Dauphin County Reports, Volume 22

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W.O. Foster, 1919 - Administrative law
Beginning with 1917, the Opinions, rules and regulations of the Public Service Commission and the Workmens Compensation Board, previously included in the Dauphin County reports, are issued separately.

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Page 183 - A tax shall be and is hereby imposed upon the transfer of any property, real or personal, of the value of five hundred dollars or over, or of any interest therein or income therefrom, in trust or otherwise, to persons or corporations not exempt by law from taxation on real or personal property, in the following cases : 1.
Page 112 - ... shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars or more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail of not less than ten days nor more than sixty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment, at the discretion of the court.
Page 5 - ... for a rule to show cause why a new trial should not be granted...
Page 14 - Where the subject is peculiarly one of local concern, and from its nature belongs to the class with which the state appropriately deals in making reasonable provision for local needs, it cannot be regarded as left to the unrestrained will of individuals because Congress has not acted, although it may have such a relation to interstate commerce as to be within the reach of the federal power.
Page 156 - And as to my worldly estate and all the property, real personal, or mixed, of which I shall die seized and possessed, or to which I shall be entitled at the time of my decease...
Page 193 - ... live stock, machinery and equipment, and the hiring of labor, or any one or more of the kinds of service specified in this section.
Page 9 - ... is not shown to be clearly unreasonable and arbitrary, and operates uniformly upon all persons similarly situated in the particular district, the district itself not appearing to have been arbitrarily selected, it cannot be judicially declared that there is a deprivation of property without due process of law, or a denial of the equal protection of the laws, within the meaning of the fourteenth amendment.
Page 224 - But there was no trial for any crime here, and the Act is operative only when there is to be no trial. The very purpose of the Act is to prevent a trial, though...
Page 224 - To that end, it is important that the powers of the courts, in respect to the care, treatment and control over dependent, neglected, delinquent and incorrigible children, should be clearly distinguished from the powers exercised in the administration of the criminal law : Section 1.
Page 41 - No. 3 of 1881, are alleged by the bill to be in violation of section 10, article 1, of the constitution of the .United States, as impairing the obligations of the contract under which complainant's bonds were issued.

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