Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States, Volume 44Published for John Conrad and Company, 1845 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... question raised by the first point was now for the first time brought before any court . The amount in all the cases is about a million and a half . Before 1842 , all duties were levied upon foreign valuation . There are two ...
... question raised by the first point was now for the first time brought before any court . The amount in all the cases is about a million and a half . Before 1842 , all duties were levied upon foreign valuation . There are two ...
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... question were subject to a duty of more than twenty per cent . , by virtue of the act of 14th July , 1832 , to be assessed according to the rules prescribed by that act . The question then is , how far have the provisions of the act of ...
... question were subject to a duty of more than twenty per cent . , by virtue of the act of 14th July , 1832 , to be assessed according to the rules prescribed by that act . The question then is , how far have the provisions of the act of ...
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... question of power , Con- gress undoubtedly had authority , after the 30th June , 1842 , as well as before , to impose any duties it saw fit upon the articles referred to , or upon any other imports . And it cannot be supposed that the ...
... question of power , Con- gress undoubtedly had authority , after the 30th June , 1842 , as well as before , to impose any duties it saw fit upon the articles referred to , or upon any other imports . And it cannot be supposed that the ...
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... question were subject to a duty of twenty per cent . under the 1st section of the last mentioned act ; and that the duties in this case were assessed accordingly upon the value of the goods at the port at which they entered , as ...
... question were subject to a duty of twenty per cent . under the 1st section of the last mentioned act ; and that the duties in this case were assessed accordingly upon the value of the goods at the port at which they entered , as ...
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... question , therefore , which the plaintiff in error has attempted to raise , is not presented by the record . But it is not my purpose to avoid the dis- cussion of the question , if we can really get it into a tangible form . The question ...
... question , therefore , which the plaintiff in error has attempted to raise , is not presented by the record . But it is not my purpose to avoid the dis- cussion of the question , if we can really get it into a tangible form . The question ...
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Page 607 - No person demeaning himself in a peaceable and orderly manner, shall ever be molested on account of his mode of worship or religious sentiments, in the said territory.
Page 223 - To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such district (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular States, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of government of the United States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased, by the consent of the legislature of the State in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful 'buildings.
Page 34 - An act for ascertaining and adjusting the titles and claims to land within the Territory of Orleans and the District of Louisiana, ' shall have made their reports and the decision of Congress been had thereon.
Page 105 - And that either of the justices of the Supreme Court, as well as judges of the District Courts, shall have power to grant writs of habeas corpus, for the purpose of an inquiry into the cause of commitment.
Page 222 - And whenever any of the said states shall have sixty thousand free inhabitants therein, such state shall be admitted, by its delegates, into the Congress of the United States, on an equal footing with the original states, in all respects whatever, and shall be at liberty to form a permanent constitution and state government...
Page 229 - It is the power to regulate; that is, to prescribe the rule by which commerce is to be governed. This power, like all others vested in Congress, is complete in itself, may be exercised to its utmost extent, and acknowledges no limitations other than are prescribed in the Constitution.
Page 221 - Virginia inclusive according to their usual respective proportions in the general charge and expenditure and shall be faithfully and bona fide disposed of for that purpose and for no other use or purpose whatsoever.
Page 313 - ... and to all acts, matters, and things to be done under and in virtue of the bankruptcy, until the final distribution and settlement of the estate of the bankrupt, and the close of the proceedings in bankruptcy.
Page 762 - Where a court has jurisdiction, it has a right to decide every question which occurs in the cause; and, whether its decision be correct or otherwise, its judgment, until reversed, is regarded as binding in every other court : but, if it act without authority, its judgments and orders are regarded as nullities. They are not voidable, but simply void.
Page 179 - The state governments have no right to tax any of the constitutional means employed by the government of the Union to execute its constitutional powers.