Interstate Highway System: Hearings Before the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, United States Senate, Sixty-seventh Congress, First Session, on S. 1355 a Bill to Provide for the Establishment, Construction, and Maintenance of a Post Roads and Interstate Highway System, to Create a Federal Highway Commission, and for Other Purposes, May 13, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28; June 1, 2, 1921, Volumes 1-2U.S. Government Printing Office, 1921 - Roads |
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Page 162 - I believe that such killings were possible and probable. (Whereupon, at 1 o'clock pm, a recess was taken until 2.30 o'clock pm) AFTER RECESS. The committee reassembled at 2.30 o'clock pm pursuant to the taking of recess.
Page 35 - rural post road" shall be construed to mean any public road over which the United States mails now are or may hereafter be transported, excluding every street and road in a place having a population, as shown by the latest available federal census, of two thousand five hundred or more, except that portion of any such street or road along which the houses average more than two hundred feet apart; the term "State highway department...
Page 31 - That any State desiring to avail itself of the benefits of this Act shall, by its State highway department, submit to the Secretary of Agriculture project statements setting forth proposed construction of any rural post road or roads therein.
Page 580 - State fish and game department and immediately certify the fact to the Secretary of the Treasury. The Secretary of the Treasury shall thereupon set aside so much of said fund as represents the share of the United States...
Page 459 - Territory, or county for the survey, construction , and maintenance of roads and trails within or only partly within the national forests, when necessary for the use and development of resources upon which communities within and adjacent to the national forests are dependent: Provided.
Page 592 - And be it further Resolved, That copies of these resolutions be forwarded to the President of the United States, the Honorable Harry S.
Page 591 - Indian tribes; but neither this, nor any other clause contained in the constitution, shall ever be construed to delegate the power to Congress to appropriate money for any internal improvement intended to facilitate commerce...
Page 326 - Sec. 31. No State tax shall be allowed, or appropriation of money made, except to raise means for the payment of the just debts of the State, for defraying the necessary expenses of government, to sustain common schools, to repel invasion and suppress insurrection, except by a majority of two-thirds of both houses of the general assembly.
Page 131 - Act, the Secretary of Agriculture shall then serve notice upon the State highway department of that fact, and if within ninety days after receipt of such notice said highway has not been placed in proper condition of maintenance, the Secretary of Agriculture shall proceed immediately to have such highway placed in a proper condition of maintenance and charge the cost thereof against the Federal funds allotted to such State, and shall refuse to approve any other project in such State, except as hereinafter...
Page 257 - THOMAS H. MACDONALD, CHIEF, BUREAU OF PUBLIC ROADS, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Mr.