Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Judicature of the State of Indiana, Volume 20

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Page 375 - An accurate statement of the receipts and expenditures of the public money, shall be published with the laws of each regular session of the General Assembly.
Page 497 - It must dwell in the place of its creation, and cannot migrate to another sovereignty. But although it must live and have its being in that state only, yet it does not by any means follow that its existence there will not be recognized in other places ; and its residence in one state creates no insuperable objection to its power of contracting in another.
Page 496 - It is very true that a corporation can have no legal existence out of the boundaries of the sovereignty by which it is created. It exists only in contemplation of law, and by force of the law ; and where that law ceases to operate, and is no longer obligatory, the corporation can have no existence. It must dwell in the place of its creation, and cannot migrate to another sovereignty.
Page 379 - No law shall authorize any debt to be contracted, on behalf of the State, except in the following cases : to meet casual deficits in the revenue; to pay the interest on the State Debt; to repel invasion, suppress insurrection, or, if hostilities be threatened, provide for the public defense.
Page 34 - And in all cases where the exterior lines of the townships thus to be subdivided into sections or half sections, shall exceed, or shall not extend six miles, the excess or deficiency shall be specially noted, and added to or deducted from the western or northern ranges of sections or half sections in such township, according as the error may be in running the lines from east to west, or from south to north...
Page 356 - Every act shall embrace but one subject, and matters properly connected therewith ; which subject shall be expressed in the title. But if any subject shall be embraced in an act, which shall not be expressed in the title, such act shall be void only as to so much thereof as shall not be expressed in the title.
Page 245 - In witness whereof, the said party of the first part has hereunto set his hand and seal, the day and year first above written.
Page 502 - ... at least ten days before the first day of the term of the court at which such motion is to be heard, order a writ to issue, directed to the sheriff of the proper county for any agent,
Page 338 - appropriation, as applicable to the general fund in the treasury, may, perhaps, be .defined to be * * * an authority from the Legislature, given at the proper time, and in legal form, to the proper officers, to apply sums of money out of that which may be in the treasury in a given year to specified objects or -demands against the state.
Page 246 - Whenever a deaf-mute child under the age of twelve years shall become a charge for its maintenance on any of the towns or counties of this state, or shall be liable to become such charge, it shall be the duty of the overseers of the poor of such...

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