Water Resources: Hearing Before the Select Committee on National Water Resources, United States Senate, Eighty-sixth Congress, First Session, Pursuant to S. Res. 48. Bismarck, N. Dak., October 7, 1959, Volumes 9-16 |
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Page 1707 - The Legislature may confer upon the boards of supervisors of the several counties of the State, such powers of a local, legislative and administrative character, as they shall from time to time prescribe.
Page 1716 - The navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and St. Lawrence, and the carrying places between the same, shall be common highways, and forever free, as well to the inhabitants of the said territory, as to the citizens of the United States, and those of any other states that may be admitted into the confederacy, without any tax, impost, or duty therefor.
Page 1701 - The State shall have concurrent jurisdiction on all rivers and lakes bordering on this State, so far as such rivers, or lakes shall form a common boundary to the State, and any other State, or Territory, now or hereafter to be formed, and bounded by the same : And the river Mississippi and the navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and St. Lawrence, and the carrying places between the same shall be common highways and forever free, as well to the inhabitants of the State, as to the citizens...
Page 1828 - That the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors, created under Section 3 of the River and Harbor Act approved June 13, 1902, be, and is hereby requested to review the...
Page 1984 - The right to divert the unappropriated waters of any natural stream to beneficial uses shall never be denied. Priority of appropriation shall give the better right as between those using the water for the same purpose; but when the waters of any natural stream are not sufficient for the service of all those desiring the use of the same, those using the water for domestic purposes shall have the preference over those claiming for any other purpose, and those using the water for agricultural purposes...
Page 1984 - It is hereby declared to be the established policy of this State that the use of water for domestic purposes is the highest use of water and that the next highest use is for irrigation.
Page 1622 - Is hereby declared to be the policy of the Congress to recognize the primary responsibilities of the States and local interests in developing water supplies for domestic, municipal, industrial, and other purposes...
Page 1703 - All rivers and streams which have been meandered and returned as navigable by the surveyors employed by the government of the United States and all rivers and streams, meandered or non-meandered, which are navigable in fact for any purpose whatsoever are hereby declared navigable * * * to the extent that no dam, bridge, or other obstruction shall be made in or over the same without the permission of the legislature...
Page 2054 - What do we want with this vast, worthless area? This region of savages and wild beasts, of deserts, of shifting sands and whirlwinds of dust, of cactus and prairie dogs?
Page 1707 - No private or local bill, which may be passed by the Legislature, shall embrace more than one subject, and that shall be expressed in the title.