Flood Control Work in Red River, Atchafalaya and Bayou Boeuf Levee District: Hearings, Seventy-third Congress, Second Sessio |
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... proceed- ing to reimburse other levee boards similarly situated for rights - of- way that were acquired on the south bank of the Arkansas and in the Atchafalaya Basin , are they not ? Colonel GRAVES . The War Department , or the office ...
... proceed- ing to reimburse other levee boards similarly situated for rights - of- way that were acquired on the south bank of the Arkansas and in the Atchafalaya Basin , are they not ? Colonel GRAVES . The War Department , or the office ...
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... proceed in Louisiana through the exercise of eminent do- main to acquire rights - of - way for levee purposes . We ... proceeds by way of appropriation . • Senator OVERTON . It is appropriation under the Louisiana law . Senator BAILEY ...
... proceed in Louisiana through the exercise of eminent do- main to acquire rights - of - way for levee purposes . We ... proceeds by way of appropriation . • Senator OVERTON . It is appropriation under the Louisiana law . Senator BAILEY ...
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... proceeds to do so . Now he comes back and says , " If you don't get this right away here for me , and without cost , I will take the money that has been allotted to your district and give it to same other district . " The levee board ...
... proceeds to do so . Now he comes back and says , " If you don't get this right away here for me , and without cost , I will take the money that has been allotted to your district and give it to same other district . " The levee board ...
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... proceed as they please , under mutual mistake , or duress , or fraud , and those are the only three sources from which they can derive a right . Senator OVERTON . The position I take as the author of the bill , Senator , is simply this ...
... proceed as they please , under mutual mistake , or duress , or fraud , and those are the only three sources from which they can derive a right . Senator OVERTON . The position I take as the author of the bill , Senator , is simply this ...
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... proceed , and Whereas the United States Government has advised this Levee Board that unless said rights - of - way are furnished by this Levee Board the funds allotted for the work will be transferred to some other district . If he had ...
... proceed , and Whereas the United States Government has advised this Levee Board that unless said rights - of - way are furnished by this Levee Board the funds allotted for the work will be transferred to some other district . If he had ...
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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.