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# United States v. Corliss Steam-Engine Company

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United States Supreme Court
91 U.S. 321
United States v. Corliss Steam-Engine Company
THE facts upon which the decision of the court rests are set forth in its opinion.
Submitted on printed arguments by Mr. Solicitor-General Phillips for the United States, and Mr. Joseph Casey for the appellees.
MR. JUSTICE FIELD delivered the opinion of the court.

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# United States v. Cornell Steamboat Company (202 U.S. 184)

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United States Supreme Court
202 U.S. 184
United States v. Cornell Steamboat Company
Argued: April 20, 1906. --- Decided: May 14, 1906
This was a petition under what is known as the Tucker act, defining the jurisdiction of the court of claims, to recover salvage upon the duties on 1,883 bags of sugar, cargo of the lighter Bangor.
The facts agreed upon and found by the court are substantially as follows:
The steamboat company, a New York corporation, and owner of the steam tug R. G. Townsend, at great risk and peril to the tug, saved a certain lot of 1,883 bags of sugar on board of a lighter called the Bangor, in the waters of the port of New York, which was in danger of being destroyed by fire. The sugar had been imported from a foreign country, was subject to duty under the laws of the United States, and at the time of the fire had not been delivered to the consignees, and was still in the possession and control of the customs officers. The duties on this sugar, amounting to $6,000, had been paid to the government.
Petitioner filed a libel in the district court against the cargo to recover salvage compensation for services rendered in saving the sugar. The case resulted in a decree awarding the petitioner salvage, amounting to 10 per cent of the value of the property saved, viz., $1,274.03. 108 Fed. 277. In fixing this sum, the district court considered the invoice value of the sugar only, excluding salvage upon the duties saved to the United States by the salving services.
Upon these facts the district court awarded the petitioner 10 per cent upon the amount of the duties saved to the United States, namely, $600, with clerk's fees, $3.60. 130 Fed. 480. The circuit court of appeals affirmed this judgment (137 Fed. 455), whereupon the United States applied for this writ of certiorari.
Assistant Attorney General McReynolds for petitioner.
[Argument of Counsel from pages 185-187 intentionally omitted]
Mr. R. D. Benedict and Messrs. Benedict & Benedict for respondent.
[Text intentionally omitted]
[Argument of Counsel from 187 intentionally omitted]
Mr. Justice Brown delivered the opinion of the court:

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# Völsunga Saga/Chapter 4

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London: Walter Scott, 24 Warwick Lane, pages 9–10
CHAP. IV.
How King Siggeir wedded Signy, and bade King Volsung and his son to Gothland.
NOW it is to be told that Siggeir goes to bed by Signy that night, and the next morning the weather was fair; then says King Siggeir that he will not bide, lest the wind should wax, or the sea grow impassable; nor is it said that Volsung or his sons letted him herein, and that the less, because they saw that he was fain to get him gone from the feast. But now says Signy to her father—
“I have no will to go away with Siggeir, neither does my heart smile upon him; and I wot, by my fore-knowledge, and from the fetch of our kin, that from this counsel will great evil fall on us if this wedding be not speedily undone.”
“Speak in no such wise, daughter!” said he; “for great shame will it be to him, yea, and to us also, to break troth with him, he being sackless; and in naught may we trust him, and no friendship shall we have of him, if these matters are broken off; but he will pay us back in as evil wise as he may; for that alone is seemly, to hold truly to troth given.”
​So King Siggeir got ready for home, and before he went from the feast he bade King Volsung, his father-in-law, come see him in Gothland, and all his sons with him, whenas three months should be overpast, and to bring such following with him, as he would have, and as he deemed meet for his honour; and thereby will Siggeir the king pay back for the shortcomings of the wedding-feast, in that he would abide thereat but one night only, a thing not according to the wont of men. So King Volsung gave his word to come on the day named, and the kinsmen-in-law parted, and Siggeir went home with his wife.
* ↑ Fetch; wraith, or familiar spirit.
* ↑ Sackless (A.S. sacu, Icel. sok.) blameless.
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# Völsunga Saga/Chapter 42

