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# United States v. Lefkowitz

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United States Supreme Court
285 U.S. 452
United States v. Lefkowitz
Argued: April 11, 1932. ---
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The Attorney General and Mr. Thomas D. Thacher, of Washington, D. C. (Messrs. G. A. Youngquist, Asst. Atty. Gen., and John J. Byrne and Wilbur H. Friedman, both of Washington, D. C., on the brief), for the United States.
[Arguments of Counsel from pages 453-456 intentionally omitted]
Messrs. David P. Siegel and Milton B. Seasonwein, both of New York City, for respondent.
[Arguments of Counsel from Pages 456-457 intentionally omitted]
Mr. Justice BUTLER delivered the opinion of the Court.

## Notes

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# Voice of Flowers/The Dahlia and Verbena

THE DAHLIA AND VERBENA
A tall and richly drest Dahlia boasted. She lifted up her head haughtily, as though she felt herself a queen. Her lips moved, and she was heard thus to soliloquize:—
"I alone, of all the flowers around, am truly beautiful. Which of them can compare with me, in elegance of dress, or dignity of deportment?
Yet I suffer for want of society. I cannot associate with those around, who are destitute of my accomplishments.
Here is an insipid Verbena at my feet, always trying to be sociable. She is so ill-bred as to smile, when I meet her eye, as if she were an acknowledged acquaintance.
It is in vain that I strive to convince her of her vulgarity. I cannot even look down without seeing her. I wish she would move away, and give place to some neighbor, more proper for one of my rank.
I doubt whether she even knows that my name is Lady Liverpool. I will throw her ​a withering frown, and see if it is not possible to repel her advances."
That night there came an early frost. The splendid robes of the Dahlia were ruined by its chilling touch. She hung her head in bitterness, and was ashamed to be seen.
But the little pale-cheeked Verbena, whom she had so long despised, looked meekly up, and spoke kind and cheering words. It had been sheltered from the frost by the drapery of its proud neighbor.
Forgetting the disdainful demeanor of the Dahlia, it tenderly ministered to its sorrows, and sent up its sweetest perfumes, to cheer her, like a cloud of incense.
And as I bent down, admiring its sympathy, there seemed to come from its meek example, a gentle voice, "Go thou and do likewise."
# Voice of Flowers/The Disobedient Pansy

THE DISOBEDIENT PANSY.
A pansy had many little ones. She talked much with them—daily instructing them, and set them a good example of sweet temper and humility.
She said often to them, "As soon as the great sun sinks away from you, and you feel the cool, fresh dews, compose yourself to rest. Look up smilingly, and breathe one sweet breath to Him who giveth the sun-beam, and the drops of dew.
When you have offered this, (the prayer of all good flowers,) fold your leaves, and bend your heads in sleep, for He will take care of you. The buds that thus early and piously go to rest, will flourish and be pleasing in His sight."
So her children obeyed her, all except one. This young pansy grew on rather a longer stalk than the others; and it said, "I wonder why my mother is thus always lecturing us?"
"I think I know as much as she. I do not like to go so early to bed. I have heard that those who have genius are always brightest when it is late. I wish to see how the world looks at midnight."
So she omitted her prayers, and strained her ​eyes open as wide as she could. Her brothers and sisters were quietly sleeping around her, and she laughed at what she called their stupidity.
By and by she began to grow tired, when suddenly a huge black spider seized her in his claws. She cried out in terror, but no one was awake to hear her.
He held her so tight that she could scarcely breathe, and tears stood in her large, dark eyes. In the gray dawn he spun a web over her face, and fastened it to a neighboring shrub.
Her mother awoke early, and lamented over her; "Oh, my poor daughter, would that I could help you! Perhaps He, to whom you forgot to pray, who is so good to all, may yet cause these chains to fall from you."
Bitterly did the young pansy deplore her disobedience. Her fright, and the spider's cords, with their tight lacing, had so compressed her heart and lungs, that she turned pale, and panted for breath.
When the noon-day sun beat fiercely upon her, she drooped and faded away—saying, with her last, faint sigh, "Oh! brothers and sisters, take warning by my sad fate. Never disobey our dear mother, for she is wiser than we."
# Voice of Flowers/Planting Geranium and Box on the Grave of an Aged Friend

PLANTING GERANIUM AND BOX ON THE GRAVE OF AN AGED FRIEND.
Fragile plant, of slender form,
Fair, and shrinking from the storm,
Raise thou here, thy timid head,
Bloom in this uncultur'd bed:
Thou, of firmer spirit, too,
Stronger texture, deeper hue,
Dreading not the blasts that sweep,
Rise, and guard its infant sleep.
Fear ye not the lonely shade
Where the bones of men are laid;
Short, like yours, their transient date,— Keen hath been the scythe of fate.
Forth, like plants, in glory drest,
They came upon the green earth's breast,
Spread forth their roots to reach the stream,—
Their blossoms, toward the rising beam,
Inhal'd the morning's balmy breath,
And sank at eve, in withering death.
Rest here, meek plants, for few intrude
To break this silent solitude.
Yet should some giddy footstep tread
Amid the ashes of the dead,
Still let the hand of rashness spare
These tokens of affection's care,
Nor pluck their cherish'd buds that wave,
In sweetness o'er a Christian's grave.
—White were the locks that thinly spread
Their silver o'er her honor'd head,
And furrows, not to be effaced,
Had time amid her features traced,
Before my earliest strength I tried
In infant gambols by her side;
But yet, no grace or beauty rare,
Were ever to my eye so fair.
Seven times the sun with swift career,
Hath marked the circle of the year,
Since first she pressed her lowly bier;
And seven times sorrowing have I come
Alone and wandering through the gloom,
To pour my lays upon her tomb;
Nor could I bear to see her bed
With brambles and with thorns o'er spread.
Ah! surely round her place of rest
I should not let the coarse weed twine,
Who every path by sorrow prest,
With pure benevolence hath blest,
And scattered such perfumes on mine;
It is not meet, that she should be
Forgotten, or unwept by me.
My plants, that in your hallowed beds,
Like strangers, raise your trembling heads,
Drink the pure dew that evening sheds,
And meet the morning's earliest ray,
And catch the sunbeams when they play;
And if your cups are filled with rain,
Shed back those drops in tears again;
Or if the gale that sweeps the heath,
Too roughly o'er your leaves should breathe,
Then sigh for her, and when ye bloom,
Scatter your fragrance o'er her tomb.
But should ye, smit with terror, cast
Your blighted blossoms on the blast,
Or faint beneath the vertic heat, Or fail when wintry tempests beat,
There is a plant of deeper bloom,
Whose leaves shall deck this honor'd tomb,
Not bianch'd with frost, or parch'd for rain,
Or by the wrath of winter slain,
But every morn its buds renewed,
Are by the tears of evening dewed,
—The deathless plant of gratitude.
# Voice of Flowers/Spring Blossoms to the Mourner

SPRING BLOSSOMS TO THE MOURNER.
Thou bringest violets in thy hand,
 Sweet Spring. Thy gifts how vain
To soothe us for those fair, blue eyes,
 That ope no more again.
Thou bringest music of the birds,
 As if such strain could pay
For their melodious speech, who sank
 From our lone bowers away.
Thou showerest breathing roses round,
 To blush on beauty's breast;
Give back! give back those lips of rose,
 That to our own were prest.
Thou know'st to burst the tyrant gloom
 Of Winter's icy urn;
Teach them to break the envious tomb,
 And to our arms return.
Thou canst not! To our grieving souls
 Thy boasted spell is o'er;
From all thy gifts to those we turn,
 Whom thou canst ne'er restore.
To those o'er whom thy quicken'd turf,
 With earliest snow-drops grows,
Yet fails to wake their wonted smile,
 Or move their deep repose.
Yes; from thy charms to Him we turn,
 Who laid our treasures low,
And, with a Father's love, ordains
 Our discipline of woe:
We look to that unsullied clime,
 Where storm shall never sweep;
Nor fickle Spring the heart beguile,
 Nor drooping mourner weep.
# Voice of Flowers/The Cactus Speciosissimus

