Everglades of Florida: Acts, Reports, and Other Papers, State and National, Relating to the Everglades of the State of Florida and Their ReclamationU.S. Government Printing Office, 1911 - 208 sider |
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Congressional Serial Set, Utgave 4049 United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1901 |
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adopted Atlantic Ocean attorney basin Board of Drainage Broward Brown's store Caloosahatchee River coast commissioner of agriculture committee comptroller contract corner cost Creek crops cubic yard cultivation Cypress depth Disston drainage and reclamation Drainage Commissioners drainage district drainage engineer drainage operations draining the Everglades dredge east Everglades Everglades lands excavation February fertility Fort Myers Fort Thompson Glades governor Gulf of Mexico Hamilton Disston inches Internal Improvement Fund islands J. O. Wright January Kissimmee River Lake Hicpochee Lake Kissimmee Lake Okeechobee Lake Tohopekaliga Land Office legislature Miami River miles muck lands muck soils Myers North New River outlet overflowed lands peninsula portion prairie public lands railroad rainfall region resolution River Canal rock saw grass Secretary Senate soil surface survey swamp and overflowed Tallahassee thence thereof tion Tohopekaliga township treasurer Trustees United vegetable Walter Gwynn
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Side 32 - River; then following the course of the Rio Roxo westward, to the degree of longitude 100 west from London and 23 from Washington; then, crossing the said Red River, and running thence, by a line due north, to the river Arkansas; thence, following the course of the southern bank of the Arkansas, to its source, in latitude 42 north; and thence, bv that parallel of latitude, to the South Sea.
Side 29 - public lands' are habitually used in our legislation to describe such as are subject to sale or other disposal under general laws.
Side 67 - That the proceeds of said lands, whether from sale or by direct appropriation in kind, shall be applied, exclusively, as far as necessary, to the purpose of reclaiming said lands by means of the levees and drains aforesaid.
Side 185 - I hereby certify that the above and foregoing is a true and correct copy of a Resolution submitted to and adopted by the Mississippi Bankers Association in official convention assembled.
Side 67 - That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Interior, as soon as may be practicable after the passage of this act, to make out an accurate list and plats of the lands described as aforesaid, and transmit the same to the governor of the State...
Side 67 - That the provisions of this act be extended to and their benefits be conferred upon each of the other States of the Union in which such swamp and overflowed lands, known and designated as aforesaid, may be situated.
Side 93 - Now, Know ye, That the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, in consideration of the premises, and in conformity, with the several Acts of Congress in such case made and provided, HAVE GIVEN AND GRANTED, and by these presents DO GIVE AND GRANT, unto the said Conrad B. Pack, and to his heirs, the said Tract above described...
Side 33 - States respectively, shall have been surveyed according to existing laws. And there shall be and hereby is, granted to each new State that shall be hereafter admitted into the Union, upon such admission, so much land...
Side 67 - ... shall be included in said lists and plats; but when the greater part of a subdivision is not of that character, the whole of it shall be excluded therefrom.
Side 31 - Natchitoches, or Red River ; then, following the course of the Rio Roxo westward, to the degree of longitude 100 west from London...