Dauphin County Reports, Volume 20

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W.O. Foster, 1917
Beginning with 1917, the Opinions, rules and regulations of the Public Service Commission and the Workmens Compensation Board, previously included in the Dauphin County reports, are issued separately.
 

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Page 205 - No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, . . . enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, . . .
Page 330 - It is admitted that there is no express provision in the Constitution that prohibits the general* government from taxing the means and instrumentalities of the States, nor is there any prohibiting the States from taxing the means and instrumentalities of that government. In both cases the exemption rests upon necessary implication, and is upheld by the great law of...
Page 334 - A paper is said to be filed when it is delivered to the proper officer, and by him received, to be kept on file.
Page 285 - Whenever any of the qualified electors of this Commonwealth shall be in actual military service, under a requisition from the President of the United States or by the authority of this Commonwealth, such electors may exercise the right of suffrage in all elections by the citizens, under such regulations as are or shall be prescribed by law, as fully as if they were present at their usual places of election.] SECTION 7.
Page 205 - Nor in my judgment is it in contravention of Article I, Section 10, of the Constitution of the United States, which provides that "no State shall, without the consent of Congress . . . enter into any. agreement or compact with another State.
Page 167 - Federal reserve notes, to be issued at the discretion of the Federal Reserve Board for the purpose of making advances to Federal reserve banks through the Federal reserve agents as hereinafter set forth and for no other purpose, are hereby authorized.
Page 206 - State might desire to acquire as a site for a public building, it would hardly be deemed essential for the latter State to obtain the consent of Congress before it could make a valid agreement with Virginia for the purchase of the land. If Massachusetts, in forwarding its exhibits to the World's Fair at Chicago, should desire to transport them a part of the distance over the Erie Canal, it would hardly be deemed essential for that...
Page 293 - Except as otherwise provided in this constitution, no law shall extend the term of any public officer, or increase or diminish his salary or emoluments after his election or appointment...
Page 189 - Assembly shall provide for additional judges, as the business of the said districts may require. Counties containing a population less than is sufficient to constitute separate districts shall be formed into convenient 'single districts, or, if necessary, may be attached to contiguous districts as the General Assembly may provide.
Page 300 - Constitution or by law to appoint; he shall have power to fill all vacancies that may happen in offices to which he may appoint, during the recess of the Senate, by granting commissions which shall expire at the end of their next session...

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