Exemption of Certain Projects from Land-limitation Provisions of Federal Reclamation Laws: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Public Lands, United States Senate, Eightieth Congress, First Session on S.912, a Bill Exempting Certain Projects from the Land-limitation Provisions of the Federal Reclamation Laws and Repealing All Inconsistent Provisions of Prior Acts. May 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 19, 20, 21, 22, 28, and June 2, 1947United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Lands U.S. Government Printing Office, 1947 - 1329 pages United States Senate, Eightieth Congress, first session, on S. 912, a bill exempting certain projects from the land-limitation provisions of the Federal reclamation laws and repealing all inconsistent provisions of prior acts. |
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Page 498 - I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.
Page 54 - For the purposes of this resolution, the committee, or any duly authorized subcommittee thereof, is authorized to hold such hearings, to sit and act at such...
Page 456 - ... if the owners thereof shall refuse to execute valid recordable contracts for the sale of such lands under terms and conditions satisfactory to the Secretary of the Interior...
Page 569 - Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth...
Page 455 - No right to the use of water for land in private ownership shall be sold for a tract, exceeding one hundred and sixty acres to any one landowner, and no such sale shall be made to any landowner unless he be an actual bona fide resident on such land, or occupant thereof residing in the neighborhood of said land, and no such right shall permanently attach until all payments therefor are made.
Page 198 - I hereby certify, that the foregoing is a full, true, and correct copy of a resolution adopted...
Page 456 - Interior; and that until one-half the construction charges against said lands shall have been fully paid no sale of any such lands shall carry the right to receive water unless and until the purchase price involved in such sale is approved by the Secretary of the Interior...
Page 54 - Congress, to employ such clerical and other assistants, to require by subpena or otherwise the attendance of such witnesses and the production of such books, papers, and documents, to administer such oaths, to take such testimony, and to make such expenditures, as it deems advisable.
Page 197 - The resolution will be inserted in the record at this point. (The resolution referred to is as follows:) [HJ Res.
Page 54 - ... books, papers, and documents, to administer such oaths, to take such testimony, and to make such expenditures as it deems advisable. The cost of stenographic services to report such hearings shall not be in excess of 25 cents per hundred words. The expenses of the committee, which shall not exceed $5,000, shall be paid from the contingent fund of the Senate upon vouchers approved by the chairman of the committee.