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..... of five hundred and sixteen grains and twenty-five and eight-tenths of a grain. the methods and machinery of coinage had been so improved before the act of 1837 was passed, that unavoidable deviations from the prescribed weight became almost inappreciable; and the most stringent regulations were enforced to secure the utmost attainable ..... grains, and in the half-dollar, quarter-dollar, dimes, and half-dimes, exactly one-half, one-quarter, one-tenth, and one-twentieth of that weight. the act of 1849 [ footnote 6 ] authorized the coinage of gold double-eagles and gold dollars conformably in all respects to the established standards, and, therefore, of the ..... circulating notes of state banks, convertible, under the laws of the states, into coin on demand. this convertibility, though far from perfect, together with the acts of congress which required the use of coin for all receipts and disbursements of the national government, insured the presence of some coin in the general circulation; but .....
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..... for alleged errors and mistakes, concerning which the officers charged with the collection and disbursement of the revenue had received no information. such a policy would be disastrous to the finances of the country, for, as there is no statute of limitations to bar these suits, it would be impossible to tell, in advance, how much money would be ..... , including the fact that they had "omitted to protest," brought suit against the united states for the overpayment, in the court of claims; a court which, by the acts of congress establishing it, has power to hear and determine "all claims founded upon any law of congress, or upon any regulation of an executive department, or upon any ..... , 74 u.s. 7 wall. 122 122 (1868) nichols v. united states 74 u.s. (7 wall.) 122 appeal from the court of claims syllabus 1. under the act of congress of february 26, 1845, relative to the recovery of duties paid under protest, a written protest, signed by the party, with a statement of the definite grounds of .....
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..... or diminished. [ footnote 12 ] well founded exceptions, however, exist to that general rule, and among the number is one created by the 85th section of the principal collection act. [ footnote 13 ] by that section it is provided that "where a ship or vessel shall be prevented by ice from getting to the port or place at which her cargo is ..... be unladen or delivered from any such ship or vessel within the united states without a permit from the collector for such unlading or delivery; and the 62d section of the same act provides "that all duties on goods, wares, and merchandise imported shall be paid or secured to be paid before a permit shall be granted for landing ..... bill of complaint should be dismissed. whereupon page 75 u. s. 115 the complainant in the chancery court sued out a writ of error, under the 25th section of the judiciary act, and removed the cause into this court. exemption from state taxation in this case is claimed by complainant upon the ground that the sales made by him .....
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..... city, should "cease and terminate," and the councils did accordingly, by resolution, direct the mayor to "issue his proclamation forthwith dissolving the different corporations superseded by the act, to take effect on the 30th instant," and in obedience thereto, the mayor, by public proclamation dated the 24th june, 1854, proclaimed that "all the powers, ..... ," and all "estates and incomes held in trust by the county, present city, and each of the townships, districts, and other municipal corporations united by this act" were "vested in the city of philadelphia upon and for the same uses, trusts, limitations, charities, and conditions as the same are now held by the said ..... to fix the whole number of policemen "for the service of the whole city." the "right, title, and interest," of the "several municipal corporations mentioned in this act of, in, and to all the lands, tenements, and hereditaments, goods, chattels, moneys, effects, and of, in, and to all other property and estate whatsoever .....
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..... and mode of operation as compared with prior machines, and those alterations also are so clearly described as to constitute a full compliance with the sixth section of the patent act. substitutes are suggested for many of the described devices, but it is not practicable to enter into those details. separate parts of the machinery, as ..... plaintiff thirty days' notice of that defense before the trial, that the patentee was not the original and first inventor of the thing patented; but the same section which authorizes such a defense provides that whenever the defendant relies in his defense on the fact of a previous invention, knowledge, or use of the thing ..... such assignee, surrendered the letters patent, and the commissioner, on the twenty-eighth of june, 1864, reissued to him the original patent, as extended under the act of congress, for the residue of the extended term. founded upon those letters patent, the bill of complaint alleged that the assignor of the complainant was the original .....
