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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... particular stream a perfect method , but its influence on the channels of these main arteries of water is a most pronounced and a most desirable one . In this instance it is a matter of but little if any consequence . They have ...
... particular stream a perfect method , but its influence on the channels of these main arteries of water is a most pronounced and a most desirable one . In this instance it is a matter of but little if any consequence . They have ...
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... particular area and located there and invested their money , and have cut the trees from the land and plowed it and built their homes and are rear- ing families in the area flooded in the St. Francis Valley during the last four years ...
... particular area and located there and invested their money , and have cut the trees from the land and plowed it and built their homes and are rear- ing families in the area flooded in the St. Francis Valley during the last four years ...
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... particular . So , gentlemen , that is the situation in which we find ourselves . In the course of the hearings these matters will be elaborated on and the actual figures given to you . At the beginning of this problem , at the instance ...
... particular . So , gentlemen , that is the situation in which we find ourselves . In the course of the hearings these matters will be elaborated on and the actual figures given to you . At the beginning of this problem , at the instance ...
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... particular area has con- tributed 414 per cent more than the area along the whole Mississippi River proper , which was declared in section 2 of the flood control bill to be a sufficient discharge of the local interests ' obligation ...
... particular area has con- tributed 414 per cent more than the area along the whole Mississippi River proper , which was declared in section 2 of the flood control bill to be a sufficient discharge of the local interests ' obligation ...
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... particular locality under the present constitution . In order to get an apportionment from the State , outside of an appro- priation for certain things , we would have to amend our constitu- tion in our State . This appropriation for ...
... particular locality under the present constitution . In order to get an apportionment from the State , outside of an appro- priation for certain things , we would have to amend our constitu- tion in our State . This appropriation for ...
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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...