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..... negro or mulatto to pay and satisfy and such penalty and costs thereon, to cause such free negro or mulatto to be confined to labour for such reasonable time, not exceeding six calendar months, for any one offence, as may be deemed equivalent to such penalty and costs; to cause all vagrants, idle or disorderly persons, all persons of evil life or ill fame, and all such as have no visible means of support, or are likely to become chargeable ..... , the gauging of casks and liquors, the storage of gunpowder, and all naval and military stores, not the property of the united states, to regulate the weight and quality of bread, to tax and license hawkers and peddlers, to restrain or prohibit tippling houses, lotteries, and all kinds of gaming, to superintend the health of the city, to preserve the navigation of the potomac and anacostia rivers adjoining the city, to erect, repair, and regulate public ..... and be it further enacted, that in addition to the powers heretofore granted to the corporation of the city of washington, by an act, entitled, 'an act to incorporate the inhabitants of the city of washington, in the district of columbia,' and an act, entitled, 'an act, supplementary to an act, entitled, an act to incorporate the inhabitants of the city of washington, in the district of columbia,' the said corporation shall have power to lay taxes on particular wards, parts, or sections of the city, for their particular local improvements. .....
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..... mary's county, for which i oblige myself to pay, on 1 january, 1821, for one year, from 1 january, 1820, six hundred dollars ($600), and to pay all taxes on the same independent of the above rent, and also i oblige myself to keep the premises in good repair and not to commit nor suffer to be committed any waste on the said premises ..... such a copy, when offered to charge the party by whom the same was made and who, by the tenor of the agreement, was to perform certain acts therein stated may be considered not as a copy but as an original in relation to the obligations of the party giving the copy, and be so given in evidence ..... we think that under such circumstances, this case forms a just exception to the general rule, and that it is not competent for the defendant below to allege against his own acts and admissions that this paper does not nor may not contain all the verity and certainty of the original ..... the copy, made out by himself, must be presumed to have come to the plaintiff's possession by the defendant's own act, and by making and delivering it to the plaintiff, the defendant consents that it shall be considered genuine and true ..... . 21 hundred dollars ($600), and to pay all taxes on the same, independent of the above rent, and also oblige myself to keep the premises in good repair and not to commit nor suffer to be committed any waste on the said ..... 23 admitted to be in the defendant's handwriting and that it must have come to the plaintiff's hands by the defendant's act .....
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..... a committee of the congregation than what arises from the statement of witnesses that they were so chosen by a meeting of lutherans and that their appointment has always been acquiesced in by the lutherans, and they have assumed to act for them without any question of their authority; that they are themselves lutherans living in georgetown, and forming a part of the voluntary society is not disputed. ..... "the said beatty, by the said designation, declaration, and setting apart, holding out to the public, and to the german lutherans particularly, inducements as well to purchase tickets in a lottery, by which the said lots were disposed of, as to purchase and improve that part of the town in other ways. ..... if the complainants in the circuit court were proved to be the regularly appointed committee of a voluntary society of lutherans in actual possession of the premises, and acting by their direction to prevent a disturbance of that possession, under the circumstances of this case, there does not appear to be a serious objection to their right to maintain a suit for a perpetual injunction against the heirs of the donor, who ..... the books of the lottery and the plan of the lots and a connected survey thereof were afterwards, by act passed in 1796, ch. ..... beatty or his heirs, nor have any taxes ever been paid by them. ..... it also appeared from the evidence that since the year 1769, the said lot has never been assessed for taxes to col. .....
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..... by the state of missouri, having been subject to the spanish government, was at the time of its cession governed by the civil law as modified by the spanish government; that it so continued, subject to certain modifications introduced by act of congress, until it became a state; when the people incorporated into their institutions as much of the civil law as they thought proper, and hence their courts of justice now partake of a mixed character, perhaps combining all ..... that which may be prescribed by law, and all the proceeds of the said salt springs, the interest accruing to the state, and all estates purchased by officers of the several offices, under the provisions of this act, and all the debts now due, or hereafter to be due to this state, are hereby pledged, and constituted a fund for the redemption of the certificates hereby required to be issued, and the faith of the state ..... the form of the certificate is prescribed in the third section of the act (act 27 june, 1821) as follows: "this certificate shall be receivable at the treasury or any of the loan offices of the state of missouri, in the discharge of taxes or debts due to the state, for the sum of $_____, with interest for the same at two percentum per annum, from this date ..... 327, it was decided that an agreement for the sale of tickets in a lottery, not authorized by the legislature of the state, although instituted under the authority of the government of another state, is contrary to the spirit and policy of the law .....
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..... 347 the plaintiff in error, the defendant in the district court, claimed the tract of land for which the ejectment was brought under a sale of the same for county and road taxes for the year 1825, made under the laws of pennsylvania, amounting together to one dollar and ninety-five cents. ..... as to the seventh and eighth instructions, the court said a redemption of land sold for taxes under the act of 1815 can only be made by the owner, his heirs or assigns, or legally authorized agent or representative, or by a person acting for the owner with his subsequent ratification. ..... that it is not necessary for a feme covert to acknowledge an agreement, or power to make partition under the act of the 24 february, 1770, of lands which descend to her in pennsylvania, where the partition is equal at law; being compelled to make partition, she can do so amicably. ..... 5615 was sold to the defendant for the sum of five dollars and fifty-two cents, the amount of the taxes and the costs, and on 15 july, 1826, the same was conveyed by deed to the defendant, by mr. ..... on the third proposition the court said any person having an interest in land so sold has a right to redeem the same within the period named in the act, but a mere opinion, without right or having an interest, confers no power to redeem. ..... , no such legal tender was made, nor was it such an offer and refusal as would bring this case within the saving clause of the 4th section of the act of 13 march, 1815. .....
