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Page 343 - That at the general election to be held in this state on the Tuesday next succeeding the first Monday in November...
Page 109 - ... years, in consequence of the fall of interest after the peace, to reduce the charge on account of the loan to 3 or 3 ^ per cent. ; but, owing to the way in which the contract was made, we have not had, and will not have, any means of reducing the exorbitant charge on account of this loan, so long as the market rate of interest is above 3 per cent, except by paying £174 for every £100 originally received, exclusive of the...
Page 282 - Woolsey, who calls the present practice " an antique usage " founded upon " the good old plan That they should get who have the power And they should keep who can...
Page 126 - Prices sustained a heavy fall in the latter part of 1813 and the beginning of 1814; and this fall having ruined a considerable number of farmers, and produced a general want of confidence, such a destruction of provincial paper took place as has rarely been paralleled. In 1814, 1815, and 1816, no fewer than 240 country banks stopped payment ; and eighty.nine commissions of bankruptcy were issued against these establishments, being at the rate of one commission against every ten and a half of the...
Page 107 - In his commercial dictionary, now on my table, under the word "funds" he shows the means by which a stock for £100 would be granted when only £60 or £70 were paid for it ; and goes on to say : " In consequence of this practice, the principal of the debt now existing amounts to nearly twofifths more than the amount actually advanced by the lender.
Page 188 - These pieces will show, that, except the severe rule condemning the goods of a friend found on board the ship of an enemy, and the more relaxed principle of free ships free goods, both of which have occasionally been adopted by certain powers, together with some other less...
Page 20 - ... seen in the further fact that nowhere else on the globe, except in the United States, are colored people subject to insult and outrage on account of color. The colored traveler in Europe does not meet it, and we denounce it here as a disgrace to American civilization and American religion and as a violation of the spirit and letter of the Constitution of the United States.
Page 356 - There it is desirable that there should be as much uniformity as possible in the standards as well as in nomenclature of degrees in the whole of India.
Page 371 - Power over certain lands reserved to Her Majesty. 22. On and after the appointed day there shall be reserved to Her Majesty — (1.) The power of erecting forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other buildings for military or naval purposes; (2.) The power of taking waste land, and, on making due compensation, any other land, for the purpose of erecting such forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, or other buildings as aforesaid, and for any other military or naval purpose, or the defence of the...
Page 110 - ... stock ! But this, as already stated, is only one instance out of many of the same sort. We believe, indeed, that we are within the mark when we affirm that, owing to this erroneous method of funding, the country is at present paying from £6,000,000 to £7,000,000...