The International Year Book

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Dodd, Mead, 1899

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Página 392 - Delaware Maryland Virginia North Carolina South Carolina . Georgia Florida Alabama Mississippi Louisiana Texas Arkansas Tennessee West Virginia . . Kentucky Ohio Michigan Indiana Illinois...
Página 75 - Sufficient evidence has been adduced to convince your Committee, — 1. That Carriages can be propelled by steam on common roads at an average rate of ten miles per hour. 2. That at this rate they have conveyed upwards of fourteen passengers.
Página 522 - ... superior agent or officer, or of a person having the right to control or direct the services of the party injured...
Página 178 - Beneficent provision for the poor, the unfortunate, and orphan being one of the first duties of a civilized and Christian State, the general assembly shall, at its first session, appoint and define the duties of a board of public charities, to whom shall be intrusted the supervision of all charitable and penal State institutions, and who shall annually report to the governor upon their condition, with suggestions for their improvement.
Página 75 - ... by the feet of horses in common draught, such carriages will cause less wear of roads than coaches drawn by horses.
Página 522 - Knowledge by any employee injured, of the defective or unsafe character or condition of any machinery, ways or appliances, shall be no defense to an action for injury caused thereby, except as to conductors or engineers in charge of dangerous or unsafe cars, or engines voluntarily operated by them.
Página 408 - For the protection of the quality of our American citizenship and of the wages of our workingmen against the fatal competition of low-priced labor, we demand that the immigration laws be thoroughly enforced, and so extended as to exclude from entrance to the United States those who can neither read nor write.
Página 316 - ... it would be an act of bad faith on the part of the client and the opposite party to compromise the action without the consent of or without consulting such attorney.
Página 488 - All cases in which the punishment may not be at hard labor shall, until otherwise provided by law, be tried by the judge without a jury. Cases in which the punishment may be at hard labor shall be tried by a jury of five, all of whom must concur to render a verdict ; cases in which the punishment is necessarily at hard labor, by a jury of twelve, nine of whom...
Página 465 - That the right of way through the public lands and reservations of the United States is hereby granted to any canal or ditch company formed for the purpose of irrigation and duly organized under the laws of any State or Territory, which shall have filed, or may hereafter file, with the Secretary of the Interior a copy of its articles of incorporation, and due proofs of its organization...

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