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# City and Borough/Introduction

A LITTLE time back an increase of dignity was granted by royal proclamation to two famous towns in Great Britain, one in England, the other in Scotland. Birmingham and Dundee, hitherto merely boroughs, were raised to the rank of cities. Several other English towns have, within some years past, been made cities in the same fashion. But there is something special about these two cases which distinguishes them from the others. In the other English towns that have been made cities the increase of rank has in every case followed on the town becoming the see of a bishop. With Birmingham this is not so; with Dundee, as a Scottish town, it hardly could be so. Two questions are at once suggested. First, What is the distinction between city and borough, which makes it promotion for a borough to become a city? Secondly, Is there any ground for the belief, certainly a very common one, that the rank of city is in some way, in England at least, connected with the presence of a bishop's see in the town so called? And a third and very delicate question has arisen at Dundee which does not seem to have been started at Birmingham. Nobody seems to have thought that, because Birmingham has become a city, therefore the chief magistrate of Birmingham has become a Lord Mayor. It does seem to have been very seriously thought at Dundee that the chief magistrate of the new city has acquired a right to be called Lord Provost.
It will be well to keep the English and the Scottish cases distinct, because it does not at all follow that arguments and precedents which may be good in England will therefore be good in Scotland. The law of the two kingdoms is so different that it is wise to keep on the safe side in every case: it is specially needful in this case, because of the supposed relation between city and bishopric. This may exist in England, where episcopacy is recognized by law; it cannot exist in Scotland, where the present law knows nothing about bishops' sees at all.
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# City and County of Denver v. New York Trust Company

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United States Supreme Court
229 U.S. 123
City and County of Denver v. New York Trust Company
Argued: October 28 and 29, 1912. --- Decided: May 26, 1913
Messrs. William H. Bryant, Charles W. Waterman, William P. Malburn, and
[Argument of Counsel from page 124 intentionally omitted] William A. Jackson for petitioners.
Messrs. Henry McAllister, Jr., Joel F. Vaile, William N. Vaile, and J. Markham Marshall for respondents the New York Trust company.
Messrs. Clayton C. Dorsey and Gerald Hughes for respondents the Denver Union Water Company.
Mr. Justice Van Devanter delivered the opinion of the court:

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# City and County of San Francisco v. Scott/Opinion of the Court

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United States Supreme Court
111 U.S. 768
City and County of San Francisco v. Scott
There is no federal question in this case. The right of San Francisco under the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo to the lands in dispute as pueblo lands is not denied. Precisely what that right was may not be easy to state. Mr. Justice FIELD, speaking for the court, said, in Townsend v. Greely, 5 Wall. 336: 'It was not an indefeasible estate; ownership of the lands in the pueblos could not in strictness be affirmed. It amounted in truth to little more than a restricted and qualified right to alienate portions of the land to its inhabitants for building or cultivation, and to use the remainder for commons, for pasture lands, or as a source of revenue, or for other purposes. This right of disposition and use was, in all particulars, subject to the control of the government of the country.' This definition was accepted as substantially accurate in Grisar v. McDowell, 6 Wall. 372, and Palmer v. Lowe, 98 U.S. 16.
The act of July 1, 1864, c. 194, § 5, (13 St. 333,) simply released to the city all the right and title of the United States in the lands, (Hoadley v. San Francisco, 94 U.S. 5), and thus perfected the incomplete Mexican title for the uses and purposes specified. Palmer v. Lowe, supra. Its effect was to surrender all future control of the United States over the disposition and use of the property by the city.
The only controversy in this case is as to the effect of the alcalde grant of the pueblo title; and the precise question submitted to the supreme court of the state for determination was, 'whether, after the conquest * * * and before the incorporation of the city of San Francisco, and before the adoption of the constitution of the state of California, a person exercising the functions of an alcalde of the pueblo of San Francisco * * * could make a valid grant of pueblo lands, as such officers had been before such conquest accustomed to do,' and, if so, what would be the effect of such a grant? This does not depend on any legislation of congress, or on the terms of the treaty, but on the effect of the conquest upon the powers of local government in the pueblo under the Mexican laws. That is a question of general public law, as to which the decisions of the state court are not reviewable here. This has been many times decided. Delmas v. Ins. Co. 14 Wall. 661; Tarver v. Keach, 15 Wall. 68; New York Life Ins. Co. v. Hendren, 92 U.S. 286; Dugger v. Bocock, 104 U.S. 596; Allen v. McVeigh, 107 U.S. 433; S.C.. 2 SUP. CT. REP. 558.
It follows that we have no jurisdiction, and the writ of error is dismissed.

