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A valuation, therefore, was made by the court of session in Scotland, at the joint suit of the crown and the creditors; and the value being ascertained, the just claimants were paid out of the next aids granted by parliament.
'On the premises, as the advertisement says; that's at the house of Ellangowan, your honour, as I understand it. 'And who exhibits the title-deeds, rent-roll, and plan? 'A very decent man, sir; the sheriff-substitute of the county, who has authority from the Court of Session. 'And this gentleman's name is 'Mac-Morlan, sir; he's a man o' character, and weel spoken o'.
Residing constantly on their patrimonial feuds, and familiarized, by daily habit, with Seigneurial powers and practices, they had not yet learned to suspect their inconsistence with reason and right. They were willing to submit to equality of taxation, but not to descend from their rank and prerogatives to be incorporated in session with the Tiers Etat.
To the Senate of the United States: I have received the resolution of the Senate of the 11th instant, passed in executive session, making inquiry respecting supposed propositions of the King of the Sandwich Islands to convey the sovereignty of those islands to the United States and requesting all official information in my possession touching the subject.
"Whether you remain in Parliament or no, you must make a beginning," Mr. Low had said; "and how are you even to pretend to begin if you don't have chambers?" Mr. Low hoped that he might be able to wean Phineas away from his Parliament bauble; that he might induce the young barrister to give up his madness, if not this session or the next, at any rate before a third year had commenced. Mr.
I see they are taking the boy over to the County Court." "That isn't right," cried Foresta, as she followed the group. The Criminal Court was then in session, and Henry's case was not long in being called. The deputy sheriff was seen to whisper a few words aside to the judge. The jury brought in a verdict of guilty and the judge assessed his punishment at ten months on the county farm.
This result and the final settlement to be made with this tribe under the treaty of 1846, which will be completed and laid before you during your session, will adjust all questions of controversy between them and the United States and produce a state of relations with them simple, well defined, and satisfactory.
"I did better than you," said Doddridge Knapp, when I explained to him the course of the session. "I found a nest of two thousand five hundred, and gathered them in at one hundred and twenty. But that's all right. You've done well enough as well as I expected." "And still eight thousand to get," I said. "Nearly." "Well, we'll get them in due time, I suppose," I said cheerfully.
The Legislature was in session, and a large majority of its members were for war. The strip of disputed land was valuable chiefly for ship timber. Some British subjects had entered the territory and cut some of the timber, and the Governor of Maine sent an agent with a posse to drive them off.
"Yes, but there is no necessity for me to be here until some time in May at earliest. The principal object of the Session is the revision of the Tariff, and the new bill originates with the Ways and Means Committee. After it has been thrashed out in the House and returned to the Committee for amendments, it will be referred to the Finance Committee of the Senate. All that takes time.
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