United States Military Reservations, National Cemeteries, and Military Parks: Title, Jurisdiction, EtcU.S. Government Printing Office, 1916 - 544 pages |
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acquired acres acres of land act of cession act of Congress aforesaid approved July approved March April 15 August 11 clerk's office Congress approved consent contains an area conveying lot County dated April dated August dated December dated February dated January dated July dated June dated March dated November dated October dated September December 18 Decree of condemnation deed book Deed from John Deed from William deed records erect et ux Executive order Executive order dated February 16 feet of land folio granted hereby ceded Island June 22 Jurisdiction.-See General act legislature approved metes and bounds military purposes military reservation NATIONAL CEMETERY parcel of land purchase Quitclaim deed Railway Recorded in book Recorded in deed Recorded in liber Recorded in volume reservation is situated Reserved by Execu Revocable Secretary Secretary of War September 20 square feet Stat thereof Title.-Deed tract of land veying wife
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Page 517 - All subjects over which the sovereign power of a State extends are objects of taxation ; but those over which it does not extend are, upon the soundest principles, exempt from taxation.
Page 516 - If the states may tax one instrument, employed by the government in the execution of its powers, they may tax any and every other instrument. They may tax the mail; they may tax the mint; they may tax patent rights; they may tax the papers of the customhouse; they may tax judicial process; they may tax all the means employed by the government, to an excess which would defeat all the ends of government. This was not intended by the American people. They did not design to make their government dependent...
Page 258 - States shall have acquired the title to the said land by purchase or grant, and so long as the said lands shall remain the property of the United States, when acquired as aforesaid, and no longer, the same shall be and continue exonerated from all taxes, assessments, and other charges which may be levied or imposed under the authority of this State.
Page 248 - That the consent of the state of Maine is hereby given, in accordance with the seventeenth clause, eighth section, of the first article of the constitution of the United States, to the acquisition by the United States...
Page 517 - The difference is that which always exists, and always must exist, between the action of the whole on a part, and the action of a part on the whole — between the laws of a government declared to be supreme, and those of a government which, when in opposition to those laws, is not supreme.
Page 20 - That all that part of the said territory, called Columbia, which lies within the limits of this state, shall be and the same is hereby acknowledged to be forever ceded and relinquished to the congress and government of the United States...
Page 287 - York shall retain a concurrent jurisdiction with the United States in and over the said property, so far as that all civil and criminal process which may issue under the laws or authority of the State of New York, may be executed thereon in the same way and manner as if such consent had not been given...
Page 194 - States in and over such lands so far that civil process in all cases, and such criminal process as may issue under the authority of the State...
Page 512 - It is a general rule of public law, recognized and acted upon by the United States, that whenever political jurisdiction and legislative power over any territory are transferred from one nation or sovereign to another, the municipal laws of the country, that is, laws which are intended for the protection of private rights, continue in force until abrogated or changed by the new government or sovereign.
Page 520 - Upon full consideration of this subject, we are of opinion that the United States have such a capacity to enter into contracts. It is in our opinion an incident to the general right of sovereignty; and the United States being a body politic, may within the sphere of the constitutional powers confided to it, and through the instrumentality of the proper department to which those powers are confided, enter into contracts not prohibited by law, and appropriate to the just exercise of those powers...