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... present the gentlemen who have come here from Macon and elsewhere to endeavor to show you , as members of this committee , why we are entitled to more money than it is suggested be appropri- ated by the report of the Chief of Engineers ...
... present the gentlemen who have come here from Macon and elsewhere to endeavor to show you , as members of this committee , why we are entitled to more money than it is suggested be appropri- ated by the report of the Chief of Engineers ...
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... present project provides for can be definitely determined . This report was adopted in the bill of 1912 . Mr. BARTLETT . Yes , sir . The CHAIRMAN . We made an appropriation of $ 40,000 . Mr. BARTLETT . For the three rivers . The ...
... present project provides for can be definitely determined . This report was adopted in the bill of 1912 . Mr. BARTLETT . Yes , sir . The CHAIRMAN . We made an appropriation of $ 40,000 . Mr. BARTLETT . For the three rivers . The ...
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... present condition of the river , which is not at all suitable to needs of the commerce of that section . Mr. BOOHER . What is the distance from Macon to the Altamaha River ? Mr. GILHAM . Two hundred and five miles . Mr. BOOHER . And the ...
... present condition of the river , which is not at all suitable to needs of the commerce of that section . Mr. BOOHER . What is the distance from Macon to the Altamaha River ? Mr. GILHAM . Two hundred and five miles . Mr. BOOHER . And the ...
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... present conditions . We have been waiting until this present work , that is going on now at Brunswick , of pumping out the sand and removing the shoals above Hawkinsville to a depth of 3 feet and clearing the channel to a depth of 3 ...
... present conditions . We have been waiting until this present work , that is going on now at Brunswick , of pumping out the sand and removing the shoals above Hawkinsville to a depth of 3 feet and clearing the channel to a depth of 3 ...
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... present appropriation , for the greater distance between Macon and Haw- kinsville . Some of the distance already has a depth of 4 feet at very low water . Mr. TREADWAY . What is the lowest water there at any time ? Mr. GILHAM . I am not ...
... present appropriation , for the greater distance between Macon and Haw- kinsville . Some of the distance already has a depth of 4 feet at very low water . Mr. TREADWAY . What is the lowest water there at any time ? Mr. GILHAM . I am not ...
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acres amount appropriation banks barges bill boats BOOHER CALEB POWERS California Cape Cape Fear River Capt carry cent Chairman and gentlemen channel Chesapeake & Delaware Chief of Engineers coast commerce Congress construction corner of section cost débris Delaware Canal depth district dredging East River EDWARDS engineers expended flood freight Government GROVES HARDWICK HUMPHREYS of Mississippi improvement interest J. A. TAYLOR KENNEDY land levee locks lumber matter MCCLATCHY MCNALLY MICHAEL DONOHOE Mississippi River Commission MITCHEL MOORE navigation Newark Newark Bay Norfolk Ocmulgee River Ohio River Panama Canal Philadelphia proposition question railroad rates reclamation reef revetment Richmond RIVERS AND HARBORS Sacramento River San Joaquin River SHINN ships SMALL statement steamers thence east mile thence north mile thence south thence west tion to-day tonnage tons township traffic transportation TREADWAY Valley vessels waterway west mile WILLIAM KETTNER York
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Page 12 - In which they lie. For this purpose they are the public property of the nation, and subject to all the requisite legislation by congress. This necessarily Includes the power to keep them open and free from any obstruction to their navigation, Interposed by the states or otherwise; to remove such obstructions when they exist; and to provide, by such sanctions as they may deem proper, against the occurrence of the evil and for the punishment of offenders. For these purposes congress possesses all the...
Page 14 - That any telegraph company now organized, or which may hereafter be organized under the laws of any state In this Union, shall have the right to construct, maintain and operate lines of telegraph through and over any portion of the public domain of the United States...
Page 12 - The power to regulate commerce comprehends the control for that purpose, and to the extent necessary, of all the navigable waters of the United States which are accessible from a state other than those In which they lie. For this purpose they are the public property of the nation, and subject to all the requisite legislation by congress.
Page 7 - Board so acts, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a full, true and correct copy of a resolution adopted on January 26, 1965 by the Board of Supervisors of the County of Los Angeles...
Page 14 - ... and over any portion of the public domain of the United States, over and along any of the military or post roads...
Page 81 - The state of California and the people thereof are hereby declared to have a primary and supreme interest in having erected, maintained and protected on the banks of the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers and their tributaries and the bypasses and overflow channels...
Page 82 - By-Laws, a special meeting of the members may be called at any time by the President or by a majority of the Board of Directors or by one-tenth of the membership.
Page 84 - No objection to the order of the Commission shall be considered by the court unless such objection shall have been urged before the Commission or unless; there were reasonable grounds for failure so to do.
Page 3 - We hold that the control of the Mississippi River is a national problem. The preservation of the depth of its water for the purpose of navigation, the building of levees to maintain the integrity of its channel and the prevention of the...
Page 4 - That the watercourses connected with the Mississippi River to such extent as may be necessary to exclude the flood waters from the upper limits of any delta basin, together with the Ohio River from its mouth to the mouth of the Cache River, may, in the discretion of said commission, receive allotments for improvements now under way or hereafter to be undertaken.