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# Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant Act of 2008

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One Hundred Tenth Congress
of the
United States of America
AT THE SECOND SESSION
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Thursday,
the third day of January, two thousand and eight
To amend title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to extend the authorization of the Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant Program through fiscal year 2012.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

### SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the `Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant Act of 2008'.

### SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS FOR BULLETPROOF VEST PARTNERSHIP GRANT PROGRAM.

Section 1001(a)(23) of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3793(a)(23)) is amended by striking `2009' and inserting `2012'.
# Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club/Volume 8

BULLETIN :
| OF THE |||
| TORREY BOTANICAL CLUB. |||
| Vol. VIII. ] | New-York, January, 1881. | [ No. I. |

## Articles

* "The Ferns of New York State," by Lucien Marcus Underwood, Vol. 8 (1881), pp. 78-79.
* "Onoclea sensibilis L. var. obtusilobata," by Lucien Marcus Underwood, Vol. 8 (1881), pp. 101-102.
# Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club/Volume 9

BULLETIN :
| OF THE |||
| TORREY BOTANICAL CLUB. |||
| Vol. IX. ] | New-York, January, 1882. | [ No. I. |
# Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club/Volume 7

BULLETIN :
| OF THE |||
| TORREY BOTANICAL CLUB. |||
| Vol. VII. ] | New-York, January, 1880. | [ No. I. |

## Articles

* "Artificial Synopses," by Lucien Marcus Underwood, Vol. 7 (1880), pp. 86-89.
# Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club/Volume 8/The Ferns of New York State

pp. 78-79.
§ 73. The Ferns of New York State.—The untiring zeal of botanists in all sections of our country is causing great changes in our knowledge of the geographical distribution of species. The fact that no less than five species of ferns* have been discovered within the geographical limits adopted for Gray's Manual, since the publication of the last edition, is sufficient evidence that our botanists are neither idle nor allowing much territory to remain unsearched.
New York State, from its diversity of favorable conditions, can justly claim the first rank in the richness and extent of her fern treasures.  Other States may surpass her in a singular particular: Alabama produces the smallest fern (Trichomanes Petersii); California produces the richest, in the "golden-back" (Gymnogramme triangularis); Florida produces the most anomalous, in Viitaria, Ceratopteris and Ophioglossum palmatum; but no State can excel New York in number of species, variety, richness or profusion.
The States which approach nearest in number of species are California and Florida.   The former has the advantage of an extent of ten degrees of latitude against four degrees in New York, and the nearer approximation to an insular climate which favors fern growth.  The latter (Florida) has the advantage of a semi-tropical climate peculiarly adapted to this order of plants.
It would be interesting to compare the fern growth of all our States and Territories, yet this can hardly be done in the present state of our knowledge of distribution.   The following, however, may be safely compared:
| New York, | 52 species; |
| California, | 46 species; |
| Florida, | 42 species; |
| Kentucky, | 39 species; |
| Illinois, | 37 species; |
| Arkansas, | 37 species; |
| Michigan, | 30 species; |
| Texas, | 27 species; and |
| Arizona, | 24 species. |
Of the forty-six species found in California, ten are shared in common with New York, and fourteen of the Florida species also occur in New York.* Of the thirty-one genera of American ferns, nineteen are found within the limits of New York; Florida can boast an equal number, yet she monopolizes all the species of five-genera, viz.: Acrostichum, Viitaria, Blechnum, Ceratopteris and Nephrolepis. California has representatives of only seventeen genera.
The list† enclosed gives the ferns of New York State as far as known.
| Bloomington, Ill. | Lucien M. Underwood |
* Adiantum Capillus-Veneris, L., Asplenium viride, Huds., A. Bradleyi, Eaton, Woodsia hyperboreae, R. Br., and Botrychium matricariaefolium, R. Br.
† As the list sent by Prof. Underwood is, with few exceptions, the same as one given by us on page 263, Vol. vi, of the Bulletin, we have thought it unnecessary to repeat it here. The additions made by him to that list are Asplenium Bradleyi and A. ebenoides (detected within the State more recently), and the varieties obiiquum and dissectum of Botrychium ternatum. The latter we inadvertently omitted. —Eds.
# Canadian National Songs/Canada Fair

