Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society, Volym 15

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The Society, 1915 - 872 sidor
 

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Sida 182 - Property does become clothed with a public interest when used in a manner to make it of public consequence and affect the community at large. When, therefore, one devotes his property to a use in which the public has an interest, he, in effect, grants to the public an interest in that use, and must submit to be controlled by the public for the common good, to the extent of the interest he has thus created. He may withdraw his grant by discontinuing the use; but, so long as he maintains the use, he...
Sida 690 - Fitz-James's throat he sprung, Received, but recked not of a wound, And locked his arms his foeman round. Now, gallant Saxon, hold thine own ! No maiden's hand is round thee thrown ! That desperate grasp thy frame might feel Through bars of brass and triple steel ! They tug, they strain ! down, down they go, The Gael above, Fitzjames below.
Sida 1 - Wisconsin and to its inhabitants; and the laws in force in the Territory of Wisconsin at the date of the admission of the State of Wisconsin shall continue to be valid and operative therein, so far as the same be not incompatible with the provisions of this act, subject, nevertheless, to be altered, modified, or repealed, by the governor and legislative assembly of the said Territory of Minnesota...
Sida 649 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore ; There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar : I love not man the less, but nature more...
Sida 380 - ... authorized upon their oaths impartially to fix and determine, according to the true intent of the said Treaty of Peace of 1783, that part of the boundary between the dominions of the two Powers, which extends from the water communication between Lake Huron and Lake Superior, to the most north-western point of the Lake of the Woods...
Sida 189 - ... every alternate section of land, designated by odd numbers, for six sections in width on each side of said roads.
Sida 65 - All taxes to be raised in this State shall be as nearly equal as may be, and all property on which taxes are to be levied shall have a cash valuation and be equalized and uniform throughout the State...
Sida 793 - There is One great society alone on earth : The noble Living and the noble Dead.
Sida 227 - We were out fishing one day. When we returned home we found ten men red with blood and dead. AVM [Ave, Virgo Maria], save us from evil. [We] have ten men by the sea to look after our vessel fourteen [or forty-one?] days' journey from this island. Year 1362.
Sida 393 - Peter's, up the Mississippi to include the Falls of St. Anthony, extending nine miles on each side of the river ; that the Sioux Nation grants to the United States the full sovereignty and power over said district forever. ART. 2. That in consideration of the above grants, the United States shall pay [filled up by the Senate with 2,000 dollars].

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