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Page 8 - ... giving and granting unto my said attorney, full power and authority to do and perform all and every act and thing whatsoever requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as...
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Page 8 - Charleston ; giving and granting unto my said Attorney, full power and authority to do and -perform all and every act and thing whatsoever requisite and necessary to be done in and about thc premises, as fully to all intents and purposes, as I might or could do if personally present, with full power of substitution and revocation; hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney, or his substitute, shall lawfully do, or cause to be done, by virtue .hereof...
Page 35 - Columbia Institution for the Deaf was incorporated as the Columbia Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind under act of Congress, February 16, 1857 (11 Stat.
Page 91 - For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff", and the cummin with a rod.
Page 9 - We have frequently decided that the public acts of public officers, purporting to be exercised in an official capacity, and by public authority, shall not be presumed to be usurped, but that a legitimate authority had been previously given or subsequently ratified.
Page 8 - Rogers, to me known, and known to me to be the individuals described in and who executed the foregoing instrument, and severally acknowledged that they executed the same for the purposes therein mentioned.
Page 104 - Even this line, formed by the several links that now compose the New York Central road, was restricted in the carriage of freight except on the payment of canal tolls, in addition to other charges for transportation, which restriction amounted to a virtual prohibition. The commerce resulting from our railroads consequently has been, with comparatively slight exceptions, a creation of the last decade. The line next opened, and connecting the western system of lakes and rivers with tide-water, was...
Page 5 - The energies thus called into action have, in a few years, made the States of the northwest the granary of Europe, and that section of our Union which, within the recollection of living men, was a wilderness, is now the chief source of supply in seasons of scarcity for the suffering millions of another continent..
Page 5 - And the said parties of the first part do hereby covenant, grant, promise and agree, to and with the said party of the...