Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volume 37

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F. Hunt, 1857
 

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Page 121 - Massachusetts relating to the Registry and Return of Births, Marriages, and Deaths in the Commonwealth.
Page 66 - The legislature shall not pass any bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts, or depriving a party of any remedy for enforcing a contract which existed when the contract was made.
Page 724 - ... on such nonenumerated article the same rate of duty as is chargeable on the article which it resembles paying the highest...
Page 607 - Manufactures of goats' hair or mohair, or of which goats' hair or mohair shall be a component material, not otherwise provided for. Manufactures of silk, or of which silk shall be a component material, not otherwise provided for.
Page 650 - Civil Engineers. Rewritten and arranged with additional matter and plates, selections from and examples of the most useful and generally employed mechanism of the day. By WILLIAM JOHNSON, Assoc. Inst. CE Illustrated by fifty folio steel plates, and fifty wood-cuts.
Page 607 - Act, which is similar, either in material, quality, texture, or the use to which it may be applied, to any article enumerated in this Act as chargeable with duty, shall pay the same rate of duty which is levied on the enumerated article which it most resembles in any of the particulars before mentioned...
Page 722 - A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils. It undermines the virtues necessary for the support of the social system, and encourages propensities destructive of its happiness ; it wars against industry, frugality, and economy, and it fosters the evil spirits of extravagance and speculation.
Page 235 - An order for the arrest of the defendant must be obtained from a judge of the court in which the action is brought.
Page 312 - For the purpose of calculating interest, a month shall be considered the twelfth part of a year, and as consisting of thirty days; and interest for any number of days less than a month shall be estimated by the proportion which such number of days shall bear to thirty.
Page 477 - Manufactures of cotton, linen, silk, wool, or worsted, if embroidered or tamboured in the loom or otherwise, by machinery, or with the needle or other process.

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