Congressional Serial Set, Issue 4592U.S. Government Printing Office, 1903 - United States Reports, Documents, and Journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. |
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... Lake Providence , and St. Joseph . " A careful plotting of the gauge readings at that time exhibited a smooth and regular high - water slope , but an exceedingly irregular low- water slope . This was caused by considerable depression of ...
... Lake Providence , and St. Joseph . " A careful plotting of the gauge readings at that time exhibited a smooth and regular high - water slope , but an exceedingly irregular low- water slope . This was caused by considerable depression of ...
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... lake from 20 to 80 miles wide from Cairo to the Gulf . The improvement made during the past six years has reduced the number of crevasses between Cairo and New Orleans from 38 to 6. Of the area overflowed this year , five- eighths was ...
... lake from 20 to 80 miles wide from Cairo to the Gulf . The improvement made during the past six years has reduced the number of crevasses between Cairo and New Orleans from 38 to 6. Of the area overflowed this year , five- eighths was ...
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... Lakes at the north with the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico at the south . " We recognize the expenditure of $ 35,000,000 by the sanitary dis- trict of Chicago as a practical demonstration in the furtherance of this project ...
... Lakes at the north with the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico at the south . " We recognize the expenditure of $ 35,000,000 by the sanitary dis- trict of Chicago as a practical demonstration in the furtherance of this project ...
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... Lakes of the North by a ship canal , and thus with the Atlantic Ocean , is a measure worthy of the enlightened consideration of Congress . " Resolved , That millions of acres of the public domain lying on the Mississippi River and its ...
... Lakes of the North by a ship canal , and thus with the Atlantic Ocean , is a measure worthy of the enlightened consideration of Congress . " Resolved , That millions of acres of the public domain lying on the Mississippi River and its ...
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... Lakes with the Mississippi and the Gulf a crystallization of sentiment voiced so long ago as 1845 , as evidenced in resolutions recently published by the Manufacturers ' Record , which were passed at a river - improvement convention ...
... Lakes with the Mississippi and the Gulf a crystallization of sentiment voiced so long ago as 1845 , as evidenced in resolutions recently published by the Manufacturers ' Record , which were passed at a river - improvement convention ...
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Page 8 - That hereafter no Indian nation or tribe within the territory of the United States shall be acknowledged or recognized as an independent nation, tribe, or power with whom the United States may contract by treaty...
Page 2 - Claims, which shall proceed with the same in accordance with such rules as it may adopt and report to such House the facts in the case and the amount, where the same can be liquidated, including any facts bearing upon the question whether there has been delay or laches in presenting such claim or applying for such grant, gift, or bounty, and any facts bearing upon the question whether the bar of any statute of limitation should be removed or which shall be claimed to excuse the claimant for not having...
Page 1 - ... let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not conflict, and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war. We hope that all who are represented here may be moved to higher and nobler effort for their own and the world's good, and that out of this city may come not only greater commerce and trade for us all, but, more essential than these, relations of mutual respect, confidence and friendship which will deepen and endure. "Our earnest prayer is that God...
Page 5 - The Philippines are ours, not to exploit, but to develop, to civilize, to educate, to train in the science of self-government. This is the path of duty which we must follow or be recreant to a mighty trust committed to us.
Page 8 - No Indian nation or tribe, within the territory of the United States shall be acknowledged or recognized as an independent nation, tribe, or power, with whom the United States may contract by treaty; but no obligation of any treaty lawfully made and ratified with any such Indian nation or tribe prior to March third, eighteen hundred and seventyone, shall be hereby invalidated or impaired.
Page 6 - States, their rolling stock, their offices, shops, buildings, and all their appendages and appurtenances; to prescribe rules and regulations for the holding, using, and maintaining of the aforesaid telegraph and railroad lines...
Page 12 - In testimony whereof, the said parties of the first part have hereunto set their hands and seals the day and year first above written.