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..... about $10,000. see table reproduced in house hearings on h.res. 290 and h.r. 7372, 76th cong., 3d sess. (1939) pt. i, p. 350. [ footnote 6 ] section 2(1) of the act, 15 u.s.c. 77b(1), provides: "the term 'security' means any note, stock, treasury stock, bond, debenture, evidence of indebtedness, certificate of interest or participation in any ..... that joiner got 3,002 of the acres, leaving anthony about 1,700 acres for his trouble. and it was his undertaking to drill the well which enabled joiner to finance it by the sale of acreage. by selling from 1,000 to 2,000 acres at from $5 to $15 per acre, he could fulfill his obligation to drill the ..... acquired 3,002 of these acres for "practically nothing except to drill a well." anthony was a driller, and agreed to do the drilling, which the joiner company undertook to finance, expecting to raise most of the funds for this purpose from the resale of small parcels of acreage. the sales campaign was by mail, addressed to upwards of 1,000 .....
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..... the district court, but is confined instead to the procedures set out in subsections (b) and (c) of 360 of the immigration and nationality act of 1952. section 360 establishes procedures for determining claims to american citizenship by those within and without the country. subsection (a) covers claimants "within the united states," ..... their citizenship claims. but this conclusion also will hardly stand up when the full text of the judiciary committee report, especially the clause "the bill modifies section 503 of the nationality act of 1940 by limiting the court action exclusively to persons who are within the united states . . . ," is read ( supra, p. 369 u ..... proposed mccarran bill "withdraws from all persons abroad the right to obtain the judicial review of their claims of citizenship which is granted to them by section 503 of the nationality act of 1940." joint hearings, p. 710. the representative of the department of justice described matters in the same vein. joint hearings, p. 720 .....
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..... conduct. among these was title viii, which appears under the heading "syndicated gambling." section 1955, included in title viii, prohibits participation in an "illegal gambling business," which is defined as one involving at least five persons who "conduct, finance, manage, supervise, direct, or own all or part of" the enterprise. congress ..... conspiring to violate (18 u.s.c. 371), and with violating, 18 u.s.c. 1955, a provision of the organized crime control act of 1970 (act) aimed at large-scale gambling activities; and each petitioner was convicted and sentenced under both counts. the court of appeals affirmed, finding that prosecution and ..... prohibitions, and by providing enhanced sanctions and new remedies to deal with the unlawful activities of those engaged in organized crime." the content of the act reflects the dedication with which the legislature pursued this purpose. in addition to enacting provisions to facilitate the discovery and proof of organized criminal activities, .....
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..... kennedy included la raza unida v. volpe, 57 f.r.d. 94 (nd cal.1972), in which plaintiffs demonstrated violations of "the department of transportation act of 1966 and various sections of 23 u.s.c. dealing with housing displacement and relocation." id. at 95. [ footnote 10 ] the committee reports are in accord. the senate ..... footnote 5 ] petitioners' arguments amount to the claim that, had congress been more careful, and had it fully thought out the relationship among the various sections, [ footnote 6 ] it might have acted differently. that argument, however, can best be addressed to congress, which, it is important to note, has remained quiet in the face of our ..... considered or intended the consequences of the court's interpretation of 1983. [ footnote 2/15 ] section 1983 was passed for the express purpose of "enforc[ing] the provisions of the fourteenth amendment." act of apr. 20, 1871, 17 stat. 13; see lynch v. household finance corp., 405 u. s. 538 , 405 u. s. 545 (1972); monroe v. .....
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..... such as this one, a federal court has the power to redistrict only because private parties have alleged a violation of the constitution or the voting rights act. sections 2a(c) and 2c do not create independently enforceable private rights of action themselves. rather, both these provisions address the remedy that a federal court ..... (c) would have been expressly repealed by the following language, present in all but the final version of h. r. 2508: "that section 22 of the act of june 18, 1929, entitled 'an act to provide for the fifteenth and subsequent decennial censuses and to provide for apportionment of representatives' (46 stat. 26), as amended, is amended ..... in any subsequent congress thereafter to more than one representative under an apportionment made pursuant to the provisions of subsection (a) of section 22 of the act of june 18, 1929, entitled 'an act to provide for apportionment of representatives' (46 stat. 26), as amended, there shall be established by law a number of districts .....
