...set-back levee and about midwav between Birds Point and New Madrid. The Flood Control Act stipulates that the United States "shall provide flowage rights for additional destructive flood waters that will pass by reason of diversions from the main channel of the Mississippi River." The same section authorizes...

...19. The Flood Control Act of 1928, section 4 (Title 33, 702d, USCA), provides among other things that the United States "shall provide flowage rights for additional destructive flood waters that will pass by reason of diversion from the main channel of the Mississippi River." From 1858, the first year...

...land so subjected to overflow and damage or floodage rights over such lands. Section 4 says : SEC. 4. The United States shall provide flowage rights for additional destructive flood waters that will pass by reason of diversions from the main channel of the Mississippi River : Provided, That in all...

...rights over such lands. 702d. Same; flowage rights, condemnation proceedings; benefits to property. — The United States shall provide flowage rights for additional destructive flood waters that will pass by reason of diversions from the main channel of the Mississippi River: Provided, That in all...

...follows: In lieu of the matter proposed to be inserted by said amendment insert the following: SEC. 4- The United States shall provide flowage rights for additional destructive flood waters that will pass by reason of diversions from the main channel of the Mississippi River: Provided, That in aU cases...

...But the provision just read by the Senator luis the vice of uncertainty and complexity. It says that the — United States shall provide flowage rights for additional destructive flood waters by reasons of diversions from the main channel of the Mississippi Hiver. We are told that the flood...

...land so subjected to overflow and damage or floodage rights over such lands. Section 4 says: SEC. 4. The United States shall provide flowage rights for additional destructive flood waters that will pass by reason of diversions from the main channel of the Mississippi River : Provided, That in all...

...contractors, is marked " Plaintiff's Exhibit H." Section 4 of the flood control act reads: " SBC. 4. The United States shall provide flowage rights for additional destructive flood waters that will pass by reason of diversions from the main channel of the Mississippi River : Provided, That in all...

...ownership of the lands so subjected to overflow and damage or floodage rights over such lands. " Sec. 4. The United States shall provide flowage rights for additional destructive flood waters that will pass by reason of diversions from the main channel of the Mississippi River. . . . " The Secretary...

...I never could understand, you make that statement, and it says right in the flood control act that the United States shall provide flowage rights for additional destructive flood waters, and you say now you had nothing to do but follow out the wording of the statute, and yet the War Department...