Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volume 41F. Hunt, 1859 - Commerce |
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... fact , the bank debt is merely a portion of the general debt of the community , organized into cur- rency , one - half fiction as to value , and circulating with the $ 4,000,000,000 -part and parcel of the same thing , the element of ...
... fact , the bank debt is merely a portion of the general debt of the community , organized into cur- rency , one - half fiction as to value , and circulating with the $ 4,000,000,000 -part and parcel of the same thing , the element of ...
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... fact . But unhappily it is not usually the issuer who gets cornered ; it is the honest He is remote from the man who ... facts of the case , and the abomination will be abated speedily , without injury to anybody , even . to the banks ...
... fact . But unhappily it is not usually the issuer who gets cornered ; it is the honest He is remote from the man who ... facts of the case , and the abomination will be abated speedily , without injury to anybody , even . to the banks ...
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... fact and the fiction ; they imagine that they make money out of promises to pay money that was never created , and cannot be made to comprehend that the money flies before the fiction as men flee from a pestilence . Nearly all the ...
... fact and the fiction ; they imagine that they make money out of promises to pay money that was never created , and cannot be made to comprehend that the money flies before the fiction as men flee from a pestilence . Nearly all the ...
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... fact , this lake is only 122 feet above low - water mark on the Atlantic , and the levels reported by M. Belly lead us to the belief that , on the line from the lake to the Bay of Salinas , a summit level has been found , only 132 feet ...
... fact , this lake is only 122 feet above low - water mark on the Atlantic , and the levels reported by M. Belly lead us to the belief that , on the line from the lake to the Bay of Salinas , a summit level has been found , only 132 feet ...
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... fact that it can be brought out at the excellent harbor of Realgo . The summit level between the lake and Realgo is only about fifty - six feet above the lake , twenty - six feet being added for the depth of the canal , the maximum ...
... fact that it can be brought out at the excellent harbor of Realgo . The summit level between the lake and Realgo is only about fifty - six feet above the lake , twenty - six feet being added for the depth of the canal , the maximum ...
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Page 362 - The liability of the owner of any vessel for any embezzlement, loss or destruction by any person of any property, goods or merchandise, shipped or put on board of such vessel, or for any loss, damage or injury by collision, or for any act, matter or thing, loss, damage or forfeiture, done, occasioned or incurred, without the privity or knowledge of such owner or owners, shall in no case exceed the amount or value of the interest of such owner in such vessel and her freight then pending.
Page 111 - Convention to be made public, to the end that the same and every clause and article thereof may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington, this...
Page 281 - ... the middle breadth, and multiply the whole sum by one-third of the common interval between the breadths, the product will give the mean horizontal area of...
Page 111 - ... on such nonenumerated article the same rate of duty as is chargeable on the article which it resembles paying the highest...
Page 362 - Where any damage or loss is caused to any goods, merchandise, or other things whatsoever on board the ship; (c) Where any loss of life or personal injury is caused to any person carried in any other vessel...
Page 407 - ... generally let this be a rule, that all partitions of knowledges be accepted rather for lines and veins, than for sections and separations; and that the continuance and entireness of knowledge be preserved.
Page 745 - Goods, wares, and merchandise, the growth, produce, or manufacture of the United States, exported to a foreign country, and brought back to the United States...
Page 279 - ... area (except the first and last) by two ; add these products together, and to the sum add the first and last if they yield anything; multiply the quantity thus obtained by one-third of the common interval between the areas, and the product will be the cubical contents of the space under the tonnage deck...
Page 279 - Third of the Round of the Beam ; divide the Length so taken into the Number of equal Parts required by the following Table, according to the Class in such Table to which the Ship belongs : TABLE.
Page 281 - ... points of division, and also at the upper and lower points of the depth extending each measurement to the average thickness of that part of the ceiling which is between the points of measurement...