Chapters of Erie, and Other Essays

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H. Holt and Company, 1886 - 429 páginas
 

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Página 247 - the opinion of this committee that the promissory notes of the Bank of England have hitherto been, and are at this time, held in public estimation to be equivalent to the legal coin of the realm, and generally accepted as such in all pecuniary transactions to which such coin is lawfully applicable.
Página 421 - franchises with any other railroad corporation owning a parallel or competing line " § 12. " Railways heretofore constructed, or that may hereafter be constructed, in this State, are hereby declared public highways, and shall be free to all persons for the transportation of their property thereon, under such regulations as may be prescribed by law. And the General Assembly shall, from time to time, pass laws
Página 415 - to reasonable conditions for the general advantage, or to retain such power over it, that the profits of the monopoly may at least be obtained for the public. This applies to the case of a road, a canal, or a railway. These are always in a great degree practical monopolies; and a government which concedes such
Página 198 - as himselfe, came unto him and told him now they were friends, and presently he should goe to Jamestowne, to send him two great gunnes and a gryndstone, for which he would give him the Country of Capahowosick, and for ever esteeme him as his sonne
Página 25 - Act of 1850, which authorized the railroad companies to which it applied ' ' to borrow such sums of money as may be necessary for completing, finishing, and operating the road "; to mortgage their roads as security for such loans; and to " confer on any holder of any bond issued
Página 193 - and make himselfe King, that his confederats were dispersed in all the three ships, and that divers of his confederats that revealed it would affirm it, for this he was committed as a prisoner : thirteen weeks he remained thus suspected, and by that time the ships should returne, they pretended out of their
Página 198 - kindly, the next day we departed "The next night I lodged at a hunting town of Powhatams, and the next day arrived at Waranacomoco upon the river of Pamauncke, where the great king is resident "Arriving at Weramocomoco their Emperour .... kindly welcomed me with good wordes, and great Platters of sundrie Victuals, assuring
Página 312 - the House of Representatives, Mr. Spaulding said : — " The bill before us is a war measure, a measure of necessity, and not of choice We have the alternative either to go into the market and sell our bonds for what they will command, or to pass this bill If you offer to the people and
Página 219 - of her owne braines to save mine, and not onely that, but so prevailed with her father, that I was safely conducted to Jamestowne." If Smith really wrote this statement to the Queen, and the Queen received the letter,
Página 415 - There are many cases in which the agency, of whatever nature, by which a service is performed, is certain from the nature of the case, to be virtually single, in which a practical monopoly, with all the power it confers of taxing the community, cannot be prevented from existing

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