 Swamp Lands" within their limits. Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Stattt of America, in Congress assembled, That to enable the State of Arkansas to construct the necessary levees and drains, to reclaim the...  Documents Accompanying the Journal ...by Michigan. Legislature - 1855Full view - About this book
 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1858 - 764 pages
...excluded, etc., (sec. 2.) The purpose of the grant, as declared in the act, was to enable the State to construct the necessary levees and drains to reclaim the swamp and overflowed lands therein, (sec. 1.) And the second section of the act provided that the proceeds of the lands so granted to the... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1892 - 742 pages
...and remaining unsold on or after the 28th day of September, AD 1850, for the purpose of constructing the necessary levees and drains to reclaim the swamp and overflowed lands therein." The bill then avers that it was the duty of the Secretary of the Interior to make lists and plats of such... | |
 | 1853 - 468 pages
...States of the Union in whio&ithey might be situated, to enable the individual State* ""to construct tile necessary levees and drains to reclaim the swamp and overflowed lands therein." On the 21st November, 1850,. the Cora'r of the General Land Office, at Washington, addressed a letter... | |
 | Louisiana - 1854 - 210 pages
...128. None of the lands granted by Congress to the State of Louisiana for aiding it in constructing the necessary levees and drains, to reclaim the swamp and overflowed lands in this State, shall be diverted from the purposes for which they were granted. ART. 129. The Constitution... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1857 - 688 pages
...section of the act of Congress of 1849 declares, " that to aid the State of Louisiana in constructing the necessary levees and drains to reclaim 'the swamp and overflowed lands therein, the whole of the swamp and overflowed lands which are or may be found unfit for cultivating, shall be, and the same... | |
 | Louisiana. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1859 - 732 pages
...of the Engineers, in their respective districts, to determine the locality, extent and dimensions of the necessary levees and drains to reclaim the swamp and overflowed lands of the State. It is admitted by the parties, " that the defendants, under a contract with the Swamp... | |
 | Wisconsin. Legislature. Assembly - Law - 1860 - 1322 pages
...other States to reclaim the swamp lands within their limits," approved Sept. 28, 1850, it is directed " that, to enable the State of Arkansas to construct...swamp and overflowed lands therein, the whole of those swams and overflowed lands, made thereby unfit for cultivation, which shall remain unsold at the passage... | |
 | 1860 - 782 pages
...United States of America in Congress assembled. That, 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, which may be or are found unfit for cultivation, shall be, and the same are hereby, granted to that... | |
 | William Wharton Lester - Land tenure - 1860 - 786 pages
...United States of America in Congress assembled, That, 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, which may be or are found unfit for cultivation, shall be, and the same are hereby, granted to that... | |
 | California. Legislature - California - 1860 - 561 pages
...followed the general grant of 28th September, 1850, to enable the States entitled to its ben eat 8, "to construct the necessary levees and drains, to reclaim the Swamp and Overflowed Lands therein," with an express stipulatioa, that the proceed» should be exclusively applied to that end. It must... | |
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