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..... as the limit of three thousand dollars, therein prescribed as applicable to the nonenumerated ports, was not reproduced in the new provision, it is insisted it was repealed, so that every collector, whether of the enumerated or nonenumerated ports, may now claim to receive an annual compensation of six thousand dollars from the sources of emolument recognized by that act, provided his office yields that amount, after deducting the necessary expenses incident to the office. ..... section of the act of the 7th of may, 1822, is repealed, his counsel, at the argument, referred to various acts of congress, passed subsequently to the tariff act of the 14th of july, 1832, entitled "an act to alter and amend the several acts imposing duties on ..... it is insisted by the defendant that the maximum prescribed by the tenth section of the act of the 7th of may, 1822, is repealed, and that, under the law regulating his compensation, the legal capacity of the office he held was six thousand dollars, subject to the condition that two thousand dollars ..... the jury to the effect that the provisions of the act of the seventh of may, 1822, respecting the maximum compensation allowed to collectors of the customs, were not repealed by that act of the third of march, 1841, or by any other act, but that the same were in full force; 2. ..... it was insisted by the defendant that the provision in question had been repealed by subsequent acts upon the same subject, and that the maximum compensation allowed by law to .....
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..... all equity and chancery jurisdiction, authorized by the original act of the territory, shall be exercised, and all suits or proceedings to be instituted for that purpose are to be commenced, prosecuted, and conducted to a final decision and judgment, by the like process, pleadings, trial, and proceedings, as in civil actions, .....
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..... it has frequently been determined that suits pending, which rest upon an act of congress, fall with the repeal of it. ..... it is a legal cancellation of it, and hence can no more be the foundation for the assertion of a right after the surrender, than could an act of congress which has been repealed. ..... the surrender of a patent under the 13th section of the act of july 4, 1836, in judgment of law, extinguishes it -- is a legal cancellation of it, and no right can afterwards be asserted upon it. 2. ..... a surrender of the patent to the commissioner within the sense of the provision, means an act which, in judgment of law, extinguishes the patent. ..... the 13th section of the act of congress of july 4, 1836, provides "that if a patent shall be inoperative &c. .....
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..... footnote 2/3 ] where the same question was raised on an act repealing the bankrupt law then in existence, lord tenterden said that notwithstanding the disastrous effect of the repeal on previous cases of bankruptcy, and on proceedings then in progress under the act, they were not at liberty to break in upon the general ..... but it is said that although the act of april 4, 1864, repeals the prior act, it reenacted the same provisions on the subject of pilots, and that this operates as a continuance of ..... that the 26th section of the act of april 4, 1864, [ footnote 2/1 ] does, in express terms, repeal the act under which plaintiff's proceeding was instituted ..... the new act took effect simultaneously with the repeal of the first act; its provisions may therefore more properly be said to be substituted in the place of, and to continue in force with modifications, the provisions of the original act, rather than to have ..... the plaintiff in error that this act of 1852 is in conflict with the provisions of the act of the state of may, 1861; that in fact it has superseded all state legislation concerning port pilotage, so far as steamers carrying passengers are concerned, and to that extent has modified or repealed the act of 1789. ..... there was no moment in which the repealing act stood in force without being replaced by the corresponding provisions ..... the county court for some reason delayed this from time to time until the compulsory clause of the act was repealed, and then refused it altogether. .....
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..... , protect, and defend the constitution of the united states, and the union of the states thereunder," and would "in like manner abide by and faithfully support all acts of congress passed during the existing rebellion with reference to slaves, so long and so far as not repealed, modified, or held void by congress or by decision of the supreme court," and would "in like manner abide by and faithfully support all proclamations of the president ..... seems to have been that the court would take jurisdiction of the capture, whether of public or private property, and condemn the former for the benefit of the captors under the prize acts of parliament, but retain the latter till claimed, or condemn it to the crown, to be disposed of as justice might require. ..... , all provisions of previous acts inconsistent with this act are repealed. ..... alexander was a rebel enemy at the time of the enactment of this act; that she contributed to the erection of fort de russy, after the passage of the act of july, 1862, and so comes within the spirit, if not within the letter, of ..... the federal forces and about the 26th of march, a party from the ouachita -- acting under orders from the naval commander -- landed on the plantation of mrs. ..... may perhaps, for the sake of absolute completeness, be presented the act of july 17, 1862, for the better government of the navy, [ footnote 5 ] enacting ( 2), "that the proceeds of all ships and vessels, and the goods taken on them, which shall be adjudged good prize, shall, .....
