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..... no officer or employee of the united states is placed by his position, or the services he is called to perform, above responsibility to the legal tribunals of the country, and to the ordinary processes for his arrest and detention, when accused of felony, in the ..... the indictment was founded upon the ninth section of the act of congress of march 3, 1825, "to reduce into one the several acts establishing and regulating the post office department," which provides "that if any person shall knowingly and willfully obstruct or retard the passage of the mail or of any driver or carrier or of any horse or carriage carrying the same, he shall, upon conviction, for every ..... indeed, it may be doubted whether it is competent for congress to exempt the employees of the united states from arrest on criminal process from the state courts, when the crimes charged against them are not merely mala prohibita, but are mala in se. ..... every officer of the united states is responsible to the legal tribunals of the country and to the ordinary processes for his arrest and detention when accused of felony in the forms prescribed by the constitution and laws. 5. .....
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..... not appointed by the president, with the advice and consent of the senate, are prohibited from requesting, giving to, or receiving from, any other officer or employee of the government, any money or property or other thing of value for political purposes, and any such officer or employee who shall offend against the provisions of this section shall be at once discharged from the service of the united states, and he shall also ..... states, not appointed by advice of the senate [an unimportant distinction so far as the power to make the law is concerned], to request, give to or receive from any other officer or employee of the government any money or property or other thing of value for political purposes, thus in effect making it a condition of accepting any employment under the government that a man ..... 373 and that passed in 1867, punishing, by dismissal from service, an officer or employee of the government who requires or requests any working man in a navy yard to ..... the united states, are just as free now to call on those in office for money to be used for political purposes as ever they were, and those in office can contribute as liberally as they please, provided their payments are not made to any of the prohibited officers or employees. ..... 172, which subjected an officer or employee of the government to dismissal if he required or requested a workingman in a navy yard to contribute or pay any money for political purposes, and prohibited the removal or discharge of a working man for .....
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..... ministers plenipotentiary, ministers resident and charges d'affaires, ministers resident and consuls general, secretaries of legation, and interpreters, shall, after june 30, 1884, be the salary of each officer, respectively, and all acts, or parts of acts, inconsistent or in conflict therewith, or which allow a larger salary to any officer or employee herein named, shall be, and are hereby, repealed. ..... difficulty, the court is of opinion that according to the settled rules of interpretation, a statute fixing the annual salary of a public officer at a named sum without limitation as to time should not be deemed abrogated or suspended by subsequent enactments which merely appropriated a less amount for the services of that officer for particular fiscal years, and which contained no words that expressly, or by clear implication, modified or repealed the previous law. ..... 389 appeal from the court of claims syllabus a statute which fixes the annual salary of a public officer at a designated sum without limitation as to time is not abrogated or suspended by subsequent enactments appropriating a less amount for his services for a particular fiscal year but containing no words which ..... in the estimates for the annual expenditures of diplomatic and consular service, estimate for the entire amount required for its support, including all commercial agents, and other officers, whether paid by fees or otherwise, specifying the compensation to be allowed or deemed advisable in each individual case. .....
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..... a penalty of $100 a day on the corporation for carrying on its business in iowa without having complied with the statute and having a valid permit, and provides that any agent, officer, or employee who shall knowingly act or transact such business for the corporation when it has no valid permit shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and for each offense shall be fined not to exceed ..... certified copy of its articles of incorporation, duly attested, accompanied by a resolution of its board of directors or stockholders authorizing the filling thereof, and also authorizing service of process to be made upon any of its officers or agents in this state engaged in transacting its business, and requesting the issuance to such corporation of a permit to transact business in this state, said application to contain a stipulation that said permit shall be ..... and any agent, officer, or employee who shall knowingly act or transact such business for such corporation when it has no valid permit as provided herein shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and ..... copy of its articles of incorporation, duty attested, accompanied by a resolution of its board of directors or stockholders authorizing the filing thereof, and also authorizing service of process to be made upon any of its officers or agents in this state engaged in transacting its business, and requesting the issuance to such corporation of a permit to transact business in this state, said application to contain a stipulation that said permit shall be .....
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..... " by that joint resolution, it was provided that "all moneys which have been received by any officer or employee of the government, or any department thereof, from sales of captured and abandoned property in the late insurrectionary districts, under or under color of the several acts of congress ..... cotton which the railroad company was unable to transport, the danger of theft and robbery, and the interference of other agents or persons claiming to be agents of the treasury department, and of military officers," and, in respect to what are called military payments, that they "were all made in the bona fide belief that they were necessary to protect the interests of the united states in the cotton ..... , as follows:" " i have received your letter of this date advising me that the commissioner of customs had favorably reported on your property account and that your explanation of charges made by certain military officers against you has shown them to be without substantial foundation, and asking me to instruct the cotton agent at new york to pay you the commissions allowed by the regulations of august the 18th last on ..... third section of the act of 1864, "all accounts of moneys received or expended in connection therewith shall be audited by the proper accounting officers of the treasury," negative the supposition that those officers cannot disallow expenses incurred in the collection and sale of captured and abandoned property which the secretary may have approved as proper and necessary. .....
