Congressional Serial Set, Issue 4676U.S. Government Printing Office, 1903 - United States Reports, Documents, and Journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. |
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... Lake Drummond Canal and Water Company , but the United States has expended , approximately , $ 250,000 in excavating Turners Cut , and improving the channels in Deep Creek and Pasquotank River . Elizabeth River . - The portion of this ...
... Lake Drummond Canal and Water Company , but the United States has expended , approximately , $ 250,000 in excavating Turners Cut , and improving the channels in Deep Creek and Pasquotank River . Elizabeth River . - The portion of this ...
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... Lake Mattamuskeet . This lake is a large but shallow body of fresh water . It is about 16 miles long by 6 miles wide . Its level varies with the rainfall , but in the dry season is only about 2 feet above the level of Pamlico Sound ...
... Lake Mattamuskeet . This lake is a large but shallow body of fresh water . It is about 16 miles long by 6 miles wide . Its level varies with the rainfall , but in the dry season is only about 2 feet above the level of Pamlico Sound ...
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... Lake Mattamuskeet , but enter Pamlico Sound above Bluff shoal . Juniper Bay route . This route passes through the lake , and except for the belt of cultivated land around the lake it is located through the marshes or swamps adjacent to ...
... Lake Mattamuskeet , but enter Pamlico Sound above Bluff shoal . Juniper Bay route . This route passes through the lake , and except for the belt of cultivated land around the lake it is located through the marshes or swamps adjacent to ...
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... Lake Mattamuskeet , and along the Clubfoot and Harlowe Canal . At none of these places was any rock found near the surface . Other information obtained from various sources all serves to corroborate this . It is believed , therefore ...
... Lake Mattamuskeet , and along the Clubfoot and Harlowe Canal . At none of these places was any rock found near the surface . Other information obtained from various sources all serves to corroborate this . It is believed , therefore ...
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... Lake Drummond . With a view of determining the question of the suffi- ciency of this lake as a source of water supply , should the waterway be constructed by the Dismal Swamp Canal route and with a high level at about the same elevation ...
... Lake Drummond . With a view of determining the question of the suffi- ciency of this lake as a source of water supply , should the waterway be constructed by the Dismal Swamp Canal route and with a high level at about the same elevation ...
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Page 162 - delinquent child" shall include any child under the age of sixteen (16) years who violates any law of this state or any city or village ordinance, or who is incorrigible, or who knowingly associates with thieves, vicious or immoral persons, or who is growing up in idleness or crime, or who knowingly visits or enters a house of...
Page 36 - Claims, which shall proceed with the same in accordance with such rules as it may adopt and report to such House the facts in the case and the amount, where the same can be liquidated, including any facts bearing upon the question whether there has been delay or laches in presenting such claim or applying for such grant, gift, or bounty, and any facts bearing upon the question whether the bar of any statute of limitation should be removed or which shall be claimed to excuse the claimant for not having...
Page 7 - Except as otherwise provided by law, sums appropriated for the various branches of expenditure in the public service shall be applied solely to the objects for which they are respectively made and for no others.
Page 3 - Ship called the whereof is Master for this present Voyage and now riding at Anchor in the and bound for to say being marked and numbered as in the Margin, and are to be delivered...
Page 178 - An act to define and to regulate the treatment and control of dependent, neglected and delinquent children...
Page 165 - ... in some suitable family home, in case provision is made by voluntary contribution or otherwise for the payment of the board of such child...
Page xiv - Is found living in any house of ill fame or with any vicious or disreputable persons, or whose home, by reason of neglect, cruelty or depravity on the part of Its parents, guardian or other person in whose care .it may be is an unfit place for such...
Page 177 - ... for the legal adoption of the child, and may by Its or his attorney or agent appear in any court where such proceedings are pending and assent to such adoption. And such assent shall be sufficient to authorize the court to enter the proper order or decree of adoption.
Page 168 - State, all parents, guardians and other persons having care of children shall instruct them, or cause them to be instructed, in reading, writing, spelling, English grammar, geography and arithmetic. In such districts, every parent, guardian or other person having charge of any child between the ages of eight...