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..... cumberland road which passes through pennsylvania, carrying goods, cannon, or military stores, belonging to the united states, or to any individual state of the union, which are excepted from the payment of toll by the second section of an act passed the fourth of april, anno domini eighteen hundred and thirty-one, shall extend only so far as to relieve such wagons, carriages, and other modes of conveyance, from the payment of toll to the proportional amount ..... through the same, such roads to be laid under the authority of congress, with the consent of the several states through which the roads shall pass, provided the state shall agree not to tax land sold by the government until after the expiration of five years from the time of such sale. ..... in the second case, under a general law of pennsylvania imposing a tax on all officers, a tax was assessed on the office held by the plaintiff, as captain of a revenue cutter of the united states, and this court held that such law, so far as it affected such an officer, was unconstitutional ..... is said in the argument that as well might a revenue cutter be taxed by a state as to impose a toll on the stage which conveys ..... propriety a judge of the united states might be subjected to a tax by a state for the exercise of his judicial functions. ..... a permanent system of keeping the road in repair, was of necessity abandoned, and, with the assent of pennsylvania, congress passed a bill to construct toll gates and impose a tax on those who used the road. .....
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..... ever having been upon that particular lot, or that he had caused an exploration of it to be made, or that he had any particular knowledge of it; denied that he had ever claimed to have a title or lien for taxes paid; averred that in 1844, or 1845, he accidentally learned that tilden, whom he had supposed to be the owner of the whole lot and for whom he had been the agent, was the owner of only an undivided ..... and it would become necessary for him to get a division before he could do anything with the land; he said a road had been, or would be, laid out through this township, which would much increase the taxes; he assigned as a reason why he wished to purchase the land, that another person had appeared and claimed a large part of it, and he thought it was best for him to be looking out for the ..... agencies since the year 1833, that it was a part of their agency to pay the taxes assessed on the land under their care; that the taxes on this township have, during all the time of their agency for tilden, been paid by his father and himself as though the whole of said lottery lot had been the property of tilden, and that he did not know until recently ..... put this case is that the defendant did not act fairly in the representations made by him to the complainants of the quantity and quality of the land, and in his statement to them that he had a claim upon the land for taxes, which was not true. ..... black resided near the land in maine, and had acted as the agent of the owner of the remaining .....
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..... ; and the judge instructed the jury that the paper conveyed by the steward of the boat, kelsey, from albion to rochester, as sworn to by the witnesses was not a letter or mailable matter, within the meaning of the act of congress, but was a paper having a different and distinct character of its own, and could be lawfully carried by the said steward of the packet boat aforesaid, and did therefore direct the jury to find for ..... places, from one to the other of which said places the united states mail was then and there regularly conveyed as aforesaid, under the authority of the post office department, contrary to the intent of the act, whereby the defendant did then and there forfeit and became liable to pay the plaintiffs the sum of fifty dollars, by means whereof an action hath accrued to the plaintiffs to demand and have of and from ..... this was an action of debt on statute, commenced in the district court of northern new york, founded on the tenth section of the act of 3 march, 1845: "an act to reduce the rates of postage; to limit the use, and correct the abuse, of the franking privilege, and for the prevention of frauds on the revenue of the post office department. ..... revenue is the income of a state, and the revenue of the post office department, being raised by a tax on mailable matter conveyed in the mail, and which is disbursed in the public service, is as much a part of the income of the government as moneys collected for duties on imports. .....
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..... as this rate was much more than that prescribed by the 60th section of the act of 1845, the bank before us refused to pay the excess, and suffered herself to be sued by the tax collector, relying on the 60th section, above recited, as an irrepealable contract, which stood protected by the constitution of the ..... question made and decided in the supreme court of ohio was whether the 60th section of the act of 1845 purported to be in its terms a contract not further to tax the banks organized under it during the entire term of their existence? ..... the act of ohio of the 25th of march 1851, in the fifty-eighth section, declared that "the provisions of that act shall not extend to any joint stock company which now is or may hereafter be organized whose charter or act of incorporation shall have guaranteed to such company an exemption from taxation or has prescribed any other as the exclusive mode of taxing the ..... i think that by the sixtieth section of the act of 1845, the state bound itself by contract to levy no higher tax than the one therein mentioned upon the banks or stocks in the banks which organized under that law during the continuance of ..... the court said the language of the eleventh section of the act of 1821 is "and be it enacted, that upon any of the aforesaid banks accepting and complying with the terms and conditions of this act, the faith of the state is hereby pledged not to impose any further tax or burden upon them during the continuance of their charters under this act. .....
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..... court of the united states for the district of massachusetts syllabus where a judgment in a patent case was affirmed by this court with a blank in the record for costs, and the circuit court afterwards taxed these costs at a sum less than two thousand dollars and allowed a writ of error to this court, this writ mast be dismissed on motion. ..... should be uniform, it is proper to say that we consider the decision of the circuit court allowing those costs to be taxed after the receipt of the mandate from this court to have been correct and conformable to the general practice of the courts ..... of the mandate by the circuit court, the defendant in error applied for leave to have the costs taxed and the amount inserted in the blank left for that purpose in the original record of the judgment. ..... the costs claimed are allowed or refused in controversies arising under the patent acts, upon the same principles and by the same laws, which govern the court in the taxation of costs in any other case that may ..... of practice, this court decides that it is proper for circuit courts to allow costs to be taxed, nunc pro tunc, after the receipt of the mandate from this court. ..... 103 this court for a mandamus directing the court below to tax and allow his costs in the original action, amounting, as he alleged, ..... from some oversight or accident, the costs were not taxed in the circuit court before the transcript of the record was transmitted ..... sum taxed being less than $2,000, no writ of error will lie under the act of .....
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