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..... to account in page 40 u. s. 8 the courts of the state from which he derived his original letters of administration. indeed, the very silence of the act as to any liability of the personal representative to be sued in the courts of the district for such assets so received would seem equivalent to a declaration that he ..... in the district of columbia. that act provides that it shall be lawful for any person to whom letters testamentary or of administration have been or may hereafter be granted by the proper authority in any ..... been, and should have been, sought there in the same manner as of any other debts due to the intestate in kentucky. it has also been supposed that the act of congress of 24 june 1812 may well entitle the appellants to maintain the present suit, since it places a foreign administrator upon the footing of a domestic administrator .....
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..... north boundary street, in front of the said city, be and the same are hereby vested in the mayor and aldermen of the said city," &c.; the second section of the act declared "that all the right and claim of the united states to so many of the lots east of water street, and between church street and north boundary street ..... illinois. that court gave judgment for the plaintiff. then the united states, in the name of wilcox, prosecuted a writ of error to this court under the 25th section of the judiciary act. we examined the cause precisely as the supreme court of illinois had done -- that is, on the entire record presented by the special verdict. on what ground the ..... limits. the decision of the state court was against the right claimed on the part of the plaintiffs. first. the defendant set up a claim under the second section of the same act because he had improved the premises before 1824, and when he was an alienee from the proprietors of the front lots west of water street. second. he .....
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..... to the distribution of its powers is somewhat peculiar, but it is not substantially different from the constitutional provisions of some of the other states. the third section of the virginia constitution declares that "the legislative, executive and judiciary departments shall be separated and distinct, so that neither exercise the powers properly belonging to ..... which are legislative to one; those which are executive to another; and those which are judicial to another." and the second page 41 u. s. 60 section declares that "no person or collection of persons, being of one of those departments, shall exercise any power properly belonging to either of the others except in ..... to brown by sarah holman and her attorneys in fact, 24 april 1824. this act of the legislature, it is contended, is in violation of the constitution of alabama, and, with the proceeding under it, is consequently void. the first section of the second article of the constitution declares that "the powers of the government .....
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..... how stands this objection? dickins, formerly a clerk in the treasury department, states it to be a fact "within his recollection that soon after the passing of the act of january 31, 1823, concerning the disbursement of the public money, the secretary of the treasury was specially authorized and directed in writing by the president of the ..... of his office as to render his sureties responsible for these latter sums. under the first of these inquiries, it is contended for plaintiff in error that the act of congress of january 31, 1823, expressly prohibits the advancing of public money in any case whatsoever except under the special direction of the president to the ..... with your request, i now state, as i mentioned to you verbally some time ago, that it is within my recollection that soon after the passing of the 'act [of 31 january, 1823] concerning the disbursement of public money,' the secretary of the treasury was specially authorized and directed in writing by the president of the united .....
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..... has never been construed by the local courts. and the same may be said of other and prior statutes of maryland, containing similar provisions. the first section of the act provides "that upon all bills of exchange hereafter drawn in this state, on any person, corporation, company, or society, in any foreign country, and ..... sanctioned the financial dispositions which are therein embraced. therefore the treaty concluded with the united states, not being yet sanctioned by the legislature, the minister of finance cannot at present make any payment to avail upon the obligations contracted by the said treaty." the notary further states that immediately after the protest messrs. hottinguer ..... cashier of the central money chest of the public treasury was "that having had the orders of the minister, secretary of state for the department of finance, he was instructed to say that diplomatic treaties, which impose engagements on the french treasury to be discharged, do not become obligatory upon it until .....
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..... report is referred to. it is insisted this court has no jurisdiction to look into the plaintiff's concession of 1800 or to pass on it under the 25th section of the judiciary act, and the case in 9 pet. 244 of new orleans v. de armis is referred to as settling the question [argument of counsel -- omitted]. if the ..... lots, and commons, in, adjoining, and belonging to the said towns or villages, confirmed to them respectively by the first section of the act of congress, entitled . . . , passed on 13 june, 1812." on 9 july, 1832, congress passed "an act for the final adjustment of private land claims in missouri," which authorized commissioners to examine all the unconfirmed claims to land ..... ) chouteau v. eckhart 43 u.s. (2 how.) 344 error to the supreme court of the state of missouri syllabus this court has jurisdiction under the twenty-fifth section of the judiciary act in a missouri land cause, where the title is not to be determined by spanish laws alone, but where the construction of an .....
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..... the present purpose, because it imports a full recognition of the validity of the devise for the erection of the college, is the provision of the 11th section of the same act, which declares "that no road or street shall be laid out, or passed through the land in the county of philadelphia, bequeathed by the late stephen ..... execute, in all other respects, the trusts created by his will," as to which, the testator had desired the legislature to pass the necessary laws. the tenth section of the same act, provides "that is shall be lawful for the mayor, aldermen, and citizens of philadelphia, to exercise all such jurisdiction, enact all such ordinances, and to do ..... stephen girard, for the carrying of which into effect he has in his said will requested legislative provision, and it is the object and intent of this act fully to confer all such powers." "sec. 10. be it further &c.;, that it shall be lawful for the mayor, aldermen, and citizens of philadelphia, to exercise all such jurisdiction, .....
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..... for their franchise, without and stipulation by the state that were not to be taxed as stockholders, on account of their stock, as was the case in the eleventh section of the act of 1821. the franchise is their corporate property, which, like any other property, would be taxable, if a price had not been paid for it, which the legislature ..... contending, that the shareholders in the old banks were exempted from the tax imposed upon them on account of their stock, except by the force of the 11th section of the act of 1821. their argument was, though the franchise might be taxed separate from the stock of a bank, whether the annual tax paid by the banks upon their ..... some new provisions into the charter, required the payment of the school tax and a proportionate share of $75,000, but contained no stipulation like that of the 11th section of the act of 1821. at the session of december, 1835, the farmers' and planters' bank was incorporated. it was required to pay a bonus and school tax, but the .....
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..... lines north and south and east and west, and to extend the subdivisions authorized by law as far as practicable in square figures to the lowest denomination. the second section of the act of 18 of may, 1796, chap. 29, directs that the public lands "shall be divided by north and south lines, run according to the true meridian, and ..... instructions of the secretary of the treasury thereon, referred to in the above instruction of the court, depends the whole controversy between the parties to this suit. the 1st section of the act of congress, above referred to, is in these words: "that from and after page 44 u. s. 663 the first day of july next, all the ..... at st. stephens: " "you will please to take notice that i, james etheridge, of mobile county, alabama, claim the right of preemption, under the act of congress of 29 may, 1830, to the southwest quarter-section 22, t. 4, r. 1 west." " affidavit. -- james etheridge, being sworn, maketh oath that the above described tract of land was planted and .....
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..... bearing on this view we refer to wood v. united states, 16 pet. 362. in that case, the court said "the question then arises whether the 66th section of the act of 1799, chap. 128, has been repealed, or whether it remains in full force. that it has not been expressly or by direct terms repealed is admitted, ..... the inference that the legislature intended no conveyance by a feme covert should be valid unless acknowledged in the form prescribed by that act? we think no such inference can be drawn. in the first section of that act, in reference to ordinary acknowledgements of conveyances, in order, when recorded, that they might operate as notice to subsequent purchasers, ..... repealed, the deed is unquestionably valid. the plaintiffs in error contend that the above statute was repealed by the act of 1785, and also of 1796. the act of 1785 is entitled "an act for regulating conveyances," in the 1st section of which it is provided, "that no estate of inheritance or freehold or for a term of more than .....
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