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# City and County of Denver v. Denver Union Water Company Denver Union Water Company

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## Dissenting Opinion

    Wendell Holmes, Jr.
United States Supreme Court
246 U.S. 178
City and County of Denver v. Denver Union Water Company Denver Union Water Company
Argued: Oct. 3 and 4, 1917. --- Decided: March 4, 1918
[Syllabus from pages 178-179 intentionally omitted]
Messrs. James A. Marsh, Norton Montgomery, and Edward C. Stimson, all of Denver, Colo., for city and county of Denver.
Messrs. Clayton C. Dorsey and Gerald Hughes, both of Denver, Colo., for Denver Union Water Co.
Mr. Justice PITNEY delivered the opinion of the Court.

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# City and County of San Francisco v. Scott

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United States Supreme Court
111 U.S. 768
City and County of San Francisco v. Scott
Harry I. Thornton, for plaintiff in error.
Sidney V. Smith, Jr., for defendant in error.
WAITE, C. J.

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# City of Washington v. Dennison

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United States Supreme Court
73 U.S. 495
City of Washington v. Dennison
ERROR to the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia.
This was a motion for a supersedeas of an execution against the City of Washington, plaintiffs in error, founded upon a writ of error, bond and citation, in compliance with the twenty-second and twenty-third sections of the Judiciary Act.
The twenty-second section referred to, enacts that this court may examine judgments in Circuit Courts upon writ of error, to which shall be annexed and returned therewith, at the day and place therein mentioned, an authenticated transcript of the record, an assignment of errors and prayer for reversal, with a citation to the adverse party, signed, &c., and the adverse party having at least thirty days' notice.
The twenty-third section enacts, that this writ of error
'Shall be a supersedeas and stay of execution in cases only where the writ of error is served by a copy thereof being lodged for the adverse party in the clerk's office where the record remains, within ten days, Sundays exclusive, after rendering the judgment complained of.'
In the present case the judgment was rendered on the 23d of November, 1867. The writ of error, though made out before and placed in the clerk's office, was not sealed till the 6th of December, which was eleven days after the judgment was rendered.
The term of the court for 1867 began on the 2d of December. The citation was served on the 6th of that month.
Mr. J. H. Bradley, for the plaintiff in er or; Messrs. Davidge and Fendall, contra.
Mr. Justice NELSON delivered the opinion of the court.

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# City of Texarkana v. Arkansas Louisiana Gas Company

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United States Supreme Court
306 U.S. 188
CITY OF TEXARKANA, TEXAS, v. ARKANSAS LOUISIANA GAS CO.
No. 294. Argued: January 4, 5, 1939. --- Decided: February 6, 1939.
Amended: March 27, 1939.
[Syllabus from pages 188-190 intentionally omitted]
Mr. Benjamin E. Carter, of Texarkana, Ark., for petitioner.
Messrs. Wm. C. Fitzhugh and Henry C. Walker, Jr., both of Shreveport, La., for respondent.
Mr. Justice REED delivered the opinion of the Court.

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* Amended: March 27, 1939. 306 U.S. 620
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# City of Waco Tex v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co.

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United States Supreme Court
293 U.S. 140
City of Waco Tex v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co.
No. 5 Argued: Oct. 9, 1934. --- Decided: Nov 5, 1934
Messrs. John McGlasson and J. Walter Cocke, both of Waco, Tex., for petitioner.
Mr. Gerome B. Rogers, of Waco, Tex., for respondents.
Mr. Justice ROBERTS delivered the opinion of the Court.

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# City of Trenton v. New Jersey

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United States Supreme Court
262 U.S. 182
City of Trenton v. New Jersey
Argued: March 2, 1923. --- Decided: May 7, 1923
Mr. A. V. Dawes, of Trenton, N. J., for plaintiff in error.
Mr. William Newcorn, of Plainfield, N. J., for the State of New Jersey.
Mr. Justice BUTLER delivered the opinion of the Court.

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# Collected poems, 1901-1918/Old Susan

OLD SUSAN
WHEN Susan's work was done, she would sit,
With one fat guttering candle lit,
And window opened wide to win
The sweet night air to enter in.
There, with a thumb to keep her place,
She would read, with stern and wrinkled face,
Her mild eyes gliding very slow
Across the letters to and fro, While wagged the guttering candle flame
In the wind that through the window came.
And sometimes in the silence she
Would mumble a sentence audibly,
Or shake her head as if to say,
"You silly souls, to act this way!"
And never a sound from night I would hear.
Unless some far-off cock crowed clear;
Or her old shuffling thumb should turn
Another page; and rapt and stern,
Through her great glasses bent on me, She would glance into reality;
And shake her round old silvery head, With — "You! — I thought you was in bed!"—
Only to tilt her book again,
And rooted in Romance remain.
# Collected poems, 1901-1918/Reverie

