| Geological Survey (U.S.) - Geological surveys - 1903 - 60 pages
...lix. 5. Pursuant to the authority vested in the Postmaster-General by the act of Congress entitled "An act to aid in the construction of telegraph lines, and to secure to the Government the use of the same for postal, military, and other purposes," approved July 24, 1866, and by the Revised... | |
| Law - 1903 - 456 pages
...such stations shall not be within fifteen miles of each other." The declared object of this Act is " to aid in the construction of telegraph lines and to secure to the government the use of the same for postal, military and other purposes." These expressed purposes are fulfilled by... | |
| Appellate courts - 1904 - 822 pages
...telegraph company having accepted the act of Congress of July 24, 1866, 14 Stat. 221, c. 230, entitled "An act to aid in the construction of telegraph lines, and to secure to the government the use of the same for postal, military, and other purposes," "the actual appropriation of the railroads... | |
| J. C. Wells, Edward Warren Hines, Frank L. Wells, Horace C. Brannin, William Cromwell, William Jefferson Chinn, Walter G. Chapman, William Pope Duvall Bush, Finlay Ferguson Bush, R. G. Higdon, Thomas Robert.. McBeath - Law reports, digests, etc - 1904 - 1208 pages
...alleged that on March 17, 188<i, it accepted the net of congress, approved July 4, 1866, entitled "An act to aid in the construction of telegraph lines and to secure to the government the use of the same for postal, military and other purposes," and the acts amendatory thereof, and that... | |
| United States. Department of Justice - Courts - 1904 - 304 pages
...during the year be reduced to the rates so charged to the public. The statutes provide that telegrams between the several Departments of the Government and their officers and agents, in their transmission over the lines of any such company, shall have priority overall other business.... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1905 - 844 pages
...general public. As a remedy for those evils Congress passed the act of July 24th, 1866, entitled "An Act to Aid in the Construction of Telegraph Lines, and to Secure to the Government the Use of the Same for Postal, Military, and Other Purposes." 14 Stat. at L. 221, chap. 230, US Сотр.... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1906 - 1298 pages
...acceptance of the restrictions and obligations of the act of Congress approved July 24, 1866, entitled "An Act to Aid in the Construction of Telegraph Lines, and to Secure to the Government the Use of the Same for Postal, Military, and Other Purposes." That, under said act of Congress, it has... | |
| William Lamartine Snyder - Antitrust law - 1906 - 654 pages
...under the provisions of the act of July twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, entitled "An act to aid in the construction of telegraph lines, and to secure to the Government the use of the same for postal, military, and other purposes." or under this Title, at an appraised value,... | |
| Joseph Asbury Joyce, Howard Clifford Joyce - Electric engineering - 1907 - 1014 pages
...Resalved, That this company does hereby accept the provisions of tho act of Congress, entitled ' An act to aid in the construction of telegraph lines, and to secure to the Government the use of the same, for postal, military and other purposes." approved July 24, 1866, with all the powers,... | |
| Joseph Henry Beale - Conflict of laws - 1907 - 840 pages
...engaged in interstate commerce; that it had accepted the provisions of the act of Congress entitled " An act to aid in the construction of telegraph lines and to secure to the government the use of the same for postal and other purposes," approved July 24, 1866 ; that it had constructed its... | |
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