CANADA FAIR!
A Canadian National Hymn.
JOHN MACFARLANE (JOHN ARBORY), WESTMOUNT.
I.
Canada fair! in the hour of thy being,
Bright shone the day-star of hope from on high,
Cradled and blest by the Father All-seeing,
Nurtured wert thou by the earth and the sky;
Not the war-weapon as sceptre thou bearest,
Bent to thy task of the northland to tame,
Love-lit and proud of the names that thou wearest,
Montcalm and Wolfe on the crest of thy fame.
Chorus:
Queen of the pinewood, the lake and the river,
Daughter of sea-kings and lords of romance,
Triumphs of peace be thine heritage ever,
Free on the pathway of light to advance,
Canada Fair!
II.
Hark! 'tis the voice of the future that's calling,
Fondly afar in the dim ways of Time:
'Fear not tho' nations around thee are falling,
Dare and endure in thy fresh-flowing prime;
Strong in the hostage of old that thou gavest,
Courage sublime for thy millions to be
Laurel'd and loved by the hearts of the bravest
Crowned by the strength and the will to be free.'
Queen of the pinewood, the lake and the river,
Daughter of sea-kings and lords of romance,
Triumphs of peace be thine heritage ever,
Free on the pathway of light to advance,
Canada Fair!
III.
'Trust not the false gleam of hate-breathing passion,
Fire-flashing glory of sword and of shield,
Guided by wisdom to plan and to fashion,
Destined by genius to make and to wield,
Thine be the wealth of thy plains glowing golden,
Sunlit and waving from ocean to sea,
Trophies of thought, and high deeds that embolden— Dower of the years and the ages for thee.'
Queen of the pinewood, the lake and the river,
Daughter of sea-kings and lords of romance,
Triumphs of peace be thine heritage ever.
Free on the pathway of light to advance,
Canada Fair!
# Canadian National Songs/Canada Forever

CANADA FOREVER!
MISS A. M. MACHAR, ('FIDELIS'), KINGSTON, ONT.
Our Canada, strong, fair and free,
Whose sceptre stretches far,
Whose hills look down on either sea,
And front the polar star;— Not for thy greatness—hardly known— Wide plains, or mountains grand,
But as we hold thee for our own,
We love our native land.
God bless our mighty forest land
Of mountain, lake and river,— Thy loyal sons, from strand to strand,
Sing 'Canada Forever.'
Wrapped in thy dazzling robe of snow,
We proudly hail thee ours,
We crown thee when the south winds blow,
'Our Lady of the Flowers!'
We love thy rainbow-tinted skies,— The glamor of thy Spring,— For us, thine Autumn's gorgeous dyes,
For us, thy song-birds sing.
God bless our fair Canadian land
Of mountain, lake and river,— Thy loyal sons, from strand to strand,
Sing 'Canada Forever.'
For us, thy brooding summer wakes
The corn-fields' wavingw gold,
The quiet pastures, azure lakes,
For us, their treasures hold,
To us each hill and dale is dear,
Each rock and stream and glen,
Thy scattered homes of kindly cheer,
Thy busy haunts of men.
God bless our own Canadian land
Of mountain, lake and river,— Thy loyal sons, from strand to strand,
Sing 'Canada Forever.'
Our sires their old traditions brought,
Their lives of faithful toil,
For home and liberty they fought
On our Canadian soil;
Quebec to us is sacred still,
Nor less is Lundy's Lane,— Long may a loyal people fill
The land they fought to gain.
God bless our own Canadian land
Of mountain, lake and river,— Thy loyal sons, from strand to strand,
Sing 'Canada Forever.'
Saxon and Celt and Norman we:
Each race its memory keeps;
Yet o'er us all, from sea to sea,
One red-cross banner sweeps.
Long may our 'Greater Britain' stand
The bulwark of the free;
But Canada, our own dear land,
Our first love is for thee!
God bless our own Canadian land
Of mountain, lake and river,— The chorus ring from strand to strand
Of 'Canada Forever.'
# Canadian National Songs/National Song

