Florida Ship Canal: Hearings Before the Committee on Commerce, United States Senate, Seventy-sixth Congress, First Session, on S. 1100, a Bill for the Completion of the Construction of the Atlantic-Gulf Ship Canal Across Florida, March 15, 16, 31, April 5, 7, and 8, 1939U.S. Government Printing Office, 1939 - 475 páginas Considers legislation to complete the construction of the Atlantic-Gulf Ship Canal across Florida. |
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Página 136 - I hereby certify, that the foregoing is a full, true, and correct copy of a resolution adopted...
Página 135 - The resolution will be inserted in the record at this point. (The resolution referred to is as follows:) [HJ Res.
Página 420 - After ninety days after this paragraph takes effect no carrier by railroad subject to this act shall undertake the extension of its line of railroad or the construction of a new line of railroad...
Página 1 - That the following works of improvement of rivers, harbors,and other waterways are hereby adopted and authorized, to be prosecuted under the direction of the Secretary of War and supervision of the Chief of Engineers...
Página 420 - Act over or by means of such additional or extended line of railroad, unless and until there shall first have been obtained from the Commission a certificate that the present or future public convenience and necessity require or will require the construction, or operation, or construction and operation, of such additional or extended line of railroad...
Página 138 - Engineers, be reviewed in like manner by said board; and the said board shall also, on request by resolution of the Committee on Commerce of the Senate or the Committee on Rivers and Harbors of the House of Representatives...
Página 139 - The 1928 act authorized $5,000,000 which has been exhausted and the 1936 act authorized $15,000,000 to replenish these funds "to be allocated by the Secretary of War on the recommendation of the Chief of Engineers in rescue work or in the repair and maintenance of any flood-control work on any tributaries of the Mississippi River threatened or destroyed by flood heretofore or hereafter occurring.
Página 138 - Engineers, examine and review the report of any examination or survey made pursuant to any Act or resolution of Congress, and report thereon through the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, who shall submit his conclusions thereon as in other cases...
Página 135 - Resolved, That the secretary of this association be and he is hereby instructed to...
Página 170 - Association, hereby certify that the board of directors of such corporation is composed of five members, of whom five (constituting a quorum) were present at a meeting thereof duly and regularly called, noticed, convened, and held on the...