Dam Across Yellowstone River: Hearing Before the Committee on Irrigation, United States Senate, Sixty-Sixth Congress, Third Session, on S. 4529; a Bill for the Erection and Maintenance of a Dam Across the Yellowstone River, in the State of Montana ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1921 |
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Page 34 - Stewart, secretary of state of the State of Montana, do hereby certify that the following is a true and correct copy of an act entitled " Senate joint memorial No. 1," enacted liy the seventeenth session of the Legislative Assembly of the State of Montana, and approved by Joseph M.
Page 213 - The CHAIRMAN. If there is no objection, the committee will stand adjourned until called together by the chairman. I think, in view of the change of administration, the new Secretary of the Interior should have an opportunity to look into this matter and give it his best thought. We will now stand adjourned until called by the chairman.