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..... settling the accounts of the principal defendant unless the same had been previously approved by the secretary of the treasury under the second proviso in the twenty-fifth section of the act prescribing the compensation to be allowed to the collectors of internal revenue. 13 stat. 232. authority is there given to the secretary of the treasury to make ..... and must be proved to be just and legal before it can be allowed. equitable claims for credit, if falling within the latter clause of the fourth section of that act, may be admitted at the trial of such a suit though never presented to and disallowed at the treasury, but the presentation of such a claim will ..... (1875) hall v. united states 91 u.s. 559 error to the circuit court of the united states for the district of minnesota syllabus 1. the twenty-fifth section of the act of june 30, 1864, 13 stat. 231, authorizes the secretary of the treasury to make, in his discretion, just and reasonable allowances to collectors of internal revenue .....
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..... forth in the bill of complaint was known to and approved by the stockholders as well as the directors, and by the executive committee and the committee of finance and investment. deposits undoubtedly may be made with a banker under circumstances where the legal conclusion would be that the title to the fund deposited remained in the ..... accruing in different rights, except under very special circumstances, and where the proofs are clear and the equity is very strong. 2 story's eq., 6th ed., sec. 1437. equity regards the capital stock and property of a corporation as held in trust for the payment of the debts of the corporation, and recognizes the right ..... obligatory, but the fact that the depositary agreed to pay interest affords very strong evidence that the title to the money deposited passed out of the depositor by the act of making the deposit. money deposited with a banker, says hill, creates a legal debt between the parties, which, under proper circumstances, may be recovered in an .....
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..... his complying with that prerequisite. argument to show that such allegations are insufficient to constitute the offense defined in the second section of the enforcement act or any other section of that act is quite unnecessary, as it appears in the very terms of the allegations that the party offering his vote was not, ..... the citizen to vote on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. every discrimination on that account is forbidden by the fifteenth amendment, and the first section of the act under consideration provides, as before remarked, that "all citizens, otherwise qualified to vote, . . . shall be entitled and allowed to vote, . . . ..... other officers of elections, must take notice of these provisions, as they constitute the most essential element or ingredient of the offense defined by the third section of the act. officers of the elections, whether judges or inspectors, are required to carry those regulations into full effect, and the provision is, that any judge .....
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..... v. frisbie, 25 mich. 476, and others, but we think that the former cases are founded on the better reason. the assignee, by the fourteenth section of the bankrupt act, rev.stat. sec. 5046, becomes invested with all the bankrupt's rights of action for property and actions arising from contract or the unlawful taking or detention of or injury to ..... subsequently affirmed both by the general term of the supreme court and by the court of appeals. this judgment is brought here by writ of error under the second section of the act of feb. 5, 1867, 14 stat. 385. page 93 u. s. 133 mr. justice bradley delivered the opinion of the court. the point principally relied on ..... of kings, by julius houseman, as page 93 u. s. 131 assignee in bankruptcy of comstock and young, against horace b. claflin, under the thirty-fifth section of the bankrupt act to recover the sum of $1,935.57, with interest, being the amount collected by claflin on a judgment against the bankrupts, recovered within four months before the .....
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..... in the distribution of any moneys that may remain in the treasury of the centennial board of finance after the payment of its debts, as provided for by the tenth section of the act of congress approved june 1, 1872, incorporating the centennial board of finance, the appropriation hereinbefore made shall be paid in full into the treasury of the united states ..... of the united states for the eastern district of pennsylvania syllabus in the distribution of the moneys remaining in the treasury of the centennial board of finance at the close of that corporation, as provided for in sec. 10 of the act of congress of june 1, 1872, 17 stat. 203, the appropriation of $1,500,000, made by the ..... the distribution of the moneys remaining in the treasury of the centennial board of finance at the close of the affairs of that corporation, as provided for in sec. 10 of the act of june 1, 1872, the appropriation of $1,500,000 made by congress in the act of feb. 16, 1876, must be paid into the treasury of the .....
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..... according to the views expressed by this court in insurance company v. wilkinson, 13 wall. 222, and other more recent cases, the defendant was concluded by the act of its agent. the reference to collateral insurances in other companies is subject to the same consideration. the insurances were being applied for through this very agent who ..... their bearing and legal effect, eames relying entirely on his experience in such matters. there is no reason to suppose that either eames or beach did not act in entire good faith in the transaction. and indeed it cannot be pretended that the facts were not substantially as represented in the application. the complainants are ..... the appellees' counsel suppose. it is a form of expression often used in common speech in this country to indicate an affirmative statement. i was so understood and acted on by mr. beach. it is equivalent to saying, "we will take the insurance at that rate." and ducat evidently understood the negotiation as closed, because he .....
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..... said acts shall continue in full force for levying and collecting all taxes properly assessed or liable to be ..... should be entitled to its possession. we find, therefore, as perfecting the plan, that sec. 137 prescribes that period as the time when the duty is to be paid. "sec. 137. and be it further enacted that the duty imposed by this act shall be paid at the time when the successor, or any person in his right or ..... the statute of july 14, 1870, repealed the taxes imposed by the act of 1864 on legacies page 94 u. s. 590 and successions after the first day of august, 1870. 16 stat. 261, sec. 17. the repealing act contained the following proviso: "and all acts and parts of acts relating to the taxes herein repealed, and [that] all the provisions of .....
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..... the port and harbormasters of the port of new york, passed may 22, 1862, three fifths being present; amended april 17, 1865." the sixth section declares: "the following fees shall be collected under this act, and no others: all ships or vessels of the united states of one hundred tons burden or more, except lighters, tugs, barges and canal ..... of new york, passed may 22, 1862, three-fifths being present. amended april 27, 1865." that section is as follows: "the following fees shall be collected under this act, and no others: all ships or vessels of the united states of one hundred tons burden or more, except lighters, tugs, barges, ..... one-half percent per ton, to be computed from the registered tonnage of certain vessels entering that port, pursuant to sec. 6, c. 487, of the acts of the legislature of the state of new york, entitled "an act defining and regulating the powers, duties, and compensation of the captain of the port and harbor-masters of the port .....
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..... of the pledgeor, such a right is presumable from the nature of the transaction. certainly the bankrupt act has taken away no right from a pledgee secured to him by his contract. in regard to the bonds covered by the mccarter mortgage, which is the one ..... by absolute right. the position that the pledgees could not sell the pledge after the adjudication in bankruptcy is quite untenable. it is sustained by nothing in the bankrupt act. the bonds were negotiable instruments. they passed by delivery, and even were there no expressed stipulation in the contracts of pledge, that the pledgee might sell on default ..... not only for the benefit of the lien creditors, but also for the benefit of the company whose possession the court had displaced. under the provisions of the acts of congress granting the lands covered by the mortgages, the lands reverted to the united states unless the ship canal should be finished within a fixed period, and .....
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..... and land, and all improvements thereon, from all and every inundation which could possibly affect or injure said city or the improvements therein, was authorized by the first section of the act incorporating the cairo city & canal company, approved march 4, 1837; and the mode of procuring a release of damages occasioned by such building of dikes, levees, ..... the plaintiff is based on a claim and color of title to, and seven successive years' possession and payment of taxes upon, the said one-sixth, under sec. 1. of the act of the legislature of march 2, 1839, which is as follows: "every person in the actual possession of lands or tenements, under claim and color of ..... the plaintiff is therefore entitled to recover unless the defendants bring themselves page 93 u. s. 51 within the provisions of the first section of the act of the legislature of march 2, 1839. by that section, although a paper title may be defective and fail to divert the title, yet if the purchaser bought the land in good .....
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