British Almanac and Family CyclopaediaStationers' Company, 1871 - Almanacs, English |
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Page 12 - An Essay on the application of Mathematical Analysis to the Theories of Electricity and Magnetism...
Page 94 - SOLIDITY. 1728 Cubic Inches = 1 Cubic Foot 27 Cubic Feet = 1 Cubic Yard DIVISION IL — CAPACITY. cub. ins., 4 Gills = 1 Pint = 2 Pints = 1 Quart = 4 Qts. = 1 Gallon = 277¿ 2 Gall. = 1 Peck = 554} nearly. 8 Gall. = 1 Bushel = 2218 8 Bush.
Page 242 - The wages and earnings of any married woman acquired or gained by her after the passing of this Act in any employment, occupation, or trade in which she is engaged or which she carries on separately from her husband, and also any money or property so acquired by her through the exercise of any literary, artistic, or scientific skill, and all investments of such wages, earnings, money, or property, shall be deemed and taken to be property held and settled to her separate use, independent of any husband...
Page 225 - The school board shall be a body corporate, by the name of the school board of the district to which they belong, having a perpetual succession and a common seal, with power to acquire and hold land for the purposes of this Act without any license in mortmain...
Page 243 - A married woman having separate property shall be subject to all such liability for the maintenance of her children...
Page 243 - Act all rents, annuities, dividends, and other periodical payments in the nature of income (whether reserved or made payable under an instrument in writing or otherwise) shall, like interest on money lent, be considered as accruing from day to day, and shall be apportionable in respect of time accordingly.
Page 224 - Every child attending a school provided by any school board shall pay such weekly fee as may be prescribed by the school board with the consent of the Education Department but the school board may from time to time, for a renewable period not exceeding six months, remit the whole or any part of such fee in the case of any child when they are of opinion that the parent of such child is unable from poverty to pay the same, but such remission shall not be deemed to be parochial relief given to such...