 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1920 - 788 pages
...(39 US Stat. chap. 418, p. 645, 9 Fed. Stat. Ann. [2d Ed.] p. 1095) , provides in part as follows: "The President, in time of war, is empowered, through...thereof, and to utilize the same, to the exclusion so far as may be necessary of all other traffic thereon, for the transfer or transportation of troops,... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1920 - 684 pages
...President of the United States. On the 2gth of August, 1916, Congress gave the President power "in time of war * * * to take possession and assume control...and to utilize the same to the exclusion, as far as [might] be necessary, of all other traffic thereon, for the transfer or transportation of troops, war... | |
 | United States. Court of Claims - Law reports, digests, etc - 1924 - 792 pages
...to the two acts as the authority for the taking. The act of August 29, 1916, authorized the taking of " any system or systems of transportation or any...transportation of troops, war material, and equipment," etc.. while section 10 of the Lever Act applied, so far at least as this case is concerned, to " storage... | |
 | 1918 - 740 pages
...the Government to carry on war." And he also quotes from the Army Appropriation Act of August, 1916 : The President, in time of war, is empowered, through...for such other purposes connected with the emergency as may be needful or desirable. This provision was a product of the great war in Europe, although it... | |
 | Law - 1920 - 516 pages
...was lodged in the President: "Transportation of Troops in Time o/ War — Taking Over Facilities — The President, in time of war, is empowered, through...for such other purposes connected with the emergency as may be needful or desirable." At the time of the enactment of these several amendments, there were... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1920 - 2100 pages
...of Congress of August 29, 1916 (39 Stat. 645 [Comp. St. § 1974a]) gave the President power "in time of war" to take possession and assume control of any system or systems of transportation within the boundaries of the continental United States. In April, 1917, war with Germany was declared.... | |
 | John Michels (Journalist) - Science - 1918 - 676 pages
...1916, making the appropriation for the support of the army for the year 1916-17, the President was empowered through the Secretary of War to take possession and assume control of the transportation of the country for war purposes ; and also ' ' for such other purposes connected... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1922 - 1148 pages
...cause of action arose. Nowhere by act of Congress (Сотр. St. § 1974a), in empowering the President through the Secretary of War to take possession and...control of any system or systems of transportation, etc., are the places provided for Instituting suit for injuries received against any systems of transportation,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1920 - 956 pages
...of transportation or any part thereof, and to utilize the same to the exclusion, as far as [might] be necessary, of all other traffic thereon, for the...for such other purposes connected with the emergency as [might] be other cases see same topic and KEY-NUMBER In all Key-Numbered Digeste and Indexe« (127... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1922 - 956 pages
...proclamation, and orders referred to above. By the act of Congress of August 29, 1916 (US Comp. St. § 1974n), the President, in time of war, is empowered, through...thereof, and to utilize the same, to the exclusion as far ns may be necessary lof all other traffic thereon, for the transfer or transportation of troops, war... | |
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The President, in time of war, is empowered, through the Secretary of War, to take possession and assume control of any system or systems of transportation, or any part thereof, and to utilize the same, to the exclusion as far as may be necessary of all... 
