except the first and last) by two ; add these products together, and to the sum add the first and last if they yield anything; multiply the quantity thus obtained by one-third of the common interval between the areas, and the product will be the cubical contents of the space under the tonnage deck...
Page 329 - When two steam vessels are crossing, so as to involve risk of collision, the vessel which has the other on her own starboard side shall keep out of the way of the other.
Page 329 - A vessel which, is closehauled on the port tack shall keep out of the way of a vessel which is closehauled on the starboard tack. (c) When both are running free, with the wind on different sides, the vessel which has the wind on the port side shall keep out of the way of the other.
Page 229 - ... to have any exclusive right or title to the making or preparing the same, or which are prepared, uttered, vended, or exposed for sale under any letters patent, or...