The Complete Library of Universal Knowledge: Showing the Newest Conditions of Industry, Commerce, Invention, Science, Art, Literature, Philosophy, Etc

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Ferdinand Ellsworth Cary, Morton MacCormac, Edward J. Dahms, A. N. Palmer
Cary, 1904 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 702 pages
 

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Page 596 - HEREINAFTER NAMED, PAY ALL MY JUST DEBTS AND FUNERAL EXPENSES AS SOON AFTER MY DECEASE AS CONVENIENTLY MAY BE.
Page 599 - I, a Notary Public in and for said county, in the state aforesaid, DO HEREBY CERTIFY That personally known to me to be the same person whose name subscribed to the foregoing instrument, appeared before me this day in person, and acknowledged that he signed, sealed and delivered the said instrument as free and voluntary act, for the uses and purposes therein set forth, including the release and waiver of the right of homestead.
Page 276 - ... shall have the power to administer oaths and shall have power to secure by its subpoena both the attendance and testimony of witnesses, and the production of books and papers relevant to such investigation. Nothing in this section shall be construed to require such charges or investigation in cases of laborers or persons having the custody of public money, for the safe keeping of which another person has given bonds.
Page 275 - Residence. No person shall be admitted to examination for any position in the classified service who has not been an actual resident of the city of Chicago for at least one year next preceding...
Page 653 - Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah : and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the Lord, which he had spoken unto him, upon a roll of a book.
Page 588 - And to secure the payment of said amount I hereby authorize, irrevocably, any attorney of any Court of Record to appear for me in such Court, in term time or vacation, at any time hereafter, and confess a judgment...
Page 457 - The mother in her office holds the key of the soul; and she it is who stamps the coin of character, and makes the being who would be a savage but for her gentle cares, a Christian man ! Then crown her queen of the world.
Page 602 - Illinois, hereby releasing and waiving all rights under and by virtue of the Homestead Exemption Laws of this State.
Page 603 - ... when the same is above promised to be paid, the said party of the first part may, at his election, either distrain for said rent due, or declare this lease at an end, and recover possession as if the same was held by forcible detainer...
Page 603 - And the said party of the second part, in consideration of the leasing of the premises aforesaid, by the said party of the first part...

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