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...of suffrage in the affairs of local government, the complaint asserts, existed from 1790 when Congress accepted the ceded territory until the enactment of the Temporary Organic Act of 1874 (Act of June 20, 1874, 18 Stat. 11...the right of local suffrage. In 1846 the United States retroceded to the Commonwealth of Virginia the County of Alexandria.
The plaintiffs claim that the 1878 Organic Act conflicts...right of suffrage by the people of the District to elect their municipal officers. Also, assert the plaintiffs, the 1878 Organic Act conflicts with the Tenth Amendment in that the power to select...
..., supra, there is, in the law now being considered no clear declaration by the people or by the legislature that the power to sue and be sued, contained in the 1878 organic act, survived the...of higher learning, as incorporated by an act of the legislature, approved February 28, 1878, by the name of the "Agricultural and Mechanical College of Mississippi," and established in pursuance of..., the state.
The Act of February 28, 1844, by which the University of Mississippi was created, designated certain individuals as trustees and constituted them and...
...of the Organic Act of June 11, 1878, 20 Stat. 102. On appeal the Municipal Court of Appeals held that the 1872 and 1873 Acts were valid when enacted, that the former Act, insofar as it applies to...Constitution and laws of the United States." R. S. § 1851.
The Temporary Organic Act of June 20, 1874, 18 Stat. 116, substituted a temporary government of three...inconsistent with this chapter, and except as modified or repealed by Congress or the legislative assembly of the District." § 91. Those Acts were followed by the present Organic Act of the District of Columbia approved June 11, ...
...Organic Act of the District of Columbia, 18 Stat. 116 (June 20, 1874), 1 D.C. Code 104-09 (1981). Congress made this form of government permanent in 1878. Organic Act of 1878 of the District of Co...§ 1000 et seq. (1986), is a "statute" within the meaning of Exemption 6 of the District of Columbia Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), D.C. Code § 1-1524(a)(6) (1987 Repl.Vol.). We hold that it is...narrowly.' " Id. (quoting COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY AND CRIMINAL LAW, REPORT ON BILL No. 1-119, THE "D.C. FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT OF 1975," at 6 (Sept. 1, 1976...
...error.
Mr. George C. Hazleton for defendant in error.
Under the act of June 11, 1878, 20 Stat...given full control over the police force. This board was continued until the act of 1878, and its power of removal was limited by this provision: "No person shall be removed from the police force except...cause shall be reappointed to any office in said force." Sec. 8 of the act of 1861, embodied in Rev. Stat. D.C. § 355. And the contention is that the act of 1878 simply changed the control from one...
...the District again decided that the District was not subject to garnishment. The first section of the present Organic Act of 1878 provides....
56 A.L.R. 601, 602.
The Act of Feb. 21, 1871, created "a government by the name of the District of Columbia, by whic...municipal corporation not inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of the United States and the provisions of this act." Appellant contends...
...conceive to be the true significance of the act of 1878. As said by that court, it is to be regarded as an organic act, intended to dispose of the whole question of a government for this District. It is....
The result of the decision of the court below is that the act of June 11, 1878, 20 Stat. 102, c. 180, has repealed section 354 of the Revised Statutes...the qualifications of members of the police force, and leave the matter to the commissioners, unreservedly.
The act of 1878, which is supposed to have produced this effect...
...college to the regents of the university, and the act of March 18, 1885, purporting to create a board of three trustees for the college, were prohibited by the organic act of 1878. ( Id., at p...the 1878 act creating it.
In 1907, the Legislature codified the 1878 statute as sections 1478-1486d of the Political Code. (Stats. 1907, ch. 335, § 1, p. 629; see Code Commissioner's note preceding § 1...respondent serves ex officio as president of the Board of Hastings by virtue of the continuing effect of terms of the private trust of Serranus C. Hastings which appear as provisions of the 1878 act...
...," approved March 23rd, 1878. (Stats. 1877-8, p. 442.) He asked to be discharged from imprisonment upon the ground that the act was unconstitutional.... 19.
The Act of March 27th, 1878, (p. 424) to facilitate and equalize the collection of licenses in the City and County of...act, or necessarily inferred from the powers therein expressly granted.
The Act of March 27th, 1878, repealed by implication or...
