Title to Lands Beneath Tidal and Navigable Water: Joint Hearings ... on H.J. 118 [ect] ... June 18-20, 19451945 - 161 pages |
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3-mile limit America asserted Association of Port Attorney beds beneath navigable waters bills boundaries California CHAIRMAN city of Long claim CLARY cloud commerce Congress Constitution decision Department District Federal Government filed grant Gulf of Mexico H. J. Res HATTON W hearing held House Joint Resolution House of Representatives Ickes interest Interior Island Judiciary Committee June 18 jurisdiction KEECH KENNY Lake lands beneath navigable lands beneath tidewaters leases legislation Long Beach Louisiana low-water mark ment miles minerals municipal Nation navigable streams Office oil and gas Original Thirteen owner ownership oyster PAT MCCARRAN pending petroleum deposits Port Authorities port of Bellingham Port of Seattle Port of Tacoma proposed public lands question quiet title quitclaim reclaimed lands Republic of Texas respective River ROBSION Senate settled shore sovereign sovereignty SPRINGER statement submerged lands Supreme Court territory tide and submerged tide waters tidelands Union United vested Washington York
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Page 89 - The people of this State, in their right of sovereignty, are deemed to possess the original and ultimate property in and to all lands within the jurisdiction of the State...
Page 34 - That the people inhabiting said proposed states do agree and declare that they forever disclaim all right and title to the unappropriated public lands lying within the boundaries thereof...
Page 39 - Texas, shall retain all the public funds, debts, taxes, and dues of every kind, which may belong to or be due and owing said republic; and shall also retain all the vacant and unappropriated lands lying within its limits...
Page 39 - United States, all his rights, claims, and pretensions to any Territories, East and North of the said Line, and, for himself, his heirs and successors, renounces all claim to the said Territories forever.
Page 8 - The right of the United States in the navigable waters within the several States is limited to the control thereof for purposes of navigation. Subject to that right Washington became upon its organization as a State the owner of the navigable waters within its boundaries and of the land under the same.
Page 55 - States, and that the river Mississippi, and the navigable rivers and waters leading into the same, or into the Gulf of Mexico, shall be common highways, and forever free, as well to the inhabitants of the said State, as to other citizens of the United States, without any tax, duty, impost, or toll, therefor, imposed by the said State.
Page 38 - That the Supreme Court shall have exclusive jurisdiction of all controversies of a civil nature, where a state is a party, except between a state and its citizens ; and except also between a state and citizens of other states, or aliens, in which latter case it shall have original but not exclusive jurisdiction.
Page 34 - States, the State of California shall be entitled to two representatives in Congress. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the said State of California is admitted into the Union upon the express condition that the people of said State, through their legislature or otherwise, shall never interfere with the primary disposal of the public lands within its limits, and shall pass no law and do no act whereby the title of the United States to, and right to dispose of, the same shall be impaired or...
Page 41 - Said State to be formed, subject to the adjustment by this Government of all questions of boundary that may arise with other Governments...
Page 40 - Republic ; and shall also retain all the vacant and unappropriated lands lying within its limits, to be applied to the payment of the debts and liabilities of said Republic of Texas ; and the residue of said lands, after discharging said debts and liabilities, to be disposed of as said State may direct...