Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States, Volume 6; Volume 73W.H. & O.H. Morrison, 1870 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... statute of a State enacting that the masters and wardens of a port within it , should be entitled to demand and receive , in addition to other fees , the sum of five dollars , whether called on to perform any service or not , for every ...
... statute of a State enacting that the masters and wardens of a port within it , should be entitled to demand and receive , in addition to other fees , the sum of five dollars , whether called on to perform any service or not , for every ...
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... statute does not use language so strong as the Nevada statute , in- dicative of a personal tax on the passenger , but merely taxes the master of the vessel according to the number of his pas- sengers ; but the court held it to be a tax ...
... statute does not use language so strong as the Nevada statute , in- dicative of a personal tax on the passenger , but merely taxes the master of the vessel according to the number of his pas- sengers ; but the court held it to be a tax ...
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... statute had previously passed , † referring to article fourteenth of the treaty , and appointing commissioners with full power to ex- amine and ascertain the names of persons who had fulfilled the conditions of settlement so as to ...
... statute had previously passed , † referring to article fourteenth of the treaty , and appointing commissioners with full power to ex- amine and ascertain the names of persons who had fulfilled the conditions of settlement so as to ...
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... statute for taking an appeal , the limitation of time ceases to affect the case ; and such is also the effect of the ... statutes and rules which regulate appeals from the Court of Claims . An act of March 3 , 1863 , provides that ...
... statute for taking an appeal , the limitation of time ceases to affect the case ; and such is also the effect of the ... statutes and rules which regulate appeals from the Court of Claims . An act of March 3 , 1863 , provides that ...
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... statute gives an appeal under such regulations as this court may pre- scribe . The regulations when prescribed are as if part of the statute . By the terms of the statute , the appeal must be taken within ninety days . No regulation can ...
... statute gives an appeal under such regulations as this court may pre- scribe . The regulations when prescribed are as if part of the statute . By the terms of the statute , the appeal must be taken within ninety days . No regulation can ...
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Page 574 - All claims founded upon the Constitution of the United States or any law of Congress, except for pensions, or upon any regulation of an Executive Department, or upon any contract, express or implied, with the Government of the United States...
Page 46 - That the power to tax involves the power to destroy ; that the power to destroy may defeat and render useless the power to create ; that there is a plain repugnance in conferring on one government a power to control the constitutional measures of another, which other, with respect to those very measures, is declared to be supreme over that which exerts the control, are propositions not to be denied.
Page 289 - The circuit courts of the United States shall have original cognizance, concurrent with the courts of the several States, of all suits of a civil nature at common law or in equity, where the matter in dispute exceeds, exclusive of costs, the sum or value of five hundred dollars, and arising under the Constitution or laws of the United States...
Page 319 - And that either of the justices of the Supreme Court, as well as judges of the District Courts, shall have power to grant writs of habeas corpus, for the purpose of an inquiry into the cause of commitment.
Page 735 - In order to come within the provision of the constitution of the United States which declares that no state shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts...
Page 188 - States authorizes the supreme court " to issue writs of mandamus, in cases warranted by the principles and usages of law, to any courts appointed, or persons holding office, under the authority of the United States.
Page 75 - The judicial power shall extend to all cases in law and equity arising under the constitution, the laws of the United States, and treaties made, or which shall be made, under their authority...
Page 356 - ... upon a writ of error, whereto shall be annexed and returned therewith at the day and place therein mentioned, an authenticated transcript of the record, an assignment of errors, and prayer for reversal, with a citation to the adverse party, signed by the judge of such district court, or a justice of the Supreme Court, the adverse party having at least twenty days
Page 51 - And be it further enacted, That it -shall be the duty of each officer, assigned as aforesaid, to protect all persons in their rights of person and property, to suppress insurrection, disorder and violence, and to punish, or cause to be punished, all disturbers of the public peace and criminals...
Page 199 - States, in addition to the authority already conferred by law, shall have power to grant writs of habeas corpus in all cases of a prisoner or prisoners, in jail or confinement, where he or they shall be committed or confined on, or by any authority or law, for any act done, or omitted to be done, in pursuance of a law of the United States, or any order, process, or decree, of any judge or court thereof, any thing in any act of Congress to the contrary notwithstanding.