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30th of June Amount of orders Amount paid annual pay appropriation ARTICLE Assistant Postmaster-General Atchison Auditor Baltimore Boston Branch Burlington cent Central Chattanooga Chicago Cincinnati clerks Cleveland Columbus Corporate title decrease Dollars Dolls East Saint Louis employés ended June 30 ent railway mail estimated Exchange Office expenditures fees fiscal year ended increase Indianapolis Iowa J. M. MCGREW July Junction June 30 last fiscal Louisville mail-route messenger Main route matter ment mile per annum money orders Nashville number of letters Number of orders Number of route Ohio orders issued Pacific Pay per mile payment Pittsburgh Portland Post-Office Department Postal Administration postal cards Postal Union postmasters Railroad railway mail service receipts received registered remitter revenue Richmond round trips route agent Saint Joseph Saint Louis Saint Paul Springfield stamped envelopes termini Terre Haute tion title of company Toledo Total number Treasury trips per week United Universal Postal Union Washington York
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Page 541 - due process of law" generally implies and includes actor, reus, judex, regular allegations, opportunity to answer, and a trial according to some settled course of judicial proceedings..., yet, this is not universally true.
Page 530 - General, upon evidence satisfactory to him, that the American School of Magnetic Healing, SA Weltmer, president, J. H. Kelly, secretary, and JA Kelly, at Nevada, Missouri, are engaged in conducting a scheme or device for obtaining money through the mails by means of false and fraudulent pretenses, representations, and promises...
Page 40 - No legislature can bargain away the public health or the public morals. The people themselves cannot do it, much less their servants. The supervision of both these subjects of governmental power is continuing in its nature, and they are to be dealt with as the special exigencies of the moment may require. Government is organized with a view to their preservation, and cannot divest itself of the power to provide for them. For this purpose the legislative discretion is allowed, and the discretion cannot...
Page 532 - to come to the seat of government to assert any claim he may have upon that government, to transact any business he may have with it, to seek its protection, to share its offices, to engage in administering its functions. He has the right of free access to its seaports, through which all operations of foreign commerce are conducted, to the subtreasuries, land offices, and courts of justice in the several States.
Page 529 - The Postmaster General may, upon evidence satisfactory to him that any person or company is engaged in conducting any lottery, gift enterprise, or scheme for the distribution of money, or of any real or personal property by lot, chance, or drawing of any kind...
Page 531 - States — such, for instance, as the prohibition against ex post facto laws, bills of attainder, and laws impairing the obligation of contracts. But, with the exception of these and a few other restrictions, the entire domain of the privileges and immunities of citizens of the States, as above defined, lay within the constitutional and legislative power of the States, and without that of the federal government.
Page 538 - We do not agree with the counsel of Missouri that "to punish one is to deprive him of life, liberty or property, and that to take from him anything less than these is no punishment at all." The learned counsel does not use these terms — life, liberty, and property — as comprehending every right known to the law. He does not include under liberty freedom from outrage on the feelings as well as restraints on the person. He does not include under property those estates which one may acquire in professions,...
Page 461 - Etats, et elle demeurera obligatoire , d'année en année, jusqu'à ce que l'une des deux parties contractantes ait annoncé à l'autre , mais un an à l'avance, son intention d'en faire cesser les effets. Pendant cette dernière année , la convention continuera d'avoir son exécution pleine et entière, sans préjudice de la liquidation et du solde des comptes entre les administrations des postes des deux pays , après l'expiration dudit terme.
Page 539 - The attorney and counsellor being, by the solemn judicial act of the court, clothed with his office, does not hold it as a matter of grace and favor. The right which it confers upon him to appear for suitors, and to argue causes, is something more than a mere indulgence, revocable at the pleasure of the court, or at the command of the legislature. It is a right of which he can only be deprived by the judgment of the court, for moral or professional delinquency.
Page 461 - IN WITNESS WHEREOF the respective plenipotentiaries have signed the present convention and have affixed thereto their seals. DONE in duplicate at Washington the ^ day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eighteen.