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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... tributaries ; the first is Little River , and that also has its source in the State of Missouri entirely within the ... tributaries there are 1,960,000 acres of land subject to overflow . On this river and its tributaries there are 37 ...
... tributaries ; the first is Little River , and that also has its source in the State of Missouri entirely within the ... tributaries there are 1,960,000 acres of land subject to overflow . On this river and its tributaries there are 37 ...
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... tributaries . The engineers were required under the directions of the law not only to report on these various features , but to also present the economic features with respect to these various problems on the several streams . In the ...
... tributaries . The engineers were required under the directions of the law not only to report on these various features , but to also present the economic features with respect to these various problems on the several streams . In the ...
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... tributary reports , necessarily our action in this matter will re- flect largely the sentiment of the committee , first , on its action on this phase of the bill , and secondly the sentiment of Congress as to the character of Federal ...
... tributary reports , necessarily our action in this matter will re- flect largely the sentiment of the committee , first , on its action on this phase of the bill , and secondly the sentiment of Congress as to the character of Federal ...
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... tributary to the St. Francis , creating a very sereve condition affecting one of the cities immedi- ately south of that floodway . So when the dam was constructed at that point it threw the water across the river into a floodway pro ...
... tributary to the St. Francis , creating a very sereve condition affecting one of the cities immedi- ately south of that floodway . So when the dam was constructed at that point it threw the water across the river into a floodway pro ...
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... tributaries , and it is flooding the people on that property , destroying their homes and personal possessions in addition to the suffering that has been entailed there . That is true all the way through , and the em- barrassing feature ...
... tributaries , and it is flooding the people on that property , destroying their homes and personal possessions in addition to the suffering that has been entailed there . That is true all the way through , and the em- barrassing feature ...
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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...