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London: Walter Scott, 24 Warwick Lane, pages 155–156
CHAP. XLII.
Gudrun sends her Sons to avenge Swanhild.
NOW Gudrun heard of the slaying of Swanhild, and spake to her sons, “Why sit ye here in peace amid merry words, whereas Jormunrek hath slain your sister, and trodden her under foot of horses in shameful wise? No heart ye have in you like to Gunnar or Hogni; verily they would have avenged their kinswoman!”
Hamdir answered, “Little didst thou praise Gunnar and Hogni, whereas they slew Sigurd, and thou wert reddened in the blood of him, and ill were thy brethren avenged by the slaying of thine own sons: yet not so ill a deed were it for us to slay King Jormunrek, and so hard thou pushest us on to this that we may naught abide thy hard words.”
Gudrun went about laughing now, and gave them to drink from mighty beakers, and thereafter she got for them great byrnies and good, and all other weed of war.
Then spake Hamdir, “Lo now, this is our last parting, for thou shalt hear tidings of us, and drink one grave-ale over us and over Swanhild.”
So therewith they went their ways.
​But Gudrun went unto her bower, with heart swollen with sorrow, and spake—
“To three men was I wedded, and first to Sigurd Fafnir’s-bane, and he was bewrayed and slain, and of all griefs was that the greatest grief. Then was I given to King Atli, and so fell was my heart toward him that I slew in the fury of my grief his children and mine. Then gave I myself to the sea, but the billows thereof cast me out aland, and to this king then was I given; then gave I Swanhild away out of the land with mighty wealth; and lo my next greatest sorrow after Sigurd, for under horses’ feet was she trodden and slain; but the grimmest and ugliest of woes was the casting of Gunnar into the Worm-close, and the hardest was the cutting of Hogni’s heart from him.
“Ah, better would it be if Sigurd came to meet me, and I went my ways with him, for here bideth now behind with me neither son nor daughter to comfort me. Oh, mindest thou not, Sigurd, the words we spoke when we went into one bed together, that thou wouldst come and look on me; yea, even from thine abiding place among the dead?”
And thus had the words of her sorrow an end.
* ↑ Weed (A.S. weodo), clothing.
* ↑ Grave-ale, burial-feast.
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# Völsunga Saga/Chapter 43

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CHAP. XLIII.
The Latter End of all the Kin of the Giukings.
NOW telleth the tale concerning the sons of Gudrun, that she had arrayed their war-raiment in such wise, that no steel would bite thereon; and she bade them play not with stones or other heavy matters, for that it would be to their scathe if they did so.
And now, as they went on their way, they met Erp, their brother, and asked him in what wise he would help them.
He answered, “Even as hand helps hand, or foot helps foot.”
But that they deemed naught at all, and slew him there and then. Then they went their ways, nor was it long or ever Hamdir stumbled, and thrust down his hand to steady himself, and spake therewith—
“Naught but a true thing spake Erp, for now should I have fallen, had not hand been to steady me.”
A little after Sorli stumbled, but turned about on his feet, and so stood, and spake—
“Yea now had I fallen, but that I steadied myself with both feet.”
And they said they had done evilly with Erp their brother.
But on they fare till they come to the abode of King ​Jormunrek, and they went up to him and set on him forthwith, and Hamdir cut both hands from him and Sorli both feet. Then spake Hamdir—
“Off were the head if Erp were alive; our brother, whom we slew on the way, and found out our deed too late.” Even as the Song says,—
Now in this must they turn away from the words of their mother, whereas they had to deal with stones. For now men fell on them, and they defended themselves in good and manly wise, and were the scathe of many a man, nor would iron bite on them.
But there came thereto a certain man, old of aspect and one-eyed, and he spake—
“No wise men are ye, whereas ye cannot bring these men to their end.”
Then the king said, “Give us rede thereto, if thou canst.”
He said, “Smite them to the death with stones.”
In such wise was it done, for the stones flew thick and fast from every side, and that was the end of their life-days.
And now has come to an end the whole root and stem of the Giukings.
* ↑ Odin; he ends the tale as he began it.
* ↑ “And now,” etc., inserted by translators from the prose Edda; the stanza at the end from the Whetting of Gudrun.
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# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 1/4th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 8

