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# Connecticut Light Power Company v. Federal Power Commission

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United States Supreme Court
324 U.S. 515
Connecticut Light Power Company v. Federal Power Commission
Argued: Jan. 3, 1945. --- Decided: March 26, 1945
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Messrs. Claude R. Branch, of Boston, Mass., and Gay H. Brown, of Albany, N.Y., for petitioner.
Mr. Francis M. Shea, Asst. Atty. Gen., for respondent.
Mr. John E. Benton, of Washington, D.C., for Public Utilities Commission of Connecticut, and others as amici curiae by special leave of court.
Mr. Justice JACKSON delivered the opinion of the Court.

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# Connecticut Mut Life Insurance Company v. Lathrop

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United States Supreme Court
111 U.S. 612
Connecticut Mut Life Insurance Company v. Lathrop
Jeff. Chandler, for plaintiff in error.
Wallace Pratt and Jeff. Brumback, for defendant in error.
HARLAN, J.

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# Connecticut House Bill 5301 (2012)

House Bill No. 5301 Public Act No. 12-1
AN ACT ADJUSTING INCOME ELIGIBILITY GUIDELINES FOR MEDICARE SAVINGS PROGRAMS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
Section 1. Section 17b-256f of the 2012 supplement to the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective from passage):
Beginning [October 1, 2009] March 1, 2012, and annually thereafter, the Commissioner of Social Services shall increase income disregards used to determine eligibility by the Department of Social Services for the federal Specified Low-Income Medicare Beneficiary, the Qualified Medicare Beneficiary and the Qualifying Individual Programs, administered in accordance with the provisions of 42 USC 1396d(p), by an amount that equalizes the income levels and deductions used to determine eligibility for said programs with income levels and deductions used to determine eligibility for the ConnPACE program under subsection (a) of section 17b-492. The commissioner shall not apply an asset test for eligibility under the Medicare Savings Program. The Commissioner of Social Services, pursuant to section 17b-10, may implement policies and procedures to administer the provisions of this section while in the process of adopting such policies and procedures in regulation form, provided the commissioner prints notice of the intent to adopt the regulations in the Connecticut Law Journal not later than twenty days after the date of implementation. Such policies and procedures shall be valid until the time final regulations are adopted.
Approved March 6, 2012
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# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Benn, William

​BENN or BEN, WILLIAM (1600–1680), divine, was born at Egremont in Cumberland, in November 1600. He was educated at the free school of St. Bees. He was, on the completion of his course at this celebrated school, 'transplanted thence to Queen's College, Oxford,' where, says Anthony à Wood, 'if I am not mistaken, he was a servitor.' On a presentation to the living of Oakingham in Berkshire, he left his university without taking a degree. But he found on going to Oakingham that one Mr Bateman, his contemporary at Oxford, had got another presentation to it. Rather than go to law about it, they agreed to take joint charge and to divide the income. This they did with mutual satisfaction for some years. But Benn, having been chosen as her chaplain by the Marchioness of Northampton, living in Somersetshire, left Oakingham to Bateman, and continued with his lady-patron until 1629. In that year, 'by virtue of a call from John White, the patriarch of Dorchester,' he went to Dorchester, and by White's influence was made preacher of All Saints there, where, Anthony à Wood informs us, he 'continued in great respect from the precise party till Bartholomew's day, an. 1662, excepting only two years, in which time he attended the said White when he was rector at Lambeth in Surrey, in the place of Dr. Featley, ejected.' Besides his constant preaching in his own church he preached 'gratis on a week-day to the gaol prisoners,' and, his auditory increasing, he himself built a chapel within the gaol for their better accommodation.
In 1654 he was one of the assistants to the commissioners for ejecting 'scandalous, ignorant, and inefficient ministers and schoolmasters.' After his ejection by the Act of Uniformity, he remained at Dorchester 'to the time of his death; but for his preaching,' says Wood, 'in conventicles there and in the neighbourhood, he was often brought into trouble, and sometimes imprisoned and fined.' He died on 22 March 1680, and was buried in the churchyard of his own former church of All Saints. He published only 'A sober Answer to Francis Bampfield in Vindication of the Christian Sabbath against the Jewish, id est the observance of the Jewish still.' It is a masterly little treatise in the form of a letter (1672). After his death a volume of sermons entitled 'Soul Prosperity,' on 3 John 2 (1683), was published, and is one of the rarest of later puritan books.
[Calamy; Palmer's Nonconf. Mem. ii. 126–7; Hutchin's Dorset; Wilson's Hist. of Dissenters, iii. 436; Wood's Athenæ (Bliss), iii. 1278; Benn's publications.]
A. B. G.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Bennet, Christopher

