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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... extends into Tyronza River and thence into St. Francis at its confluent point at Parkin . On this river and tributaries there are 1,960,000 acres of land subject to overflow . On this river and its tributaries there are 37 distinct ...
... extends into Tyronza River and thence into St. Francis at its confluent point at Parkin . On this river and tributaries there are 1,960,000 acres of land subject to overflow . On this river and its tributaries there are 37 distinct ...
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... extending the backwater areas there , and becomes a large part of the problem that we have to deal with in this flood control project . Mr. SINCLAIR . You mean , do you , that the water that you are troubled with is coming out of the ...
... extending the backwater areas there , and becomes a large part of the problem that we have to deal with in this flood control project . Mr. SINCLAIR . You mean , do you , that the water that you are troubled with is coming out of the ...
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... extends 475 miles from Cape Girardeau , Mo. , to 8 miles above Helena , Ark . — if these people who have poured their life earnings and energies into the building of the levees to protect their farms and homes - if they are not given ...
... extends 475 miles from Cape Girardeau , Mo. , to 8 miles above Helena , Ark . — if these people who have poured their life earnings and energies into the building of the levees to protect their farms and homes - if they are not given ...
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... time just a moment to extend my personal thanks and also those of our organization in doing Mr. Barron , myself , and perhaps some others , the honor to appear before you 14 FLOOD CONTROL ON ST . FRANCIS RIVER Langdon R Jones.
... time just a moment to extend my personal thanks and also those of our organization in doing Mr. Barron , myself , and perhaps some others , the honor to appear before you 14 FLOOD CONTROL ON ST . FRANCIS RIVER Langdon R Jones.
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... extend the thanks of the people of our area and our organization for the wonderful work done , and the invaluable aid and assistance given by the members of this committee in securing the enactment of the 1928 flood control act , which ...
... extend the thanks of the people of our area and our organization for the wonderful work done , and the invaluable aid and assistance given by the members of this committee in securing the enactment of the 1928 flood control act , which ...
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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.
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