Emergency Legislation Passed Prior to December, 1917, Dealing with the Control and Taking of Private Property for the Public Use, Benefit, Or Welfare: Presidential Proclamations and Executive Orders Thereunder, to and Including January 31, 1918 : to which is Added a Reprint of Analagous [sic] Legislation Since 1775, Pages 1-110 |
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... sold or used under the provisions of this section may be made payable at such time after issue as the Secretary of the Treasury , in his discretion , may deem advisable , and fix , instead of fifty years after date of issue , as in said ...
... sold or used under the provisions of this section may be made payable at such time after issue as the Secretary of the Treasury , in his discretion , may deem advisable , and fix , instead of fifty years after date of issue , as in said ...
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... sold , leased , or chartered to any person not a citi- zen of the United States , or transferred to a foreign Vessels for registry or flag . No vessel registered or enrolled and fered to Board licensed under the laws of the United ...
... sold , leased , or chartered to any person not a citi- zen of the United States , or transferred to a foreign Vessels for registry or flag . No vessel registered or enrolled and fered to Board licensed under the laws of the United ...
Page 80
... sold to the United States shall be sold by the United States at such uniform prices , qual- ity considered , as may be practicable and as may be de- termined by said agency to be just and fair . Government prices to be uniform ...
... sold to the United States shall be sold by the United States at such uniform prices , qual- ity considered , as may be practicable and as may be de- termined by said agency to be just and fair . Government prices to be uniform ...
Page 89
... sold , given , bartered , or to whom or how otherwise disposed of , and the quantity and kind of explo- sives , and the date of each such sale , gift , barter , or other disposition ; and this record shall be sworn to and fur- nished to ...
... sold , given , bartered , or to whom or how otherwise disposed of , and the quantity and kind of explo- sives , and the date of each such sale , gift , barter , or other disposition ; and this record shall be sworn to and fur- nished to ...
Page 119
... sold and the proceeds deposited in the Treasury . other enemy All other property of an enemy , or ally of enemy , con - half veyed , transferred , assigned , delivered , or paid to the property . alien property custodian hereunder shall ...
... sold and the proceeds deposited in the Treasury . other enemy All other property of an enemy , or ally of enemy , con - half veyed , transferred , assigned , delivered , or paid to the property . alien property custodian hereunder shall ...
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act entitled Act to prevent agent alien property custodian ally of enemy appointed army Articles Assembly of Maryland authority aforesaid Barrel beef Bushel carriages cask centum certificate CHAP commissary commissioners commonwealth Congress Continental Continental Army Continental Congress court delivered deputy directed district embargo empowered enemy or ally engrossing entitled An act execution exportation Federal Reserve Board flour forage forfeit and pay further enacted governor and council grain hereby authorized hereby enacted horses impress Indian corn inhabitants justice lawful license manufacture Merchandize militia necessary oath offending owner paid passed peace penalty pence person or persons pork port pounds pounds weight President procure prohibit Provided purchase purposes quantity refuse regulations respective salt Section seized seizure sell Session sheriff shillings ship or vessel sold supply therein thereof tion Town Treasury troops United vendue wagons wares warrant wheat WHEREAS WOODROW WILSON
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Page i - An Act to establish a United States Shipping Board for the purpose of encouraging, developing, and creating a naval auxiliary and naval reserve and a merchant marine to meet the requirements of the commerce of the United States with its Territories and possessions and with foreign countries ; to regulate carriers by water engaged in the foreign and interstate commerce of the United States ; and for other purposes.
Page 23 - President, is unsatisfactory to the person entitled to receive the same, such person shall be paid seventy-five per centum of the amount so determined by the President and shall be entitled to sue the United States to recover such further sum as, added to said seventy-five per centum, will make up such amount as will be just compensation therefor, in the manner provided for by section twentyfour, paragraph twenty, and section one hundred and forty-five of the Judicial Code.
Page 135 - Navy, to assure an adequate supply and equitable distribution, and to facilitate the movement, of foods, feeds, fuel including fuel oil and natural gas, and fertilizer and fertilizer ingredients, tools, utensils, implements, machinery, and equipment required for the actual production of foods, feeds, and fuel...
Page 1064 - States shall, under any pretence whatever, assume to decide on the validity of the claim of any person to the service or labor of any other person, or surrender up any such person to the claimant, on pain of being dismissed from the service.
Page 154 - President he, and he ia hereby, authorized and directed to employ the entire naval and military forces of the United States and the resources of the Government to carry on war against the Imperial German Government; and to bring the conflict to a successful termination, all of the resources of the country are hereby pledged by the Congress of the United States.
Page 9 - ... and means of production, and availability of military supplies; the giving of information to producers and manufacturers as to the class of supplies needed by the military and other services of the Government, the requirements relating thereto, and the creation of relations which will render possible in time of need the immediate concentration and utilization of the resources of the Nation.
Page 1079 - The proceedings of such libel cases shall conform, as near as may be, to the proceedings in admiralty, except that either party may demand trial by jury of any issue of fact joined in any such case, and all such proceedings shall be at the suit of and in the name of the United States.
Page 107 - Any payment, conveyance, transfer, assignment, or delivery of money or property made to the alien property custodian hereunder shall be a full acquittance and discharge for all purposes of the obligation of the person making the same to the extent of same.
Page 6 - The President in time of war is empowered, through the Secretary of War, to take possession and assume control of any system or systems of transportation, or any part thereof, and to utilize the same, to the exclusion, as far as may be necessary, of all other traffic thereon, for the transfer or transportation of troops, war material, and equipment, or for such other purposes connected with the emergency as may be needful or desirable.
Page 121 - Act shall, upon conviction, be fined not more than $10,000, or, if a natural person, imprisoned for not more than ten years, or both...