Bulletin of the American Geographical Society of New York, Volume 121880 |
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Page x - I have compared the preceding with the original law on file in this office, and do hereby certify that the same is a correct transcript therefrom, and of the whole of said original law.
Page vii - Society," for the purpose of collecting and diffusing geographical and statistical information. § 2. For the purposes aforesaid, the said Society shall possess the general powers and privileges, and be subject to the general liabilities, contained in the third title of the eighteenth chapter of the first part of the Revised Statutes, so far as the same may be applicable, and may not have been modified or repealed; but the real and personal estate...
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Page viii - ... affairs, shall have power to form a code of by-laws, not inconsistent with the laws of this State, or of the United States ; which code, when formed and adopted at a regular meeting, shall, until modified or rescinded, be equally binding as this act upon the said Society, its officers, and its members.
Page 294 - ... of commerce, navigation, and the great industrial and material interests of the United States, a place where the means will be afforded of obtaining accurate information for public use of every part of the globe. The Society has been in existence since 1852.
Page 170 - Within twelue yere, and without perill Gon and come, as men were wont of old Of Scarborough unto the costes cold.
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Page 209 - Atlantic, exists on the two sides of the Pacific. In the north of China, the extremes of the seasons are much more felt than in the same latitudes in New California, and at the mouth of the Columbia.
Page 150 - Sacred to the perpetual memory of a great company of Christian people, chiefly women and children, who near this spot were cruelly murdered by the followers of the rebel Nana Dhundu Panth of Bithur, and cast, the dying with the dead, into the well below, on the xvth day of July, MDCCCLVII.