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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... side of this strip to confine the flood waters to it and the extent of the area which its construction would reclaim ... sides , or by both means , larger and more powerful dredging machinery than anything now constructed will be ...
... side of this strip to confine the flood waters to it and the extent of the area which its construction would reclaim ... sides , or by both means , larger and more powerful dredging machinery than anything now constructed will be ...
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... side shall be the same and shall be that which those figures shall establish . These levees will contain an average of about five hundred and thirty - two cubic yards per lineal foot above such established base line . The earth of which ...
... side shall be the same and shall be that which those figures shall establish . These levees will contain an average of about five hundred and thirty - two cubic yards per lineal foot above such established base line . The earth of which ...
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... side of the river and the lands on the opposite side have been thereby subject to greater overflow , or where the Mississippi River Commission has heretofore recommended or may hereafter recommend that levees be built , the said ...
... side of the river and the lands on the opposite side have been thereby subject to greater overflow , or where the Mississippi River Commission has heretofore recommended or may hereafter recommend that levees be built , the said ...
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... side of it be practicable , as also the means for filling great areas about the shores of the Gulf of Mexico near the spillway , with alluvium passing down the river which now goes to sea ; will the top of the levees afford desirable ...
... side of it be practicable , as also the means for filling great areas about the shores of the Gulf of Mexico near the spillway , with alluvium passing down the river which now goes to sea ; will the top of the levees afford desirable ...
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... side of the sheet- steel boiler - plate core tend to preserve it for a long period of years and be efficient as the boiler plate has become inefficient ; will the drainage of the lake side of the core be better than without any drainage ...
... side of the sheet- steel boiler - plate core tend to preserve it for a long period of years and be efficient as the boiler plate has become inefficient ; will the drainage of the lake side of the core be better than without any drainage ...
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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.