Chap. Ⅷ.—An Act for the relief of certain officers and soldiers who have been wounded or disabled in the actual service of the United States.
Provision for persons wounded or disabled in the militia, and for volunteers in the like case.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That every commissioned, non-commissioned officer, private or musician, who has been wounded or disabled, while in the line of his duty, in actual service, called out by authority of any law of the United States, while he belonged to the militia; or any volunteer not belonging to the militia, who has been wounded or disabled, while in the line of his duty, in actual service, as aforesaid, shall be placed on the list of invalids of the United States, at such rate of pay, and under such regulations, as shall be directed by the President of the United States for the time being: Provided,Extent of compensation to be allowed. the rate of compensation for such wounds and disabilities shall never exceed for the highest disabilities, half the monthly pay received by any commissioned officer, at the time of being so wounded or disabled; and that the rate of compensation to non-commissioned officers, privates and musicians, shall never exceed five dollars per month; and that all inferior disabilities shall entitle the person so disabled, to receive only a sum in proportion to the highest disability: And provided,What persons this provision extends to. that these provisions shall not be construed to extend to any person wounded or disabled, before the fourth of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine, nor to any person wounded or disabled since that time, who has made application for a pension, under any existing law of the United States, and has been denied, or admitted on the pension list: Application to be made within one year after the end of the session.And provided, that all applications herein shall be made within one year after the end of the present session of Congress.
Approved, March 23, 1796.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 1/4th Congress/1st Session/Resolution 1

Relating to invalid pensioners.Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary for the Department of War, return to the respective district judges, the names of all such persons, as have been transmitted to him by the several district judges, pursuant to the act for the regulation of claims to invalid pensions; and in whose cases, the examining physicians have neglected to specify the ratio of disability; together with such defective returns of physicians. And the said district judges, respectively, shall forthwith cause the examining physicians to specify the several rates of disability, which have been so neglected; or, in case of sickness, death, or removal of one or both such physicians, to make new appointments, and cause the several rates of disability to be specified, and by the said physicians returned to them, as soon as may be; of which, they shall make return to the Secretary at War, who shall, at the session of Congress holden next after, or at the time of such receipt, make return thereof, with such observations, as he may think proper to subjoin, that the proper order may be taken thereon by Congress.
Approved, April 18, 1796.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 1/4th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 50

Chap. Ⅼ.—An Act making further appropriations for the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-six.
Additional appropriations for 1796.Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in addition to the sums heretofore appropriated, there be further appropriated for and during the present year, the following sums, that is to say: In the Department of State, for the compensation of clerks, two hundred dollars: In the Department of the Treasury, for the compensation of clerks, four thousand dollars: In the Department of War, for the additional salary of the accountant, four hundred dollars; and for the additional compensation of clerks in the said department, seven hundred dollars; and in the mint of the United States, for the additional salary of a clerk, two hundred dollars.
Loan office clerks.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That for the compensation of clerks in the several loan offices; and for defraying the expenses of books and stationery for the said offices, during the present year, and during the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, there be appropriated a sum not exceeding fourteen thousand dollars.
Foreign intercourse.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That there be further appropriated towards defraying the extraordinary expenses which may be incurred during the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-six, for foreign intercourse, a sum not exceeding twenty-three thousand five hundred dollars, in addition to the sum already appropriated for that purpose, by the second section of the act of the present session, intituled Contingent expenses of government. 1796, ch. 41.“An act making further provision for the expenses attending the intercourse of the United States with foreign nations; and to continue in force the act, entitled “An act providing the means of intercourse between the United States and foreign nations.”
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That there be appropriated for the contingent expenses of the government of the United States, a sum not exceeding twenty thousand dollars, subject to the disposition of the President of the United States, and for the payment of such miscellaneous demands against the United States, other than those on account of the civil department, not otherwise provided for, and which shall have been ascertained and admitted in due course of settlement at the treasury, and which are of a nature, according to the usage thereof, to require payment in specie, a sum not exceeding two thousand dollars; Out of what funds payable.and that the several appropriations herein before made, be, and the same are hereby directed to be paid out of the proceeds of the duties on imports and the tonnage of ships and vessels, and the duties on domestic distilled spirits and on stills, which shall accrue until the close of the present year.
Approved, June 1, 1796.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 1/4th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 52

