Proceedings of the ... National Conservation Congress at ...The Congress, 1911 |
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... existing forests . about 70 percent of all the timber lands of the Government . Within these forests ( including 26,000,000 acres in two forests in Alaska ) are 192,000,000 acres , of which 166,000,000 acres are in the United States ...
... existing forests . about 70 percent of all the timber lands of the Government . Within these forests ( including 26,000,000 acres in two forests in Alaska ) are 192,000,000 acres , of which 166,000,000 acres are in the United States ...
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... existing law for the sale of the coal in the ground should continue in force or be repealed and a new method of disposition adopted . Under the present law the absolute title in the coal beneath the surface passes to the grantee of the ...
... existing law for the sale of the coal in the ground should continue in force or be repealed and a new method of disposition adopted . Under the present law the absolute title in the coal beneath the surface passes to the grantee of the ...
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... existing coal - land laws of Alaska are most unsatisfactory and should be radically amended ( applause ) . To begin with , the purchase price of the land is a flat rate of $ 10 per acre , with no power to increase it beyond that ...
... existing coal - land laws of Alaska are most unsatisfactory and should be radically amended ( applause ) . To begin with , the purchase price of the land is a flat rate of $ 10 per acre , with no power to increase it beyond that ...
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... existing placer mining law , although made applicable to deposits of this character , is not suitable to such lands , and for the further reason that it seemed desirable to reserve certain fuel - oil deposits for the use of the American ...
... existing placer mining law , although made applicable to deposits of this character , is not suitable to such lands , and for the further reason that it seemed desirable to reserve certain fuel - oil deposits for the use of the American ...
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... existing land laws . Adequate provision should be made by law for the utilization of these water - power sites to the end that the Gov- ernment may receive fair compensation for the same , and to the end that the public may receive the ...
... existing land laws . Adequate provision should be made by law for the utilization of these water - power sites to the end that the Gov- ernment may receive fair compensation for the same , and to the end that the public may receive the ...
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Página 112 - Energy in the Executive is a leading character in the definition of good Government. It is essential to the protection of the community against foreign attacks ; it is not less essential to the steady administration of the laws ; to the protection of property against those irregular and high-handed combinations which sometimes interrupt the ordinary course of justice ; to the security of liberty against the enterprises and assaults of ambition, of faction, and of anarchy.
Página 421 - The navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and St. Lawrence, and the carrying places between the same shall be common highways and forever free...
Página 277 - He that planteth a tree is a servant of God, He provideth a kindness for many generations, And faces that he hath not seen shall bless him.
Página 359 - The lands of the State, now owned or hereafter acquired, constituting the forest preserve as now fixed by law, shall be forever kept as wild forest lands. They shall not be leased, sold or exchanged, or be taken by any corporation, public or private, nor shall the timber thereon be sold, removed or destroyed.
Página ix - The annual meeting of this corporation shall be held at such time and place as may be determined by the Executive Committee.
Página 95 - To continue and carry on a system of national and international relief in time of peace and apply the same in mitigating the sufferings caused by pestilence, famine, fire, floods, and other great national calamities, and to devise and carry on measures for preventing the same.
Página 379 - ... there shall be levied and collected annually, for four years, a state tax of one-tenth of one mill for each dollar of the assessed valuation of the taxable property of the state...
Página 109 - But where the law is not prohibited, and is really calculated to effect any of the objects intrusted to the government, to undertake here to inquire into the degree of its necessity, would be to pass the line which circumscribes the judicial department, and to tread on legislative ground.
Página 400 - An act for the protection of the natural mineral springs of the State and to prevent waste and impairment of its natural mineral waters...
Página 288 - AN ACT authorizing the citizens of Colorado, Nevada, and the Territories to fell and remove timber on the public domain for mining and domestic purposes.