 | 1920 - 912 pages
...reclamation of such lands. This Act applied exclusively to the State of Louisiana, and provided that in order to aid the State in constructing the necessary levees...and drains to reclaim the swamp and overflowed lands therein the whole of such lands that may be found unfit for cultivation were granted to the State with... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Indian Affairs - Ojibwa Indians - 1920 - 442 pages
...28, 1850, supra, recites that the purpose of the grant is to enable the several States "to construct the necessary levees and drains to reclaim the swamp and overflowed lands thereon * * *, " and that section 2 of the act expressly requires "that the proceeds of said lands,... | |
 | Charles Willis Needham - Commerce - 1925 - 772 pages
...State of Louisiana in Draining the Swamp Lands therein," enacted: "That to aid the State of Louisiana in constructing the necessary levees and drains to reclaim the swamp and overflowed lands therein, the whole of those swamp and overflowed lands, which may be or are found unfit for cultivation,... | |
 | Railroad Commission of Wisconsin - Railroad law - 1925 - 946 pages
...and 2 of this act read as follows: Section 1 — 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... | |
 | Ray Palmer Teele - Reclamation of land - 1927 - 364 pages
...the United States of America in Congress assembled, That to enable the State of Arkansas to construct the necessary levees and drains to reclaim the swamp and overflowed lands 57 therein, the whole of these swamp and overflowed lands, made unfit thereby for cultivation, which... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Flood Control - Flood control - 1927 - 938 pages
...which was stated in the body of the law as follows, to wit : To enable the several States to construct the necessary levees and drains to reclaim the swamp and overflowed lands therein. Mr. WHITTINGTON. Put in the reference to that act so we can locate it. should we want to refer... | |
 | American Academy of Political and Social Science - African Americans - 1928 - 274 pages
...Swamp Act approved September 28, 1850. The purpose of this Act was to enable the states to construct the necessary levees and drains to reclaim the swamp and overflowed lands therein. The principle involved was not new, as the early French grants in the lower valley contained... | |
 | Boulder Dam Muscle Shouls - 1928 - 220 pages
...Swamp Act approved September 28, 1850. The purpose of this Act was to enable the states to construct the necessary levees and drains to reclaim the swamp and overflowed lands therein. The principle involved was not new, as the early French grants in the lower valley contained... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Flood Control - Flood control - 1928 - 1042 pages
...swamp act approved September 28, 1850. The purpose of this act was to enable the States to construct the necessary levees and drains to reclaim the swamp and overflowed lands therein. The principle involved was not new, as the early French grants ш the lower valley contained... | |
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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... 