Chap. ⅬⅡ.—An Act providing relief to the owners of Stills within the United States, for a limited time, in certain cases.
Distillers when admitted to an election to pay monthly duty on stills.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in every case of a distiller, who hath entered his still or stills, in such manner, as to be liable to pay the duty of fifty-four cents upon the capacity or capacities thereof, for the year to end in June, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-six, wherein it shall be made to appear to the supervisor of the district, that the said distiller has been really and truly prevented from employing or working his still or stills, during any part of the term aforesaid, by the destruction or failure of fruit and grain, or any other unavoidable cause within the district in which he resides, it shall and may be lawful for the said supervisor, on application made to him, any time before the last day of September next, to admit such distiller to the benefit of an election, to pay, in lieu of the duty on the capacity of his still or stills for the year, the monthly duty of ten cents per gallon of the capacity for the time he employed his still or stills.
Approved, June 1, 1796.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 1/4th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 53

Chap. ⅬⅢ.—An Act to suspend, in part, the act intituled “An act to alter and amend the act intituled An act laying certain duties upon Snuff and refined Sugar.”
Certain act laying duty on snuff mills, &c. suspended. 1795, ch. 43.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That so much of the act intituled “An act to alter and amend the act, intituled An act laying certain duties upon snuff and refined sugar,” as respects the duties therein laid upon mills and implements employed in the manufacture of snuff, and the drawbacks therein allowed upon the exportation of snuff manufactured within the United States, be suspended, from the passing of this act, until the end of the next session of Congress.
Approved, June 1, 1796.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 1/4th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 7

Chap. Ⅶ.—An Act making a partial appropriation for the support of the Military establishment, for the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-six.
Appropriation for the expense of the military establishment.Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of five hundred thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated towards defraying the expenses of the military establishment, for the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-six.
Out of what funds payable.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said sum shall be paid and discharged out of the funds following, to wit: First, the balance which may remain unexpended of the sum of six hundred thousand dollars, reserved by the act Ante, p. 138.“making provision for the debt of the United States,” after satisfying the appropriations made in the present session, for the support of government: Secondly, the surplus of revenue and income beyond the appropriations heretofore charged thereupon, to the end of the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-six.
Approved, March 12, 1796.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 1/4th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 1

Chapter Ⅰ.—An Act act to amend the act intituled “An act for the more general promulgation of the Laws of the United States.”
Act of March 3, 1795, ch. 50. Acts of present session, how published.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary for the department of State shall cause to be included in the edition of the laws of the United States, directed to be printed by the said act, the laws of the United States which may be passed during the present session of Congress: Provided, the same can be done at an expense which he shall judge reasonable.
Approved, December 21, 1796.
# Wallace v. Loomis

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United States Supreme Court
97 U.S. 146
Wallace v. Loomis
APPEAL from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Alabama.
The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
Mr. John T. Morgan for the appellant.
Mr. Philip Phillips and Mr. William A. Maury, contra.
MR. JUSTICE BRADLEY delivered the opinion of the court.

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# Wallace v. Johnstone

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United States Supreme Court
129 U.S. 58
Wallace v. Johnstone
George Norris, for appellant.
James Hagerman and Jos. G. Anderson, for appellees.
LAMAR, J.

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# Wallace v. Penfield

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United States Supreme Court
106 U.S. 260
Wallace v. Penfield
[Syllabus on page 260 intentionally omitted]
[Statement of the Case on Pages 260-261 intentionally omitted]
W. H. Hatch and Eppa Hunton, for appellants.
John D. S. Dryden, for appellees.
HARLAN, J.

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