Official Opinions of the Attorneys General of the United States: Advising the President and Heads of Departments, in Relation to Their Official DutiesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1873 - Attorneys general's opinions |
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Page 127 - An act [to amend an act entitled 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 364 - AND TO SECURE THE REPAYMENT TO THE UNITED STATES, as HEREINAFTER PROVIDED, of the amount of said bonds so issued and delivered to said company, TOGETHER WITH ALL INTEREST THEREON WHICH SHALL HAVE BEEN PAID BY THE UNITED STATES...
Page 128 - States, whether residing at home or abroad, and every person residing therein, whether said gains, profits, or income be derived from any kind of property, rents, interest, dividends, or salaries, or from any profession, trade, employment, or vocation carried on in the United States or elsewhere, or from any other source whatever...
Page 130 - Any woman who might lawfully be naturalized under the existing laws, married, or who shall be married, to a citizen of the United States, shall be deemed and taken to be a citizen.
Page 62 - That, until the people of said rebel States shall be by law admitted to representation in the Congress of the United States, any civil governments which may exist therein shall be deemed provisional only, and in all respects subject to the paramount authority of the United States at any time to abolish, modify, control, or supersede the same...
Page 365 - And all such lands, so granted by this section, which shall not be sold or disposed of by said company within three years after the entire road shall have been completed, shall be subject to settlement and preemption...
Page 536 - State shall be subject to the disposal of the legislature thereof, for the purposes aforesaid and no other; and the said railroad and branches shall be and remain a public highway, for the use of the government of the United States, free from toll or other charge upon the transportation of any property or troops of the United States.
Page 57 - An act to provide a national currency secured by a pledge of United States bonds, and to provide for the circulation and redemption thereof...
Page 62 - That it -shall be the duty of each officer, assigned as aforesaid, to protect all persons in their rights of person and property, to suppress insurrection, disorder and violence, and to punish, or cause to be punished, all disturbers of the public peace and criminals...
Page 289 - Except as otherwise provided by law, all balances of appropriations contained in the annual appropriation bills and made specifically for the service of any fiscal year, and remaining unexpended at the expiration of such fiscal year, shall only be applied to the payment of expenses properly incurred during that year, or to the fulfillment of contracts TITLE 31.— MONET AND FINANCE Ch.ll properly made within that year; and balances not needed for such purposes shall be carried to the surplus fund.
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| Title | Official Opinions of the Attorneys General of the United States: Advising the President and Heads of Departments, in Relation to Their Official Duties |
| Author | United States. Department of Justice |
| Publisher | U.S. Government Printing Office, 1873 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 14 Aug 2007 |
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