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ACT To incorporate aforesaid agents Alabama amend amount appoint Approved Assem assessed associates authorized bank bly convened body bonds buildings by-laws called capital stock carry cause cent charter city of Mobile collect commissioners common constituted contract corporation council court deem directors duty effect election entitled exceeding execution February 20 fifty five further enacted give given granted held hereby hereby authorized hold House of Representatives intendant interest issue January judge lands laws less liable limits majority manner mayor meeting necessary notes notice objects owner paid payment person prescribe present president president and directors Privileges probate proper Provided purchase railroad receive regulations repealed road SECTION sell Senate and House shares stockholders street subscribed successors sued term thereof thousand dollars tion town treasury United vote
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Page 259 - States," and shall so continue until the third day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, and by that name shall be, and are hereby, made able and capable, in law, to have, purchase, receive, possess, enjoy, and retain, to them and their successors, lands, rents, tenements, hereditaments, goods, chattels and effects, of...
Page 199 - And that they and their successors may have a common seal, and may change and alter the same at their pleasure...
Page 433 - ... to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered, defend and be defended, in all State courts having competent jurisdiction, and in any circuit court of the United States...
Page 605 - That Alabama will not voluntarily consent to change the adjustment of political power, as fixed by the Constitution of the United States, and to constrain her to do so in her present prostrate and helpless condition, with no voice in the councils of the nation, would be an unjustifiable breach of faith ; and that her earnest thanks are due to the President for the firm stand he has taken against amendments of the Constitution, forced through in the present condition of affairs.
Page 443 - Company, the transfer of shares, the duties and conduct of their officers and servants touching the election and meeting of the Directors, and all matters whatsoever which may appertain to the concerns of said Company...
Page 595 - Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, (two-thirds of both houses concurring) : That the following article be proposed to the legislatures of the several States as an Amendment to the Constitution of the United States...
Page 211 - ... office for the term of three years from the first day of May...
Page 289 - ... answer and be answered unto in any court of law or equity...
Page 35 - ... shall be fined not less than twenty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars. And...
Page 449 - ... as shall be requisite for its immediate accommodation in relation to the convenient transaction of its business, and such as shall have been bona fide mortgaged to it by way of security, or conveyed to it in satisfaction of debts previously contracted in the course of its dealings, or purchased at sales upon judgments which shall have been obtained for such debts.