 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 898 pages
...the engineers, in their respective districts, to determine the locality, extent, and dimensions of the necessary levees and drains to reclaim the swamp and overflowed lands of the state. It ia admitted by the parties "that the defendants, under a contract with the swamp-land... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 940 pages
...September 28, 1850. That act, in substance, is as follows: To enable the state of California to construct the necessary levees and drains to reclaim the swamp and overflowed lands therein, the whole of those swamp and overflowed lands made unfit thereby for cultivation were granted... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 682 pages
...Swamp Land Act, is as follows: "Be it enacted, * * * That to enable the State of Arkansas to construct the necessary levees and drains to reclaim the swamp and overflowed lands therein, the whole of those swam]) and overflowed lands, made unfit thereby for cultivation, which... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1912 - 1204 pages
...purpose of the grant, as declared by the act of Congress, having been "to aid the state of Louisiana in constructing the necessary levees and drains to reclaim the swamp and overflowed lands therein," the state, by Act No. 14 of 1892, created the "Lake Borgne Basin Levee District," as an instrumentality... | |
 | Dugald J. Bannatyne - New York (State) - 1887 - 652 pages
...granted. To enable the several states (but not including Kansas, Nebraska, and Nevada) to construct the necessary levees and drains to reclaim the swamp and overflowed lands therein, the whole of the swamp and overflowed lands made unfit thereby for cultivation, and remaining... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1911 - 1320 pages
...the state by the act of Congress of the lands sought to be drained that the state might "construct the necessary levees and drains to reclaim the swamp and overflowed lands therein, and that the next General Assembly passed an act appointing a board of commissioners to devise... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1887 - 764 pages
...Government of the United States. Under an act of Congress of 1850, designed to aid in the construction of the necessary levees and drains to reclaim the swamp and overflowed lands, Congress gave to the State the whole of such overflowed lands not then fit for cultivation. The Interior... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1889 - 1172 pages
...1, 2, and 4 of the Act of 1850 read as follows: "That, to enable the State of Arkansas to construct the necessary levees and drains to reclaim the swamp and overflowed lands therein, the whole of those swamp and overflowed lands, made unfit thereby for cultivation, which shall... | |
 | United States. Department of the Interior - Public lands - 1890 - 756 pages
...It is provided in section 1, of the said act, — That to unable the State of Arkansas to construct the necessary levees and drains to reclaim the swamp and overflowed lands therein, the whole of those swamp and overflowed lands, made unfit thereby for cultivation, which shall... | |
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That to enable the state of Arkansas to construct the necessary levees and drains to reclaim the swamp and overflowed lands therein, the whole of those swamp and overflowed lands made unfit thereby for cultivation, which shall remain unsold at the passage... 
