Coal Distribution and Utilization Act: Hearing Before the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred First Congress, First Session on S. 318 ... April 20, 1989, Volume 4

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1989 - Coal - 377 pages

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Page 351 - That whenever by priority of possession rights to the use of water for mining, agricultural, manufacturing, or other purposes have vested and accrued and the same are recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and the decisions of courts, the possessors and owners of such vested rights shall be maintained and protected in the same...
Page 333 - ... region where such artificial use of the water was an absolute necessity, are rights which the Government had by its conduct recognized and encouraged and was bound to protect before the passage of the act of 1866.
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Page 360 - The act of 1789 contains a clear and authoritative declaration by the first congress, that the nature of this subject is such that until congress should find it necessary to exert its power, it should be left to the legislation of the States; that it is local and not national; that it is likely to be...
Page 312 - Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, ADJUDGED, AND DECREED that...
Page 313 - Evld. 403 analysis, the court will consider whether the probative value of the evidence is substantially outweighed by the danger of unfair prejudice to the defendants.
Page 357 - The act declares that the authority to construct the dam and reservoir is conferred, among other things, for the purpose of "improving navigation and regulating the flow of the river.
Page 350 - And he who first connects his own labor with property thus situated and open to general exploration, does, in natural justice, acquire a better right to its use and enjoyment than others who have not given such labor.
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Page 356 - ... without compensation is entirely within the Government's discretion." And again, "If the Government were now to build the dam, it would have to pay the fair value, judicially determined, for the fast land; nothing for the water power.

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