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..... department, or upon any contract, express or implied, with the government are within the jurisdiction of the court of claims, as appears by the second section of the act passed to amend the act establishing that court. [ footnote 5 ] comprehensive as that provision is, still doubts were entertained whether the claim of the appellant was not excluded from ..... the head of the state department. by the statement of the memorial itself, said mr. adams, it was questionable to the cortes and to the minister of finance whether or not the claim was included in the renunciation of the ninth article. if it was, said the secretary, the claimant will be entitled to the immunities ..... and customs of spain, and that the said vouchers were merged therein, and had been given up to and duly filed and credited in the department of finance. and the spanish government did subsequently assure the defendants that such cancelled vouchers would be given up as requested; but the same never were so produced and given .....
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..... accretions. beyond doubt, block forty-four, if it was inhabited, cultivated, and possessed prior to december 20, 1803, as claimed by the defendant, was confirmed by the first section of the act of june 13, 1812; and if it extended to the river at that time it is clear that the owners thereof were riparian owners; and if so, it is ..... survey. part of block numbered eight hundred and fifty-six, situated in the city of st. louis, is claimed by the plaintiffs in this case under the second section of that act, as appears in the description of the tract set forth in the petition, which is in the nature of an action of ejectment to recover possession page 77 u ..... the general land office and to the recorder of land titles. the expense of surveying the said out boundary lines shall be paid by the united states." the second section of the act provided that "all town lots, out-lots or common field lots included in such surveys, which were not rightfully owned or claimed by any private individuals, or held .....
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..... united states. among the persons who sought to obtain a property by preemption right in this land was one whitney, who, according to his own account, entered on a quarter-section one afternoon with his family, consisting of his wife, two children, a man and a carpenter, with his team, goods, and household furniture. he commenced building next day, and ..... of generosity, for it gave the proceeds of the sales of all the public lands to the states. the tenth section of the act provides that any person of the class therein described who shall make a settlement upon public lands of a defined character and who shall inhabit and improve the same and ..... who shall erect a dwelling thereon shall be authorized to enter with the register of the proper land office, by legal subdivisions, one quarter-section of said land, to .....
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..... issue of $150,000,000 page 75 u. s. 605 of its own notes, [ footnote 1 ] and enacted in regard to them, by one clause in the first section of the act, as follows: "and such notes, herein authorized, shall be receivable in payment of all taxes, internal duties, excises, debts, and demands of every kind due to the united ..... terms, when tendered by the maker or other party bound to pay it? and this requires, in the first place, a construction of that clause of the first section of the act of congress passed on that day, which declares the united states notes, the issue of which was authorized by the statute, to be a legal tender in payment ..... contract to convey a hundred would not come within the prohibition against arbitrary privation of property. we confess ourselves unable to perceive any solid distinction between such an act and an act compelling all citizens to accept, in satisfaction of all contracts for money, half or three-quarters or any other proportion less than the whole of the value .....
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..... certain ordinances of the common council of said city," approved march 11, 1858, and by virtue of the ordinances referred to in said act, and of the 5th section of the act of congress entitled "an act to expedite the settlement of titles to lands in the state of california," approved july 1, 1864, all the title of the united states ..... pueblo lands of the city to the parties respectively within the category of woodworth, and to those claiming under them by competent mesne conveyances. this ordinance was confirmed by an act of the legislature of the state of the 11th of march, 1858. [ footnote 10 ] this gave to woodworth, and those claiming under him, a new and after- ..... affirmed. [ footnote 1 ] a one hundred vara lot is a lot 275 feet square. [ footnote 2 ] for a more minute statement of the provisions of the van ness ordinance and act of congress, see lynch v. bernal, supra, p. 315. [ footnote 3 ] barrows v. kindred, 4 wall. 399. [ footnote 4 ] blight's lessee v. rochester, 7 wheat. 535; .....
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