Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Volumen106,Parte4

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Institution of Civil Engineers, 1891
Vols. 39-204 (1874/75-1916/17) have a section 3 containing "Abstracts of papers in foreign transactions and periodicals" (title varies); issued separately, 1919-37, as the institution's Engineering abstracts from the current periodical literature of engineering and applied science, published outside the United Kingdom.
 

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Página 229 - Engineer, being the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man, as the means of production and of traffic in states both for external and internal trade, as applied in the construction of roads, bridges, aqueducts, canals, river navigation and docks, for internal intercourse and exchange, and in the construction of ports, harbours, moles, breakwaters and lighthouses, and in the art of navigation by artificial power for the purposes of commerce, and in...
Página 225 - ... that such society shall be supported wholly or in part by annual voluntary contributions, and shall not, and by its laws may not, make any dividend, gift, division, or bonus in money unto or between any of its members, and provided also that such society shall obtain the certificate of the barristerat-law or lord advocate, as herein-after mentioned.
Página 234 - A society for the general advancement of Mechanical Science, and more particularly for promoting the acquisition of that species of knowledge which constitutes the profession of a Civil Engineer, being the art of directing the great sources of power in Nature for the use and convenience of man...
Página 229 - Property which, or the income or profits whereof, shall be legally appropriated and applied for any purpose connected with any religious persuasion, or for any charitable purpose, or for the promotion of education, literature, science, or the fine arts.
Página 229 - ... for the general advancement of mechanical science, and, more particularly, for promoting the acquisition of that species of knowledge which constitutes the profession of a civil engineer...
Página 234 - It may be that the advancement of the interests of the profession of civil engineering is inseparably bound up with the advancement of mechanical science. Probably the founders of the society were not insensible of the advantages which such an institution was likely to confer upon its members in their professional capacity. That would have been a formidable objection if the language of the Act of 1885 had been the same as that of the Act of 1843.
Página 324 - ... not only in this country but in many other parts of the Commonwealth.
Página 231 - Then it is not sufficient compliance with the plain language of the Act that a society be established chiefly for the purpose of promoting science, literature, or the fine arts. One or other of these must be its exclusive object; so that an institution which also contemplated some other, though altogether subsidiary, object, could not claim the benefit of the exemption.
Página 225 - October, 1843, no person or persons shall be assessed or rated, or liable to be assessed or rated, or liable to pay to any county, borough, parochial or other local rates or cesses, in respect of any land, houses, or buildings, or parts of houses or buildings, belonging to any society instituted for purposes of science, literature, • or the fine arts exclusively...
Página 225 - Cases, vol. 3, p. 474) that such property is still exempt, so that it is probable that the question will be litigated again, and this particular exemption will soon be abolished. Societies established exclusively for purposes of science, literature, or the fine arts are specially exempted by statute from county, borough, parochial, and other local rates ; provided, nevertheless, that each of such societies shall be supported, wholly or in part, by annual voluntary contributions, and shall not, and...

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