Hearings Before the Committee on Agriculture During the Second Session of the Sixty-first Congress, Volume 3U.S. Government Printing Office, 1910 - Commodity exchanges |
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... course the available water power that can be gen- erated at any site throughout the year depends upon the smallest amount that you get in any one day in that year . Mr. PLUMLEY . So the measure of its value is its minimum flow ? Mr ...
... course the available water power that can be gen- erated at any site throughout the year depends upon the smallest amount that you get in any one day in that year . Mr. PLUMLEY . So the measure of its value is its minimum flow ? Mr ...
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... course of the next year it brings up at the next place , and in the course of a number of years it reaches the mouth of the Connecticut River . At that point it is building a shoal straight off to sea on the east side of the mouth of ...
... course of the next year it brings up at the next place , and in the course of a number of years it reaches the mouth of the Connecticut River . At that point it is building a shoal straight off to sea on the east side of the mouth of ...
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... course , the Secretary of Agriculture is not compelled to purchase when the Geological Survey reports and fixes the price ; he is simply authorized . Now , the belief is that under the provisions in this bill the Geological Survey and ...
... course , the Secretary of Agriculture is not compelled to purchase when the Geological Survey reports and fixes the price ; he is simply authorized . Now , the belief is that under the provisions in this bill the Geological Survey and ...
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... course of their duty to study the subject of river control might possibly be able to give us some information on this subject , and Major Cavanaugh , of the office of the Chief of Engineers , has been kind enough to respond to the ...
... course of their duty to study the subject of river control might possibly be able to give us some information on this subject , and Major Cavanaugh , of the office of the Chief of Engineers , has been kind enough to respond to the ...
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... course of that work have you had occasion to study the influence which the character of the watersheds has possessed in respect to the question as to whether it is forested or otherwise ? Major CAVANAUGH . In connection with the ...
... course of that work have you had occasion to study the influence which the character of the watersheds has possessed in respect to the question as to whether it is forested or otherwise ? Major CAVANAUGH . In connection with the ...
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Page 432 - An act to apply a portion of the proceeds of the public lands to the more complete endowment and support of the colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts, established under the provisions of an act of Congress approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two...
Page 429 - Secretary of State of the United States, have hereunto subscribed my name and caused the seal of the Department of State to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington, this ninth day of August, AD 1882, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventh.
Page 431 - ... without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the Legislatures of the States may respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions in life.
Page 434 - June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and an annual increase of the amount of such appropriation thereafter for ten years by an additional sum of one thousand dollars over the preceding year...
Page 431 - States in sections or subdivisions of sections, not less than one-quarter of a section; and whenever there are public lands in a State subject to sale at private entry at one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, the quantity to which said State shall be entitled shall be selected from such lands within the limits of such State...
Page 174 - Territory; and no portion of said moneys shall be applied, directly or indirectly, under any pretense whatever, to the purchase, erection, preservation, or repair of any building or buildings.
Page 432 - Any State which may take and claim the benefit of the provisions of this act shall provide, within five years, at least not less than one college, as described in the fourth section of this act, or the grant to such State shall cease ; and said State shall be bound to pay the United States the amount received of any lands previously sold, and that the title to purchasers under the State shall be valid.
Page 119 - An Act to enable any State to cooperate with any other State or States, or with the United States for the protection of the watersheds of navigable streams, and to appoint a commission for the acquisition of lands for the purpose of conserving the navigability of navigable rivers...
Page 454 - That there shall be, and hereby is, annually appropriated} out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, arising from the sales of public lands, to be paid as hereinafter provided, to each State and Territory for the more complete endowment and maintenance of colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts...
Page 199 - An act for preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and Hquors. and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes...