Supplement to the Revised Statutes of the United States: Embracing the Statutes, General and Permanent in Their Nature, Passed After the Revised Statutes, with References Connecting Provisions on the Same Subject, Explanatory Notes, Citations of Judicial Decisions, and a General Index, Volume I, Legislation of 1874-1881, the 43rd, 44th, 45th, and 46th Congresses, Volume 1

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1881 - Law - 716 pages
 

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Page 517 - Company," and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and shall be able to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, defend and be defended, in all courts of law and equity within the United States, and may make and have a common seal.
Page 326 - All patents granted, or pre-emption or homesteads allowed, shall be subject to any vested and accrued water rights, or rights to ditches and reservoirs used in connection with such water rights, as may have been acquired under or recognized by the preceding section.
Page 326 - ... to citizens of the United States, or persons who have declared their intention to become such...
Page 178 - That five per centum of the proceeds of the sales of public lands lying within said state which shall be sold by the United States subsequent to the admission of said state into the Union, after deducting all the expenses incident to the same, shall be paid to the said state...
Page 221 - War, for his examination and approval, л design and drawings of the bridge, and a map of the location, giving, for the space of one mile above and one mile below...
Page 186 - An act to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri river to the Pacific Ocean, and to secure to the government the use of the same for postal, military, and other purposes, approved July first, eighteen hundred and sixty-two,' approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-four.
Page 633 - President of the United States of America, have caused the said Convention to be made public, to the end that the same and every article and...
Page 269 - ... then the above obligation to be void ; otherwise to remain in full force and virtue.
Page 171 - States are plaintiffs or petitioners, or in which there shall be a controversy between citizens of different States, in which the matter in dispute exceeds, exclusive of interest and costs, the sum or value aforesaid, or a controversy between citizens of the same State claiming lands under grants of different States, or a controversy between citizens of a State and foreign states, citizens, or subjects...
Page 227 - And any person who shall knowingly deposit, or cause to be deposited, for mailing or delivery, anything declared by this section...

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