Report of the Attorney General of the State of Wisconsin

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B. Brown, 1852 - 14 páginas
 

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Página 4 - The state shall never contract any debt for works of internal improvement, or be a party in carrying on such works; but whenever grants of land or other property shall have been made to the state, especially dedicated by the grant to particular works of internal improvement, the state may carry on such particular works and shall devote thereto the avails of such grants, and may pledge or appropriate the revenues derived from such works in aid of their completion.
Página 14 - State : that the said scrip bears interest at the rate of twelve per cent per annum, payable annually, on the first day of January, at...
Página 12 - The parties above specified to be iu full compensation for all the materials and labor required to put the same into the work hereby contracted to be done, and to complete the same in every respect as provided in this contract. And it is further agreed by the parties to this contract, that the said improvement shall be divided into convenient sections by the chief engineer in charge of said work; each section to embrace, as near as may be, one lock and the contiguous dam and parts of canal connecting...
Página 4 - The State shall never contract any debt for works of Internal Improvement, or be a party in carrying on such works, but whenever grants of land or other property shall have been made to the State, especially dedicated by the grant to particular works of Internal Improvement, the State may carry on such particular works, and shall devote thereto the avails of such grants, and...
Página 5 - States, that one-half of said sum has been expended upon said improvements, when the said State may sell and dispose of a quantity of said lands sufficient to reimburse the amount expended ; and thus tbe sales shall progress as the proceeds thereof shall be expended, and the fact of such expenditure certified in the manner herein mentioned.
Página 9 - ... damages which may be alleged to have been caused by the destruction of their property by reason of a canal which was cut by the order and direction of the levee commissioners, diverting the waters of the American River into the Sacramento River, under and by virtue of the authority conferred upon them by an act of the legislature of said state, entitled ' An act concerning the construction and repair of levees in Sacramento County, and the mode of raising revenue therefor, approved April 9, 1862.
Página 5 - That the lands hereby granted shall not be conveyed or disposed of by said Territory, nor by any State to be formed out of the same, except as said improvement shall progress; that is, the said Territory or State may sell so much of said lands as shall produce the sum of thirty thousand dollars, and then the sales shall cease until the Governor of said Territory or State shall certify the fact to the President of the United...
Página 13 - An act authorizing the governor to enter into contract with Morgan L. Martin for the improvement of the Fox river between lake Winnebago and Green. Bay...
Página 13 - June, in the year eighteen hundred and forty-nine, to satisfy the quantity of land due said State under the act of Congress of August eighth, eighteen hundred and forty-six, granting land in aid of the improvement of the Fox and Wisconsin rivers, as have been sold, or contracted to be sold, by said State or its assigns, under the laws thereof, are hereby confirmed to said State, as parts of said grant, and the title of the purchasers declared to be valid as though the said selections had been made...
Página 5 - SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That whenever the Territory of Iowa shall be admitted into the Union as a State, the lands hereby granted for the above purpose shall be and become the property of said State for the purpose contemplated in this act, and for no other : Provided the Legislature of the State of Iowa shall accept the said grant for the said purpose.

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