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..... :b of the ship's real company the master westendorff the first mate and the master's brother (calling himself and shipped as a hand but acting as clerk) and three seamen were citizens of south carolina and the second mate the carpenter and cook belonged to other states in rebellion. ..... circumstances such as selection of master control in lading and destination instructions for conduct of voyage and other like acts of ownership by an enemy may repel in the absence of charter party or other explanation presumptions of ownership in a neutral arising from registry or other documents and will warrant condemnation of a ship captured in the employment of enemies as enemy property ..... . they, on the other hand, assert that haigh was the real owner, and that they were acting as his agents, admitting, however, that they had no charter and no written authority to ..... ella. we will thank you to request the masters to act as follows namely, captain westendorff to take in the tea and other light articles per ella, if he has room for them, and proceed to nassau, reporting himself on arrival ..... abandoned. these first acts bring the ..... writing filed swore that "the said firm acting as agents for mr ..... will thank you to request the masters to act as follows viz. ..... the 1st of august in that year, edwin haigh made the declaration of ownership required by the british merchants' shipping act of ..... of that year a certain edwin haigh made the declaration of ownership required by the british merchants' shipping act of 1854. .....
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..... the light of these suggestions, it is undeniable that the real claim of the principal defendant, as exhibited in the pleadings, was not for commissions in the sense in which that word is employed in the acts of congress and the regulations of the department, but was in truth and fact a claim for damages based on the assumption that he had been wrongfully prevented from earning such commissions by the neglect and refusal of ..... ordinance from time to time to the twenty-eighth day of october, 1782, when it was repealed, and a supplemental ordinance was adopted in its place, conferring substantially the same powers upon the ..... discontinue a post office which they had previously established by law, and it is difficult to see why the postmaster general may not do the same thing when acting under an act of congress expressed in the very words of the constitution from which congress derives its power. ..... seen in the references already made to acts of congress, but if more be needed it will be found in the first section of the act of the third of march, 1825, entitled "an act to reduce into one the several acts establishing and regulating the post office department ..... other repeal of the act of 1825 was made by this act ..... [ footnote 15 ] like power was conferred upon that officer by the first section of the act of the thirtieth of april, 1810, which also enacted that he should provide for the carrying of the mail on all post roads that are or may be established by law, and as often as he, .....
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..... she and her husband were well acquainted with des granges, and with a person whom he married "before he imposed himself on zulime," and that reproaching him for his baseness in the latter act, "he endeavored to excuse himself by saying that at the time he married zulime, he had abandoned his lawful wife, and never intended to see her again. ..... in some measure for the errors of his past life, for he not only made a public acknowledgment, in the last solemn act of his life, that his child was legitimate, but a short time previous to his death frequently repeated the declaration to mrs ..... from philadelphia, on his return in july following, he encloses to him a communication which, "in case of accident or misfortune to me," he directs davis to open, and to act in regard to the contents as "i directed you with respect to the other affairs committed to your charge before leaving new orleans. ..... disposition of property to take effect after death is one of the most solemn acts in the life of a man, and in itself is the highest evidence of ..... in 1811, when he was about to make a visit to the north, in a formal act or deed of sale before a notary public he conveyed to me some lots, perhaps fifty, as if i had paid the due price for them, when in truth nothing had been paid, for the sale was made ..... it cannot be denied the writing of it was a base and inexcusable act, and in itself affords an additional proof, if any were necessary, how easy the descent, when a man, with a fixed purpose, is leading a .....
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..... sick and partly crazy with study, i knew not how to act, but threw myself on friends for advice; was advised to sell my stock and make an assignment; that m ___ would be a good person to sell to; spoke to him, he was willing, but said that i should sell them for .....
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..... when such article should have become a part of the constitution of the united states, then that the states respectively should be declared entitled to representation in congress, and the preceding part of the act become inoperative, and that, until they were so admitted, any civil governments which might exist in them should be deemed provisional only, and subject to the paramount authority of the united states, ..... after the breaking out of the rebellion, the insurgent legislature of texas, on the 11th of january, 1862, repealed the act requiring the indorsement of the governor, [ footnote 4 ] and, on the same day, provided for the organization of a military board, composed of the governor, comptroller, and treasurer, and authorized a ..... our eyes to the evidence which proves that the act of repeal was intended to aid rebellion by facilitating the transfer ..... passed a further act, entitled " an act to provide funds for military purposes, " and therein directed the board, which it had previously organized, " to dispose of any bonds and coupons which may be in the treasury on any account, and use such funds or their proceeds for the defence of the state; " and passed an additional act repealing the act page 74 u. ..... state of texas on the 11th of january, 1862, when the act prohibiting alienation without the indorsement of the governor was repealed, admits of no question, and is not denied. ..... , that the restriction imposed by the act of 1851 was repealed by the act of 1862. ..... this repealing act. .....
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