Set-back Levees on the Mississippi River: Hearings... on H.R. 7349...1935 - 226 pages |
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... owners whose property has been taken in the execution of the project , without their consent or consultation , the rule was voted down and the consideration of the bill postponed . It may have been our fault in not having more definite ...
... owners whose property has been taken in the execution of the project , without their consent or consultation , the rule was voted down and the consideration of the bill postponed . It may have been our fault in not having more definite ...
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... owner where you have already constructed a set - back levee . The CHAIRMAN . But if he is entitled to compensation for the use of his land , then of course they could deal with him or with the local agency . I suppose that the War ...
... owner where you have already constructed a set - back levee . The CHAIRMAN . But if he is entitled to compensation for the use of his land , then of course they could deal with him or with the local agency . I suppose that the War ...
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... owner of the property is left between the new levee and the main channel of the Mississippi River , which carries the flood waters from 41 percent of the territory in the Union , where the Government has undertaken a national obliga ...
... owner of the property is left between the new levee and the main channel of the Mississippi River , which carries the flood waters from 41 percent of the territory in the Union , where the Government has undertaken a national obliga ...
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... owners of the land paid , in common with the owners of all of the other land within that levee district , the same rate of taxation to afford them protection from the floods on the Mississippi River . During that period of 38 years ...
... owners of the land paid , in common with the owners of all of the other land within that levee district , the same rate of taxation to afford them protection from the floods on the Mississippi River . During that period of 38 years ...
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... owners where the project has been or really will be constructed for less money than was contemplated under the act of 1928 . Instead of constructing new levees based upon a life of 20 years , the Corps of Engineers constructed them ...
... owners where the project has been or really will be constructed for less money than was contemplated under the act of 1928 . Instead of constructing new levees based upon a life of 20 years , the Corps of Engineers constructed them ...
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100 percent acre ally paid Act of 1928-Continued amount obligation paid Amount taken Assessed Amounts not paid Arkansas Ascension Parish Atchafalaya Basin Levee Atchafalaya levee district Basin Levee District Bayou Boeuf Bayou Goula Black River built under Flood CHAIRMAN Charles Parish construction material_ Contract construction of United cost of project district for construction Flood Control Act Highway Levee Highway Highway Total amount Iberville Parish James Parish Lafourche Levee District Lake Borgne Landry length levee board Levee Highway Levee levee highway project Levee Highway Total levees built material_ Contract payments ments actu miles miscellaneous expenses Mississippi River old levee paid by Atchafalaya paid to date plantation Plaquemine Parish Pointe Coupee Parish Pontchartrain Levee District Port Allen Price per ments right-of-way acquired Right-of-way and miscellaneous river edge set-back levees Tabulation of right-of-way taken Assessed value toe of old Total amount obligation Total cost United States levees value of land WHITTINGTON
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Page 204 - District is composed of the parishes of East Carroll, Madison, Tensas, and Concordia.
Page 33 - ENGINEER OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA Mr. JACOBS. Mr. Chairman and members of the committee: The levee boards and the board of State engineers of Louisiana are very much impressed with the statements made here by General Brown and General Ferguson on the development of the problems of flood control and the execution of the adopted plan, insofar as it affects Louisiana, at the recent hearings...
Page 202 - ... accountability, it would transfer the responsibility for the administration of the Tennessee Valley Authority Act from its Board of Directors appointed by the President for that purpose to the General Accounting Office in Washington. The CHAIRMAN. The committee will meet at 3 o'clock this afternoon. (Whereupon the committee recessed until 3 pm of the same day.) AFTER RECESS (The committee reassembled at 3 pm, pursuant to recess.) The CHAIRMAN. The committee will please be in order. I believe...
Page 10 - ... is worthy of your consideration. I am not asking for an increase in the appropriation. It is just a matter of getting the most for the money that you are going to spend. I thank you, gentlemen. Mr. WOODRUM. Thank you, Mr. McClellan. THURSDAY MAY 6, 1937. RELIEF APPROPRIATION Mr. WOODRUM. Mr. Lasser, if you desire to make a statement, we will be very glad to year you at this time. STATEMENT OF DAVID IASSER, REPRESENTING THE WORKERS' ALLIANCE OF AMERICA Mr. LASSER. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of...