MEMORIES OF CHILDHOOD
REVERIE
Bring not bright candles, for his eyes
In twilight have sweet company;
Bring not bright candles, else they fly —
His phantoms fly —
Gazing aggrieved on thee!
Bring not bright candles, startle not
The phantoms of a vacant room,
Flocking above a child that dreams —
Deep, deep in dreams, —
Hid, in the gathering gloom!
Bring not bright candles to those eyes
That between earth and stars descry,
Lovelier for the shadows there,
Children of air, Palaces in the sky!
# Collected poems, 1901-1918/Sea-Magic

It is unknown who R. I. is, so far.
SEA-MAGIC
To R. I.
MY heart faints in me for the distant sea.
The roar of London is the roar of ire
The lion utters in his old desire
For Libya out of dim captivity.
The long bright silver of Cheapside I see,
Her gilded weathercocks on roof and spire
Exulting eastward in the western fire;
All things recall one heart-sick memory: —
Ever the rustle of the advancing foam,
The surges' desolate thunder, and the cry
As of some lone babe in the whispering sky;
Ever I peer into the restless gloom
To where a ship clad dim and loftily
Looms steadfast in the wonder of her home.
# Collected poems, 1901-1918/Polonius

POLONIUS
There haunts in Time's bare house an active ghost, Enamoured of his name, Polonius.
He moves small fingers much, and all his speech
Is like a sampler of precisest words,
Set in the pattern of a simpleton.
His mirth floats eerily down chill corridors;
His sigh — it is a sound that loves a keyhole;
His tenderness a faint court-larnished thing;
His wisdom prates as from a wicker cage;
His very belly is a pompous nought;
His eye a page that hath forgot his errand.
Yet in his brain — his spiritual brain —
Lies hid a child's demure, small, silver whistle
Which, to his horror, God blows, unawares,
And sets men staring. It is sad to think,
Might he but don indeed thin flesh and blood,
And pace important to Law's inmost room,
He would see, much marvelling, one immensely wise,
Named Bacon, who, at sound of his youth's step.
Would turn and call him Cousin — for the likeness.
# Collected poems, 1901-1918/Queen Djenira

QUEEN DJENIRA
WHEN Queen Djenira slumbers through
The sultry noon's repose,
From out her dreams, as soft she lies,
A faint thin music flows.
Her lovely hands lie narrow and pale
With gilded nails, her head
Couched in its banded nets of gold Lies pillowed on her bed.
The little Nubian boys who fan
Her cheeks and tresses clear, Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful voices
Seem afar to hear.
They slide their eyes, and nodding, say,
"Queen Djenira walks to-day
The courts of the lord Pthamasar Where the sweet birds of Psuthys are."
And those of earth about her porch
Of shadow cool and grey
Their sidelong beaks in silence lean,
And silent flit away.
# Collected poems, 1901-1918/Old Ben

OLD BEN
SAD is old Ben Tristlewaite,
Now his day is done,
And all his children
Far away are gone.
He sits beneath his jasmined porch,
His stick between his knees,
His eyes fixed vacant
On his moss-grown trees.
Grass springs in the green path,
His flowers are lean and dry,
His thatch hangs in wisps against
The evening sky.
He has no heart to care now, Though the winds will blow
Whistling in his casement,
And the rain drip through.
He thinks of his old Bettie,
How she'd shake her head and say,
"You'll live to wish my sharp old tongue
Could scold — some day."
But as in pale high autumn skies
The swallows float and play,
His restless thoughts pass to and fro, But nowhere stay.
Soft, on the morrow, they are gone;
His garden then will be
Denser and shadier and greener,
Greener the moss-grown tree.
# Collected poems, 1901-1918/Rachel

RACHEL
RACHEL sings sweet -- Oh yes, at night,
Her pale face bent
In the candle-light,
Her slim hands touch
The answering keys,
And she sings of hope
And of memories:
Sings to the little
Boy that stands
Watching those slim,
Light, heedful hands.
He looks in her face;
Her dark eyes seem
Dark with a beautiful
Distant dream;
And still she plays,
Sings tenderly
To him of hope, And of memory.
# Collected poems, 1901-1918/Shadow

First poem in Collected poems, 1901-1918.
POEMS: 1906
TO HENRY NEWBOLT
LYRICAL POEMS
SHADOW
EVEN the beauty of the rose doth cast,
When its bright, fervid noon is past,
A still and lengthening shadow in the dust,
Till darkness come
And take its strange dream home.
The transient bubbles of the water paint
'Neath their frail arch a shadow faint;
The golden nimbus of the windowed saint,
Till shine the stars,
Casts pale and trembling bars.
The loveliest thing earth hath, a shadow hath,
A dark and livelong hint of death,
Haunting it ever till its last faint breath.
Who, then, may tell
The beauty of heaven's shadowless asphodel?
# Collected poems, 1901-1918/Ophelia

