Columbia Studies in the Social Sciences, Issue 274Columbia University Press, 1926 |
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Page 362 - Witnesses summoned before the commission shall be paid the same fees and mileage that are paid witnesses in the courts of the United States, and witnesses whose depositions are taken and the persons taking the same shall severally be entitled to the same fees as are paid for like services in the courts of the United States.
Page 357 - ... authority to regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the several States, and which either in their natural or improved condition notwithstanding interruptions between the navigable parts of such streams or waters by falls, shallows, or rapids compelling land carriage, are used or suitable for use for the transportation of persons or property in interstate or foreign commerce, including therein all such interrupting falls, shallows, or rapids, together with such other parts of streams...
Page 355 - Commission (hereinafter referred to as the commission), which shall be composed of five commissioners, who shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.
Page 371 - The holder of any contract for electrical energy not in default thereunder shall be entitled to a renewal thereof upon such terms and conditions as may be authorized or required under the then existing laws and regulations...
Page 251 - ... the net investment of the licensee in the project or projects taken, not to exceed the fair value of the property taken...
Page 144 - That in all patents for lands hereafter taken up under any of the land laws of the United States or on entries or claims validated by this act, west of the one hundredth meridian it shall be expressed that there is reserved from the lands in said patent described a right of way thereon for ditches or canals constructed by the authority of the United States.
Page 137 - A committee meet when and where they please, if the House has not ordered time and place for them (6 Grey, 370), but they can only act when together, and not by separate consultation and consent — nothing being the report of the committee but what has been agreed to in committee actually assembled.
Page 151 - ... instrument; that he knows the seal of said corporation ; that the seal affixed to said instrument is such corporate seal ; that it was so...
Page 347 - ... securities and the time when the property acquired or the improvement made becomes available for the service for which it is intended. The proportion of discount and expense thus chargeable shall be determined by the ratio between the period prior to the completion or coming into service of the facilities or improvements acquired or constructed and the period of the entire life of the securities issued.
Page 372 - Treasury to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War in the maintenance and operation of dams and other navigation structures owned by the United States or in the construction, maintenance, or operation of headwater or other improvements of navigable waters of the United States.