Hansard's Parliamentary Debates

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T.C. Hansard, 1853
 

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Page 773 - No Native of the said Territories, nor any natural-born subject of His Majesty resident therein, shall by reason only of his religion, place of birth, descent, colour or any of them, be disabled from holding any place, office, or employment under the said Company.
Page 599 - ... either immediately or after any interval, either certainly or contingently, and either originally or by way of substitutive limitation, and every devolution by law of any beneficial interest in property, or the income thereof, upon the death of any person dying after the time appointed for the commencement of this act...
Page 727 - Taxation is no part of the governing or legislative power. The taxes are a voluntary gift and grant of the Commons alone. In legislation the three estates of the realm are alike concerned ; but the concurrence of the peers and the Crown to a tax is only necessary to clothe it with the form of a law. The gift and grant is of the Commons alone.
Page 713 - Act, either immediately or after any interval, either certainly or contingently, and either originally or by way of substitutive limitation, and every devolution by law of any beneficial interest in property, or the income thereof, upon the death of appointed for the commencement of this Act, to any other person, in possession or expectancy...
Page 605 - ... a full and true account of the property for the duty whereon they shall respectively be accountable...
Page 373 - Sacred Poetry," being read in any of the National Schools, nor do they allow them to be read during the time of secular or literary instruction, in any School attended by Children whose parents or guardians object to their being so read. In such case die Commissioners prohibit the use of them, except at the times of religious instruction, when the persons giving it may use these books, or not, as they think proper.
Page 15 - Parliament holden in the fourth and fifth years of the reign of Her present Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled an Act for the commu- 4 & s -yict.
Page 233 - ... appeal and the costs thereof, with power to direct, for the purposes of such appeal, any inquiry, valuation, or report to be made by any officer of the court, or other person, as such court or judge may think fit : provided, that where the sum in dispute in respect of duty on such assessment does not exceed fifty pounds, the accountable party may, having given notice of appeal and delivered a statement of the grounds thereof as hereinbefore directed, appeal to the judge of the county court in...
Page 281 - Nicholl, in the course of his judgment, said : " It is a mistake to suppose that the public force of the country is to be employed gratuitously in the service of private individuals merely to save them from expense ; these Government steam vessels are kept for the public service, and the officers in command cannot employ them in the service of individuals, and thus risk the public property without authority, or an indemnity for all expense and damage.
Page 329 - And be it further enacted . . . that no person who shall have in his own name, or in the name of any person or persons in trust for him or for his benefit...

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