NATIONAL SONG.
R. G. S. ANDERSON, ('CERES'), WROXETER, ONT.
Hail to the Northland that cradles a nation,
Lusty and strong as the masts of her pines,
Queen of her own, she reigns in her station,
Mother of freemen she sits in her lines.
God save the land we love,
Make her forever prove
Mother of men, and a home of the free.
Let every patriot son
Sing, while the ages run:
'Canada, Motherland! Our heart beats for thee.'
Honor the land where the knightliest races
Battled as foemen to win her as prize,
Sons of these bold men we sit in their places,
Brothers forever by surest of ties.
God guard the land we hold,
Firm as our sires of old,
Jealous of honor, and fearless, and free.
Standing with arms at rest,
Call we from east to west:
'Canada, Motherland! Our heart beats for thee.'
Blest be our land that has written in story.
Names that are worthy, and deeds that inspire;
Long may her place in the roll-call of glory
Wake a true pride with the patriot's fire.
God ring the Empire round;
But let our sons be found
Marching breast forward, the first of the free.
True to the larger house.
Still shall we give the rouse:
'Canada, Motherland! Our heart beats for thee.'
# Canadian National Songs/Hymn to Canada

HYMN TO CANADA.
KATHARINE L. MACPHERSON, (KAY LIVINGSTONE), MONTREAL.
O Canada, thy regal head
Lift higher to the skies,
Pride with humility be wed,
Deep in thy tender eyes.
Stand forth to a more honored place,
Proud though thy past hath been,
Stand forth and vindicate thy race,
Thou Daughter of a Queen.
As Venus from the ocean,
In living beauty sprang, And stood without emotion
Whilst heaven with plaudits rang,
So thou, my own dear land, arose,
Far on the western sea,
In graces all adorned for those
Long sighing to be free.
Thou art a hope the toiler hides
Within his heart—a star
That many a weary foot still guides
From hill and vale afar!
On plains to which the streams flow down,
In forest and by sea,
They live anew in hopes that crown
This land of liberty.
Think what thy storied past hath been,
Thy guarded, ancient lore,
The deeds thy former years have seen,
Remembered evermore!
For thee, a babe of nations,
The best of blood was spilt,
And firmly thy foundations
On heroes' bones were built.
O Canada, unworthy
Of them thou shalt not be,
All noble aims to further
The constant care of thee
Till in the van a leader call'd
Of foremost power thou'lt stand,
A people's faith, like city wall'd,
Safe in thy honored hand.
# Canadian National Songs

Canadian National Songs
THE PRIZE SONGS.
In April, 1898, the Montreal 'Witness' offered four prizes of $50, $25, $15 and $10 respectively for the four best national songs sent in before Aug. 1, 1898 In response to this offer over seven hundred songs were received, some coming from England, South Africa, Australia and even the United States. These were sent to the three Canadian judges, who selected from among them the ten best. These ten were then sent to the Marquis of Dufferin and Ava, whose final decision is given in the accompanying letter:
Clandeboye, County Down, Ireland, Feb. 3, 1899.
Gentlemen,—In reply to your communication of the 6th of January, in which you are good enough to ask for my decision as to the four best songs out of the ten submitted to my judgment, I beg to append, in what appears to be the relative order of merit, a list of those I have selected. I think it. however, right to add that the comparative superiority of any one of them over the others must be regarded as very slight. I return you herewith the entire set.
I have the honor to be, gentlemen,
Your obedient servant,
DUFFERIN AND AVA.
Relative order of merit of first four poems:—
* 'Canada Forever,'
* 'Canada Fair,'
* 'National Song,' by Ceres.
* 'Hymn to Canada.'
DUFFERIN AND AVA.
Feb. 3, 1899.
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# Canadian Northern Railway Company v. Eggen

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United States Supreme Court
252 U.S. 553
Canadian Northern Railway Company v. Eggen
Argued: March 1, 1920. --- Decided: April 19, 1920
Mr. Wm. D. Mitchell, of St. Paul, Minn., for petitioner.
[Argument of Counsel from pages 554-557 intentionally omitted]
Mr. Ernest A. Michel, of Ninneapolis, Minn., for respondent.
[Argument of Counsel from Pages 557-558 intentionally omitted]
Mr. Justice CLARKE delivered the opinion of the Court.