OPHELIA
There runs a crisscross pattern of small leaves
Espalier, in a fading summer air,
And there Ophelia walks, an azure flower,
Whom wind, and snowflakes, and the sudden rain
Of love's wild skies have purified to heaven.
There is a beauty past all weeping now
In that sweet, crooked mouth, that vacant smile; Only a lonely grey in those mad eyes,
Which never on earth shall learn their loneliness.
And when amid startled birds she sings lament, Mocking in hope the long voice of the stream,
It seems her heart's lute hath a broken string.
Ivy she hath, that to old ruin clings;
And rosemary, that sees remembrance fade;
And pansies, deeper than the gloom of dreams;
But ah! if utterable, would this earth Remain the base, unreal thing it is? Better be out of sight of peering eyes;
Out — out of hearing of all-useless words,
Spoken of tedious tongues in heedless ears.
And lest, at last, the world should learn heart-secrets;
Lest that sweet wolf from some dim thicket steal;
Better the glassy horror of the stream.
# Collected poems, 1901-1918/Remembrance

REMEMBRANCE
THE sky was like a waterdrop In shadow of a thorn, Clear, tranquil, beautiful, Dark, forlorn.
Lightning along its margin ran; A rumour of the sea Rose in profundity and sank Into infinity.
Lofty and few the elms, the stars In the vast boughs most bright; I stood a dreamer in a dream In the unstirring night.
Not wonder, worship, not even peace Seemed in my heart to be: Only the memory of one, Of all most dead to me.
# Commending the Community Service of the Holyoke Mall at Ingleside in Holyoke, Massachusetts - Congressional Record: February 27, 2001

Creating Commending the Community Service of the Holyoke Mall at Ingleside in Holyoke, Massachusetts. Congressional Record. February 27, 2001. Extensions of Remarks. Page E222 . 107 Cong. Rec. (Bound) - Volume 107, Part 1
Creating Commending the Community Service of the Holyoke Mall at Ingleside in Holyoke, Massachusetts ________ EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF HON. JOHN W. OLVER OF MASSACHUSETTS IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Mr. OLVER. Mr. Speaker, I rise to commend the outstanding community service of the Holyoke Mall at Ingleside in Holyoke, Massachusetts.
Many communities in western Massachusetts have faced significant economic and social challenges since the paper industries which once dominated our region's economy moved south and west in the latter half of the twentieth century.
Holyoke, Massachusetts is one such city. But, fortunately for its residents, Holyoke has been blessed with superior creative leadership, both in the public and private sector. Economic revitalization, educational advancements and hope for a better tomorrow are all on the rise in Holyoke, and the Holyoke Mall at Ingleside, one of the city's best corporate citizens, is a big part of Holyoke's bright future.
Each year for the past nine years, the Holyoke Mall has helped produce "The Future Begins Here" coalition event that supports children's programs throughout the Pioneer Valley. Some of Holyoke's neediest children benefit from "The Future Begins Here," and the Holyoke Mall should be commended for its strong commitment to the initiative. May 6, 2001 will mark the tenth year of the event, with the Holyoke Mall still on board as a key partner.
I commend the Holyoke Mall at Ingleside's focus on the children of the Pioneer Valley. It will help build a better tomorrow for everyone in western Massachusetts.
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# Commencement of the Copyright Amendment Act, 1989

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This presidential proclamation, number R. 129 of 1989 published on 21 July 1989 in Government Gazette No. 12015, set the date that the Copyright Amendment Act, 1989 came into force.
Copyright Amendment Act, 1989 (Act No. 61 of 1989)
By virtue of the powers vested in me by section 5 of the Copyright Amendment Act, 1989, I fix 1 August 1989 as the date on which the said Act shall come into operation.
Given under my Hand and the Seal of the Republic of South Africa at Cape Town on this Thirtieth day of June, One thousand Nine hundred and Eighty-nine.
P. W. Botha, State President.
By Order of the State President-in-Council:
D. W. Steyn, Minister of the Cabinet.
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# Commencement of the Republic of South Africa Constitution Act, 1983

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This presidential proclamation, number 119 of 1984 published on 6 July 1984 in Government Gazette No. 9308, brought the Republic of South Africa Constitution Act, 1983 into force on 3 September 1984.
Under the powers vested in me by section 103 of the Republic of South Africa Constitution Act, 1983 (Act 110 of 1983), I hereby determine that the said Act shall commence on 3 September 1984.
Given under my Hand and the Seal of the Republic of South Africa at Pretoria on this Fifth day of July, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Eighty Four.
M Viljoen, State President.
By Order of the State President-in-Council, J C Heunis.
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