​BENNET, CHRISTOPHER (1617–1655), physician, born in Somersetshire in 1617, was the son of John Bennet, of Raynton in that county, He entered Lincoln College, Oxford, in Michaelmas term, 1632; was B.A. 24 May 1636, and M.A. 24 Jan. 1639. He did not graduate in medicine at Oxford, but was incorporated M.A. at Cambridge, and became M.D. there in 1646 (Munk). On 11 Sept. of the same year he was admitted licentiate of the College of Physicians, on 16 July 1647 a candidate, and on 7 Dec. 1649 a fellow of the college, where he was censor in 1654. Bennet practised first at Bristol (for how long is not known), and afterwards in London, where he acquired considerable reputation. He is chiefly known for his treatise on consumption, 'Theatri Tabidorum Vestibulum,' which from its title and from certain allusions was apparently intended to be the introduction to a larger work. It treats of various forms of wasting disease, dealing more with what would be now called pathology than with treatment. Its most valuable feature is the constant reference to cases observed and to dissections, not to authority, which gives the little treatise an honourable place among the earlier examples of the modern method in medicine.
Bennet's life was cut short by consumption, at the age of 38, on 30 April 1655. He was buried in St. Gregory's church, near St. Paul's, London. His portrait by Lombart is prefixed to his book. The full title of the first edition of his book is 'Theatri Tabidorum vestibulum seu Exercitationes Dianoeticæ cum Historiis et Experimentis demonstrativis,' sm. 8vo, Lond. 1654. The 2nd edition bears the title 'Tabidorum Theatrum, sive Phthisios, Atrophiœ, et Hecticæ Xenodochium,' 8vo, Lond. 1656; idem Lugd. Batav. 1714; id. Lipsiæ, 1760. It appeared in English as 'Theatrum Tabidorum, or the Nature and Cure of Consumption,' Lond. 1720, 8vo. Bennet also edited 'Health's Improvement, or Rules for preparing all sorts of Food. By Thomas Muffett, corrected and enlarged by Christopher Bennet,' Lond. 1655, 4to.
[Baldwin Hamey, Bustorum aliquot Reliquiæ (MS. biographies) in Brit. Mus. and Coll. Phys.; Wood's Athenæ Oxon. 1721, ii. 191; Wood's Fasti, i. 266, 276; Munk's Coll. of Phys. i. 248]
J. F. P.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Bennet, George

