Acreage Limitation (reclamation Law) Review: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Irrigation and Reclamation of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, United States Senate, Eighty-fifth Congress, Second Session, on S. 1425, S. 2541, and S. 3448, Bills Pertaining to Acreage Limitation (reclamation Law), April 30 and May 1, 1958U.S. Government Printing Office, 1958 - 324 sider Considers legislation to revise acreage limitation provisions of Federal reclamation laws and exempt Seedskadee irrigation project, Wyo., from excess land provisions. |
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... Homestead Act we engaged in a great national debate . When Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act -- which had been vetoed by his predecessor , James Buchanan - we thought the die was cast and that our West always would be developed ...
... Homestead Act we engaged in a great national debate . When Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act -- which had been vetoed by his predecessor , James Buchanan - we thought the die was cast and that our West always would be developed ...
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... homestead of 640 acres . So the whole process has been evolved whereby as conditions changed and more acreage was needed that the Congress saw fit to enlarge it from time to time . Senator DOUGLAS . I shall try to develop that later if ...
... homestead of 640 acres . So the whole process has been evolved whereby as conditions changed and more acreage was needed that the Congress saw fit to enlarge it from time to time . Senator DOUGLAS . I shall try to develop that later if ...
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... Homestead law in any case sheltered us from the violence and turmoil of a land reform issue for many years . It also , by the simplest mathematics , provided the greatest good for the greatest numbers . Since available new productive ...
... Homestead law in any case sheltered us from the violence and turmoil of a land reform issue for many years . It also , by the simplest mathematics , provided the greatest good for the greatest numbers . Since available new productive ...
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... homestead ? That is the whole thing in a nutshell , and that is exactly what this bill does . Senator DOUGLAS . Mr. Chairman , I have been trying to outline some of the background factors that have led to the pressure for larger holders ...
... homestead ? That is the whole thing in a nutshell , and that is exactly what this bill does . Senator DOUGLAS . Mr. Chairman , I have been trying to outline some of the background factors that have led to the pressure for larger holders ...
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... Homestead , and Reclamation Acts . This fact was a source of genuine concern to those who sought , and obtained , the Nation's generous aid for reclamation on the condition that the benefits of Federal money , and of water , would never ...
... Homestead , and Reclamation Acts . This fact was a source of genuine concern to those who sought , and obtained , the Nation's generous aid for reclamation on the condition that the benefits of Federal money , and of water , would never ...
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160 irrigable acres 160-acre limitation 84th Congress acreage limitation acres of irrigated administrative agriculture alfalfa All-American Canal amendment application April April 25 Basin benefits bill Boulder Canyon Project Bureau of Reclamation California Central Valley project Chairman CLINTON ANDERSON Congress congressional construction costs D. C. DEAR SENATOR DEAR SENATOR ANDERSON Department DOMINY economic enacted excess land law excess land provisions exemption family farm family-size farm farm units farmers Federal reclamation law Federal reclamation projects hearings Heart Mountain Homestead Act income interest Interior irrigated land Irrigation and Reclamation irrigation districts Kings River labor landowners legislation livestock operation owner percent principle private ownership proposed public lands ranch Reclamation Act recordable contract Riverton rural San Luis Secretary section 46 Senator BARRETT Senator CLINTON Senator DOUGLAS Small grain Small Projects Act Stat statement Subcommittee on Irrigation TAYLOR tion United States Senate Washington water right water users Wyoming
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Side 19 - That no lands acquired under the provisions of this Act shall in any event become liable to the satisfaction of any debt or debts contracted prior to the issuing of the patent therefor.
Side 215 - No right to the use of water for land in private ownership shall be sold for a tract exceeding 160 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.
Side 247 - Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous, and they are tied to their country, and wedded to its liberty and interests, by the most lusting bonds. As long, therefore, as they can find employment in this line, I would not convert them into mariners:, artisans, or anything else.
Side 243 - 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...
Side 214 - The respective interests of the husband and wife in community property during continuance of the marriage relation are present, existing and equal interests under the management and control of the husband as is provided in sections 172 and 172a of the Civil Code. This section shall be construed as defining the respective interests and rights of husband and wife in community property.
Side 216 - Such contract or contracts with irrigation districts hereinbefore referred to shall further provide that all irrigable land held in private ownership by any one owner in excess of one hundred and sixty irrigable acres shall be appraised in a manner to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior and the sale prices thereof fixed by the Secretary on the basis of its actual bona fide value at the date of...
Side 19 - Interior shall make provision for revenues by contract, in accordance with the provisions of this Act, adequate in his judgment to insure payment of all expenses of operation and maintenance of said works incurred by the United States and the repayment, within fifty years from the date of the completion of said works, of all amounts advanced to the fund...
Side 203 - Department, this report has not been cleared through the Bureau of the Budget and, therefore, no commitment can be made concerning the relationship of the views expressed herein to the program of the President. Sincerely yours, RALPH A.
Side 266 - ... no such excess lands so held shall receive water from any project or division 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...
Side 30 - ... with an irrigation district or irrigation districts organized under State law providing for payment by the district or districts of the cost of constructing, operating, and maintaining the works during the time they are in control of the United States, such cost of constructing to be repaid within such terms of years as the Secretary may find to be necessary, in any event not more than forty years from the date of public notice hereinafter referred to, and the execution of said contract or contracts...