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Letter From The Secretary Of War, Communicating His Views In Relation To The Bill (S. 165) To Reimburse The State Of Texas For Expenses Incurred In Repelling Invasions Of Indians And Mexicans.

American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

Claims of Texas. 22 Jan. SED 19, 45-2, v1, 195p. [1780] In repelling Indian invasions from 1854 to 1877: Kickapoos, Comanches and other Indian tribes involved.

Election Of Delegate From Indian Territory

American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

Election of a Delegate from Indian Territory. [1822] Representation in Congress for the Cherokees, Creeks, Seminoles, Choctaws, and Chickasaws.

Pensions To Persons Who Served In The Mexican And Other Wars

American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

Report on Pensions. [1822] Services in the Creek war of 1835-1836, the Seminole war in Florida of 1835-1842, and the Black Hawk war of 1832.

Indians In Michigan And Indiana. (To Accompany Bill H. R. 2283.) Memorial Of Certain Indians Residing In Michigan And Indiana, For Relief

American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

Memorial of Michigan and Indiana Indians. [1815] Pottawatomies exempted from removal under the treaty of 27 Sept. 1833; ask for funds due under various treaties.

Remonstrance Of The Seminole And Creek Delegates Against The Passage Of Senate Bill No. 107, To Enable Indians To Become Citizens Of The United States.

American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

Remonstrance of Creek and Seminole Delegates. [1785] Against the bill allowing Indians to become citizens; violates numerous treaties; would lead to tribal disintegration.

Letter From The Secretary Of The Treasury, Transmitting An Estimate Of Appropriations For Payment Of Claims Originating Prior To July 1, 1875, Under Sections 3687 And 3689, Revised Statutes.

American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

Estimates for Payment of Claims. [1802] Claims under special statutes include the Seminole war.

Annotations...Walker's Chancery Reports, James V. Campbell

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The occasion which has arisen for publishing a new edition of Walker's Chancery Reports, renders it proper to accompany it with some notice of the Court, and of the changes which have taken place since the decision of the C'ases reported in this volume. The Court of Chancery, which was organized immediately on the formation of the State government, was presided over by a Chancellor, who held his courts at regular terms in, at first, three, and afterwards four different places, but with general jurisdiction over the entire State. The first Chancellor was Elon Farnsworth, a gentleman of singularly excellent …

Changes In The Balance Of Governmental Power, Thomas M. Cooley

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“In taking up for brief review the action of the convention in framing, and that of the people of the Union in adopting the Federal Constitution ninety years ago, we should be able after such a lapse of time, and in view of our diversified experience under it, to deal with it in a spirit of dispassionate criticism, and without boasting or unreasonable exultation. Yet we may perhaps truly say that the act itself was the most notable in government-making of which history bears record….”

Principles That Should Govern In The Framing Of Tax Laws, Thomas M. Cooley

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"The foregoing paper was prepared for, and read before, the American Social Science Association, at its meeting in Cincinnati on April 22, 1878. It is not, as will be seen, a discussion of legal questions, but of questions in political economy. Still, at this time, when attention is very generally being directed to the principles of taxation, it will be found not wanting in practice interest to the legal profession." Professor Cooley takes on the problem of suitable and just taxation, a problem "forever demanding solution, but never solved." How do we set equitable rates based on personal valuation for …

The Lawyer’S Duty To Be Faithful To His Own Manhood, Thomas M. Cooley

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“On a previous occasion similar to this when I was invited to address a few parting words to a class of law students, I directed their attention specifically to their duty to observe fidelity to their clients. To-day I shall call your attention to a duty equally imperative, and perhaps still more often neglected, namely: the duty of fidelity to one’s own manhood....

“I shall have accomplished fully my purpose in these parting admonitions if I impress upon your convictions the paramount importance of observing in all your professional life the obligation of fidelity to truth, to justice, …

The Method Of Electing The President, Thomas M. Cooley, Abram S. Hewitt

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Twice in the history of the United States the nation has been brought to the verge of civil war by difficulties growing out of presidential elections. And yet no system was ever devised with more care to preclude any reasonable complaint.

