Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior for the Fiscal Year ...

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1952

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Page xix - ... or an opportunity is afforded for the development of power under any such project, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to lease for a period not exceeding...
Page xix - That for the purpose of controlling floods, improving navigation, regulating the flow of the streams of the United States, providing for storage and for the delivery of the stored waters thereof, for the reclamation of public lands * * * and...
Page 6 - ... and that prescribed reports are filed with the Board. By means of these required records and reports the Board maintains a reasonably accurate knowledge of the production of oil, the products derived therefrom, and its transportation in interstate commerce. The Connally Act is applicable wherever State laws limit the rate of production and prescribe conditions for producing and handling oil. However, due to the small size of the Board its primary activity is in 106 counties of Texas, Lea and...
Page 110 - To provide for research into and development of practical means for the economical production, from sea or other saline waters, of water suitable for agricultural, industrial, municipal, and other beneficial consumptive uses, and for other purposes.
Page 75 - The cost of incidental repairs which neither materially add to the value of the property nor appreciably prolong its life...
Page 217 - International Convention for the High Seas Fisheries of the North Pacific Ocean, signed at Tokyo on this ninth day of May, nineteen hundred fifty-two.
Page xix - That whenever a development of power is necessary for the irrigation of lands under any project undertaken under the said reclamation Act, or an opportunity is afforded for the development of power under any such project...
Page 421 - ... §1162. State jurisdiction over offenses committed by or against Indians in the Indian country "(a) Each of the States listed in the following table shall have jurisdiction over offenses committed by or against Indians in the areas of Indian...
Page 434 - States v. California, 332 US 19 (1947); United States v. Louisiana, 339 US 699 (1950); United States v. Texas, 339 US 707 (1950).
Page 386 - ... by the National Maritime Historical Society of the District of Columbia for the purpose of restoring and returning to the United States the vessel Kaiulani, the last surviving American-built...

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