Reports from the Court of Claims Submitted to the House of Representatives, Volume 1C. Wendell, printer, 1860 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... answer , dated February 13 , 1851 , is on file among the papers . In it he says , " In the prosecution of the war with Mexico , a very large naval force had been collected on that sta- tion , ( Pacific coast , ) and it was regarded a ...
... answer , dated February 13 , 1851 , is on file among the papers . In it he says , " In the prosecution of the war with Mexico , a very large naval force had been collected on that sta- tion , ( Pacific coast , ) and it was regarded a ...
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... inquiry in this cause ? Are you related to the claimant , and if yea , in what degree ? Answer . My name is Robert M. Penoyer ; I am a flour dealer , and am seventy years of age ; have resided in New 18 HENRY J. ANDERSON .
... inquiry in this cause ? Are you related to the claimant , and if yea , in what degree ? Answer . My name is Robert M. Penoyer ; I am a flour dealer , and am seventy years of age ; have resided in New 18 HENRY J. ANDERSON .
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... Answer . Yes , sir . Third interrogatory . What was his occupation from eighteen hun- dred and eleven to eighteen hundred and fifteen ? Answer . He was an army contractor , issuing provisions to the United States troops . Fourth ...
... Answer . Yes , sir . Third interrogatory . What was his occupation from eighteen hun- dred and eleven to eighteen hundred and fifteen ? Answer . He was an army contractor , issuing provisions to the United States troops . Fourth ...
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... Answer . Yes , sir . Thirteenth interrogatory . Is the computation made at pages 86 and 87 of exhibit No. 2 , whereby it appears that the value of the casks and packages containing provisions deposited , furnished to the United States ...
... Answer . Yes , sir . Thirteenth interrogatory . Is the computation made at pages 86 and 87 of exhibit No. 2 , whereby it appears that the value of the casks and packages containing provisions deposited , furnished to the United States ...
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United States. Court of Claims. answer the said interrogatory more definitely , and if yea , answer the sixteenth interrogatory again ? Answer . I have since then examined " Exhibit No. 3 , " more care- fully , and I do not find that it ...
United States. Court of Claims. answer the said interrogatory more definitely , and if yea , answer the sixteenth interrogatory again ? Answer . I have since then examined " Exhibit No. 3 , " more care- fully , and I do not find that it ...
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aforesaid amount Answer appointed April Archimedes Arkansas river banks bayou Bayou Pierre boats branch pilot Brazos Santiago Captain Shreve casks cent certify charge claimant Clerk Colonel command commissary commissioner committee Commodore Jones compensation Congress contract contractor Court of Claims dated December deposition deputy disbursements duties Elbert Anderson Engineer department February feet Fort Towson furnished H. M. Shreve Heliopolis Henry honor hundred improvement interrogatory invention issued January John July June King letter Louisville machine Major Eastland ment miles mill Mississippi river month navigation Navy obedient servant obstructions Ohio river paid Parker patent payment petition petitioner pilotage port provisions quartermaster Question raft received Red river removed respectfully Riddick saw-mill schooner Secretary Secretary of War September snags steam snag-boat steamboat steamer superintendent sutler Texas Thomas tion TOPOGRAPHICAL ENGINEERS treasury notes troops United vessels voucher Washington windlass witness
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Page 92 - ... that its abandonment ought not to be presumed, in a case in which the deliberate purpose of the State to abandon it does not appear.
Page 102 - The result is a conviction that the states have no power, by taxation or otherwise, to retard, impede, burden, or in any manner control the operations of the constitutional laws enacted by Congress to carry into execution the powers vested in the general government.
Page 67 - Signed, sealed, published and declared by the said John Alden, 2nd, as and for his last will and testament, in the presence of us, who, at his request, and in his presence, and in the presence of each other have subscribed our names as witnesses the day and year above written.
Page 56 - Clarkson, whose name is subscribed to the Certificate of the proof or acknowledgment of the annexed instrument, and thereon written, was, at the time of taking such proof or acknowledgment, a Notary Public in and for the City and County of New York, dwelling In the said City, commissioned and sworn, and duly authorized to take the same.
Page 18 - On this.... day of July, AD, 1917, personally appeared before me, a Notary Public, in and for the County of State of Texas, John Jones, known to me to be the person described in and who executed the foregoing instrument and who acknowledged to me that he executed the same freely and voluntarily and for the uses and purposes therein mentioned.
Page 102 - If the end be legitimate and within the scope of the Constitution, all the means which are appropriate, which are plainly adapted to that end, and which are not prohibited, may constitutionally be employed to carry it into effect.
Page 255 - That every person or corporation who has, or shall have, purchased or constructed any newly invented machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, prior to the application by the inventor or discoverer for a patent, shall be held to possess the right to use, and vend to others to be used, the specific machine, manufacture, or composition of matter so made or purchased, without liability therefor...
Page 67 - Signed, sealed, published and Declared by the said Testator as and for his last Will and Testament in the Presence of us who in his presence and at his request and in the presence of each other have subscribed our names as Witnesses thereto.
Page 24 - Republic, conformably with what is stipulated in the preceding article, shall be incorporated into the Union of the United States and be admitted at the proper time (to be judged of by the Congress of the United States...
Page 102 - The state governments have no right to tax any of the constitutional means employed by the government of the Union to execute its constitutional powers.