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Authority, 1846

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Page 114 - Louisiana," and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and shall be able in law to sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto, defend and be defended...
Page 335 - Resolved, That the Governor of this State be requested to transmit a copy of the foregoing report and resolutions to the President of the United States, to the Executives of the several States, and to each of our Senators and Representatives in Congress.
Page 75 - The testimony in any such proceeding shall be reduced to writing and filed in the office of the Commission.
Page 83 - District of Columbia, by which name it is hereby constituted a body corporate for municipal purposes, and may contract and be contracted with, sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, have a seal, and exercise all other powers of a municipal corporation not inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of the United States and the provisions of this act.
Page 266 - ... provided that the charge of transportation or conveyance shall not exceed fifty cents per hundred pounds on heavy articles, and ten cents per cubic foot on articles of measurement, for every one hundred miles ; and five cents per mile for every passenger...
Page 265 - ... be dissolved, but it shall be lawful on any other day to hold an election for...
Page 24 - ... situated ; and the said commissioners, before they act, shall severally take an oath before some justice of the peace faithfully and impartially to discharge the duty assigned them ; in making the said valuation, the commissioners shall take into consideration the loss or damage which may occur to the owner...
Page 26 - ... transportation ; prescribe the rules of priority, and charge and receive such just and reasonable compensation for storage as they by rules may establish, which they shall cause to be published, or as may be fixed by agreement with the owner, which may be distinct from the rates of transportation : Provided, that the said company shall not charge or receive...
Page 140 - ... together with the principal felon or after the conviction of the principal felon, or may be indicted and convicted of a substantive felony, whether the principal felon shall or shall not have been previously convicted, or shall or shall not be amenable to justice, and may thereupon be punished in the same manner as any accessory before the fact to the same felony, if convicted as an accessory, may be punished.
Page 22 - Manner of voting. shall induce a forfeiture of the share or shares on which default shall be so made, and all payments thereon, and the same shall vest in and belong to the company, and may be restored to the owner or owners...

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