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Page 349 - ... the exercise of the police power of the State shall never be abridged or so construed as to permit corporations to conduct their business in such manner as to infringe the equal rights of individuals or the general well-being of the State.
Page 493 - Whenever a witness summoned as mentioned In section one hundred and two fails to testify, and the facts are reported to either House, the President of the Senate or the Speaker of the House, as the case may be, shall certify...
Page 356 - They shall cause a record to be kept of all stock subscribed and transferred, and of all business transactions ; and their books and records shall, at all reasonable times, be open to the inspection of any and every stockholder.
Page 309 - Trustees, may be by them exchanged or sold and the proceeds thereof distributed pro rata to the holders of Trust Certificates, or said proceeds may be held and reinvested by said Trustees for the purposes and uses of the Trust, provided, however, that said Trustees may from time to time assign such shares of stock of said Standard Oil Companies...
Page 349 - The citizens have a right in a peaceable manner to assemble together for their common good, and to apply to those invested with the powers of government for redress of grievances or other proper purposes by petition, address, or remonstrance.
Page 16 - Any member may call for a division of the question when the sense will admit of it...
Page 349 - All individuals, associations and corporations shall have equal right to have persons and property transported over railroads and canals, and no undue or unreasonable discrimination shall be made in charges for, or in facilities for, transportation of freight or passengers within the State or coming from or going to any other State.
Page 308 - ... vacancies. If any vacancy occurs in the Board of Trustees, from any cause, within sixty days of the date of the annual meeting for the election of Trustees, the vacancy may be filled by a majority of the remaining Trustees, or, at their option, may remain vacant until the annual election.
Page 490 - But in its inquiries it is controlled by the same guards against the invasion of private rights which limit the investigations of private parties into similar matters.
Page 311 - States, as soon as said corporations were organized and ready to receive the same, all the property, real and personal, assets and business of said Corporations or Associations ; and whereas it is not deemed expedient that all of the Companies and Associations mentioned should transfer their property to the said Standard Oil Companies at the present time...