Federal Reclamation Laws Annotated: A Chronological Compilation of the Public Statutes of the United States Relating to the Federal Irrigation of Arid Lands : with Notes of Decisions of the Courts, the Comptroller, the Comptroller General, the Attorney General, the Department of the Interior and the Bureau of Reclamation

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1937 - Irrigation - 700 pages

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Page 62 - ... purchase or exchange of professional and scientific books, law and- medical books, and books to complete broken sets, periodicals, directories, and other books of reference relating to the business of the department...
Page 3 - Secretary on the basis of its actual bona fide value at the date of appraisal without reference to the proposed construction of the irrigation works...
Page 159 - ... obtained, over any such lands or interests as he may deem desirable and indicate acceptance of such jurisdiction on behalf of the United States by filing a notice of such acceptance with the Governor of such State or in such other manner as may be prescribed by the laws of the State where such lands are situated. Unless and until the United States has accepted jurisdiction over lands hereafter to be acquired as aforesaid, it shall be conclusively presumed that no such jurisdiction has been accepted.
Page 76 - If any provision of this Act, or the application of such provision to any person or circumstances, shall be held invalid, the remainder of this Act, or the application of such provision to persons or circumstances other than those as to which it is held invalid, shall not be affected thereby.
Page 204 - ... which is subject to infirmities, until the written opinion of the Attorney General in favor of the validity of the title has been had as in the case of other lands.
Page 120 - States and to the President of the United States, and the President of the United States is requested to give notice to the Governors of the signatory States of approval by the Congress of the United States.
Page 135 - ... to deprive, attempt to deprive, or threaten to deprive, by any means, any person of any employment, position, work, compensation, or other benefit...
Page 237 - An Act to promote the mining of coal, phosphate, oil, oil shale, gas, and sodium on the public domain
Page 49 - The following sums are appropriated out of the special fund in the Treasury of the United States created by the act of June 17, 1902, and therein designated
Page 222 - Act unless, in the opinion of the court, the ability of the defendant to comply with the terms...

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