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An unsigned manuscript document in the author's handwriting.
Whenever a corporation accepts a new charter it is the old corporation revived & is to all intents & purposes as before even if the name be altered especially as to debts & rights 2d Kyd 457. 3d Burrow 18<6>5.
It has been strenuously contended that a corporation cannot surrender its corporate privileges & thus discharge itself from its corporate duties but the better opinion... Continue Reading
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On my arrival here I found Mrs Van Ness ill with a sore throat & fever. She continues still so unwell, that I fear it will not be in my power to leave town so early as tuesday, which was my intention when I left you. If Mrs V N should be well enough to justify my absence, I shall leave town some day sufficiently early, to be at Albany at the meeting of the Legislature.
The measure which I... Continue Reading
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Connecticut Minor 1813
The day is past, the Elections o'er
and Madison is King once more!
Ye Vagabonds of my land
Cut-Throats & Knaves a patriotic band,
Ye Demagogues lift up your voice.
Moles and Banditti all rejoice.
N. J. Jany 12th. 1813
Mr Masons Speech N. J. Feby 25th. 1813
“The rogues march was played under the window of the man who drew the declaration of Independence.” The man who... Continue Reading
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I. Wish to have the matter pass by, delicacy of my situation, sense of the respect due to that opinion, reason why at liberty to follow my own opinion, but consequent necessity for explanation
2d. The state of the question as it appears to be & its conse[quent] favour every where. Such cannot be the object because the States can now do that & if they do not choose, a neighboring State... Continue Reading
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MVBurens Real estate October 182[3]
1 Lot No. 6 Hannibal Oswego.
2d. Farm at Schoharie
3d. Lot in Galen half of No. 90
4 One seventh of Farm over the Creek on which my brother
Lawrence lives
5th. House & Lot in Kinderhook called <Tanties> Place
6th. Mortgage of $5000 on the Kane place.
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Demands assigned to Peter I Hoes by MVBuren yet unsettled with remarks thereon.
I. The demand agt Jeremiah A Strong.
This amount I am <gu>have guaranteed to be due to the amount assigned. If in that single respect it fails I am liable to the extent it so fails. On not other account & for no other reason am I or will charge myself with any responsibility in regard to it. It has always... Continue Reading
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Recipient: Peter I. Hoes
Sup. Court
The People
vs
The Utica Insurance
Company
For Points see Points
Ist. Does the act of Incorporation confer the privilege of banking on the Defendants.
6th. <Bacon> 384
title Statute
letter (I5)
Ist such was not the Intention of the Legislature & their acts like private grants use to be construed according to the Intention of those who make them.
2d. That such was not... Continue Reading
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Nov 5th 1819
To balance thus due on Bond & Mortgage
$1109..25
To Int on $1000 as pr against from 5 Novr. 1819 to 5th May 1825
385..00
Not Settled,
To Note Sepr 1st 1824
210.00
Inst till May 1st 1825
12.25
By <Boston> necessary
$1716.50
894.81
$821.69
Lawrence V.Buren
acct.
$1716.50
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Remarks on the great Canals extracted from the various publications on the Subject.
Serious appeal
Benefit of Canal to NYork & Albany.
utility
I. Division of trade of onieda, Onandago, Cayuga, Seneca, Ontario, Genesee, Niagara, Chatauqua & Cattaraugus from Montreal to them.
2d. This trade consists of
Ist. Grain viz at present supposed to be if one tenth is under cultivation to 3.... Continue Reading
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In Error
Van Zant
ad
Jackson ex dem
Hicks
Brief for arguments
Ist. Did the act of 1782 operate on the estate of which Mary Hicks became seized in 1784 or in other words did that act operate prospectively.
6th Bador 284 quillim edition
2d branch 385
1st. In the construction of the statutes the Intention & object of the Statute is to govern, & such construction is to be put... Continue Reading
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Treaty provisions relative to Privateers
2 Mag. 440
1667 ^Treaty of Breda^ Between England ^G. B.^ the States General of the Netherlands. 21st. July 1667. the Ja 23rd article of which contains a mutual provision that "those who obtain private commissions" shall give security to do no damage to either party.
Do 447
Treaty of Hague between the same parties of the 7th. Feby 1667, a similar... Continue Reading
Sender: Benjamin Franklin Butler
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The United States
vs.
Wm. Hull
Notes for Summing up the evidence on the 23d. March 1814
1st An Introductory Statement of the formation of the army, the march to Detroit, The ^its^ passage into Canada its continuance there, retreat & final surrender.
2d. The consequences which the Surrender produced result of the Campaign produced
3d. The fault must lay with the Govrmt the Army or the Genl.... Continue Reading
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1 <Introduction> including consequences
2d. The falt must lay on Governmt army or Gen
3d. The Genl. has attributed it to Governmt Troops & officers.
4th. My duyty to shew where the falt lays, & in doing so will have to lay it at the Genl door
5h. Here in the manner in which I will speak of him.
6h. The Charge
3.
I abandoned
The other sifted down see notes
7th. His order.
8th. His... Continue Reading
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Notes on Genl Hulls opening
Allusion to the possibility of governmental & political Influence, prejudicing his case.
Objects to the giving evidence afterwards, think it would be wrong.
Did not think Malden an object.
His orders were to march to Detroit & left him no discretion as to leaving Amherstburg <or> fortifyed places in his rear
Operations below suspended
The purpose of the... Continue Reading
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The Erection of the enemies Batteries & omitting to anoy them
4th. The Reason for the <Swap>
Capt. Dalliby — The practiability of <illegible> <to> <The> <expected> it, asserted on the 5th. application for <illegible> on the 14th. referred & the reason assignd.
5 That fortifying at Spring Wells & refusing to take measures to prevent the armies landg... Continue Reading
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