Creating the Puerto Rico Water Resouces Authority: Hearings...on H.R. 8239...March 19-April 19, 1940 |
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... municipalities and political subdivisions of Puerto Rico , notwithstanding any contrary provision of law , are authorized to grant and convey to the Authority , upon its request and upon reasonable terms and conditions , any real ...
... municipalities and political subdivisions of Puerto Rico , notwithstanding any contrary provision of law , are authorized to grant and convey to the Authority , upon its request and upon reasonable terms and conditions , any real ...
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... municipality or political subdivision thereof , without obtaining any franchise or other permit therefor . The Authority shall restore any such street , highway , or lands to their former condition or state as nearly as may be and shall ...
... municipality or political subdivision thereof , without obtaining any franchise or other permit therefor . The Authority shall restore any such street , highway , or lands to their former condition or state as nearly as may be and shall ...
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... municipalities or other political subdivisions , and neither the people of Puerto Rico nor any such municipality or other political subdivisions shall be liable thereon , nor shall they be payable out of any funds other than those of ...
... municipalities or other political subdivisions , and neither the people of Puerto Rico nor any such municipality or other political subdivisions shall be liable thereon , nor shall they be payable out of any funds other than those of ...
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... municipality , payment of such sum to be made as it accrues monthly to said municipal government upon payment , or settlement satisfactory to the Authority , of all sums then due and payable from said municipal govern- ment to the ...
... municipality , payment of such sum to be made as it accrues monthly to said municipal government upon payment , or settlement satisfactory to the Authority , of all sums then due and payable from said municipal govern- ment to the ...
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... municipal corporate agencies which have been enacted in recent years in nearly all of the States of the Union to provide a businesslike means of financing the acquisition and improvement of comparable State and municipal public ...
... municipal corporate agencies which have been enacted in recent years in nearly all of the States of the Union to provide a businesslike means of financing the acquisition and improvement of comparable State and municipal public ...
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Common terms and phrases
acres administration amount appointed approved bill bond issue CHAIRMAN charge COLE Commissioner committee Congress construction consumption court CRAWFORD DICKERMAN district financing Foraker Act funds Garzas project Governor of Puerto Guayama HAWKS hydroelectric system ICKES income Insular Government interest Interior irrigation system Isabela Irrigation island July June 30 kilowatt kilowatt-hours land legislation Legislature of Puerto Light & Power loan LUCCHETTI ment MILLS month municipal OBERGH operation Organic Act OSMERS PAGÁN payment percent Ponce Electric production Public Works Administration Puerto Rican Legislature Puerto Rico Irrigation Puerto Rico Railway purchase purposes question QUINN rates record referred revenue bonds Rico Irrigation Service Rico Railway Light ROBINSON Rubert Hermanos Senate South Coast statement sugar sugarcane surplus Tennessee Valley Authority territory thereof THORON tion Toro Negro plant Treasury United Utilization of Water Water Resources Authority WELCH
Popular passages
Page 154 - The civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of the territories hereby ceded to the United States shall be determined by the Congress.
Page 11 - If any provision of this act, or the application of such provision to any person or circumstance, shall be held invalid, the remainder of the act, and the application of such provision to persons or circumstances other than those as to which it is held invalid, shall not be affected thereby.
Page 154 - We have not come to make war upon the people of a country that for centuries has been oppressed, but, on the contrary, to bring you protection, not only to yourselves but to your property, to promote your prosperity, and to bestow upon you the immunities and blessings of the liberal institutions of our Government.
Page 97 - Rico shall have authority, subject to the limitations imposed upon all its acts, to legislate with respect to all such matters as it may deem advisable...
Page 219 - December, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, in any public bridges, road houses, water powers, highways, unnavigable streams and the beds thereof, subterranean waters, mines or minerals under the surface of private lands...
Page 7 - Any resolution or resolutions authorizing any bonds or any issue of bonds may contain provisions, which shall be a part of the contract with the holders of the bonds...
Page 219 - That the legislative authority herein provided shall extend to all matters of a legislative character not locally inapplicable, including power to create, consolidate, and reorganize the municipalities, so far as may be necessary, and to provide and repeal laws and ordinances therefor; and also the power to alter, amend, modify, and repeal any and all laws and ordinances of every character now in force in Porto Rico, or any municipality or district thereof, not inconsistent with the provisions hereof...
Page 10 - States, and such guaranty shall be expressed on the face thereof, and such bonds shall be lawful investments, and may be accepted as security for all fiduciary, trust, and public funds, the investment or deposit of which shall be under the authority or control of the United States or any officer or officers thereof.
Page 348 - It shall be the duty of the auditor to bring to the attention of the proper administrative officer expenditures of funds or property which, in his opinion, are irregular, unnecessary, excessive, or extravagant.
Page 425 - ... (c) by action or suit in equity, require the authority to account as if it were the trustee of an express trust for the holders of such bonds ; (d) by action or suit in equity, enjoin any acts or things which may be unlawful or in violation of the rights of the holders of such bonds...