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Adopted as follows Barrie bidder Bleil block on concrete Board of Public bonds Bros cedar block City Controller City of Detroit City Treasurer Claims and Accounts Committee on Streets Common Coun Common Council concrete foundation contract Coots curb line Curbstone D. W. H. MORELAND Deimel Dingwall District-Corner east estimates following resolution Fracher front of lot fund Gentlemen-The Gentlemen-Your Committee grading Grand River avenue Gratiot Gratiot avenue Greusel Grunow Haarer Hacker hereby requested herewith Holihan honorable body Honorable the Common Houghton Inspectors John Julius Porath Knauss Koch lateral sewers leave being granted Lemke Licht Marx Masak Mayhew McGraw McGuire Merdian Miller Moeller Nays-None ordinance paving President President-33 repairing a plank repaving resolution was offered Resolved respectfully report Respectfully submitted Road District Schneider Seely Smith Stahl Street Openings tion WALTER G Ward Weber Weibel Weiler Woodward avenue yards Yeas-Ald Youngblood
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Página 543 - It cannot be said that a corporation is entitled, as of right, and without reference to the interests of the public, to realize a given per cent upon its capital stock. When the question arises whether the Legislature has exceeded its constitutional power in prescribing rates to be charged by a corporation controlling a public highway, stockholders are not the only persons whose rights or interests are to be considered. The rights of the public are not to be ignored.
Página 125 - ... provided that in time of war no elector in the actual military service of the State, or of the United States, in the army or navy thereof, shall be deprived of his vote by reason of his absence from...
Página 125 - States, and not a member of any tribe, shall be an elector and entitled to vote; but no one shall be an elector or entitled to vote at any -election unless he shall be above the age of twenty-one years, and has resided in this State six months and in the township or ward in which he offers to vote twenty days next preceding such election: Proviso.
Página 125 - ... and the Legislature shall have power to provide the manner in which and the time and place at which such absent electors may vote, and for the return and canvass of their votes in the election districts in which they respectively reside.* § 2.
Página 543 - What the company is entitled to ask is a fair return upon the value of that which it employs for the public convenience. On the other hand, what the public is entitled to demand is that no more be exacted from it for the use of a public highway than the services rendered by it are reasonably worth.
Página 125 - State two years and six months, and declared his intention as aforesaid, and every civilized male inhabitant of Indian descent, a native of the United States, and not a member of any tribe...
Página 69 - War ; and it shall not be lawful to excavate or fill, or in any manner to alter or modify the course, location, condition, or capacity of, any port, roadstead, haven, harbor, canal, lake, harbor of refuge, or inclosure within the limits of any breakwater, or of the channel of any navigable water of the United States, unless the work has been recommended by the Chief of Engineers and authorized by the Secretary of War prior to beginning the same.
Página 543 - We hold, however, that the basis of all calculations as to the reasonableness of rates to be charged by a corporation maintaining a highway under legislative sanction must be the fair value of the property being used by it for the convenience of the public.
Página 543 - ... the original cost of construction, the amount expended in permanent improvements, the amount and market value of its bonds and stock, the present as compared with the original cost of construction, the probable earning capacity of the property under particular rates prescribed by statute, and the sum required to meet operating expenses, are all matters for consideration and are to be given such weight as may be just and right in each case. We do not say that there may not be other matters to...
Página 543 - The public cannot properly be subjected to unreasonable rates in order simply that stockholders may earn dividends. The legislature has the authority, in every case where its power has not been restrained by contract, to proceed upon the ground that the public may not rightfully be required to submit to unreasonable exactions for the use of a public highway established and maintained under legislative authority.