Illinois and Mississippi Rivers, and Diversion of Water from Lake Michigan, Volumen1U.S. Government Printing Office, 1924 - 4 páginas |
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... connection with a nine - foot channel in the Mississippi River at or below the point where the Illinois River discharges its waters into the Mississippi River , the Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed to improve the ...
... connection with a nine - foot channel in the Mississippi River at or below the point where the Illinois River discharges its waters into the Mississippi River , the Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed to improve the ...
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... connection at , or near , Utica , Illinois , with the Federal improvements above authorized , and to construct such channels , locks , dams , and other improve- iments as will secure , based on increment of ten thousand cubic feet of ...
... connection at , or near , Utica , Illinois , with the Federal improvements above authorized , and to construct such channels , locks , dams , and other improve- iments as will secure , based on increment of ten thousand cubic feet of ...
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... connection with draining this water where they have overflowed lands . I have provided in this bill , as you will see as I go along , that they shall increase the levees both as to width and height to such an extent that they will ...
... connection with draining this water where they have overflowed lands . I have provided in this bill , as you will see as I go along , that they shall increase the levees both as to width and height to such an extent that they will ...
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... connection with the treaty , to which the chairman has referred . So far as I know , Mr. Chairman , there will be probably 20 or 25 people who will wish to be heard in opposition . May I inquire now how much time the committee will give ...
... connection with the treaty , to which the chairman has referred . So far as I know , Mr. Chairman , there will be probably 20 or 25 people who will wish to be heard in opposition . May I inquire now how much time the committee will give ...
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... connection with the matters with which the State of New York would have to do . Mr. BOYCE . Why could not the proponents as well as the opponents of the bill meet separately after we adjourn to - day and make their own arrangements ...
... connection with the matters with which the State of New York would have to do . Mr. BOYCE . Why could not the proponents as well as the opponents of the bill meet separately after we adjourn to - day and make their own arrangements ...
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acres ADCOCK amount of water answer attorney authority BARNES BARRETT Beardstown BEHAN BIXBY boats BOYCE Buffalo Canada cent CHAIRMAN channel Chicago River Chief of Engineers city of Chicago commission committee Congress construction CORNELIUS cost cubic feet damages depth District of Chicago diversion of water effect EKERN Federal feet of water feet per second FERRIS flow freight going GOULDER Government horsepower Huron Illinois River Illinois waterway inches interests interposing JARMAN Lake Erie lake levels Lake Michigan levees Lockport locks Louis lower miles Milwaukee Mississippi River MORGAN navigation NEWTON Niagara Falls Niagara River Ontario PEAVEY Peoria permit plants protect pumping purposes question railroads RANDOLPH Rivers and Harbors sanitary canal sanitary district second-feet Secretary Secretary of War ship statement Supreme Court tion tonnage tons transportation treaty understand United Valley VELDE water from Lake water power waterway Welland Canal
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Página 558 - ... any interference with or diversion from their natural channel of such waters on either side of the boundary, resulting in any injury on the other side of the boundary, shall give rise to the same rights and entitle the injured parties to the same legal remedies as if such injury took place in the country where such diversion or interference occurs...
Página 268 - They form a portion of that immense mass of legislation which embraces everything within the territory of a State not surrendered to the General Government, all which can be most advantageously exercised by the States themselves. Inspection laws, quarantine laws, health laws, of every description, as well as laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, etc., are component parts of this mass.
Página 628 - Each of the high contracting parties reserves to itself or to the several State Governments on the one side and the Dominion or Provincial Governments on the other as the case may be, subject to any treaty provisions now existing with respect thereto, the exclusive jurisdiction and control over the use and diversion, whether temporary or permanent, of all waters on its own side of the line which in their natural channels would flow across the boundary or into boundary waters...
Página 232 - It is hereby declared to be the policy of Congress to promote, encourage, and develop water transportation, service, and facilities in connection with the commerce of the United States, and to foster and preserve in full vigor both rail and water transportation.
Página 360 - Commerce includes navigation. The power to regulate commerce comprehends the control for that purpose, and to the extent necessary, of all the navigable waters of the United States which are accessible from a state other than those In which they lie. For this purpose they are the public property of the nation, and subject to all the requisite legislation by congress.
Página 505 - It is further agreed that the waters herein defined as boundary waters and waters flowing across the boundary shall not be polluted on either side to the injury of health or property on the other.
Página 518 - An Act making appropriations for the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes...
Página 779 - It is further agreed that so long as this treaty shall remain in force this same right of navigation shall extend to the waters of Lake Michigan and to all canals connecting boundary waters and now existing, or which may hereafter be constructed on either side of the line.
Página 266 - When the Revolution took place, the people of each State became themselves sovereign ; and in that character hold the absolute right to all their navigable waters, and the soils under them for their own common use, subject only to the rights since surrendered by the Constitution.
Página 480 - The foregoing provisions are not intended to limit or interfere with the existing rights of the Government of the United States on the one side and the Government of the Dominion of Canada on the other, to undertake and carry...