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Page 1 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following work of improvement is hereby adopted and authorized, to be prosecuted under the direction of the Secretary of War and the supervision of the Chief of Engineers...
Page 16 - Engineers, no money shall be expended on the main river project until satisfactory assurances have been given by the local interests that after completion the flood-control works will be maintained at the expense of local interests.
Page 1 - No liability of any kind shall attach to or rest upon the United States for any damage from or by floods or flood waters at any place: Provided, however.
Page 1 - 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...
Page 79 - If any one proposition could command the universal assent of mankind, we might expect it would be this: that the government of the Union, though limited in its powers, is supreme within its sphere of action.
Page 81 - Congress by such means and in such mariner as Congress, in the exercise of the correlative duty of protection, or of the legislative powers conferred upon it by the Constitution, may in its discretion deem most eligible and best adapted to attain the object.
Page 1 - States, contribute 33 1/3 per centum of the costs of the works, and maintain them after completion : AND PROVIDED FURTHER, That not more than $10,000,000, of the sums authorized in section 1 of this Act, shall be expended under the provisions of this section. In an emergency, funds appropriated under authority of section 1 of this Act may be expended for the maintenance of any levee when it is demonstrated to the satisfaction of the Secretary of War that the levee can not be adequately maintained...
Page 34 - VICE PRESIDENT ST. FRANCIS RIVER FLOOD CONTROL ASSOCIATION Mr. DRIVER. Judge, give your name and place of residence, please. Mr. BARRON. William N. Barron, Poplar Bluff, Mo. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee, I am here on behalf of the Black and St. Francis River Commission of Missouri. That is a commission created by the legislature of the State, with the direction to make a survey and devise some plan whereby the conditions on the St. Francis and the Black Rivers in Missouri might be...
Page 26 - Mr. DRIVER. Under the provisions of the law as it existed prior to the passage of the act of May 15, 1928, the obligation fixed by the existing law was one-half by the local authorities, whether that came from local districts or from State and local districts? Mr. JONES. Yes, sir.
Page 1 - That it is hereby declared to be the sense of Congress that the principle of local contribution toward the cost of Hood-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...