THE CACTUS SPECIOSISSIMUS.
Who hung thy beauty on such ragged stalk,
Thou glorious flower?
 Who poured the richest hues,
In varying radiance, o'er thine ample brow,
And, like a mesh, those tissued stamens laid
Upon thy crimson lip?
 Thou glorious flower!
Methinks it were no sin to worship thee,
Such passport hast thou from thy Maker's hand,
To thrill the soul. Lone, on thy leafless stem,
Thou bidd'st the queenly rose, with all her buds,
Do homage, and the greenhouse peerage bow
Their rainbow coronets.
 Hast thou no thought?
No intellectual life? thou who can'st wake
Man's heart to such communings? no sweet word
With which to answer him? 'T would almost seem
That so much beauty needs must have a soul,
And that such form as tints the gazer's dream,
Held higher spirit than the common clod
On which we tread.
 Yet while we muse, a blight
Steals o'er thee, and thy shrinking bosom shows
The mournful symptoms of a wan disease.—
I will not stay to see thy beauty fade.
 ——Still must I bear away within my heart
Thy lesson of our own mortality;
The fearful withering of each blossomed bough
On which we lean, of every bud we fain
Would hide within our bosoms from the touch
Of the destroyer.
 So instruct us, Lord!
Thou Father of the sunbeam and the soul,
Even by the simple sermon of a flower,
To cling to Thee.
# Voice of Flowers/The Desert Flower

THE DESERT FLOWER.
A weary course the traveller held,
 As on with footstep lone,
By scientific zeal impelled,
 He tracked the torrid zone.
Sad thought was with his native glades,  His father's pleasant halls,
Where darkly peer, through woven shades,
 The abbey's ivied walls.
Yet to the far horizon's bound,
 Far as the glance could sweep, The sandy desert spread around,
 Like one vast, waveless deep.
What saw he 'mid that dreary scene,
 To wake his rapture wild?
A flower! A flower! with glorious mien,
 Like some bright rainbow's child.
Kneeling, he clasped it to his breast,
 He praised its wondrous birth,
Fair, fragile, beautiful, and blest,  The poetry of earth.
No secret fountain through its veins
 Sustaining vigor threw, No dew refreshed those arid plains,
 Yet there the stranger grew.
It seemed as if some tender friend,
 Beloved in childhood's day,
A murmur through those leaves did send,
 A smile to cheer his way;
And fervently a prayer for those,
 In his own distant bower, Like incense from his heart uprose,
 Beside that Desert Flower.
For thus do Nature's hallowed charms
 Man's softened soul inspire,
As to the infant in her arms,
 The mother points its sire.
# Voice of Flowers/The Emigrant Daisy

THE EMIGRANT DAISY.
Once, from its home in England's* soil,
 A daisy's root I drew,
Amid whose moistened crown of leaves
 A healthful bud crept through,
And whispered in its infant ear
 That it should cross the sea,
A cherished emigrant, and share
 A western home with me.
Methought it shrank, at first, and paled;
 But when on ocean's tide
Strong waves and awful icebergs frowned,  And manly courage died,
It calmly reared its crested head
 And smiled amid the storm,
As if old Magna Charta's soul
 Inspired its fragile form.
So where within my garden plat,
 I sow the choicest seed,
Amid my favorite shrubs I placed
 The plant from Runnimede.
And know not why it may not draw
 Sweet nutriment, the same
As when within that noble clime
 From whence our fathers came.
Here's liberty enough for all,
 If they but use it well,
And Magna Charta's spirit lives
 In even the lowliest cell,
And the simplest daisy may unfold
 From scorn and danger freed,
So make yourself at home, my friend,
 My flower from Runnimede.
# Voice of Flowers/The Blossom and the Beautiful

THE BLOSSOM AND THE BEAUTIFUL.
To a bright bud, with heart of flame,
The angel of the seasons came,
Took its close-shrouding hood away,
And rais'd its forehead to the day,—
And from its blushing depths updrew
A stream of incense, fresh as dew.
He kiss'd its cheek, and went his way,
And then a form, with temples grey,
Crept to its side, and taught it how
To shrink, to shrivel, and to bow,—
On the cold earth its lip to lay,
And mix with fair things pass'd away.
Thus, to a maid, in beauty's spring,
Love's angel came, on radiant wing,
Nerv'd the light foot to skim the plain,
And made the voice a music strain,—
And wreath'd his cestus round her breast,
Till every eye her power confest.
A ghastly shade, with lifted dart, Strode to her couch, and chill'd her heart.
Pale grew the brow, which roses fir'd;
And the soft breath in sighs expir'd:
Yet that which bound her to the sky
Escap'd his shaft. It could not die.
# Voice of Flowers/The Constant Friends

