Legislative Documents, Volume 5

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Contains the reports of state departments and officials for the preceding fiscal biennium.
 

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Page 137 - That the power to tax involves the power to destroy; that ; the power to destroy may defeat and render useless the power to create; that there is a plain repugnance in conferring on one government a power to control the constitutional measures of another, which other, with respect to those very means, is declared to be supreme over that which exerts the control, are propositions not to be denied.
Page 20 - Now, therefore, I, William McKinley, president of the United States, by virtue of the power vested in me by the constitution and the laws...
Page 100 - A policy of insurance on the life of an individual, in the absence of an agreement or assignment to the contrary, shall inure to the separate use of the husband or wife and children of said individual, independently of his creditors.
Page 137 - Such being the separate and independent condition of the States in our complex system, as recognized by the Constitution, and the existence of which is so indispensable, that, without them, the general government itself would disappear from the family of nations, it would seem to follow...
Page 43 - The repeal of the several acts embraced in said re revision shall not affect any act done, or any right accruing or accrued, or any suit or proceeding had or commenced in any civil cause before the said repeal, but all rights and liabilities under said acts shall continue, and may be enforced in the same manner, as if said repeal had not been made...
Page 67 - ... 3 inches from the ground, barrel to the rear,. the left hand above and near the right, steadying the piece...
Page 136 - If we measure the power of taxation residing in a state, by the extent of sovereignty which the people of a single state possess, and can confer on its government, we have an intelligible standard, applicable to every case to which the power may be applied.
Page 75 - ... engages the lower hook of the swivel of his own piece with the free hook of...
Page 138 - It is admitted that there is no express provision in the constitution that prohibits the general government from taxing the means and Instrumentalities of the states, nor Is there any prohibiting the states from taxing the means and Instrumentalities of that government. In both cases the exemption rests upon necessary implication, and is upheld by the great law of self-preservation...
Page 68 - ... in a vertical plane perpendicular to the front; carry the left hand, thumb and fingers extended and joined, to the small of the stock, tip of the forefinger touching the cocking piece, wrist straight and elbow down.

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