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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... roads within the district , 33 miles . Crops grown on the cultivated land within the district are divided into three principal crops of which about 80 per cent is cotton , 15 per cent corn , and 5 per cent hay . A large percentage of ...
... roads within the district , 33 miles . Crops grown on the cultivated land within the district are divided into three principal crops of which about 80 per cent is cotton , 15 per cent corn , and 5 per cent hay . A large percentage of ...
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... road from one division point to another or from one terminal to a division point , or from one terminal to another ... roads the Missouri Pacific , the Frisco , Rock Island , and Cotton Belt , and perhaps there are some others down in ...
... road from one division point to another or from one terminal to a division point , or from one terminal to another ... roads the Missouri Pacific , the Frisco , Rock Island , and Cotton Belt , and perhaps there are some others down in ...
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... roads . It is sandy loam and gumbo and soil of that kind , and to get anywhere we had to build some roads , 16 miles of road , extending from the town . where I live back to Little River , and appropriated in the way of Federal aid ...
... roads . It is sandy loam and gumbo and soil of that kind , and to get anywhere we had to build some roads , 16 miles of road , extending from the town . where I live back to Little River , and appropriated in the way of Federal aid ...
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... road to get out . That shows the situation there . When the Government comes in and builds a road in a place like that , it strikes me that it doesn't lie in the mouth of the engineers or anybody else to say that the Government has no ...
... road to get out . That shows the situation there . When the Government comes in and builds a road in a place like that , it strikes me that it doesn't lie in the mouth of the engineers or anybody else to say that the Government has no ...
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... road purposes . The CHAIRMAN . Are you talking about roads now , or are you talk- ing about flood control ? Mr. COSTON . I am talking about roads when I am talking about that . The State hasn't donated anything to flood control , except ...
... road purposes . The CHAIRMAN . Are you talking about roads now , or are you talk- ing about flood control ? Mr. COSTON . I am talking about roads when I am talking about that . The State hasn't donated anything to flood control , except ...
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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...