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..... sufficient to convey or release any right of dower, &c.;, but be as effectual for every other purpose as if she were an unmarried woman." the 1st section of this act authorizes clerks of the county courts, general court, and court of appeals to take, in their offices, the acknowledgment or proof of the execution of deeds and ..... shall never hereafter be questioned," &c.; this law was adopted by kentucky at her separation from virginia, and is understood never to have been repealed. the 4th section of the kentucky statute of 1796, see 1 litt.laws 569, provides for the privy examination and acknowledgment of femes covert in open court, and where they cannot ..... , ch. 1st, after making provisions to enable femes coverts to convey their estates by deed, upon acknowledgment and privy examination, according to prescribed forms, in the 7th section, u.s. has these words: "whereas it has always been adjudged that where any deed has been acknowledged by a feme covert and no record made of her .....
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..... and page 83 u. s. 39 every violation, the same to be recoverable, with costs of suit, before any court of competent jurisdiction." the second section of the act created one sauger and sixteen other person named, a corporation, with the usual privileges of a corporation, and including power to appoint officers and fix their ..... has a profound significance and consequence. what, then, are the privileges and immunities which are secured against abridgment by state legislation? in the first section of the civil rights act, congress has given its interpretation to these terms, or at least has stated some of the rights which, in its judgment, these terms include; ..... and exclusive privilege of conducting and carrying on the livestock, landing, and slaughterhouse business within the limits and privileges granted by the provisions of the act." and in the fourth section, the language is that, after the first of june, 1869, the company shall have "the exclusive privilege of having landed at their landing .....
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..... all cases where the trip is not performed, and not exceeding three times the price if the failure be caused by the fault of the contractor or carrier. section 5 of the act of 1879 applies only to railroad companies, and has special reference to failures of delivery within schedule time, and makes a difference between them and failures to ..... and st. paul railway company v. united states no. 238 argued april 19, 1888 decided may 14, 1888 127 u.s. 406 appeal from the court of claims syllabus section 5 of the act of march 3, 1879, 20 stat. c. 180, 355, 358, did not operate to repeal 3962 rev.stat., and when it was itself repealed by the ..... 1883, during which period the alleged failures in the mail transportation occurred. there is a brief and conclusive answer to this contention. section 3962 of the revised statutes is not repealed by 5 of the act of 1879. section 3962 authorizes a deduction from the pay of contractors, whether they be natural persons or corporations, the price of the trip in .....
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..... be considered as an element in the price to the consumer, or if added, that it or any part thereof will be refunded." [ footnote 4 ] section 13 of the federal farm loan act, 39 stat. 360, 372, gives federal land banks the power "to acquire and dispose of . . . parcels of land acquired in satisfaction of debts ..... (pamph.) when congress moved to avoid the effect of our decision in baltimore national bank v. state tax commission, 297 u. s. 209 , that the reconstruction finance corporation was taxable on its national bank shares, the committee reports explain that 10 "was intended to give as wide immunity as possible to the functions and activities of ..... . 6851-6854, 6961-6970, 7245-7247, 7305-7318, 7372-7378. [ footnote 7 ] most enlightening is the recent amendment (act of june 10, 1941, c. 190, 55 stat. 248) to 10 of the reconstruction finance corporation act (47 stat. 5, 9), which declares that exemption includes sales taxes. the committee reports make it clear that congress sought only to .....
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..... justice stone delivered the opinion of the court. this case was brought in the state courts of alabama for a declaratory judgment adjudicating the constitutional validity of certain sections of the bradford act, no. 298, alabama laws of 1943, p. 252 (code 1940, tit. 26 376 et seq.). the principal question is whether petitioners' contentions are so ..... 306 , and cases cited. it is said that, in order to comply with the statute, it would be necessary for each union, regardless of its size and finances, to hire public accountants or others with specialized knowledge of accounting practices and procedure, such as working men do not have, and that such a requirement is beyond constitutional ..... the construction of 7 and 16, and uncertainty as to the facts to which they are to be applied, preclude an adjudication upon this record that these sections conflict with the national labor relations act. pp. 325 u. s. 464 , 325 u. s. 467 . (a) as none of the petitioners are shown to function as bargaining .....
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