THE CONSTANT FRIENDS.
O sweet soul'd flowers, with robes so bright
 Fair guests of Eden birth,
In changeful characters of light,
What lines of love divine ye write
 Upon this troubled earth!
Man sinn'd in Paradise, and fell—  But when the storm arose—
When thorns and brambles sow'd his path,
And gentlest natures turn'd to wrath,
 Ye leagued not with his foes.
Ye sinn'd not, though to him ye clung,  When, at the guarded door,
The penal sword its terrors flung,
And warn'd him, with its flaming tongue,
 To enter there no more
Forth by his side ye meekly far'd,
 With pure, reproachless eye,
And when the vengeful lion roar'd,
A balmy gush of fragrance pour'd,
 In hallow'd sympathy.
Ye sprang amid the broken sod,
 His weary brow to kiss;
Bloom'd at his feet where'er he trod,
And told his burden'd heart of God,
 And of a world of bliss.
Ye bow'd the head, to teach him how
 He must himself decay;
Yet, dying, charged each tiny seed
The earliest call of Spring to heed,
 And cheer his future way.
From age to age, with dewy sigh,
 Even from the desert glade.
Sweet words ye whisper, till ye die
Still pointing to that cloudless sky,  Where beauty cannot fade.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/27th Congress/3rd Session/Chapter 53

Chap. LIII.—An Act regulating the mode of paying over to the State of Alabama the two per cent. fund relinquished to said State by the act approved on the fourth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and forty-one.
Act of Sept. 4, 1841, ch. 16. Bills of the Bank of Alabama receivable for lands, to the amount of the two per cent. fund unpaid.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the registers and receivers of public moneys at the different land offices in the State of Alabama be, and they are hereby, authorized and required, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, to take and receive from the actual settlers on the public lands in said State, in payment for their houses and improvements, entered by virtue of any of the pre-emption laws now in force, the bills of the Bank of the State of ​Alabama, or any of the branches thereof, to an amount equal to the amount of the two per cent. fund relinquished to this State by the Congress of the United States, remaining unpaid:Quantity of land to be entered by a settler. alabama to receive said bills in payment of the two per ct. fund. Terms of the relinquishment not affected by this act. Provided, That no settler shall be allowed to enter more than one quarter section of land with the bills of said bank, or either of them: And provided further, That the State of Alabama shall receive from the Government of the United States, in payment of said two per cent. fund, the bills of the Bank of the State of Alabama, and the several branches thereof, taken and received by the registers and receivers, as aforesaid, from the settlers aforesaid, in payment for their pre-emption claims: And provided further, That nothing in this act shall be so construed as to change the terms, conditions, and limitations, annexed to the relinquishment of said fund to the said State, by the act aforesaid; but such terms, conditions, and limitations, shall apply and be in full force in reference to said fund, notwithstanding its payment in the mode provided by this act.
Approved, March 1, 1843.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/27th Congress/3rd Session/Chapter 50

Chap. L.—An Act to perfect the titles to lands south of the Arkansas river, held under New Madrid locations, and pre-emption rights under the act of one thousand eight hundred and fourteen [fifteen].
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Certain locations of warrants, issued under act of 17th February, 1815, ch. 45, perfected. Act of April 26, 1822, ch. 40. Act of May 26, 1824, ch. 173. Act of May 24, 1828, ch. 90. That the locations heretofore made of warrants issued under the act of the seventeenth of February, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, entitled “An act for the relief of the inhabitants of the late county of New Madrid, in Missouri Territory, who suffered by earthquakes” of those locations which were made on the south side of the Arkansas river, if made in pursuance of the provisions of that act in other respects, shall be perfected into grants, in like manner as if the Indian title to the lands on the south side of said river had been completely extinguished at the time of the passage of said act.
Owners of warrants authorized to enter other lands, in certain cases.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That in all cases in which the locations so made on the south side of the Arkansas river may have been sold, and the lands thus located under the act aforesaid have been appropriated by the United States, the owner of the warrants issued under the provisions of the act aforesaid shall have a right to enter, within twelve months after the passage of this act, without payment, the like quantity of the public lands, of any of the unappropriated and unimproved lands in the State of Arkansas, corresponding with the legal subdivisions.
Settlers north of the Arkansas entitled to benefits of pre-emption act of 1815, ch. 45.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That every settler on the public lands south of the Arkansas river shall be entitled to the same benefits accruing under the provisions of the pre-emption act of one thousand eight hundred and fourteen [fifteen], as though they had resided north of said river.
Certain Cherokee pre-emptions confirmed.Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That all Cherokee pre-emptions which have been or may be located upon any of the surveyed lands of the United States, south of the base line in Arkansas, shall be confirmed, and patents shall issue thereon as in other cases.
Approved, March 1, 1843.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/27th Congress/3rd Session/Chapter 69

