The Silk Industry in America: A History : Prepared for the Centennial Exposition

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Silk Association of America, 1876 - 237 sider
 

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Side 17 - And I put a jewel on thy forehead, and earrings in thine ears, and a beautiful crown upon thine head.
Side 188 - Any three or more persons of full age, citizens of the United States, a majority of whom shall be citizens of this State, who desire to associate themselves for benevolent, charitable, scientific, religious or missionary purposes, may make, sign and acknowledge, before any officer authorized to take the acknowledgments of deeds in this State...
Side 189 - Any corporation formed under this act, shall be capable of taking, holding or receiving any property, real or personal, by virtue of any devise or bequest contained in any last will or testament of any person whatsoever, the clear annual income of which devise or bequest shall not exceed the sum of ten thousand dollars ; provided no person leaving a...
Side 189 - ... no such devise or bequest shall be valid in any will which shall not have been made and executed at least two months before the death of the testator.
Side 216 - Reports and awards shall be based upon inherent and comparative merit. The elements of merit shall be held to include considerations relating to originality, invention, discovery, utility, quality, skill, workmanship, fitness for the purposes intended, adaptation to public wants, economy and cost.
Side 147 - Committee, and to keep a record of their doings ; to conduct all correspondence, and to carry into execution all orders, votes and resolves not otherwise committed ; to keep a list of the members of the Association, collect the assessments, and pay them over to the Treasurer ; to notify officers and members of the...
Side 202 - ... goods, shawls, and other manufactures of silk and worsted, manufactures of silk, or of which silk shall be the component material of chief value, coming from this side of the Cape of Good Hope, except sewing silk.
Side 15 - This great prince (Hoang-ti) was desirous that Si-lingchi, his legitimate wife, should contribute to the happiness of his people. He charged her to examine the silk-worms, and to test the practicability of using the thread.
Side 146 - SEC. I. — The officers of the Association shall consist of a President, three Vice-Presidents, a Treasurer, not less than...
Side 134 - Huguenot, descended from a family exiled by the persecutions which followed the revocation of the Edict of Nantes.

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