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..... and our own are chiefly interested, and as don ysidoro de la torre has gone to europe, he will concert with mr. barron everything which can tend to the successful development of this enterprise." "we are, dear sir, your most obedient servants," "barron, forbes & co." "jas. alex. forbes, esq., san francisco." "endorsed: barron ..... proceed in conformity with the principles established to the colonization of the territories." in pursuance of this authority the supreme executive, in 1828, framed the regulations which prescribed the mode in which the colonization of the territories should be effected. it was from the dispositions thus made by the supreme executive, ..... case of lands within the ten littoral leagues, the law itself forbade their colonization without the previous approbation of the supreme executive power. the general regulations, therefore, by which the supreme executive authorized the governors and juntas of the departments to grant public lands, were never construed to authorize them .....
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..... the protection of producers, shippers, and receivers of grain and produce." the provisions of the act of the general assembly of illinois, entitled "an act to regulate public warehouses and the warehousing and inspection of grain, and to give effect to art. 13 of the constitution of this state," approved april 25, 1871, so far as the same ..... of others, as his judgment may dictate for the promotion of his happiness -- that is, to pursue such callings and avocations as may be most suitable to develop his capacities and give to them their highest enjoyment. the same liberal construction which is required for the protection of life and liberty, in all particulars in which ..... , unless constitutional limitations forbid, be changed at the will of the legislature. the great office of statutes is to remedy defects in the common law as they are developed, and to adapt it to the changes of time and circumstances. 6. the limitation by legislative enactment of the rate of charge for services page 94 u. s .....
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..... was cited with approval by the supreme court of wisconsin as holding that the legislature of illinois had power to regulate public warehouses and the warehousing and inspection of grain within that state, and to enforce its regulations by penalties, and that such legislation was not in conflict with any provisions of the federal constitution. the court ..... one in which the whole public had a direct and positive interest; that the statute of illinois simply extended the law so as to meet a new development of commercial progress; that there was no attempt to compel the owners of the warehouses to grant the public an interest in their property, but to declare ..... delivering the opinion of the court, to that case, and said: "that case presented the question of a private citizen, or unincorporated partnership, engaged in the warehousing business in chicago, free from any claim of right or contract under an act of incorporation of any state whatever, and free from the question of continuous page .....
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..... which, from its very nature, required special legislation. that act was the initiation of a policy by congress looking to the development and working out of a harmonious system to regulate the highly important subject of interstate transportation. conceding, arguendo, that the debates which took place at the time of the passage ..... reasonable they may be, and therefore that all that great body of contracts which are commonly entered into between individuals or corporations, and which promote and develop trade, and which have been heretofore considered as lawful, are no longer such; and conceding also that agreements entered into by associations of workingmen to peaceably ..... it was not a contract in restraint of trade, and, if unreasonable, it was. the decisions of the american courts substantially conform to both the development and ultimate results of the english cases. while the rule of partial and general restraint has been either expressly or impliedly admitted, the exact scope of .....
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..... the main and substantial conditions thereof, may rightfully entrust to local legislatures the determination of those minor matters as to such disposal which amount to mere regulations. regulations made by the local legislatures in regard to the location of mining page 196 u. s. 120 claims which are not in conflict with the constitution ..... legislation by congress, the local legislature of any state or territory may provide rules for working mines, involving easements, drainage, and other necessary means to their complete development, and those conditions shall be fully expressed in the patent." section 2339 contains this clause: "whenever, by priority of possession, rights to the use of ..... extent of each mining claim, recognizing, however, the essential features of the rules framed by miners, and, among others, that which required work on the claim for its development as a condition of its continued ownership. " page 196 u. s. 127 see also erhardt v. boaro, 113 u. s. 527 , in which (p. 113 .....
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..... operator receiving foreign railway fuel cars, private cars, or company fuel cars is enabled to increase the number of working places in the mine, is enabled to develop his mine more rapidly, is enabled to increase his capacity rating, and in future re-ratings of such mine by complainant, for the purposes of car distribution ..... the corporation, as a carrier engaged in interstate commerce, being, then, as to its interstate commerce business, subject to the control exerted by the act to regulate commerce, and the instrumentalities employed for the purpose page 215 u. s. 475 of such commerce being likewise so subject to control, we are brought to ..... , including cars for transportation of its own fuel, are instruments of interstate commerce, and subject to control of the interstate commerce commission. the act to regulate commerce has delegated to the interstate commerce commission authority to consider, where complaint is made on that subject, the question of distribution of coal cars, including .....
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..... warehouseman of his own goods, and issue so-called receipts to take the place of the delivery which the law requires to give effect to his sale or pledge ( security warehousing co. v. hand, 206 u. s. 415 , 206 u. s. 422 ; bank v. jagode, 186 pa. 556). the argument ignores the special circumstances of the case ..... elizabeth for the circumvention of fraud and deceit in sales of personal property (which nowhere in terms refers to retention of possession by a vendor), it has wisely developed the spirit of that statute and evolved the salutary rule that, where there is nothing in the case but the retention of a physical possession by the vendor, ..... removal "of and distilled spirits from a distillery warehouse . . . in any manner other than is provided by law" is punishable by fine and imprisonment ( 3296). the minute regulations of the statute, and the provision for prolonged governmental control, proceed upon a recognition of the exigencies of the business. it is a page 232 u. s. 184 matter of .....
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..... the abuses continued in large measure, and the private offices survived to a great extent the competition of the free agencies, public and private. there gradually developed a conviction that the evils of private agencies were inherent and ineradicable so long as they were permitted to charge fees to the workers seeking employment. and ..... and the inadequacy of the then existing system are also described by state officials in affidavits included in the record. (b) the remedies. washington had not tried direct regulation of private employment offices, but that method was being considered as late as 1912. [ footnote 15 ] its people had had, on the other hand, exceptional ..... syllabus the business of securing honest work for the unemployed in return for an agreed consideration is a useful and legitimate business which, though subject to regulation under the state police power, cannot be forbidden by an act of a state without violating the guaranty of liberty secured by the fourteenth amendment. a .....
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..... the business. their omission has a reasonable basis. another objection is that all owners and lessees who mine or produce ore are included, while those who do extensive development work, but remove no ore, are omitted. this is not fairly subject to criticism. equality does not require that unproductive mining be taxed along with productive mining ..... . besides, if ore is uncovered or made accessible by such development work, the tax will be imposed when the ore is mined. among the deductions which the act provides shall be made from the value of the ore ..... the usual operations renders this deflection immaterial. plainly the facts do not support the contention. mining is not interstate commerce, but, like manufacturing, is a local business, subject to local regulation and taxation. kidd v. pearson, 128 u. s. 1 , 128 u. s. 20 ; capital dairy co. v. ohio, 183 u. s. 238 , 183 u. s. .....
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..... false and fraught with evil consequence. page 274 u. s. 375 those who won our independence believed that the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties, and that, in its government, the deliberative forces should prevail over the arbitrary. they valued liberty both as an end, and as a means. they believed liberty to ..... . of california fully recognizes the value of political action as a means of spreading communist propaganda; it insists that, in proportion to the development of the economic strength of the working class, it, the working class, must also develop its political power. the c.l.p. of california proclaims and insists that the capture of political power, locally or nationally by the .....
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