Chap. LXIX.—An Act regulating the currency of foreign gold and silver coins in the United States.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Certain gold coins of Great Britain and France to be current―their value fixed. That from and after the passage of this act, the following foreign gold coins shall pass current as money within the United States, and be receivable, by weight, for the payment of all debts and demands, at the rates following, that is to say: the gold coins of Great Britain, of not less than nine hundred and fifteen and a half thousandths in fineness, at ninety-four cents and six-tenths of a cent per pennyweight; and the gold coins of France, of not less than eight hundred and ninety-nine thousandths in fineness, at ninety-two cents and nine-tenths of a cent per pennyweight.
Silver coins of Spain, Mexico, Peru, Bolivia and France, also.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That from and after the passage of this act, the following foreign silver coins shall pass current as money within the United States, and be receivable by tale, for the payment of all debts and demands, at the rates following, that is to say: the Spanish pillar dollars, and the dollars of Mexico, Peru, and Bolivia, of not less than eight hundred and ninety-seven thousandths in fineness, and four hundred and fifteen grains in weight, at one hundred cents each; and the five franc pieces of France, of not less than nine hundred thousandths in fineness, and three hundred and eighty-four grains in weight, at ninety-three cents each.
Assays of said coins to be made and reported to Congress.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to cause assays of the coins made current by this act to be had at the mint of the United States, at least once in every year, and to make report of the result thereof to Congress.
Approved, March 3, 1843.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/27th Congress/3rd Session/Chapter 72

Chap. LXXII.—An Act to permit the entry of merchandise recovered from shipwreck, in certain cases, free from duty.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Merchandise, recovered from shipwreck, admitted free of duty. That whenever any ship or vessel laden with merchandise, in whole or in part, subject to duty, shall be, or shall have been, sunk in any river, harbor, bay, or waters, subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, and within its limits, and shall have remained so sunk for the period of two years, and shall be abandoned by the owners thereof, any person or persons who may raise such ship or vessel, shall be permitted to bring any merchandise recovered therefrom, into the port nearest to the place where said ship or vessel was so raised, free from the payment of any duty thereupon, and without being obliged to enter the same at the custom-house, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe.
Approved, March 3, 1843.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/27th Congress/3rd Session/Chapter 51

Chap. LI.—An Act in relation to the two per cent. fund of the State of Mississippi.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Assent of Congress to the appropriation of part of the two per cent. fund to Brandon and Jackson railroad. Governor of Mississippi authorized to enter land with the two per cent. fund. That the assent of Congress is hereby given to the appropriation, by the State of Mississippi, to the completion of the railroad from Brandon to Jackson, of the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, as a part of the two per cent. fund heretofore relinquished by Congress to said State; and that the Governor of said State be, and he is hereby, authorized, with the said two per cent. fund now in the Treasury of the United States, to enter any public lands in said State, subject to private entry, and in the name and on behalf of said State, to be held subject to the same trusts and purposes of said fund.
Approved, March 1, 1843.
# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/27th Congress/3rd Session/Chapter 71

Chap. LXXI.—An Act declaring Robbinston in the State of Maine, to be a port of delivery.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Robbinston to be made a port of delivery. That the town of Robbinston, in the State of Maine, shall be a port of delivery, to be annexed to the district of Passamaquoddy, and shall be subject to the same regulations as other ports of delivery in the United States.
Approved, March 3, 1843.