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..... of the island, and release said navassa phosphate company from any and all liability for any injury arising from accident, or from any acts of any officer or employee on the island of navassa. ..... protection to be given to citizens of the united states who may discover deposits of guano,' directs that you will cause a competent force to repair to that island, and will order the officer in command thereof to protect citizens of the united states in removing guano therefrom against any interference from authorities of the government of hayti or of any other page 137 u. s. ..... recognized and treated as such by his majesty the king of these realms," was dismissed on demurrer by vice-chancellor shadwell, who said: "i have had communication with the foreign office, and i am authorized to state that the federal republic of central america has not been recognized as an independent government by the government of this country. . . . ..... island as assignees of duncan and cooper, mentioned in the foregoing papers; that the persons then "on the island consisted of 137 colored laborers of said company and 11 white officers, or superintendents, all residents of the united states, appointed by the company, the laborers, including the defendant, being employed in page 137 u. s. ..... they are bound to take judicial notice, as in the decision of matters of law which it is their office to know, the judges may refresh their memory and inform their conscience from such sources as they deem most trustworthy .....
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..... the conductor of the train, learning this, and knowing that the plaintiff had been guilty of no offense for which he was liable to arrest, telegraphed for a police officer, an employee of the defendant, who boarded the train as it approached chicago. ..... justice davis and approving and applying the rule of exemplary damages as stated in quigley's case, held that this was a misdirection, and that the failure of the employees to use the care that was required to avoid the accident, "whether called 'gross' or 'ordinary' negligence, did not authorize the jury to visit the company with damages beyond the limit of compensation for the ..... but it is to be considered that this is a suit against the owners of the privateer, upon whom the law has, from motives of policy, devolved a responsibility for the conduct of the officers and crew employed by them, and yet, from the nature of the service, they can scarcely ever be able to secure to themselves an adequate indemnity in cases of loss. ..... harris, the railroad company, as the record showed, by an armed force of several hundred men, acting as its agents and employees, and organized and commanded by its vice-president and assistant general manager, attacked with deadly weapons the agents and employees of another company in possession of a railroad, and forcibly drove them out, and in so doing fired upon and injured one of them, who thereupon brought an action against the corporation, and recovered a verdict .....
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..... he was the one officer or employee to whom, when this work had to be done, attention would naturally ..... appears which directs that any services be called for outside of those to be rendered by the officers and employees of the government, or which recognizes that any extra services have been rendered, or provides any payment ..... of congress, as disclosed by these sections, was that every officer or regular employee of the government should be limited in his compensation to such salary or fees as were by law specifically attached to his office or employment. ..... it will also be perceived that no express promise of payment for these services was made by any officer or representative of the government, for the suggestion and request in respect to the preparation of plans spoken of in the first finding carried with it no ..... at the most, it can only be regarded as extra service cast upon him as an officer of the government, and by reason of his official position, and as such there is no express provision of law ..... he was employed to render services which, if not strictly appertaining to his office or position, were of the same general character, and to be performed at ..... no allowance or compensation shall be made to any officer or clerk by reason of the discharge of duties which belong to any other officer or clerk in the same or any other department, and no allowance or compensation shall be made for any extra services whatever which any officer or clerk may be required to perform, unless expressly .....
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..... by joint resolution approved march 30, 1868, it was resolved "that all moneys which have been received by any officer or employee of the government or any department thereof from sales of captured and abandoned property in the late insurrectionary districts under or under color of the several acts of congress providing for the collection and sale of such property, ..... "the office of a proviso, generally," said mr. .....
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..... road was built with the funds of that company, every share of its stock ever issued was taken, held, or voted by some officer or employee of that company in trust for it, the officers of the two companies had always been the same, and in their operation no distinction had ever been made between the two roads, and ..... of the rights or privileges by said contract granted, concerning the railway and railway property above described, by any and all of the parties to said contract, or by any of the officers, agents, attorneys, or employees of said parties, or any of them, and especially from in any manner obstructing or interfering with said complainant in restoring and maintaining the connections which have heretofore been constructed, or in ..... business at omaha and south omaha, and to carry on exactly the same business that it could have carried on by the operation of its own trains by its own engines and by its own employees, as provided for in said supposed contract, and it says that it had offered, in the utmost good faith, to perform this service, immediately and at all times, for the said complainant ..... granted to it under the act of congress to earn moneys with which to maintain its corporate existence, perform the duties of a common carrier, and meet the demands of the government; that the officers of the pacific company were not so authorized to execute the contracts as to make it competent for them to do so, and that they were not so entered into as to bind the company .....
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