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..... manufactory or other building, if the owner desires that the whole of such house, manufactory or building shall be so acquired: provided also that, if any question shall arise as to whether any land proposed to be taken under this act does or does not form part of a house, manufactory or building within the meaning of this section, the collector shall refer the determination of such question to the court and shall not be take possession of such the ..... this prohibition unambiguously indicates that if the owner expresses his desire that the whole of the house should be acquired, no action can be taken in respect of a part of the house under any provision of the act, and this suggests that where a part of the house is proposed to be 34 acquired and a notification is issued in that behalf, the owner must make up his mind as to whether he wants to allow the acquisition of a part of his house ..... is excessive or unreasonable, and provides that the appropriate government may decide to acquire the whole of the land of which the land first sought to be acquired forms a part rather than agree to pay an unreasonable or excessive amount of compensation as claimed by the owner ..... 6 of the land acquisition act 1894, reads that the superstructures on the lands specified in the schedules are needed for a public purpose, to wit, for the purpose of assigning the lands and the superstructures thereon to provide for shopping facilities to small traders and self-employed ..... of stamps (1899 ac99at ..... indian oil .....
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..... few years later in 1858, reflected the attitude of his eastern colleagues, in that he regarded "with special favor the use of the bible in public schools, as preeminently first in importance among textbooks for teaching the noblest principles of virtue, morality, patriotism, and good order -- love and reverence for god -- charity and good will to man. ..... the judgment of experienced educators that the challenged practices may well achieve valuable secular ends, it seems to me that the state acts unconstitutionally if it either sets about to attain even indirectly religious ends by religious means, or if it uses religious means to serve ..... thus, if such exercises were held either before or after the official school day, or if the school schedule were such that participation were merely one among a number of desirable alternatives, [ footnote 4/6 ] it could hardly be contended that the exercises did anything ..... [ footnote 3/12 ] indeed, the court expressly approved the reasoning of the court of appeals that to deny the indians the right to spend their own moneys for religious purposes of their choice might well infringe the free exercise of their religion: ..... and their parents, the board of education has placed its stamp of approval upon this distribution and, in fact, upon the ..... compare article xviii of the hague convention regulations of 1899: "prisoners of war shall enjoy every latitude in the exercise of their religion, including attendance at their own church services, provided only .....
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..... difficulties similar to those encountered by the states is obvious, and both this experience of the states and the need of the federal government of legislation defining intoxicating liquors, as was done in the volstead act, was clearly set forth in the reports of the house committee on the judiciary in reporting the bill to the 65th congress, 3d session, report 1143, february 26, 1919, and to the 66th congress ..... had become void or had expired by its own terms before the bill was filed; (2) that its prohibition, by its terms, was limited to beer which was in fact intoxicating; (3) that the act of october 28, 1919, title 1, 1, which purported to extend the prohibition to the manufacture and sale of beer not in fact intoxicating, exceeded the war power of congress, and that thereby violation of ..... the action of the president, under the food control act, in at first permitting the production of malt liquor containing not more than 2.75 percent of alcohol, in next extending the prohibition to all malt liquors for beverage purposes irrespective of alcoholic ..... and malt or from hops and barley, and all beer on the receptacle containing which the laws of the united states require a revenue stamp to be affixed, [but it] shall not include beverages which contain no alcohol. . . ." 2. ..... 438, schedule b, 26, 63, imposed a license tax on the sale of near-beer or ..... 697, 8 (indian territory prohibition), prohibits "any vinous, ..... rev.code 1899, 7598, prohibits "all spirituous, malt, vinous, fermented, .....
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..... 647 it is against this historical backdrop that james madison, then a representative from virginia, rose to the floor of the first congress on june 8, 1789, and proposed a number of amendments to the constitution, including the following: "the civil rights of none shall be abridged on account of religious belief or worship, nor shall any national religion be established, ..... the addition of carvings depicting confucius and mohammed may honor religion, or particular religions, to an extent that the first amendment does not tolerate any more than it does "the permanent erection of a large latin cross on the roof of ..... as chief justice burger wrote for the court in walz: "the general principle deducible from the first amendment and all that has been said by the court is this: that we will not tolerate either governmentally established religion or governmental ..... thus the prominent display of religious symbols on government property falls within the compass of the first amendment, even though interference with personal choices about supporting a church, by means of governmental tithing, was the primary ..... , concurring in judgment) ("the question whether a specific act of communication is protected by the first amendment always requires some consideration of both its content and ..... f.2d 120, 128 (ca7 1987) ("because city hall is so plainly under government ownership and control, every display and activity in the building is implicitly marked with the stamp of government approval. ..... 1899) .....
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