Cyclopedia of American Government, Volume 2Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin, Albert Bushnell Hart D. Appleton, 1914 - United States |
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... enacted fishing - regulations for Hudson Bay . The effect would be to make these waters closed seas . In 1910 , Russia seized the British trawler Onward Ho ! for fish- ing in the White Sea between three and twelve miles from the shore ...
... enacted fishing - regulations for Hudson Bay . The effect would be to make these waters closed seas . In 1910 , Russia seized the British trawler Onward Ho ! for fish- ing in the White Sea between three and twelve miles from the shore ...
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... enact adequate and uniform legislation . Jurisdiction over such waters for the pur- pose of regulating the fisheries was ... enacted up to the year 1914 . are flourishing , and under existing condi- tions of administration the fishery ...
... enact adequate and uniform legislation . Jurisdiction over such waters for the pur- pose of regulating the fisheries was ... enacted up to the year 1914 . are flourishing , and under existing condi- tions of administration the fishery ...
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... enacted a number of laws . A new constitutional convention met in No- vember , 1785 , adopted a permanent constitu- tion , which was practically that of North Car- From 1757 to 1762 he was in England , as olina , and adopted the name of ...
... enacted a number of laws . A new constitutional convention met in No- vember , 1785 , adopted a permanent constitu- tion , which was practically that of North Car- From 1757 to 1762 he was in England , as olina , and adopted the name of ...
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... enacted in 12 states edly save to the American people millions of and is likely to make further progress . dollars annually . The department's former See INSURANCE AND SOCIAL WELFARE ; ORDERS , practice of issuing fraud orders in such ...
... enacted in 12 states edly save to the American people millions of and is likely to make further progress . dollars annually . The department's former See INSURANCE AND SOCIAL WELFARE ; ORDERS , practice of issuing fraud orders in such ...
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... enacted by the several states with so little uniformity that Congress was asked ( 1912 ) to protect migratory birds of economic value to agriculture by a federal law . By 1800 fourteen states had fixed close seasons for many animals ...
... enacted by the several states with so little uniformity that Congress was asked ( 1912 ) to protect migratory birds of economic value to agriculture by a federal law . By 1800 fourteen states had fixed close seasons for many animals ...
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Page 218 - Government as resulting from the compact to which the states are parties, as limited by the plain sense and intention of the instrument constituting that compact; as no further valid than they are authorized by the grants enumerated in that compact; and that, in case of a deliberate, palpable, and dangerous exercise of other powers not granted by the said compact, the states, who are parties thereto, have the right and are in duty bound to interpose for arresting the progress of the evil, and for...
Page 59 - It matters not what way the Supreme Court may hereafter decide as to the abstract question whether slavery may or may not go into a Territory under the Constitution, the people have the lawful means to introduce it or exclude it as they please, for the reason that slavery cannot exist a day or an hour anywhere, unless it is supported by local police regulations.
Page 483 - It is a general and undisputed proposition of law that a municipal corporation possesses and can exercise the following powers and no others: First, those granted in express words; second, those necessarily or fairly implied in or incident to the powers expressly granted; third, those essential to the declared objects and purposes of the corporation — not simply convenient but indispensable.
Page 61 - Up to and including 1880 the country had a frontier of settlement, but at present the unsettled area has been so broken into by isolated bodies of settlement that there can hardly be said to be a frontier line.
Page 208 - ... of its courts any of its territorial jurisdiction over the person of any sovereign or ambassador of any other state, or over the public property of any state which is destined to public use, or over the property of any ambassador, though such sovereign, ambassador, or property be within its territory, and, therefore, but for the common agreement, subject to its jurisdiction.
Page 153 - British Cruisers have been in the continued practice of violating the American flag on the great highway of nations and of seizing and carrying off persons sailing under it, not in the exercise of a belligerent right founded on the law of nations against an enemy, but of a municipal prerogative over British subjects.
Page 241 - That whenever, by priority of possession, rights to the use of water for mining, agricultural, manufacturing, or other purposes, have vested and accrued, and the same are recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and the de'cisions of courts, the possessors and owners of such vested rights shall be maintained and protected in the same...
Page 228 - Columbia, or to any foreign country, any article or commodity, other than timber and the manufactured products thereof, manufactured, mined, or produced by it, or under its authority, or which it may own in whole, or in part, or in which it may have any interest direct or indirect except such articles or commodities as may be necessary and intended for its use in the conduct of its business as a common carrier.
Page 204 - And all merchant and trading vessels employed in exchanging the products of different places, and thereby rendering the necessaries, conveniences and comforts of human life more easy to be obtained, and more general, shall be allowed to pass free and unmolested, and neither of the contracting powers shall grant or issue any commission to any private armed vessels empowering them to take or destroy such trading vessels, or interrupt such commerce.
Page 173 - Still one thing more, fellow citizens — a wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.