A Treatise On The Constitutional Limitations Which Rest Upon The Legislative Power Of The States Of The American Union, Thomas M. Cooley

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In the Preface to the first edition of this work. the author stated its purpose to be, to furnish to the practitioner and the student of the law such a presentation of elementary constitutional principles as should serve, with the aid of its references to judicial decisions, legal treatises, and historical events, as a convenient guide in the examination of questions respecting the constitutional limitations which rest upon the power of the several State legislatures. …

Preface to the 4th Edition: "New topics in State Constitutional Law are not numerous; but such as are suggested by recent decisions have been …

Principles That Should Govern In The Framing Of Tax Laws, Thomas M. Cooley

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The problem of suitable and justtaxation is one which is forever demanding solution, butnever solved. Adam Smith gave to the world certain rules which should governin taxation, the first of which was that "The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government as nearly as possible in proportion to their respective abilities - that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state." While most writers on political economy have been disposed to accept this as a sound and just rule, some have objected to it that it …

Some Hints On Defects In The Jury System, James V. Campbell

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The occasional freaks of juries have now and then led some members of the bar to speculate on the policy of doing without them entirely, and some persons no doubt think that they have strong convictions that the jury system has become useless. It is safe to say that these extreme views are altogether speculative, and not based on any careful comparison of results. Most persons who have looked into their own experience with courts and juries are ready to agree that where there is no dispute about main facts, so that the chief dispute is one of law, there …

Limits To State Control Of Private Business, Thomas M. Cooley

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The present purpose is to inquire whether, in the matter of the regulation of property rights and of business, legislation has not of late been occupying doubtful, possibly unconstitutional grounds. The discussion in the main must be limited to fundamental.-principles, aided by such light as legal and constitutional history may throw upon them, since the express provisions of the constitutions can give little assistance. They always contain the general guaranty of due process of law to life, liberty, and property, but in other particulars they for the most part leave protection to principles which have come from the common law. …

Georgia Constitution Of 1877 As Amended Through 1943, State Of Georgia

Current and Historical Georgia Constitutions & Related Materials

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Memorial Of Delegates And Agents Of The Choctaw And Chickasaw Nations Of Indians, Remonstrating Against The Passage Of Senate Bill No. 107, To Enable Indians To Become Citizens.

American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

Memorial Of Delegates of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations. [1785] Against a bill allowing Indians to become citizens; could violate the treaties of 1832, 1855, and 1866.

Papers Relating To The Foreign Relations Of The United States, Transmitted To Congress, With The Annual Message Of The President, December 3, 1877

American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

Annual Message to Congress with Documents; Pres. Hayes. 3 Dec. HED 1. 45-2, v1-10, 7184p. [1793-1802] Nez Perce campaign; recommends abolishment of tribal relations, and citizenship for Indians; annual report of the Sec. of War (Serials 1794-1978); annual report of the Sec. of Interior (Serials 1800-1801); annual report of the Gen. Land Office (Serial 1800); annual report of the CIA (Serial 1800). including the Nez Perce and Sioux wars. removals to Indian Territory, the Sioux Commission. the Sitting Bull Commission. Alaska Indians, and reports of Supts ..agents. schools. and farms; etc.

James T. Fant V. The Auditor Of Public Accounts, Thomas M. Cooley

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Two district attorneys complained that they were unlawfully deprived of their salary when the number of attorneys was reduced from thirteen to eleven by legislative action -- $1200 each. With the reduction in number of attorneys came the move to limit these two attorneys to service only in their counties of residence and a reduction in salary to $100 each. "When by law provision has been made for a certain number, and they have been lawfully chosen, they are protected for the term, as they would have been had the constitution itself indicated how many there should be."

Letter From The Commissioner Of Pensions, Addressed To The Chairman Of The Committee On Pensions, In Relation To The Number Of Survivors Of The Seminole, Black Hawk, And Florida Wars, And Of The Mexican War.

American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

Letter on War Survivors. [1785] Number of survivors of the Seminole, Black Hawk, Florida, and other wars; claims arising from said wars.

Testimony Taken By The Committee On Military Affairs In Relation To The Texas Border Troubles.

