Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important EventsD. Appleton & Company, 1899 |
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... BUILDING , OMAHA EXPOSITION THE INDIAN ENCAMPMENT , OMAHA EXPOSITION MOUNT MAYON , PHILIPPINE ISLANDS SAN JUAN , PUERTO RICO . PORTRAITS OF THE AMERICAN PEACE COMMISSIONERS THE BATTLE SHIP " OREGON " FACING PAGE 103 • • 121 249 254 624 ...
... BUILDING , OMAHA EXPOSITION THE INDIAN ENCAMPMENT , OMAHA EXPOSITION MOUNT MAYON , PHILIPPINE ISLANDS SAN JUAN , PUERTO RICO . PORTRAITS OF THE AMERICAN PEACE COMMISSIONERS THE BATTLE SHIP " OREGON " FACING PAGE 103 • • 121 249 254 624 ...
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... buildings . The State University graduated a class of 15 in June , and Ouachita College one of 6 in the regular course and 6 from special departments . From the medical department of the university 19 were grad- uated in April , and 9 ...
... buildings . The State University graduated a class of 15 in June , and Ouachita College one of 6 in the regular course and 6 from special departments . From the medical department of the university 19 were grad- uated in April , and 9 ...
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... Building on Aug. 19 and 20 , when Lucien M. Underwood , of Columbia University , New York city , was chosen president , and George F. Atkinson , of Cornell Uni- versity , Ithaca , N. Y. , secretary . The tenth annual meeting of the ...
... Building on Aug. 19 and 20 , when Lucien M. Underwood , of Columbia University , New York city , was chosen president , and George F. Atkinson , of Cornell Uni- versity , Ithaca , N. Y. , secretary . The tenth annual meeting of the ...
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... Building Construction and Requirements in Sydney , Past and Present , " by G. Allan Mansfield ; " Some Re- marks on Details of Hospital Construction and Lay Management , " by C. E. Owen Smyth : " The Orna- mental Treatment of Iron and ...
... Building Construction and Requirements in Sydney , Past and Present , " by G. Allan Mansfield ; " Some Re- marks on Details of Hospital Construction and Lay Management , " by C. E. Owen Smyth : " The Orna- mental Treatment of Iron and ...
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... buildings , etc. , $ 84,767 , and the total amount of $ 255,452 had been expended on them during the school year . The ... building in Philadelphia , costing $ 530,000 , without cost to the missionary department of its work except that ...
... buildings , etc. , $ 84,767 , and the total amount of $ 255,452 had been expended on them during the school year . The ... building in Philadelphia , costing $ 530,000 , without cost to the missionary department of its work except that ...
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Page 203 - That all levies, judgments, attachments, or other liens, obtained through legal proceedings against a person who is insolvent, at any time within four months prior to the filing of a petition in bankruptcy against him, shall be deemed null and void in case he is adjudged a bankrupt...
Page 161 - For the recognition of the independence of the people of Cuba, demanding that the Government of Spain relinquish its authority and government in the island of Cuba, and to withdraw its land and naval forces from Cuba and Cuban waters, and directing the President of the United States to use the land and naval forces of the United States to carry these resolutions into effect...
Page 192 - States as a holiday or as a day of public fasting or thanksgiving; (15) a person shall be deemed insolvent within the provisions of this Act whenever the aggregate of his property, exclusive of any property which he may have conveyed, transferred, concealed, or removed, or permitted to be concealed or removed, with intent to defraud, hinder or delay his creditors, shall not, at a fair valuation, be sufficient in amount to pay his debts...
Page 203 - ... liens, obtained through legal proceedings against a person who is insolvent, at any time within four months prior to the filing of a petition in bankruptcy against him, shall be deemed null and void in case he is adjudged a bankrupt, and the property affected by the levy, judgment, attachment, or other lien shall be deemed wholly discharged and released from the same, and shall pass to the trustee as a part of the estate of the bankrupt...
Page 202 - A person shall be deemed to have given a preference if, being insolvent, he has, within four months before the filing of the petition, or after the filing of the petition and before the adjudication, procured or suffered a judgment to be entered against himself in favor of any person, or made a transfer of any of his property, and the effect of the enforcement of such judgment or transfer will be to enable any one of his creditors to obtain a greater percentage of his debt than any other of such,...
Page 204 - States, or from one State or Territory of the United States or the District of Columbia to any other State or Territory of the United States or the District of Columbia, or from any place in the United States to an adjacent foreign country, or from any place in the United States through a foreign country to any other place in the United States. The term
Page 159 - That it is the duty of the United States to demand and the Government of the United States does hereby demand, that the Government of Spain at once relinquish its authority and government in the island of Cuba, and withdraw its land and naval forces from Cuba and Cuban waters.
Page 204 - That when any bankrupt shall have any insurance policy which has a cash surrender value payable to himself, his estate, or personal representatives, he may, within thirty days after the cash surrender value has been ascertained and stated to the trustee by the company issuing the same, pay or secure to the trustee the sum so ascertained and stated, and continue to hold, own, and carry such policy free from the claims of the creditors participating in the distribution of his estate under the bankruptcy...
Page 321 - He nevertheless succeeded in passing several ameliorative measures which later culminated in the Land Purchase Act of 1904. Succeeding William Henry Smith as first lord of the treasury and leader of the House of Commons in...
Page 193 - ... transferred, while insolvent, any portion of his property to one or more of his creditors with intent to prefer such creditors over his other creditors; or (3) suffered or permitted, while insolvent, any creditor to obtain a preference through legal proceedings, and not having at least five days before a sale or other disposition of any property affected by such preference vacated or discharged such preference...