Reports from the Consuls of the United States (varies Slightly), Том 42,Випуски 152 – 155U.S. Government Printing Office, 1893 |
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Сторінка 468 - Viet. c. 109, s. 18, it is enacted, that all contracts or agreements, whether by parol or in writing, by way of gaming or wagering, shall be null and void ; and that no suit shall be brought or maintained in any court of law or equity for recovering any sum of money or valuable thing alleged to be won upon any wager, or which shall have been deposited in the hands of any person to abide the event on which any wager shall have been made...
Сторінка 473 - Provided always, that this enactment shall not be deemed to apply to any subscription or contribution, or agreement to subscribe or contribute, for or towards any plate, prize, or sum of money to be awarded to the winner or winners of any lawful game, sport, pastime or exercise.
Сторінка 302 - The residue from the continuous day and night combustion consists of about 20 per cent, of good, hard clinkers and sharp, fine ashes. The clinkers are used for the foundation of roadways and the manufacture of paving slabs...
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Сторінка 64 - Marble in slabs, columns, cornices, door and window frames, and fountains, and dressed or undressed marble for buildings. 17. Piping of clay, glazed or unglazed, for aqueducts and sewers. 18. Wire, plain or barbed, for fences, with hooks and staples for same. 19. Printed books, bound or unbound; printed music; maps, charts, and globes. 20. Materials for the construction and equipment of railways. 21. Materials for electrical illumination. 22. Materials expressly for the construction of wharves. 23....
Сторінка 505 - Agreements by way of wager are void, and no suit shall be brought for recovering anything alleged to be won on any wager or entrusted to any person to abide the result of any game or other uncertain event on which any wager is made.
Сторінка 346 - ... articles of perfumery and for the toilet, such as essences, soaps, creams, razor strops, tooth and clothes brushes, etc., not mentioned...
Сторінка 300 - ... which opens the compressed air admission valve E. The compressed air thus automatically admitted into the ejector presses on the surface of the sewage, driving the whole of the contents before it through the bell-mouthed opening at the bottom and through the outlet pipe B into the iron sewage rising main, or high-level gravitating sewer, as the case may be.
Сторінка 64 - It is understood that the packages or coverings in which the articles named in the foregoing schedule are imported shall be free of duty if they are usual and proper for the purpose.