American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

Testimony on Texas Border Troubles. [1820] Indian raids from Mexico. Gen. Jackson's pursuit of Seminoles into Spanish territory in 1818 is mentioned as a precedent for incursions into Mexico.

Report Of The Secretary Of War; Being Part Of The Message And Documents Communicated To The Two Houses Of Congress At The Beginning Of The Second Session Of The Forty-Fifth Congress : Report Of The Secretary Of War, 1877

American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

Annual Message to Congress with Documents; Pres. Hayes. 3 Dec. HED 1. 45-2, v1-10, 7184p. [ 1793-1802] Nez Perce campaign; recommends abolishment of tribal relations, and citizenship for Indians; annual report of the Sec. of War (Serials 1794-1978); annual report of the Sec. of Interior (Serials 1800-1801); annual report of the Gen. Land Office (Serial 1800); annual report of the CIA (Serial 1800). including the Nez Perce and Sioux wars. removals to Indian Territory, the Sioux Commission. the Sitting Bull Commission. Alaska Indians, and reports of Supts ..agents. schools. and farms; etc.

Message From The President Of The United States, In Answer To A Resolution Of The House Of Representatives, Transmitting Reports From The Secretaries Of State And Of War In Reference To Mexican Border Troubles

American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

Mexican Border Troubles. [1773] Incursions of marauding Indians and Mexicans into Texas; Kickapoo, Lipan, and other tribes.

Report Of The Secretary Of The Interior; Being Part Of The Message And Documents Communicated To The Two Houses Of Congress At The Beginning Of The Second Session Of The Forty-Fifth Congress : Report Of The Secretary Of The Interior, 1877

American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

Annual Message to Congress with Documents; Pres. Hayes. 3 Dec. HED 1. 45-2, v1-10, 7184p. [1793-1802] Nez Perce campaign; recommends abolishment of tribal relations, and citizenship for Indians; annual report of the Sec. of War (Serials 1794-1978); annual report of the Sec. of Interior (Serials 1800-1801); annual report of the Gen. Land Office (Serial 1800); annual report of the CIA (Serial 1800). including the Nez Perce and Sioux wars. removals to Indian Territory, the Sioux Commission. the Sitting Bull Commission. Alaska Indians, and reports of Supts ..agents. schools. and farms; etc.

Message From The President Of The United States, Transmitting To The House Of Representatives The Report Of A Board Of Inquiry To Examine Into The Causes Of The Fire Which Destroyed A Part Of The Interior Department Building

American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

Interior Dept. Fire. [1773] Loss of records in the OIA.

1877–1878 Catalogue, University Of Notre Dame

Bulletins of Information

Law Department, pages 29–30.

David Maynard Et Al V. Fractional School District, & C., Thomas M. Cooley

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"A bequest to the members composing the School District by name, and to their successors in office, of moneys to be expended in the purchase of books for a district library -- thy being the officers designated by law to preform similar duties for the district -- is in effect a bequest to the district."

Lucy M. Maynard by her last will directed the residue of her estate be sold and the monies be placed at the disposal of the District Board of the Fractional School District in Milan and York, Michigan, and used for library supplies. "The validity of …

Material Taken From Streets In Grading--Rights Of Adjoining Lot-Owner, Thomas M. Cooley

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"In grading a street for the purpose of paving, it was necessary to remove earth which the city had no occasion for, and the street commissioner sold the same to a party who removed and used it. In an action to recover the purchase-price the purchaser defended, claiming that the city did not own the earth, but that it was owned by the adjoining lot-owners..."

Petition Of B. F. Overton, Governor, And Thomas W. Johnson And John E. Anderson, Commissioners, On Behalf Of The Chickasaw Nation, To The Congress Of The United States

American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

Petition on Behalf of the Chickasaw Nation. [1762] Ask payment of interest due under the treaties of 1832, 1834, 1852, and 1866.

Annual Report Of The Board Of Regents Of The Smithsonian Institution, Showing The Operations, Expenditures, And Condition Of The Institution For The Year 1876

American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution. [1724] Research related to the American Indian; account of the Sioux or Dakota Indians; Indian dwellings and vocabularies; mission to the western Nevada and California Indians.