Flood Control Work in Red River, Atchafalaya and Bayou Boeuf Levee District: Hearings, Seventy-third Congress, Second Sessio |
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... duress , as it were , they adopted the resolutions of dona- tion , and that matter was submitted to the Attorney General , and I laid the facts before him in a brief that I will file here in connection with this hearing , and he said ...
... duress , as it were , they adopted the resolutions of dona- tion , and that matter was submitted to the Attorney General , and I laid the facts before him in a brief that I will file here in connection with this hearing , and he said ...
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... duress ? Mr. JACOBS . That is not a good comparison . Senator BAILEY . I will agree with you as to the comparison , but will you answer the question ? Mr. JACOBS . Let me get the question straight , Senator . Senator BAILEY . If I ...
... duress ? Mr. JACOBS . That is not a good comparison . Senator BAILEY . I will agree with you as to the comparison , but will you answer the question ? Mr. JACOBS . Let me get the question straight , Senator . Senator BAILEY . If I ...
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... duress , to this extent . If the levees were not built , human life and property would have been endangered ... duress . It may be good on some other phases of it , but I am on the Claims Committee . We have all sorts of propositions ...
... duress , to this extent . If the levees were not built , human life and property would have been endangered ... duress . It may be good on some other phases of it , but I am on the Claims Committee . We have all sorts of propositions ...
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... duress . Senator OVERTON . The difficulty about that is this , that his su- perior officer , the Chief Army Engineer , took the position at that time that the State agencies should furnish the rights - of - way on these tributaries . He ...
... duress . Senator OVERTON . The difficulty about that is this , that his su- perior officer , the Chief Army Engineer , took the position at that time that the State agencies should furnish the rights - of - way on these tributaries . He ...
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... duress so clearly as defined in the law to be when a man is compelled to do something against his will . That is duress . Senator OVERTON . What I wanted to do here was to get all of the facts , and then you can consider whether it was ...
... duress so clearly as defined in the law to be when a man is compelled to do something against his will . That is duress . Senator OVERTON . What I wanted to do here was to get all of the facts , and then you can consider whether it was ...
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acquire the rights-of-way adopted plan adopted project Alexandria Arkansas River Army Engineers Atchafalaya Basin Atchafalaya River Attorney authority bank of Red Bayou Boeuf Levee bill board of commissioners Boeuf Basin Boeuf Levee Board Boeuf Levee District Captain DEAN Chief of Engineers claim for reimbursement Cologne Bend Colonel GRAVES construction of levees contract cubic yards Department district engineer duress Egg Bend Federal Government Flood Control Act Flood Control Board furnish the rights-of-way furnish the United going Government should pay JOHN C. H. LEE letter levee construction levee purposes levee rights-of-way Louisiana main stem Major Holcombe Mississippi River Commission Mississippi River Flood of-way opinion Orleans paid payment President PRESSBURG protection levees question reasonable price Red River referred rights-of rights-of-way for levee rights-of-way without cost River Flood Control Secretary Secretary of War Senator BAILEY Senator OVERTON south bank statement tion United States Government Whereas the United
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Page 40 - That the project for the flood control of the Mississippi River in its alluvial valley and for its improvement from the Head of Passes to Cape Girardeau, Missouri, in accordance with the engineering plan set forth and recommended in the report submitted by the Chief of Engineers to -the Secretary of War, dated December 1, 1927, and printed in House Document Numbered 90, Seventieth Congress, first session...
Page 37 - River for protection against the floods of that river; in view of the extent of National concern in the control of these floods in the interests of national prosperity, the flow of interstate commerce, and the movement of the United States mails; and, in view of the gigantic scale of the project, involving flood waters of a volume and flowing from a drainage area largely outside the States most affected, and far exceeding those of any other river in the United States, no local contribution to the...
Page 40 - Numbered 391, approved May 15, 1928 (45 Stat. 534), Seventieth Congress, entitled "An Act for the control of floods on the Mississippi River and its tributaries, and for other purposes...
Page 23 - I hereby certify that the above and foregoing is a true and correct copy of a Resolution submitted to and adopted by the Mississippi Bankers Association in official convention assembled.
Page 30 - Lands and improvements thereon hereafter actually used or destroyed for levees or levee drainage purposes shall be paid for at a price not to exceed the assessed value for the preceding year; provided, this shall not apply to batture, nor to property control of which is vested in the State or any subdivision thereof for the purpose of commerce.
Page 42 - We may assume that, as charged, the mere adoption by Congress of a plan of flood control which involves an intentional, additional, occasional flooding of complainant's land constitutes a taking of it — as soon as the government begins to carry out the project authorized.
Page 30 - WHS necessary to take a previously existing street or highway for levees or levee drainage purposes, shall be paid for at a price not to exceed the assessed value for the preceding year: 1'rnritli'd.
Page 42 - If that which has been done, or is contemplated, does constitute such a taking, the complainant can recover just compensation under the Tucker act in an action at law as upon an implied contract, since the validity of the act and the authority of the defendants are conceded.
Page 37 - That it is hereby declared to be the sense of Congress that the principle of local contribution toward the cost of flood-control work, which has been incorporated in all previous national legislation on the subject, is sound, as recognizing the special interest of the local population in its own protection, and as a means of preventing inordinate requests for unjustified items of work having no material national interest.
Page 42 - The Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the judgment of the District Court in disallowing damages under the counterclaim.