Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volume 18F. Hunt, 1848 - Commerce |
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... hundred to one over the influence excited by a corresponding number of people in the vast interior . There were no committees of farmers from the banks of the Missouri , the Missis- sippi , or even the Ohio , entering the lobbies of ...
... hundred to one over the influence excited by a corresponding number of people in the vast interior . There were no committees of farmers from the banks of the Missouri , the Missis- sippi , or even the Ohio , entering the lobbies of ...
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... hundred and thirty to two hundred dollars . Having paid due honor to the Old Man of the Tropics , by abundant libations of sea - water and grog ; and every green - horn having sworn faithfully to observe those great laws of morals and ...
... hundred and thirty to two hundred dollars . Having paid due honor to the Old Man of the Tropics , by abundant libations of sea - water and grog ; and every green - horn having sworn faithfully to observe those great laws of morals and ...
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... hundred and fifty feet above the level of the sca . Upon it are two light - houses , fifty feet in height , and about three hundred and twenty - five feet apart . In a clear night their lights may be seen at the distance of seven or ...
... hundred and fifty feet above the level of the sca . Upon it are two light - houses , fifty feet in height , and about three hundred and twenty - five feet apart . In a clear night their lights may be seen at the distance of seven or ...
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... hundred large vessels , lying in tiers , three or four abreast , at the quays , and made fast parallel with the sides of the basins . But , under ordinary circumstances , they do not contain more than one hundred and fifty or two hundred ...
... hundred large vessels , lying in tiers , three or four abreast , at the quays , and made fast parallel with the sides of the basins . But , under ordinary circumstances , they do not contain more than one hundred and fifty or two hundred ...
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... hundred voyages annually . We do not include , among vessels engaged in foreign trade , the steamboats of the regular lines , vessels sailing to distant French ports , nor even those trading with foreign European ports . Taking the mean ...
... hundred voyages annually . We do not include , among vessels engaged in foreign trade , the steamboats of the regular lines , vessels sailing to distant French ports , nor even those trading with foreign European ports . Taking the mean ...
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Page 440 - ... but the person pledging such stock shall be considered as holding the same, and shall be liable as a stockholder accordingly, and the estates and funds in the hands of such executor, administrator, guardian, or trustee shall be liable, in like manner and to the same extent, as the testator or intestate, or the ward or person interested in such fund, would have been if he had been living and competent to act, and held the stock in his own name.
Page 144 - ... it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven; a land which the Lord thy God careth for; the eyes of the Lord thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year.
Page 439 - All elections shall be by ballot, and each stockholder shall be entitled to as many votes as he owns shares of stock...
Page 440 - If any certificate or report made, or public notice given, by the officers of any such company, in pursuance of the provisions of this act. shall be false in any material representation, all the officers who shall have signed the same, knowing it to be false, shall be jointly and severally liable for all the debts of the company contracted while they are stockholders or officers thereof.
Page 21 - to exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such district (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular States and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of government of the United States...
Page 440 - The stockholders of any company organized under the provisions of this act, shall be jointly and severally individually liable for all debts that may be due and owing to all their laborers, servants and apprentices, for services performed for such corporation.
Page 442 - Every officer or agent of any such company, who shall neglect to make any proper entry in such book, or shall refuse or neglect to exhibit the same, or allow the same to be inspected, and extracts to be taken therefrom...
Page 440 - But before any corporation shall be entitled to diminish the amount of its capital stock, if the amount of its debts and liabilities shall exceed the amount of capital to which...
Page 394 - tis strange : And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths : Win -us with honest trifles, to betray us In deepest consequence.
Page 267 - And in very deed for this cause have I raised thee up, for to show in thee my power; and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth.