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Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 2 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 2 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 35. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 2 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: May 21, 1863., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life 1 1 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: November 15, 1861., [Electronic resource] 1 1 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: May 21, 1863., [Electronic resource], Burnside's Military Executions. (search)
are responsible only in their political, representative character. In this, they are to be distinguished in their action from members of a private corporation; for "private corporations, exercising the corporate functions for the benefit of the members, are liable to individuals for an omission or misfeasance of those functions; otherwise, of public corporations, instituted for purposes of government, unless an action be given against them by statute." While vs City Council of Charleston, 2 Hitt, R. (S. C) 371. Neither would any delinquency of duty on the part of the police, in preventing or suppressing the riot occasioning the loss complained of, render the city liable; for these officers, although appointed by the Council — and a portion, the Kayor and Captain of the Night Watch, who are not so appointed — do not bear to the city the relation of agents to a principal who is liable for their acts. "The officers of a city are quast civil officers of the Government, although appointe