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Page 75 - Whittington (chairman) presiding. The CHAIRMAN. The committee will be in order. We have before us this morning the matter of the.
Page 154 - ... to be the person who executed the within instrument on behalf of the corporation therein named, and acknowledged to me that such corporation executed the same.
Page 629 - That the Chief of Engineers may, in his discretion, substitute levees, floodways, or auxiliary channels, or any or all of them, for any or all of the seven detention reservoirs...
Page 436 - York shall retain a concurrent jurisdiction with the United States in and over the said property, so far as that all civil and criminal process which may issue under the laws or authority of the State of New York, may be executed thereon in the same way and manner as if such consent had not been given...
Page 204 - States of $.-i10.000 for construction, subject to the provisions that responsible local agencies give assurances satisfactory to the Secretary of War that they will provide without cost to the United States all lands, easements, and rights-of-way necessary for the construction of the...
Page 809 - As diversionary streams were dammed and levees constructed, floods were confined between them, with resulting increased flood heights. These increased heights enlarged the affected area and increased the frequency and duration of the floods. The area has, since the organization of the levee...
Page 75 - County, in accordance with plans approved by the Chief of Engineers on recommendation of the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors at an estimated construction cost not to exceed $70,000,000.
Page 607 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the project for the flood control of the Mississippi River in its alluvial valley...
Page 56 - I hereby certify that the foregoing resolution was adopted by the Council of the City of Los Angeles, at its meeting held on January 18, 1939.
Page 611 - That pending completion of any floodway, spillway, or diversion channel, the areas within the same shall be given the same degree of protection as is afforded by levees on the west side of the river contiguous to the levee at the head of said floodway...