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..... it produces be unreasonable. the opinion of the court concedes this to be the settled doctrine. the contract between the railway companies which the court holds to be void because it is found to violate the act of congress of the 2d of july, 1890, 26 stat. 209, substantially embodies only an agreement between the corporations ..... "trans-missouri freight association," and they agreed to be governed by the provisions contained in the articles of agreement. the memorandum of agreement entered into between the railway companies named therein stated, among other things, as follows: "for the purpose of mutual protection by establishing and maintaining reasonable rates, rules, and regulations on all freight ..... at the gulf of mexico, on the 95th meridian; thence north, to the red river; thence, via that river, to the eastern boundary line of the indian territory; thence north, by said boundary line and the eastern line of the state of kansas, to the missouri river at kansas city; thence, via the said .....
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..... and so may be the owners of moneyed capital; but, as we have seen, the shares of stock in such companies held by individuals are not moneyed capital." "the terms of the act of congress therefore include shares of stock or other interests owned by individuals in all enterprises in which the capital employed in ..... competition with the business of national banks, and is not therefore within the meaning of the act of congress; that such stocks as those in insurance companies may be legitimately taxed on income instead of on value, because such companies are not competitors for business with national banks, and that exemptions, however large, of deposits ..... or stock corporations, deriving an income or profit from their capital or otherwise, including trust companies, life insurance companies, and savings banks, were not moneyed capital in the hands of the individual citizen within the meaning of the act of congress; that if any of them are, then the corporations themselves were taxed under .....
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..... construction of any street railroad through or across the public streets of any city before the construction of the same shall be commenced." pursuant to this act, the citizens' street railway company was organized january 15, 1864, and on january 18, 1864, the common council of indianapolis passed an ordinance, the first, third, and fifteenth ..... : in 1861, page 166 u. s. 559 the general assembly of the state of indiana passed an act authorizing the incorporation of street railway companies, the second section of which act provided that the stockholders in such companies and their successors should be "a body politic and corporate in perpetuity, by the name stated in the articles ..... of no other construction. while it was doubtless intended to authorize the board of public works of the cities covered by the act to contract for the use of their streets by railway companies, there is nothing from which can be inferred a power to disturb or interfere with contracts already existing; indeed, it is .....
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..... line by virtue of his ownership of $150,000 of the par value of these equipment bonds. compton made parties to this suit all the railway companies succeeding the toledo and wabash railway company (which issued the equipment bonds) in the ownership of the property, and all the mortgagees whose mortgages were executed after the issuance of the ..... court requests the instruction of the supreme court of the united states for its proper decision, be certified to that court in accordance with section six of the act to establish circuit courts of appeals approved march 3, 1891. the said questions are:" "first. had compton the right, under the saving clause of the ..... certificate from the united states circuit court of appeals for the sixth circuit propounding questions concerning which instructions are asked, in accordance with section 6 of the act to establish circuit courts of appeals, approved march 3, 1891. the statement of facts and questions are as follows: this is an appeal from that part .....
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..... georgia, 5 pet. 1; worcester v. georgia, 6 pet. 515; choctaw nation v. united states, 119 u. s. 1 ; cherokee nation v. kansas railway company, 135 u. s. 641 . while the indians and the territory which may have been specially set apart for their use are subject to the jurisdiction of the united states, and congress may pass such ..... their tribunals, and to punishment according to their laws in all respects as though he was a native choctaw or chickasaw." section 6 of the act creating the united states court in the indian territory, approved march 1, 1889, c. 333, 25 stat. 784, reads: "that the court hereby established shall have jurisdiction in all civil ..... the chickasaw nation, and the courts of that nation have declined to entertain jurisdiction of any suits brought by him against a chickasaw. the validity of the act withdrawing citizenship from the wife of plaintiff, and the consequent withdrawal from plaintiff of all the rights and privileges of citizenship in the chickasaw nation, have been .....
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..... by a commission appointed under the treaty; that the union pacific railway company was the successor of the leavenworth company, and liable for the amount due the indians for the right of way; that the amount specified was appropriated and paid the delaware indians by the united states under the act of page 168 u. s. 511 july 13, 1892, as ..... of said petition, is the united states entitled to recover from the union pacific railway company, or the receivers thereof, the whole or any part of the sum of $10,715.75, heretofore paid by the united states to the delaware indians, pursuant to the act of congress of july 13, 1892, for improvements upon lands sold to the leavenworth ..... sureties, and was due from the railway company. to these counts, demurrers were sustained by the circuit court and judgment entered in favor of defendants. .....
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..... and conveyed them to the grantor of its co-defendant, the land, logging, and manufacturing company. on a readjustment page 168 u. s. 606 of the land grant, the railway company's title failed, and thereafter the grantee of the railway company purchased them pursuant to the act of march 3, 1887, c. 376, 24 stat. 556. on the other hand, ..... object of internal improvement, or for any other purpose whatsoever be, and the same are hereby, reserved to the united states from the operation of this act." and it was contended that an indian reservation was not excepted from the grant because the lands were not reserved to the united states. upon this, the court said (pp. 92 u ..... . . every tract set apart for special uses is reserved to the government to enable it to enforce them. there is no difference in this respect whether it be appropriated for indian or for other purposes." see also newhall v. sanger, 92 u. s. 761 , in which it was provided that the grant "shall not defeat or impair any preemption, .....
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..... arizona, 156 u. s. 347 , in which it was held that the property of railway companies traversing indian reservations are subject to taxation by the states and territories in which such reservations are located. but it is urged that the indians are directly and vitally interested in the property sought to be taxed, and that their rights ..... for judicial purposes." our attention is called to the following provision contained in the first section of the organic act: "nothing in this act shall be construed to impair any right now pertaining to any indians or indian tribe in said territory under the laws, agreements, and treaties of the united states, or to impair ..... clerk, and city assessor are a city board of equalization, but that, in the case of the unorganized districts and reservations, the board of county commissioners act as a board of equalization, etc. without undertaking to enumerate all the instances in which there is some difference of procedure in respect to property assessed within .....
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..... 3. in support of the contention that national legislation leaves no room for state enactments relating to the bringing of diseased cattle into one state from another state, the railway company refers to the act of congress approved march 3, 1891, 26 stat. 1044, 1049, c. 544, appropriating $500,000 for carrying out the provisions of the ..... is not a quarantine law. it is not an inspection law. it says to all natural persons, and to all transportation companies:" "you shall not bring into the state any texas cattle or any mexican cattle or indian cattle between march first and december first in any year, no matter whether they are free from disease or not, no matter ..... and the missouri statute was held to be unconstitutional because it went beyond the necessities of the case, having been so drawn as to exclude all texas, mexican, or indian cattle from the state (except cattle to be transported across and out of the state), whether free from disease or not, or whether they would or would not do .....
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..... . s. 274 , 101 u. s. 276 ; manuel v. wulff, 152 u. s. 505 , 152 u. s. 510 ; black v. elkhorn mining company, 163 u. s. 445 , 163 u. s. 449 . the act of 1866 was, however, as we have said, the first page 171 u. s. 63 general legislation in respect to the disposal of mines. the first section provided ..... has passed the public lands are within the jurisdiction of the land department, and, although equitable rights may be established, congress retains a certain measure of control. michigan land & lumber company v. rust, 168 u. s. 589 . the grant is, as is often said, in process of administration. passing to section 2320, beyond the recognition of the governing ..... such right in any of the adjudicated cases." fitzgerald v. clark, 17 mont. 100 -- a case now pending in this court on writ of error. tyler mining company v. last chance mining company, court of appeals, ninth circuit, decided by circuit judge mckenna, now a justice of this court, circuit judge gilbert, and district judge hawle, 54 f. 284. .....
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