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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... invention and the purposes to which it could alone be applied , it was useful only to the government , upon which the duty of removing obstructions in the great navigable rivers de- volved . That the whole term for which the exclusive ...
... invention and the purposes to which it could alone be applied , it was useful only to the government , upon which the duty of removing obstructions in the great navigable rivers de- volved . That the whole term for which the exclusive ...
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... which was accom- plished for less than one - half of the first appropriation made to effect it . These facts prove that the snag - boat is an invention of GREAT VALUE to the nation ; that it has ALREADY SAVED IMMENSE HENRY M. SHREVE . 5 LO.
... which was accom- plished for less than one - half of the first appropriation made to effect it . These facts prove that the snag - boat is an invention of GREAT VALUE to the nation ; that it has ALREADY SAVED IMMENSE HENRY M. SHREVE . 5 LO.
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... invention that answers the purpose admirably well . ' Capt . Delafield states that one snag raised by the Heliopolis while he was on board contained sixteen hundred cubic feet of timber , and could not have weighed less than sixty tons ...
... invention that answers the purpose admirably well . ' Capt . Delafield states that one snag raised by the Heliopolis while he was on board contained sixteen hundred cubic feet of timber , and could not have weighed less than sixty tons ...
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... invention and use of the snag - boat , the committee re- spectfully recommend to the House the passage of an act granting to the petitioner the right of pre - emption to eighteen sections of the public lands lying on the line of the ...
... invention and use of the snag - boat , the committee re- spectfully recommend to the House the passage of an act granting to the petitioner the right of pre - emption to eighteen sections of the public lands lying on the line of the ...
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... invention of the snag - boat is as follows : Extract from the inspection report of A. H. Bowman , lieutenant of engineers , to the United States Engineer department relative to the progress of operations in removing obstructions in the ...
... invention of the snag - boat is as follows : Extract from the inspection report of A. H. Bowman , lieutenant of engineers , to the United States Engineer department relative to the progress of operations in removing obstructions in the ...
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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.