...20, 1852, and February 22, 1878, as relates to the mode of appointing an auditor of public accounts, is in conflict with the organic act and is invalid; but so much as relates to the creation of the...whole Territory.
The sixth section of the organic act is relied on as conferring upon the legislature of Utah the authority to pass the act of 1852 and the act of 1878 in question...organic act, to appoint a person to be the auditor of public accounts is drawn in question. Under the organic act of that Territory the power to appoint an auditor of public accounts is vested exclusively...
...repealed by implication, the trial judge said:
"* * * The basis for this conclusion is to be found in a consideration of the Organic Act of 1878 which first established a..., 65 S.Ct. 1120, 89 L.Ed. 1554.
There is nothing in the temporary Organic Act of June 20, 1874, 18 St..., 12 S.Ct. 369, 36 L.Ed. 60, for the proposition that the provisions of the Organic Act repealed by implication a former p...
.... 1967).
See Organic Act of 1878, 20 STAT. 102, D.C. Code §§ 1-101 — 103 (1967...the written approval of the NCPC.
Appropriation Act of March 4..., 1913, 37 STAT. 950.
Act of March 2, 1893, 27 STAT. 532...
...Congress in 1878 permanently established a Board of Commissioners, to which it delegated regulatory authority over the District in discrete areas of policy. Organic Act of June 11, 1878, ch. 180, 20...Stat. 102, 103; see also District of Columbia v. John R. Thompson Co., 346 U.S. 100, 111 (1953) (under Organic Act, "municipal...also John R. Thompson Co., 346 U.S. at 104-05, 110 (concluding Organic Act of February 21, 1871, 16 Stat. 419, which gave District power over "all rightful subjects of legislation," conferred...
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The Legislative Assembly was abolished by the Temporary Organic Act of June 20, 1874, 18 Stat. 116, which provided for a temporary government of three ...regulations, penal in character, and (2) that they do not give rise to a civil action for damages.
Construing the Organic Act of February 21, 1871, 16 Stat. 419, which created the...Assembly passed in 1872 and 1873 and an Act of the Corporation of the City of...
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Under the Organic Act, Act of September 1, 1878, ch. 180, § 3, 20 Stat. 102, Congress paid 50% of the...form.
Act of June 11, 1878, ch. 180, § 1, 20 Stat. 180, D.C. Code § 1-102 (1967) provides...), the Policemen and Firemen's Retirement and Disability Act (hereinafter the "Disability Act" and "District Disability Act.") In conformance with the provisions of...
.... There, in the District Organic Act of 1878, was a provision forbidding the commissioners to create contract obligations in excess of existing appropriations. Th...present, provision to that effect would have been made in the act. Our interpretation of the intent of Congress is further supported by a provision of the Deficiency Appropriation Act of March 4, 1909 (35...
...commissioners to exercise the power and authority formerly vested in the governor and the board of public works. 18 Stat. 116 (1874). The present Organic Act for the District was passed in 1878 and...generically repealed by Congress in 1901, the repealing act provided exceptions, including:
Organic Act of February 21, 1871, § 18, 16..."unworthiness" to act as a real estate broker, D.C. Code, § 45-1408 (c) (h) (1961). The essence of the charges was that petitioner participated in and consented to a course of conduct by two licensed real...
..., Judge
The organic act of the University of California (Stats. 1867-68, p. 248, sec. 1) made p....
The legislature had power to substitute trustees for the law col...act, to change the form of the government of the university, or of any college thereof then existing.
The act of 1878 provided...
...the Congress in 1906 and has not changed in any material way since. At the time of its passage the District was governed in accordance with the Organic Act of 1878, 20 Stat. 102. Under the Act, the... A brief overview of the procedure for an initiative is appropriate. The Initiative, Referendum, and Recall Procedures Act of...1979 ("Initiative Act" or "Act") was enacted to allow the electors of the District of Columbia to propose laws and to present those proposals directly to the voters for appr...
...in this manner:
The District of Columbia Organic Act of 1878 ( 20 Stat. 102)
provided that all locally raised revenue derived from municipal...the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that section 2 of the Act of Congress approved March 1, 1929, entitled `An Act to provide for the...construction of a children's tuberculosis sanatorium' is hereby amended by increasing the sum authorized to be appropriated to carry out the provisions of this Act from $500,000 to $625,000, or so much...