Flood Control Work in Red River, Atchafalaya and Bayou Boeuf Levee District: Hearings, Seventy-third Congress, Second Sessio |
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... evidence a little later a letter written by W. H. Holcombe , district engineer . He is the gentleman you are referring to ? Mr. JACOBS . And in that letter he makes the statement : " If rights- of - way can be secured promptly none of ...
... evidence a little later a letter written by W. H. Holcombe , district engineer . He is the gentleman you are referring to ? Mr. JACOBS . And in that letter he makes the statement : " If rights- of - way can be secured promptly none of ...
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... evidence , that it was the duty of the Federal Government to pay for all of these rights - of - way on these tributaries . Then we presented our claim . Then when we did , they said , " All right . " Senator BAILEY . Your statement ...
... evidence , that it was the duty of the Federal Government to pay for all of these rights - of - way on these tributaries . Then we presented our claim . Then when we did , they said , " All right . " Senator BAILEY . Your statement ...
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... evidence at these hearings , a resolution adopted by the Board of Commissioners for Red River , Atchafalaya , and Bayou Boeuf Levee district , in refer- ence to furnishing a right - of - way without cost to the Federal Gov- ernment ...
... evidence at these hearings , a resolution adopted by the Board of Commissioners for Red River , Atchafalaya , and Bayou Boeuf Levee district , in refer- ence to furnishing a right - of - way without cost to the Federal Gov- ernment ...
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... evidence the letter written by Maj . John C. H. Lee to Mr. J. W. Summerlin . ( The letter in question is as follows :) Mr. J. W. SUMMERLIN , WAR DEPARTMENT , UNITED STATES ENGINEER OFFICE , Vicksburg , Miss . , March 4 , 1929 ...
... evidence the letter written by Maj . John C. H. Lee to Mr. J. W. Summerlin . ( The letter in question is as follows :) Mr. J. W. SUMMERLIN , WAR DEPARTMENT , UNITED STATES ENGINEER OFFICE , Vicksburg , Miss . , March 4 , 1929 ...
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... evidence satisfactory to the district engineer is given as to actual ownership of the land at the time purchased . As your board has been informed , the levees on the south bank of Arkansas River head the priority list for work in this ...
... evidence satisfactory to the district engineer is given as to actual ownership of the land at the time purchased . As your board has been informed , the levees on the south bank of Arkansas River head the priority list for work in this ...
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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.