Muscle Shoals: Hearings Before the Committee on Military Affairs House of Representatives Sixty-ninth Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 16396, H.R. 16614, Volume 2

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Halaman 1029 - Mississippi, and the navigable waters leading into the same, shall be common highways, and forever free as well to the inhabitants of said State, as to all other citizens of the United States, without any tax, duty, impost, or toll therefor, imposed by the said State of Iowa.
Halaman 1029 - The shores of navigable waters and the soils under them were not granted by the Constitution to the United States, but were reserved to the States respectively. Second. The new States have the same rights, sovereignty, and jurisdiction over this subject as the original States.
Halaman 759 - York, and having its principal office and place of business in the Borough of Manhattan, City, County and State of New York (herein called the "Association").
Halaman 1032 - First, that in the absence of specific authority from Congress a State cannot by its legislation destroy the right of the United States, as the owner of lands bordering on a stream, to the continued flow of its waters ; so far at least as may be necessary for the beneficial uses of the government property. Second, that it is limited by the superior power of the General Government to secure the uninterrupted navigability of all navigable streams within the limits of the United States.
Halaman 1005 - Both the questions which the plaintiff in error presents have been decided by the supreme court of the United States, and by the supreme court of the state of Nebraska, and those decisions are controlling authority upon these questions in this court.
Halaman 762 - ... in the public interest the navigation and water resources of the region; and as between other applicants, the commission may give preference to the applicant the plans of which it finds and determines are best adapted to develop, conserve, and utilize in the public interest the navigation and water resources of the region, if it be satisfied as to the ability of the applicant to carry out such plans.
Halaman 1031 - It had the influence for two generations of excluding the admiralty jurisdiction from our great rivers and inland seas ; and under the like influence it laid the foundation in many States of doctrines with regard to the ownership of the soil in navigable waters above tide-water at variance with sound principles of public policy.
Halaman 923 - ... be necessary to enable him to carry out the purposes herein specified, and to authorize and require such officers, agents, or agencies to perform any and all of the duties imposed upon him by the provisions hereof.
Halaman 645 - ... has granted, demised and leased, and by these presents doth grant, demise and lease, unto...
Halaman 1032 - The trust devolving upon the state for the public, and which can only be discharged by the management and control of property in which the public has an interest, cannot be relinquished by a transfer of the property. The control of the state for the purposes of the trust can never be lost...