​BENNET, GEORGE (1750–1835), Hebraist, was minister of a small presbyterian congregation in Carlisle, and passed a great portion of his life in the study of Hebrew. He was well acquainted with the learning of the rabbis, who were in his opinion more accustomed, if not better able, than christian commentators to catch the rays of light reflected from the Hebrew Bible. One of the principal contributors to the 'British Critic,' ​he reviewed from time to time the works of some of the most celebrated English divines, and he became at an early period of his life acquainted with many eminent theologians of his day. He corresponded on intimate terms with Milner, Dean of Carlisle, and his brother the historian, with Archdeacons Paley, Markham, and Nares, and with Bishops Porteus and Horsley. It was the learning and power of writing displayed in his criticisms of their works which induced Horsley and others to inquire of Archdeacon Nares, then editor of the 'British Critic,' the name of the reviewer to whom they were indebted for such able and luminous articles. In 1802 Harvard College in Boston, Mass., U.S., conferred the honorary degree of D.D. upon Bennet. In the preceding year Horsley, seldom liberal of his praise, had recorded in his 'Hosea' the strongest testimony to the merits of Bennet's work 'Olam Hanashamoth.' Before this Bennet had published another book, attacking sympathisers with the French revolution. His friends desired that he should take Anglican orders, but he preferred a settlement among his own countrymen, and Archdeacon Markham applied to his brother-in-law, the Earl of Mansfield, who appointed him to the parish of Strathmiglo in Fife, where he died, aged 84.
The full titles of Bennet's works, in their chronological order, are: 1. 'A Display of the Spirit and Designs of those who, under pretence of a Reform, aim at the Subversion of the Constitution and Government of this Kingdom. With a Defence of Ecclesiastical Establishments,' Carlisle, 1796. 2. 'Olam Hanashamoth, or a View of the Intermediate State, as it appears in the records of the Old and New Testament, the Apocraphal (sic) Books in heathen authors, and the Greek and Latin Fathers; with Notes,' Carlisle, 1800.
[Ramage's Drumlanrig, p. 231 ; Brit. Mus. Cat.; Notes and Queries, 1883, p. 334; Watt's Bibl. Brit.; British Critic, 1798, p. 326; Statistical Account of Scotland, ix. 777; Orme's Bibl. Bibl. p. 27.]
J. M.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Benisch, Abraham

​BENISCH, ABRAHAM (1811–1878), Hebraist, was born of Jewish parents at Drosau, in Bohemia, in 1811. From an early age he interested himself in the welfare of his co-religionists. For some years he studied medicine at the university of Vienna, but abandoned the study before proceeding to a degree. He left Austria in 1841 to settle in England, where he remained for the rest of his life. His Hebrew learning and his actively displayed devotion to Judaism secured for him a high reputation among the Jews in England. He was editor of the 'Jewish Chronicle' from 1864 till 1869, and again from 1875 till his death. He zealously promoted the formation of the Society of Hebrew Literature in 1870, and of the Anplo-Jewish Association in 1871. Benisch died at Hornsey on 31 July 1878. He was the author of the following works:
* 'Two Lectures on the Life and Writings of Maimonides,' 1847.
* A translation of the Old Testament, published with the Hebrew Text, in 1851.
* 'An Essay on Colenso's Criticism of the Pentateuch and Joshua,' 1863.
* 'Judaism surveyed; being a Sketch of the Rise and Development of Judaism from Moses to our days,' a series of five lectures delivered at St. George's Hall, London, in 1874.
Benisch also published an 'Elementary Hebrew Grammar' in 1852, and a 'Manual of Scripture History' in 1863.
[Information from the Rev. A. Lowy; Brit. Mus. Cat.; Athenæum, 10 Aug. 1878.]
S. L. L.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Bennet, Henry (fl.1561)

​BENNET, HENRY (fl. 1561), of Calais, published in 1561, at the press of John Awdelay, a volume of translations from the German reformers. The book is divided into two parts; the first contains Philip Melanchthon's life of Luther, Luther's declaration of his doctrine before the Emperor Charles at Worms, and an oration of Melanchthon's at Wittenberg, given in place of his usual 'grammatical' exposition of the Epistle to the Romans, after a short 'intimation' of the news of Luther's death. This part is prefaced by a dedication to Thomas, Lord Wentworth, dated 18 Nov. 1561. The second part has a similar dedication to Lord Mountjoy, dated 'the last of November' 1561, and consists of a life of John Œcolampadius by Wolfangus Faber Capito, an account of his death by Simon Grineus, and a life of Hulderick Zuinglius by Oswald Miconius; the last two are in the form of letters. The two parts were published together. The translations are careful and idiomatic, and the quotations of Œcolampadius from Homer and Euripides are turned into English verse.
[Brit. Mus. Cat.; Ames's Typographical Antiquities; Tanner's Bibliotheca.]
R. B.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Chinnery, George

