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Page 10 - United States, wholly or in part, in the same or other bonds, treasury notes, or other evidences of debt against the United States, to be allowed at par; and after said road is completed, until said bonds and interest are paid, at least five per centum of the net earnings of said road shall also be annually applied to the payment thereof.
Page 56 - CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AT THE SECOND SESSION, BEGUN AND HELD AT THE CITY OF WASHINGTON ON MONDAY, THE THIRD DAY OF DECEMBER, ONE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED AND SEVENTEEN. JOINT RESOLUTION PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES.
Page 8 - In consideration of their exertions to increase the demand for coal and the large sum to be expended in improvements, it is further agreed that the party of the second part...
Page 15 - making appropriations for the repair, preservation and completion of certain public works on rivers and harbors and for other purposes...
Page 5 - An Act to protect all persons in the United States in their civil rights, and to furnish the means of their vindication ;" and the other remedial laws of the United States which are in their nature applicable in such cases.
Page 3 - And the Secretary of War is hereby directed to report to Congress, at its next session, or sooner, if practicable, the condition of said canal, and the provisions necessary to relieve the same from incumbrance, with a view to such legislation as will render the same free to commerce at the earliest practicable period, subject only to such tolls as may be necessary for the superintendence and repair thereof, which shall not, after the passage of this act, exceed five cents per ton.