FIRST SESSION OF THE TWENTY-SIXTH CONGRESS

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Page cxxii - An act to provide for the better security of the lives of passengers on board of vessels propelled in whole or in part by steam...
Page 131 - The said corporation shall not, directly or indirectly, deal or trade in any thing except bills of exchange, gold or silver bullion, or in the sale of goods really and truly pledged for money lent and not redeemed in due time, or goods which shall be the proceeds of its lands.
Page 184 - FEBRUARY 8, 1864.—Read, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed. To the Senate of the United States: In...
Page 131 - Such of the said directors as may have been absent when the said excess was contracted or created, or who may have dissented from the resolution or act whereby the same was so contracted or created, may respectively exonerate themselves from being so liable by forthwith...
Page 131 - Corporation, and may be prosecuted to judgment and execution ; any condition, covenant or agreement to the contrary notwithstanding. But this shall not be construed to exempt the said Corporation, or the lands, tenements, goods or chattels of the same, from being also liable for and, chargeable with, the said excess.
Page 11 - ... may be conveyed by lease and release or bargain and sale signed, sealed and delivered by the person being of full age in whom the estate may be and attested by two witnesses...
Page 131 - The total amount of debts which the said corporation shall at any time owe, whether by bond, bill, note, or other contract, over and above the...
Page 131 - In case of excess, the directors under whose administration it shall happen, shall be liable for the same in their natural and private capacities ; and an action of debt may in such case...
Page lxxxii - Government, and I deem it my duty again to invite your attention to this subject. Actuated by similar views, Congress at their last session passed an act for the relief of certain insolvent debtors of the United States...
Page 130 - ... requisite for its immediate accommodation, in relation to the convenient transacting of its business, and such as shall have been bona fide mortgaged to it by way of security, or conveyed to it in satisfaction of debts, previously contracted in the course of its dealings, or purchased at sales upon judgments which shall have been obtained for such debts.

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