| Stephens O. Jennings - Local transit - 1890 - 154 pages
...eighteen of article third of the Constitution, which prohibits the passing of ' a local or private bill granting to any corporation, association or individual the right to lay down railroad tracks. ' The relator, or if he be treated as a mere agent, the municipality itself, is authorized by a bill... | |
| New York (State). Board of Railroad Commissioners - Railroads - 1890 - 520 pages
...the Constitution of the State, which prohibits the Legislature from passing a private or local bill granting to any corporation, association or individual the right to lay down railroad tracks. It would a'ppear, however, from the brief of the advocates of the bill, that such tracks were but an... | |
| John Forrest Dillon - Corporation law - 1890 - 922 pages
...The legislature shall not pass private, local, or special laws in any of the following cases : ... granting to any corporation, association, or individual the right to lay down railroad tracks. Laws New Jersey, 1875, p. 72; ib. 1876, pp. 27, 433. See Pell v. Newark, 40 NJL 71 ; Central R. R Co.... | |
| United States. Department of the Interior - 1890 - 786 pages
...increasing, or decreasing fees, percentages, or allowances of public officers ; changing the law of descent ; granting to any corporation, association, or individual the right to lay down railroad tracks, or any special or exclusive privilege, immunity, or franchise whatever, or amending existing charter... | |
| John Forrest Dillon - Corporation law - 1890 - 894 pages
...— Constitution 1870, Art. 4, Sec. 22. The General Assembly shall not [>ass local or special laws granting to any corporation, association, or individual the right to lay down railroad tracks, or amending existing Chanel's for such purpose ; granting to any corporation, association, or individual... | |
| Mississippi. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1890 - 762 pages
...loaned, or for the sale or mortgage of real or personal estate of persons under any disability, or for creating, increasing or decreasing fees, percentage, or allowances of public officers during the terms for which said officers were elected or appointed, or permitting the laying of railroad tracks,... | |
| Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - American literature - 1891 - 1138 pages
...places of voting. Creating, increasing, or decreasing fees, percentage, or allowances of public oflicers during the term for which said officers are elected...railroad tracks. Granting to any private corporation or individual anjr exclusive privilege, immunity, or franchise whatever. Providing for building bridges,... | |
| United States - Law - 1891 - 1108 pages
...fish. Chartering or licensing ferries or toll bridges. Remitting fines, penalties, or forfeitures. Creating, increasing, or decreasing fees, percentage,...for which said officers are elected or appointed. Changing the law of descent. Granting to any corporation, association, or individual the right to lay... | |
| Grace Raymond Hebard - Wyoming - 1919 - 314 pages
...increasing, or decreasing fees, percentages or allowances of public officers; changing the law of descent; granting to any corporation, association or individual, the right to lay down railroad tracks, or any special or exclusive privilege, immunity or franchise whatever, or amending existing charter... | |
| Illinois. General Assembly. Legislative Reference Bureau - Constitutional conventions - 1920 - 1284 pages
...fish ; Chartering or licensing ferries or toll bridges; Remitting fines, penalties or forfeitures ; Creating, increasing, or decreasing fees, percentage...term for which said officers are elected or appointed ; Changing the law of descent ; Granting to any corporation, association or individual the right to... | |
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