 | University of Minnesota - Social sciences - 1913 - 402 pages
...important provisions of the act are the following : "To aid the State of Louisiana in constructing the necessary levees and drains to reclaim the swamp...therein, the whole of those swamp and overflowed lands" that were "unfit for cultivation" were granted to the state. The proceeds of the lands were to be applied... | |
 | University of Minnesota - Social sciences - 1915 - 280 pages
...Congress on the subject, but I find no such memorial. 4 An act of September 28, 1850, entitled, "An act to enable the state of Arkansas to construct the necessary...levees and drains to reclaim the swamp and overflowed land therein," by the act of March 12, I860, was extended to Minnesota and Oregon. See also Minnesota,... | |
 | Economics - 1915 - 936 pages
...states by the Swamp Act approved September 28, 1850. The purpose of this Act was to enable the states to construct the necessary levees and drains to reclaim the swamp and overflowed lands therein. The principle involved was not new, as the early French grants in the lower valley contained a proviso... | |
 | United States. Department of the Interior - 1916 - 1232 pages
...$2,000,000 have been given to the States named to enable them, as stated in said act of September 28, 1850, "to construct the necessary levees and drains to reclaim the swamp and overflowed lands therein," it being provided further that the proceeds of the land granted, whether from sale or direct appropriation... | |
 | United States. Department of the Interior - 1916 - 1248 pages
...have been given to the States named to enable them, as stated in said act of September 28, 1850, " to construct the necessary levees and drains to reclaim the swamp and overflowed lands therein," it being provided further that the proceeds of the land granted, whether from sale or direct appropriation... | |
 | International Joint Commission - Lake of the Woods - 1916 - 304 pages
...SEC. 2479. To enable the several States (but not including the States of Kansas, Nebraska, and Nevada) to construct the necessary levees and drains, to reclaim the swamp and overflowed lands therein—the Whole of the swamp and overflowed lands, made unfit thereby for cultivation, and remaining... | |
 | Missouri. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1918 - 882 pages
...to the State of Arkansas and other states the swamp and overflowed lands lying within their borders, "To enable the State of Arkansas to construct the...to reclaim the swamp and overflowed lands therein," etc. 9 US Stat. 519. This appellant has been created to carry out the trust imposed by the Federal... | |
 | United States. General Land Office - Waste lands - 1919 - 24 pages
...Stilt., p. 519, ch. Be U enacted by the Senate, and Honte of Representatives of the I'nited Swamp and States of America in Congress assembled, That to enable the State of everttowed lauds Arkansas to construct the necessary levees and drains to reclaim the^Jj' foa¿¿¿i'v£¡... | |
 | 1920 - 912 pages
...exclusively to the State of Louisiana, and provided that in order to aid the State in constructing the necessary levees and drains to reclaim the swamp and overflowed lands therein the whole of such lands that may be found unfit for cultivation were granted to the State with the proviso that... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Indian Affairs - Ojibwa Indians - 1920 - 442 pages
...of September 28, 1850, supra, recites that the purpose of the grant is to enable the several States "to construct the necessary levees and drains to reclaim the swamp and overflowed lands thereon * * *, " and that section 2 of the act expressly requires "that the proceeds of said lands,... | |
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That to enable the State of Arkansas to construct the necessary levees and drains to reclaim the swamp and overflowed lands therein... 