1904 Errata appended.
​CHINNERY, GEORGE (fl. 1766–1846), portrait and landscape painter, first exhibited some crayon portraits at the Free Society in 1766y and some miniature portraits at the Royal Academy in 1791. At this period he resided at No. 4 Gough Square, Fleet Street. In 1798 he was in College Green, Dublin, and was much patronised oy the Lansdowne family. He became a member of the Royal Hibernian Academy. In 1801, at an exhibition held in the Parliament Houae, Dublin, he had eleven pictures—six portraits and five landscapes. In the following yearwe find him in London, and nothing is known of him until 1830, in which year he sent from Canton to the Royal Academy two portraits, vis. 'Dr. Morrison engaged in translating the Bible into the Chinese language,' and 'The Portrait of a Hong Merchant.' In 1846 his own portrait was in the Royal Academy. It is supposed that Chinnery accompanied Lord Macartney to China; however, he lived in that country for many years, visiting India, and died at Macao about 1800. In the hall of the Royal Dublin Society there is an oil-painting of a lady, seated, considered to represent Maria, marchioness of Lansdowne. There are in the print room of the British Museum a few slight sketches of Indian figures, and also a small quarto volume of etchings by Chinnery entitled 'A Series of Miscellaneous rough Sketches of Oriental Heads.' Published by W. Thacker & Co., Calcutta. These etchings bear the dates of 1839 and 1840. At Knowsley Hall there are two oil-paintings, 'A Chinese Landscape, the English Factory and the Town and Bay of Macao,' and 'View of Macao.' At the South Kensington Museum in 1867 was exhibited the portrait of Hugh Hamilton.
[Redgrave's Dictionary of Artists, 1878; Royal Academy Catalogues; manuscript notes in the British Museum.]
L. F.
Dictionary of National Biography, Errata (1904), p.65 N.B.— f.e. stands for from end and l.l. for last line
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| | ii | 20 | for about 1850 read of apoplexy in 1852 |
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Chisenhale, Edward

1904 Errata appended.
​CHISENHALE or CHISENHALL, EDWARD (d. 1653?), historian, was the eldest son of Edward Chisenhall, esq. of Chisenhall, Lancashire, by Margaret, daughter of Nicholas Worthington of Shavington. He bore a colonel's commission for Charles I in the civil war, and was in Lathom House during the first siege. By his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Alexander Rigby of the Burgh, Lancashire, he had four sons and as many daughters. He was the author of ‘Catholike History, collected and gathered out of Scripture, Councels, Ancient Fathers, and modern Authentick Writers, both Ecclesiastical and Civil; for the satisfaction of such as doubt, and the confirmation of such as believe, the Reformed Church of England. Occasioned by a Book written by Dr. Thomas Vane, intituled "The Lost Sheep returned Home,"’ London, 1653, 8vo.
[St. George’s Visitation of Lancashire, 1613 (Chetham Soc.), p. 24; Dugdale's Visitation of Lancashire, 1664-5 (Chatham Soc.), p. 79; Foley’s Records, vii. 1418.]
T. C.
Dictionary of National Biography, Errata (1904), p.65 N.B.— f.e. stands for from end and l.l. for last line
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| | | 8 f.e. | after 1653 8vo. read He died 5 March 1653-4 |
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Chipp, Edmund Thomas

​CHIPP, EDMUND THOMAS (1823–1886), organist and composer, eldest son of Thomas Paul Chipp [q. v.], was born on 25 Dec. 1823, and educated as a chorister in the Chapel Royal under W. Hawes. He studied the violin successively under W. Thomas, J. B. Nadaud, and A. Tolbecque, and in 1842-3 was honorary organist of the Albany Chapel, Regent's Park. He became a member of the Society of British Musicians in 1842, and from 1843 to 1846 was organist of St. John's Chapel, Hampstead. From 1843 to 1846 he was one of the violinists in the queen's private band, besides playing in the orchestras of the Italian opera (where he also acted as organist and the Philharmonic Society. In 1846-7 he was organist at the Percy Chapel, Tottenham Court Road, and from 1847 to 1852 organist at St. Olave, Southwark. In 1848 he became a member of the Royal Society of Musicians, and from 1862 to 1856 ​organist at St. Mary-at-Hill. In 1855 he succeeded W. T. Best as organist at the Panopticon, Leicester Square (on the site of the present Alhambra), and from 1856 to 1862 filled a similar appointment at Holy Trinity Church, Paddington. In 1859 he took the degree of Mus. Bac. at Cambridge, where his name was entered at St. John’s College, and in 1860 proceeded Mus. Doc. From 1862 until 1866 he was organist of St. George’s Church and the Ulster Hall, Belfast, at the same time acting as conductor to various musical societies. From Ireland he went to Scotland, where he acted as organist of Kinnaird Hall, Dundee, from February, and St. Paul’s, Edinburgh, from May to November 1866. At the end of the year he returned to England, where he was appointed organist ang magister choristarum at Ely Cathedral, a post he retained until his death, which took place at Nice on 17 Dec. 1886. The list of Chipp’s compositions includes two short oratoros, ‘Naomi’, and ‘Job,’ besides several songs, services, and organ and pianoforte music.
[Appendix to Bemrose’s Choir Chant Book, ix.;Grove’s Dict. of Music, i. 346.]
W. B. S.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Chilmark, John