## Notes

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# Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)/Ambrose Autpert

From volume 2 of the work.
An early medieval writer and abbot of the Benedictine Order, born in France, early in the eighth century; died after an abbacy of little more than a year at his monastery of St. Vincent on the Volturno, near Beneventum, in Southern Italy, 778 or 779. Autpert, if forgotten today, was not without a name in his own century. Charlemagne made use of his talents; Pope Stephen IV protected him; and the monastery where he spent many years, and of which he died abbot was famous among the great monasteries of Italy. He has sometimes been confounded with another Autpert who was Abbot of Monte Cassino in the next century, and who left a collection of sermons besides a spiritual treatise. His chief work is Expositio in Apocalypsim (P.L., XXXV, col. 2417-52).
FRANCIS P. HAVEY
# Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)/Ambrogio Borgognone

From volume 2 of the work.
(Real name AMBROGIO STEFANI DA FOSSANO).
A distinguished Italian painter and architect, b. Milan, c. 1455, d. at Milan, 1523. The name Borgognone is variously accounted for. By some authorities it is attributed to some Flemish characteristics in his art, and by others to the fact that some of his ancestors had lived in Flanders then known to the Italians as Borgogna. It is supposed that he studied with Vincenzo Foppa, with Zenale, and with Buttinone, but there is little known of the details of his career. The earliest work credited to him is the façade of the Carthusian convent or Certosa near Pavia. The stalls and other woodwork in the choir were carved from the designs of Borgognone, who painted there, among other works, an altar piece of the Crucifixion. Great refinement and deep religious feeling mark his work, which is likewise notable for its beautiful celestial and mundane types. On his return to Milan he went to work in the church of San Satiro, and his productions appeared, among other churches, at Sant' Ambrogio, San Simpliciano and Sant' Agostino. At San Simpliciano he painted scenes, since lost, from the story of St. Sisinius. He worked also at Lodi in the church of the Incoronata and did an altar piece for San Satiro at Bergamo.
Borgognone painted in tempera and also in oil in the style of tempera and in fresco. His early work lacked freedom, but later he fell under the beneficent influence of Leonardo da Vinci. Among his works in public galleries are: National Gallery, London, "Marriage of St. Catherine of Alexandria"; a triptych with a "Virgin and Child Enthroned", having at one side the "Agony in the Garden", and on the other "Christ Bearing His Cross", and two groups of family portraits; Louvre, "Presentation in the Temple", and "St. Peter of Verona", with a kneeling woman; Berlin Museum, "Madonna Enthroned", and "Madonna with Saints"; Munich, Old Pinakotek, "Madonna in Adoration"; Dresden Gallery, "Madonna in Adoration"; Brera Gallery, Milan, "The Assumption of the Virgin"; and Pavia Academy, "Christ Bearing His Cross, followed by Carthusians". In the Casa Borromeo at Milan is a portrait of Bishop Andrea Novelli. The Pavia picture is considered without an equal in art in simple pathos and deep religious meaning. Lanzi and other authors have treated Ambrogio da Fossano, the architect, and Ambrogio Borgognone, the painter, as two different persons, but the signatures he left show that this was not the case.
BRYAN, Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (London, and New York, 1903-05).
AUGUSTUS VAN CLEEF
# Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)/Amastris

From volume 1 of the work.
​Amastris (now Amasserah or Samastro), a titular see of Paphlagonia in Asia Minor, on a peninsula jutting into the Black Sea. Its episcopal list dates from the third century (Gams, I, 454). It is mentioned by Homer (Iliad, II, 853), was a flourishing town in the time of Trajan (98–117), and was of some importance until the seventh century of our era.
Lequien, Oriens Christ. (1740), I, 561–566; Smith, Dict. of Greek and Roman Geogr., I, 118.
# Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)/Amathus

