Hearings Before the Committee on Roads, House of Representatives ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1924 - Roads |
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Page 16 - The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union, as heretofore organized, shall be, and they are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate, under the name and style of ' The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union,' and by this name and style shall be subject to all the provisions, and entitled to all the rights, powers, privileges and immunities, prescribed by existing laws, in so far as the same are applicable to like corporations, and not inconsistent with this Act.
Page 18 - That exclusive jurisdiction in and over any land so acquired by the United States shall be, and the same is hereby ceded to the United States, for all purposes except...
Page 184 - ... the secretary of the treasury. The secretary of the treasury shall thereupon set aside the share of the United States payable under this act on account of such project, which shall not exceed 50 per centum of the total estimated cost thereof.
Page 69 - In case we do not reach you, if there is no objection on the part of the committee we will schedule you for 11 o'clock tomorrow morning, if that is satisfactory.
Page 53 - The work is started early in the spring, when the frost is coming out of the ground.
Page 66 - I want to call your particular attention to the fact that the...
Page 16 - February 22, 1900). 1. Be it enacted 6j/ the General Assembly of Virginia, That an act entitled an act to...
Page 17 - Houses, and other needful public buildings or establishments whatsoever ; and all Deeds, Conveyances, or Title Papers for the same, shall be recorded, as in other cases, upon the Land Records of the county in which the land so conveyed may lie...
Page 17 - Virginia is hereby given to the acquisition by the United States, or under its authority, by purchase, lease, condemnation, or otherwise, of any lands in Virginia, whether under water or not, from any individual, firm, association or body corporate, for sites for customs houses, courthouses...
Page 110 - That in any State where the existing constitution or laws will not permit the State to provide revenues for the construction, reconstruction, or maintenance of highways, the Secretary of Agriculture shall continue to approve projects for said State until three years after the passage of this Act, if he shall find that said State has complied with the provisions of this Act in so far as its existing constitution and laws will permit.