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..... without discrimination against them on account of their race, to enjoy all the privileges that inhere in freedom. it went further, however, and, by its second section, invested congress with power, by appropriate legislation, to enforce its provisions. to that end, by direct, primary legislation, congress may not only prevent the reestablishing of ..... legislation, so far as necessary or proper to eradicate all forms and incidents of slavery and involuntary servitude, may be direct and primary, operating upon the acts of individuals, whether sanctioned by state legislation or not; under the fourteenth, as we have already shown, it must necessarily be and can only be corrective ..... states and their laws, and that its provisions could not be made applicable to individuals whose illegal conduct was not authorized, permitted, or sanctioned by some act, resolution, order, regulation, or usage of the state. that argument was rejected by every member of this court, and we all agreed that congress had .....
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..... the port of arrival to be clearly and beyond a doubt entitled to land shall be detained for examination in relation thereto by a board of special inquiry." the following section, 25, directs the appointment of such boards as shall be necessary for the prompt determination of cases of aliens detained, to consist of three members, to be selected from ..... stat. 566, ( see also act of march 3, 1891, c. 551, 11), which obviously was to give a chance for ..... his action to a very narrow scope, since the act provides for such a board in every case where the alien does not appear to the inspector "to be clearly and beyond a doubt entitled to land." section 24, quoted above. again, it would defeat in great measure the policy of the original act of october 19, 1888, c. 1210, 1, 25 .....
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..... the death, and not thereafter." by 21, article iii, of the constitution of the state of pennsylvania of 1874, it is provided as follows, to-wit: "sec. 21. no act of the general assembly shall limit the amount to be recovered for injuries resulting in death, or for injuries to person or property, and in case of death ..... , or, if there be no widow, the personal representatives, may maintain an action for and recover damages for the death thus occasioned." sections 1 and 2 of the act of april 26, 1855, are as follows: "sec. 1. the persons entitled to recover damages for any injury causing death shall be the husband, widow, children, or parents of the ..... plaintiff has been refused any right which the constitution of the united states confers upon her, and accordingly the judgment is affirmed. * sections 18 and 19 of the act of april 15, 1851, are as follows: "sec. 18. no action hereafter brought to recover damages for injuries to the person by negligence or default shall abate by reason of the .....
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..... . the appellant, opposing the contention, insists that the treaty of brussels has superseded 4887, and has freed the cameron patent from subjection to the provisions of that section. it is the effect of the contention that, though the patent was issued for a definite term, as decided by the cited cases, the term was enlarged ..... article 4 bis is definitely adopted with this condition." it is, however, urged that the delegate from great britain said that he "could only take the indicated act of interpretation as a declaration of the american delegation, and not as a decision of the conference." the proceedings, however, show that the conference adopted the whole ..... , and to assign to that article a more distinct and definite power of execution than the other provisions possess. to account thereby for this omission from the act of 1903, it is urged that those provisions concern matters of administrative law which might be or thought to be in conflict with statutory provisions, whereas article .....
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..... any such shipper." not only is there then a specific duty imposed to furnish cars for interstate traffic upon reasonable request therefor, but other applicable section of the act to regulate commerce give remedies for the violation of that duty. thus, by 8 it is provided "that, in case any common carrier subject ..... to it of fourteen freight cars, pursuant to eight applications made for such cars between september 19, 1907, and october 22, 1907, the first section of the act in question had been violated, the hardwick farmers elevator company, defendant in error here, commenced this action in a district court of minnesota to recover ..... transit, ventilation, refrigeration or icing, storage, and handling of property transported, and it shall be the duty of every carrier subject to the provisions of this act to provide and furnish such transportation upon reasonable request therefor, and to establish through routes and just and reasonable rates applicable thereto." the purpose of congress to .....
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..... of the united states, in arizona, and to provide penalties and punishment for the violation thereof," "be it enacted by the people of the state of arizona:" "section 1. any company, corporation, partnership, association or individual who is, or may hereafter become an employer of more than five (5) workers at any one time, ..... 80) percent qualified electors or native-born citizens of the united states or some subdivision thereof." "sec. 2. any company, corporation, partnership, association or individual, their agent or agents, found guilty of violating any of the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be subject to a fine ..... of not less than one hundred ($100.00) dollars, and imprisoned for not less than thirty (30) days." "sec. 3. any employee who shall misrepresent, or make false .....
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..... 22, and the supreme court of iowa in cook v. union pacific ry. co., 158 n.w. 521, while arriving at their conclusions by somewhat different analyses of the sections of the act of april 14, 1910, have given to them precisely the meaning and effect which we are giving to them in this decision. it results that the judgment of the ..... in effect at the time the accident to the plaintiff occurred on the night of march 15th, 1913; but they page 242 u. s. 464 claim that this section of the act was not in effect at that time, because it had been suspended until july 1st, 1916, by an order of the interstate commerce commission, issued on march 13, 1911 ..... v. williams no. 637 argued december 6, 1916 decided january 8, 1917 242 u.s. 462 error to the supreme court of the state of mississippi syllabus section 2 of the supplementary safety appliance act of april 14, 1910. c. 160, 36 stat. 298, requiring interstate railway carriers to equip their cars with secure runningboards, ladders, and hand-holds or grab .....
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..... said daily or weekly newspaper, or the collected news of said newspaper association, exceeding one hundred words." "sec. 2. that, for any infringement of the copyright granted by the first section of this act, the party injured may sue in any court of competent jurisdiction and recover in any proper action the damages ..... whether, in words or by photographs not involving artistic skill, are denied such protection. [ footnote 6 ] (2) at common law, as under the copyright acts, the element in intellectual productions which secures such protection is not the knowledge, truths, ideas, or emotions which the composition expresses, but the form or sequence ..... of the large number of dispatches that are sent daily, and, according to complainant's contention, news is not within the operation of the copyright act. defendant, while apparently conceding this, nevertheless invokes the analogies of the law of literary property and copyright, insisting as its principal contention that, assuming complainant .....
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..... and annul patents hereafter issued shall only be brought within six years after the date of the issuance of such patents, and the limitation of section eight of chapter five hundred and sixty-one of the acts of the second session of the fifty-first congress and amendments thereto [ footnote 1 ] is extended accordingly as to the patents herein referred ..... in the debate is easily identified from public sources of information. page 247 u. s. 319 by act of july 2 1864, c. 216, 19, 13 stat. 356, 364, the burlington & missouri river railroad company was granted ten alternate sections per mile on each side of its road in that state. owing to the failure of the land ..... the sole matter presented for decision upon this appeal. page 247 u. s. 313 the act is entitled "an act to provide for the extension of he time within which suits may be brought to vacate and annul and patents, and for other purposes," and its first section reads as follows: " be it enacted . . . that suits by the united states .....
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..... the post office regulations contemplate contracts for and not exceeding four years. the rate thus fixed was paid for two years, but, on september 12, 1907, in pursuance of an act of congress of march 2, 1907, c. 2513, 34 stat. 1205, 1212, authorizing the postmaster general to readjust the compensation to be paid after july 1 of that year, and ..... rate at which the service was rendered while it was rendered. the united states was free to adopt the reservation in its favor, and it did adopt it by the act of 1907. as the case stands, the railroad was free, as in the eastern railroad case, to decline to carry at the new rates, but could not insist upon the ..... old ones after notice that they had been revised. it is argued that the act of 1907 could not be put into effect without a reweighing. the act directs the postmaster general to readjust the compensation to be paid from and after the first day of july, 1907, for the transportation of .....
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