Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year ..., Volume 13; Volume 28D. Appleton & Company, 1889 |
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... elected by land - owners and the edu- cated classes , and a House of Assembly of double that number , elected under a property qualification . The Governor is Sir Robert G. C. Hamilton , who was appointed in January , 1887. The Cabinet ...
... elected by land - owners and the edu- cated classes , and a House of Assembly of double that number , elected under a property qualification . The Governor is Sir Robert G. C. Hamilton , who was appointed in January , 1887. The Cabinet ...
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... elected prince by the unanimous vote of the National Assembly on July 7 , 1887 , in succes- sion to Prince Alexander , who abdicated on Sept. 7 , 1886. He assumed the government on Aug. 8 , 1887. The treaty powers have not ratified his ...
... elected prince by the unanimous vote of the National Assembly on July 7 , 1887 , in succes- sion to Prince Alexander , who abdicated on Sept. 7 , 1886. He assumed the government on Aug. 8 , 1887. The treaty powers have not ratified his ...
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... elected this year was a Chief - Justice of the Supreme Court . The Prohibitionists nom- inated their candidate , Robert Thompson , on April 4 , at a convention which also chose dele- gates to the National Prohibition Convention . The ...
... elected this year was a Chief - Justice of the Supreme Court . The Prohibitionists nom- inated their candidate , Robert Thompson , on April 4 , at a convention which also chose dele- gates to the National Prohibition Convention . The ...
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... elected for seven years , presided over ex officio by the Chief - Justice , and a House of Assembly of 74 members , elected for five years . On Sept. 1 , 1887 an act took effect giving the Transkeian territories representation in the ...
... elected for seven years , presided over ex officio by the Chief - Justice , and a House of Assembly of 74 members , elected for five years . On Sept. 1 , 1887 an act took effect giving the Transkeian territories representation in the ...
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... elected , to secure the establishment of ample harbor facilities on the Texas coast . The necessity of a reservoir system , by means of which our surplus waters can be stored and utilized for agricultural and kindred purposes , is ...
... elected , to secure the establishment of ample harbor facilities on the Texas coast . The necessity of a reservoir system , by means of which our surplus waters can be stored and utilized for agricultural and kindred purposes , is ...
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Page 211 - 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 221 - And the United States hereby renounce forever any liberty heretofore enjoyed or claimed by the inhabitants thereof to take, dry, or cure fish on or within three marine miles of any of the coasts, bays, creeks, or harbors of His Britannic Majesty's dominions in America...
Page 211 - ... the actual market value or wholesale price of such merchandise at the time of exportation to the United States, in the principal markets of the country from which the same has been imported...
Page 210 - Clothing ready made, and wearing apparel of every description, and balmoral skirts and skirting, and goods of similar description, or used for like purposes, composed wholly or in part of wool, worsted, the hair of the alpaca, goat, or other like animals, made up or manufactured wholly or in part by the tailor, seamstress, or manufacturer, except knit goods : fifty cents per pound, and, in addition thereto, forty per centum ad valorem.
Page 443 - ... such moneys shall be payable as the court shall direct, either to the party complaining or into court, to abide the ultimate decision of the court, or into the treasury; and payment thereof may, without prejudice to any other mode of recovering the same, be enforced by attachment or order in the nature of a writ of execution, in like manner as if the same had been recovered by a final decree in personam in such court.
Page 209 - Woolen cloths, woolen shawls, and all manufactures of wool of every description, made wholly or in part of wool, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, valued at not exceeding eighty cents per pound, thirty-five cents per pound and thirty-five per centum ad valorem...
Page 212 - I, , do solemnly and truly declare that I am the owner of the merchandise described in the annexed entry and invoice; that the entry now delivered by me to the collector of contains a just and true account of all the goods, wares, and merchandise imported by or consigned to me, in the whereof is master, from ; that the invoice...
Page 217 - In case of the death, absence, or incapacity of any commissioner, or in the event of any commissioner omitting or ceasing to act, the vacancy shall be filled in the manner hereinbefore provided for making the original appointment, the.
Page 224 - Possessions may from time to time prescribe ; and under like rules, regulations, and conditions, goods, wares, or merchandise may be conveyed in transit, without payment...
Page 211 - Works of art, drawings, engravings, photographic pictures, and philosophical and scientific apparatus brought by professional artists, lecturers, or scientists arriving from abroad for use by them temporarily for exhibition and in illustration, promotion, and encouragement of art, science, or industry in the United States...