Annual Report of the Commissioners of the State Reservation at Niagara, Volumes 34-37J.B. Lyon, 1918 - Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.) |
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A. T. Clearwater Adams & White Administration Allen Milling Company Ansley Wilcox Attorney-General Atwood bill Cave Chapter 181 Chapter 646 Clarence H Commission Commissioners communication diverted Division of police E. R. Waldenberger Eckert Elderfield-Hartshorn Hdw EXPENDITURES Chapter Falls Power Company Federal government Gilbert Beaton Goat Island half April half August half December half February half January half July half November half October half September Harry Harry K Horse Shoe Falls Howland J. B. Lyon Company last half June Laws Legislature maintenance March 25 Meachem Name and Classification navigation Niagara Falls Power Niagara river Niagara Searchlight Otis Elevator Company park payroll first half payroll last half power purposes Prospect Point elevator regular repairs Reservation at Niagara Robertson-Cataract Electric salaries Schoellkopf Secretary Tracy G traveling expenses Voucher Abstract wages water power Western Union Western Union Telegraph White Company William Young Winds York Telephone York Telephone Co
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Page 6 - He received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from the University of Michigan in 1868.
Page 34 - The United Kingdom, by the Dominion of Canada, or the Province of Ontario, may authorize and permit the diversion within the Province of Ontario of the waters of said river above the Falls of Niagara, for power purposes, not exceeding in the aggregate...
Page 48 - It is the settled law of this country that the ownership of and dominion and sovereignty over lands covered by tide waters within the limits of the several States belong to the respective States within which they are found, with the consequent right to use or dispose of any portion thereof when that can be done without substantial impairment of the interest of the public in the waters, and subject always to the paramount right of Congress to control their navigation, so far as may be necessary for...
Page 12 - Senate and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the United States House of Representatives.
Page 39 - For, when the Revolution took place, the people of each State became themselves sovereign ; and in that character hold the absolute right to all their navigable waters, and the soils under them, for their own common use, subject only to the rights since surrendered by the Constitution to the General Government.
Page 60 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of tlie United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Selective Service Act of 1948 (6!?
Page 39 - Such title being in the State, the lands are subject to state regulation and control, under the condition, however, of not interfering with the regulations which may be made by Congress with regard to public navigation and commerce.
Page 39 - The States have authority to establish for themselves such rules of property as they may deem expedient with respect to the streams of water within their borders both navigable and non-navigable, and the ownership of the lands forming their beds and banks (Barney v.
Page 8 - The People of the State of Neiv York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1.
Page 60 - The United States may authorize and permit the diversion within the State of New York of the waters of said river above the Falls of Niagara, for power purposes, not exceeding in the aggregate a daily diversion at the rate of twenty thousand cubic feet of water per second.