Flood Control: Hearings Before the Committee on Commerce, United States Senate, Seventieth Congress, First Session, Relative to Flood Control of the Mississippi River. January 23 to February 24, 1928. Printed for Use of the Committee on Commerce |
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... civilian engineers , and one member shall be an individual of experienced execu- tive ability . The President shall ... civilian engineer at the end of the second year , one Army engineer and one civilian engineer at the end of the ...
... civilian engineers , and one member shall be an individual of experienced execu- tive ability . The President shall ... civilian engineer at the end of the second year , one Army engineer and one civilian engineer at the end of the ...
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... Engineers , dated November 28 , 1927 , printed as Committee Document ... civil engineers appointed by the President of the United States as a member of the ... civilian members of the commission shall receive salaries of $ 6,000 a year ...
... Engineers , dated November 28 , 1927 , printed as Committee Document ... civil engineers appointed by the President of the United States as a member of the ... civilian members of the commission shall receive salaries of $ 6,000 a year ...
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... Engineer Corps of the Army , three of whom shall be civilian engineers , and three of whom shall be selected because of experienced executive ability . The first appointments to the commission following the approval of this act shall be ...
... Engineer Corps of the Army , three of whom shall be civilian engineers , and three of whom shall be selected because of experienced executive ability . The first appointments to the commission following the approval of this act shall be ...
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... civilian hydraulic engineers and others who are experts upon the various factors involved in the proposed project , including each member of the Mississippi Commission and such Army engineers as it shall deem advisable , and report to ...
... civilian hydraulic engineers and others who are experts upon the various factors involved in the proposed project , including each member of the Mississippi Commission and such Army engineers as it shall deem advisable , and report to ...
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... civil participation . It provides for a commission composed of three civil engineers , three Army engineers , and three men of executive ability , experienced busi- ness men . It directs this commission to solve the problem of the lower ...
... civil participation . It provides for a commission composed of three civil engineers , three Army engineers , and three men of executive ability , experienced busi- ness men . It directs this commission to solve the problem of the lower ...
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acres amount Arkansas City Army engineers Association Atchafalaya Basin authority bank Bonnet Carre build Cairo Cape Girardeau carry CHAIRMAN Chamber of Commerce channel Chief of Engineers civil engineers civilian engineers Colonel POTTER committee Congress construction contribution cost crevasse Cypress Creek Damage difference drainage dredging DUFOUR entire estimate feet flood control flood waters flow going Gulf Jadwin plan Jadwin proposal January 31 land levee district Louisiana lower main river matter miles Mississippi River Commission Mississippi Valley Missouri navigation opinion Orleans overflow President problem protection question railroad raise recommended Red River reservoirs RIKER River Commission plan second-feet Secretary DAVIS Secretary HOOVER Senator FLETCHER Senator HARRY Senator HAWES Senator RANSDELL Senator SACKETT Senator SIMMONS Senator TYSON Senator WILLIS spillway statement STEVENS TAYLOR Tensas thing tion tributaries United States Senate Washington WEST
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Page 510 - It shall be the duty of said commission to take into consideration and mature such plan or plans and estimates as will correct, permanently locate, and deepen the channel and protect the banks of the Mississippi River ; improve and give safety and ease to the navigation thereof; prevent destructive floods; promote and facilitate commerce, trade, and the postal service...
Page 11 - ... exempt from the payment of all taxes or duties of the United States, as well as from taxation in any form by or under state, municipal, or local authority...
Page 1 - If any provision of this Act or the application of such provision to any person or circumstances shall be held invalid, the validity of the remainder of the Act and the applicability of such provision to other persons or circumstances shall not be affected thereby.
Page 6 - Two of the members in office shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of the business of the Board.
Page 6 - Act of 1923,' fix the salaries of such experts, assistants, officers, and employees; and (3) make such expenditures (including expenditures for rent and personal services at the seat of government and elsewhere, for law books, periodicals, and books of reference, and for printing and binding...
Page 6 - The board— (1) shall maintain its principal office in the District of Columbia, and such other offices in the United States as in its judgment are necessary. (2) shall have an official seal which shall be judicially noticed. (3) shall make an annual report to Congress upon the administration of this Act and any other matter relating to the better effectuation of the policy declared in section 1, including recommendations for legislation.
Page 3 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following work of improvement is hereby adopted and authorized, to be prosecuted under the direction of the Secretary of War and the supervision of the Chief of Engineers...
Page 512 - I do not know that there is anything more that I can say about the differences.