​CHILMARK or CHYLMARK, JOHN (fl. 1386), schoolman, was a fellow of Merton College, Oxford (Leland, Collectanea, iii. 55), and a master of arts. It appears from an account preserved among the muniments of Exeter College that in 1386 he paid ten shillings ‘in parte solutionis scolarum bassarum iuxta scholas ubi scamuum situatur in medio' (Wood, History and Antiquities of the University of Oxford, ed. Gutch, vol. ii. pt. ii. p. 742); so that in that year he must have been engaged in lecturing in the schools belonging to Exeter College. (On the intercourse subsisting between Exeter and Merton see C. W. Boase, Register of Exeter College, intr. p. ix.) Chilmark enjoyed a considerable reputation for his attainments in philosophy, and specially in mathematics; but his best known work, ‘De Actione Elementorum, was a parently only an abridgment of one by Dumbleton (‘Compendium e Actione Elementorum abstractum de quarta parte J. Dumbletoni,’ Bodl. Libr. Cod. Diqb. 77, ff. 153 b to 163). Chilmark’s other productions, which are unpublished, are entitled ‘De Motu’ (Cod. Bodl. 676, ff. ll-38); ‘De Qualitate sc., Propositionis’ (ibid. ff. 69 b to 75 b); and ‘De Alteratione’ (ibid. ff. 76-101). The first and third of these exist also in a manuscript at New College, Oxford (Cod. 289), which moreover contains Chilmark’s treatises ‘De Augmentatione,' ‘De Prioritate,’ and ‘De Aggregatione’ (H. O. Coxe, Cat. of Oxford MSS., New College, p. 104, col. 2). Tanner (Bibl. Brit. p. 178) Further mentions ‘Opuscula Logica’ as found in a Merton manuscript, which seems to have disappeared, and a treatise ‘De Accidentiis Planetarum,’ which is possibly only a mistake for the ‘De Actione [also called ‘De Accidentiis,’ Leland, l.c.] Elementorum.’
[See also Leland’s Comm. de Script. Brit. cdlviii. pp. 397 f.; Bale's Script. Brit. Cat. vi. 99, 605.]
R. L. P.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Chipp, Thomas Paul

​CHIPP, THOMAS PAUL (1793–1870), musician, was born in London 25 May 1793. He was educated in the choir of Westminster Abbey and learnt the piano from Clementi, but in the early part of his life was distinguished as a performer on the harp, for which instrument he wrote several popular pieces. In 1818 he was engaged by Sir Henry Bishop for the orchestra of Covent Garden Theatre, and in 1826 by Monk Mason for Her Majesty’s Theatre. In his later life he was well known as a drummer. For fifty-three years Chipp was a member of all the principal Hendon orchestras. He played at the coronations of George IV, William IV, and Victoria. His last appearance in public took place at the Worcester Festival in 1866. He died at Camden Town on Sunday’L19 June 1870, leaving two sons, Edmund Thomas [q. v.], and Horatio, a violoncellist.
[Information from Miss Chipp; Baptie’s Musical Biography; Musical Times, xiv. 525; Musical Directory, 1870-l.]
W. B. S.