Annual Report, Volumes 27-351918 |
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Abstract agara Allen Milling American Falls amount April ATWOOD Bill Buffalo Canada Canadian Cataract Chapter 547 Chapter 791 chapter 810 Charles Check on account CLARENCE H Commissioners Committee Comptroller on account Congress cubic feet Date diversion of water Eckert Elderfield-Hartshorn Hardware electricity Falls of Niagara Goat Island Green Island Bridge Harry Harry K Hennepin Horseshoe Fall Howland illus June Labor Center Laws Legislature London Loop Pond maintenance Meachem Name and Classification navigation Niagara Falls Niagara Falls Power Niagara Reservation Niagara River office ex office expenses Otis Elevator Park Payment payroll penses permit ployees power purposes Preservation of Niagara Prospect Point Public Comfort Station Reservation at Niagara Riverway roads and walks salaries scenic Secretary Secretary of War September 30 services and ex services and expenses shaft and tunnel supplies Thomas tion Treasurer treaty United vices and expenses Voucher wages of employees water power William Young York Telephone York Telephone Co
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Page 80 - A treaty, then, is a law of the land as an act of Congress is, whenever its provisions prescribe a rule by which the rights of the private citizen or subject may be determined. And when such rights are of a nature to be enforced in a court of justice, that court resorts to the treaty for a rule of decision for the case before it as it would to a statute.
Page 13 - ... the corporation described in and which executed the above instrument; that he knows the seal of said corporation; that the seal affixed to said instrument is such corporate seal ; that it...
Page 29 - And further, the removal of any structures or parts of structures erected in violation of the provisions of the said sections may be enforced by the injunction of any circuit court exercising jurisdiction in any district in which such structures may exist, and proper proceedings to this end may be instituted under the direction of the Attorney General of the United States.
Page 80 - The prohibitions of this article shall not apply to the diversion of water for sanitary or domestic purposes, or for the service of canals for the purposes of navigation.
Page 25 - The present treaty shall be ratified by the President of the United States of America, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof, and by His Britannic Majesty. The ratifications shall be exchanged at Washington as soon as possible and the treaty shall take effect on the date of the exchange of its ratifications. It shall thereafter remain in force continuously unless and until terminated by twenty-four months' written notice given by either high contracting party to the other.
Page 80 - War ; and it shall not be lawful to excavate or fill, or in any manner to alter or modify the course, location, condition, or capacity of, any port, roadstead, haven, harbor, canal, lake, harbor of refuge, or inclosure within the limits of any breakwater, or of the channel of any navigable water of the United States, unless the work has been recommended by the Chief of Engineers and authorized by the Secretary of War prior to beginning the same.
Page 80 - ... (Public No. 323, 65th Cong., 2d sess.), which reads as follows: "Sec. 9. That the International Joint Commission created by the treaty between the United States and Great Britain, relating to boundary waters between the United States and Canada...
Page 13 - No. street in said city, as sureties, are held and firmly bound unto the People of the State of New York...
Page 66 - Senate and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the United States House of Representatives.
Page 10 - ... no laborer, workman or mechanic in the employ of the contractor, sub-contractor or other person doing or contracting to do the whole or a part of the work contemplated by the contract shall be permitted or required to work more than eight hours in any one calendar day except in cases of extraordinary emergency caused by fire, flood or danger to life or property.