A Treatise Upon the Estate and Rights of the Corporation of the City of New York, as Proprietors |
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... adopted . A Director General and a Council , composed of a Vice Director and Fiscal , were appointed ; and the privilege of delegating one or two persons from the towns or villages , to give information to the principal government as to ...
... adopted . A Director General and a Council , composed of a Vice Director and Fiscal , were appointed ; and the privilege of delegating one or two persons from the towns or villages , to give information to the principal government as to ...
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... adopted for a similar purpose . It provided that all char- ters , patents and grants , made , given and granted , and well and truly executed under the seal of the province , ( a ) con- stituted and authorized by their late majesties ...
... adopted for a similar purpose . It provided that all char- ters , patents and grants , made , given and granted , and well and truly executed under the seal of the province , ( a ) con- stituted and authorized by their late majesties ...
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... adoption and sanction , by reference , of every grant , property , right , and power , given by any preceding charter . There has never been a suggestion impeaching this sta- tute , as I believe , except what is found in the Municipal ...
... adoption and sanction , by reference , of every grant , property , right , and power , given by any preceding charter . There has never been a suggestion impeaching this sta- tute , as I believe , except what is found in the Municipal ...
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... adopted in the highest tribunals of the states , as an essential doctrine of law and justice . That principle is this - the people of the re- spective states had succeeded to all the privileges of the crown . The transition was natural ...
... adopted in the highest tribunals of the states , as an essential doctrine of law and justice . That principle is this - the people of the re- spective states had succeeded to all the privileges of the crown . The transition was natural ...
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... adopt- ing ( by way of reference ) every grant contained in the charters , as if each and every grant had been particularly enumerated in its very language . Thus by a successive process of adoption and ratification , we find the very ...
... adopt- ing ( by way of reference ) every grant contained in the charters , as if each and every grant had been particularly enumerated in its very language . Thus by a successive process of adoption and ratification , we find the very ...
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act of April adjoining aforesaid Aldermen and Commonalty amended appointed authority boundary bounded bridge Broadway Brooklyn Burgomasters charter clause colony Commissioners Common Council common law confirmed Corporation Court creek crown Dongan Dutch East river east side erected established extended exterior street ferry forty feet four hundred feet Front street Fulton Ferry Governor grant ground brief high and low high water mark highway Hudson river inches inhabitants king laid land under water Legislature letters patent Long Island low water mark Manhattan Island Mayor Nassau Island North river Note ordinance owners parcel passed patent persons petition piers privileges proprietors provisions recited Red Hook regulating shore slip south side South street space statute street or wharf thence thereof tion Van Tienhoven vested Ward water lots Water street west side West street wharfage wharves York
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Page 51 - All offices for the weighing, gauging, measuring, culling or inspecting any merchandise, produce, manufacture or commodity whatever, are hereby abolished; and no such office shall hereafter be created by law; but nothing in this section contained shall abrogate any office created for the purpose of protecting the public health or the interests of the State in its property, revenue, tolls or purchases, or of supplying the people with correct standards of weights and measures, or shall prevent the...
Page 170 - An act to reduce several laws relating particularly to the City of New York, into one act...
Page 58 - All city, town and village officers, whose election or appointment is not provided for by this Constitution, shall be elected by the electors of such cities, towns and villages, or of some division thereof, or appointed by such authorities thereof, as the Legislature shall designate for that purpose.
Page lxvii - The people of this State, in their right of sovereignty, are deemed to possess the original and ultimate property in and to all lands within the jurisdiction of the State...
Page 302 - ... to the said donee or donees, grantee or grantees, for his, her or their use, for the uses and purposes therein named, expressed, or intended and for no other use or purpose whatever.
Page 48 - In the popular meaning of the term, nearly every corporation is public, inasmuch as they are all created for the public benefit. Yet if the whole interest does not belong to the government, or if the corporation is not created for the administration of political or municipal power, it is a private corporation.
Page xxv - York, or fastened to a wharf adjoining thereto ; or unless such person shall be under arrest, or such property shall be under seizure, by virtue of process or authority of the State of New York.
Page xxiv - The state of New Jersey shall have and enjoy exclusive jurisdiction of and over all the waters of the sound between Staten Island and New Jersey lying south of Woodbridge creek, and of and over all the waters of Raritan Bay lying westward of a line drawn from the light-house at Prince's bay to the mouth of Mattavan creek; subject to the following rights of property and of jurisdiction of the state of New York; that is to say: 1.
Page xxv - Jersey, which now exist, or which may hereafter be passed. 3. The State of N.ew York shall have the exclusive right of regulating the fisheries between the shore of Staten island and the middle of the said waters, provided that the navigation of the said waters be not obstructed or hindered.
Page xciv - ... the high and mighty lords, the states general of the United Netherlands...