From volume 1 of the work.
​Amathus, name of two titular sees, one in Syria, suffragan of Apameia, with an episcopal list known from 449 to 536; the other on the southern coast of Cyprus, whose episcopal list reaches from the fourth century to 787. The latter place was one of the most ancient Phœnician settlements on the island, and long maintained the customs and character of an Oriental town. It was famous for the worship of Aphrodite and Adonis, also of the Tyrian god Melkart. The great wheat-fields and rich mines of the Cypriot city were celebrated in antiquity (Ovid, Met., X, 220).
Smith, Dict. of Greek and Roman Geogr., I, 118; Mas Latrie, Trésor de chronol, (Paris, 1895), 1894.
# Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)/Ambition

From volume 1 of the work.
​Ambition, the undue craving for honour. Anciently in Rome the candidates for office were accustomed to go about (ambire) soliciting votes. This striving for popular favour was spoken of as ambitio. Honour is the manifestation of a certain reverence for a person because of the worth or assemblage of good qualities which that person is deemed to have. The excessive desire of distinction is of course a sin, not because it is wrong in itself to wish to have the respect or consideration of others, but because it is assumed that this quest is conducted without proper regard to the mandates of sound reason. This deordination in the desire of, or search for, honour may come about chiefly in three ways. (1) One may want this exhibition of homage for some merit which he really does not possess. (2) A man may permit himself to forget that the thing or things, whatever they may be, which are thought to deserve the testimony of others, are not his in fee simple, but God's, and that the credit therefore belongs primarily to God. (3) A person may be so absorbed in the display of esteem for, or deference towards, himself as to fail to employ the particular degree of excellence which has evoked it for the welfare of others (St. Thomas, Summa Theol., II–II, Q. cxxxi, Art. 1). Ambition as such is not accounted a mortal sin; it may become such either because of the means it uses to compass its object, as for instance, the simoniacal endeavour to obtain an ecclesiastical dignity, or because of the harm done to another. Ambition operates as a canonical impediment in the following circumstances. Those who take their elevation to a church dignity for granted, and, before receiving the requisite formal enabling notice of it, by some overt act demean themselves as if their election were an accomplished fact, are held to be ineligible. The bestowal of the office in this case is likewise considered invalid. Those who accept an election brought about by an abuse of the secular power are also declared ineligible (Corp. Jur. Can. in VI Decret., Bk. I, tit. vi, ch. v).
Joseph F. Delany.
# Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)/Ambo (in the Russian and Greek Church)

From volume 1 of the work.
​Ambo, In the Russian and Greek Church.—Its use has now practically disappeared in the Roman Rite and the only reminder of it in modern churches is the pulpit or reading desk. Sometimes two ambos were used, from one of which the Epistle was read and from the other the Gospel. Examples of these may be seen in the church of St. Clement at Rome and the cathedral of St. Mark at Venice. In the Russian Orthodox Church the word ambo is now applied to two or three semi-circular steps leading from the middle of the soleas (or platform immediately in front of the iconostasis) to the floor of the church. These semi-circular steps are directly in front of the royal doors of the iconostasis. In cathedral churches in Russia there is also another ambo situated in the middle of the nave, upon which the bishop stands during certain parts of the pontifical service. In the Greek (Hellenic) Orthodox Church the ambo is more often in the ancient style, but has been removed from the middle to the sides of the church. The Greek Liturgy, however, plainly shows that the ambo was originally raised and that it was in the middle of the church. One of the concluding prayers of the Greek Mass is the "prayer behind the ambo" (εὐχή ὀπισθάμβονος), which is directed by the rubric to be said in front of the royal doors outside of the iconostasis. In the Greek Catholic (United) Church, both in Slavic countries and the United States, the ambo is a table standing in front of the royal doors of the iconostasis, upon which there are a crucifix and two candles. It is used as the ambo and replaces the analogion. Services such as baptisms, confirmations, and marriages are performed at the ambo. The Greek Catholic churches of Italy and Sicily do not use the ambo, having apparently followed the Roman Rite in its disuse.
Andrew J. Shipman.