Flood Control on the Saint Francis River, Missouri and Arkansas: Hearings... on H.R. 7875..., February 3 and 4, 1930...1930 - 172 pages |
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... cent more vol- ume in order that the future demand may be provided for . It is also provided in this plan that Tyronza River , another tributary , will be deepened and widened so that without additional levee struc- tures it will be ...
... cent more vol- ume in order that the future demand may be provided for . It is also provided in this plan that Tyronza River , another tributary , will be deepened and widened so that without additional levee struc- tures it will be ...
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... cent of its inhabitants were of the Negro race and very few of the people there are of sufficient means to main- tain themselves . They have been engaged in the past four years in making whatever crops they could plant after the waters ...
... cent of its inhabitants were of the Negro race and very few of the people there are of sufficient means to main- tain themselves . They have been engaged in the past four years in making whatever crops they could plant after the waters ...
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... cent to any Federal project which directly benefits them . This is a sound policy . I want to say that the local interests along the Mis- sissippi have contributed already 42 per cent of what the entire cost of the flood - control ...
... cent to any Federal project which directly benefits them . This is a sound policy . I want to say that the local interests along the Mis- sissippi have contributed already 42 per cent of what the entire cost of the flood - control ...
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... cent of 2,301 square miles of territory subject to overflow by the St. Francis River and its tribu- taries lying north of the backwater area of the Mississippi River ; that it will give partial protection to 7 per cent of this area ...
... cent of 2,301 square miles of territory subject to overflow by the St. Francis River and its tribu- taries lying north of the backwater area of the Mississippi River ; that it will give partial protection to 7 per cent of this area ...
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... cent of what would be the total cost , if this bill be authorized , which we think fully discharges the principle ... cent of that ; in other words , the Mississippi River area , as a whole , in carrying out the policy of local ...
... cent of what would be the total cost , if this bill be authorized , which we think fully discharges the principle ... cent of that ; in other words , the Mississippi River area , as a whole , in carrying out the policy of local ...
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acres amount Arkansas Army engineers backwater area BARRON BEGG Big Lake bill Black River bonds breaks build Butler County cent CHAIRMAN commerce committee Congress construction cost COSTON Craighead County crops DAGGETT damage delinquent Doctor TAYLOR DUNBAR Dunklin County effect expenditures extend farm Federal Government Federal interest feet flood control flood waters flooded area floodway Francis Basin Francis County Francis levee district Francis River gentlemen give improvement JONES Judge Driver KOPP Lee County Little River Little River drainage loss LYNCH Madrid County Marked Tree ment miles Mississippi County Mississippi River Missouri Missouri and Arkansas navigation overflow Parkin pellagra Pemiscot County PHARR Poinsett County protection question railroad Red Cross relief REYNOLDS RHYNE road SEAGRAVES SEARS situation statement Stoddard County stream taxes territory tion Total tributaries TSCHUDY United week ending Thursday WHITTINGTON
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Page 14 - Engineers, no money shall be expended on the main river project until satisfactory assurances have been given by the local interests that after completion the flood-control works will be maintained at the expense of local interests.
Page 77 - The whole scope and effect of this series of decisions is that, while certain fundamental rights, recognized and declared, but not granted or created, in some of the Amendments to the Constitution, are thereby guaranteed only against violation or abridgment by the United States, or by the States, as the case may be...
Page 77 - Court. the exercise of the correlative duty of protection, or of the legislative powers conferred upon it by the Constitution, may in its discretion deem most eligible and best adapted to attain the object.
Page 76 - Citizens of the United States were in custody of the marshal under a lawful commitment, from whom they were violently taken and murdered. The alleged murderers were indicted under section 5508, Revised Statutes, which made it a crime to conspire to injure any citizen in the free exercise or enjoyment of a right secured him by the Constitution or laws of the United States.
Page 24 - Under the provisions of the law as it existed prior to the passage of the...