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Page 290 - Resolved, That copies of this resolution be transmitted to the President of the United States, the Vice President of the United States, the Secretary of State...
Page 447 - That the following works of improvement for the benefit of navigation and the control of destructive flood-waters and other purposes are hereby adopted and authorized to be prosecuted under the direction of the Secretary of War and the supervision of the Chief of Engineers...
Page 152 - ... 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 200 - 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 430 - ... the consent herein and hereby given being in accordance with the seventeenth clause of the eighth section of the first article of the constitution of the United States, and with the acts of congress in such cases made and provided...
Page 602 - That the project for the flood control of the Mississippi River in its alluvial valley and...
Page 430 - York shall retain a concurrent jurisdiction with the United States on and over the property and premises so conveyed, so far as that all civil and criminal process, which may issue under the laws or authority of the state of New York...
Page 200 - States free from damages due to the construction works; and (c) maintain and operate all works after completion in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Army.
Page 54 - 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 17 - HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, COMMITTEE ON FLOOD CONTROL, Washington, DC The committee met at 10 am, Hon.