Hetch Hetchy Dam Site: Hearing Before the Committee on the Public Lands, House of Representatives. Sixty-third Congress, First Session, on H.R. 6281, a Bill Granting to the City and County of San Francisco Certain Rights of Way In, Over, and Through Certain Public Lands, the Yosemite National Park, and Stanislaus National Forest, and the Public Lands in the State of California, and for Other PurposesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1913 - 373 páginas |
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acres Army board Army engineers Aston attorney Bartell BIDDLE Blue Lakes Water board of supervisors California CHAIRMAN CHURCH city and county city engineer city of San committee Congress county of San DECKER DENMAN DENNETT fact feet filed flow FOLLETTE FULKERTH gallons daily gentlemen give Government GRAHAM grant hearing Hetch Hetchy Valley Interior interposing irrigation districts KENT LA FOLLETTE Lake Eleanor LONG Manson matter McCloud River miles mittee Modesto Mokelumne River mountains municipal NOLAN O'SHAUGHNESSY Phelan PINCHOT present proposition Public Lands question represent reservoir road Sacramento River Sacramento Valley San Fran San Francisco San Joaquin Valley Scott Ferris second-feet Secretary Fisher Secretary LANE Sierra Blue Lakes SINNOTT Spring Valley Water statement SULLIVAN TAYLOR of Colorado telegram tion Tuolumne River Turlock Water & Power water rights water supply watershed WHITMAN Yosemite National Park
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Página 340 - The navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and St. Lawrence, and the carrying places between the same, shall be common highways, and forever free, as well to the inhabitants of the said territory, as to the citizens of the United States, and those of any other states that may be admitted into the confederacy, without any tax, impost, or duty therefor.
Página 340 - The legislatures of those districts or new states shall never interfere with the primary disposal of the soil by the United States in Congress assembled, nor with any regulations Congress may find necessary for securing the title in such soil to the bona fide purchasers. No tax shall be imposed on lands the property of the United States ; and in no case shall non-resident proprietors be taxed higher than residents.
Página 99 - SEC. 4. That nothing in this Act contained shall affect or modify the provisions of the Act approved February fifteenth, nineteen hundred and one, entitled "An Act relating to rights of way through certain parks, reservations, and other public lands.
Página 111 - The railroad commission shall have and exercise such power and jurisdiction to supervise and regulate public utilities, in the State of California, and to fix the rates to be charged for commodities furnished, or services rendered by public utilities as shall be conferred upon it by the legislature, and the right of the legislature to confer powers upon the railroad commission respecting public utilities is hereby declared to be plenary and to be unlimited by any provision of this constitution.
Página 101 - Merritt, who is personally known to me to be the same person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument...
Página 342 - ... the United States may not question such appropriation, unless thereby the navigability of the Hudson be disturbed. On the other hand, if the State of New York should, even at a place above the limits of navigability, by appropriation for any domestic purposes, diminish the volume of waters which, flowing into the Hudson, make it a navigable stream, to such an extent as to destroy its navigability, undoubtedly the jurisdiction of the national government would arise, and its power to restrain such...
Página 342 - Irrigation Co. (174 US, 690). In that case the Supreme Court held that a company which proposed to take the water of the Rio Grande River for the purpose, among. others, ''of...
Página 101 - IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal the day and year in this Certificate first above written. Notary Public in and for said County and State of California DIA WCAB FORM 1 5 (REV.
Página 342 - For why ? because the good old rule Sufficeth them, — the simple plan, That they should take, who have the power, And they should keep, who can.
Página 104 - ... 6. The City of San Francisco will upon request sell to said Modesto and Turlock Irrigation Districts for the use of any land owner or owners therein for pumping sub-surface water for drainage or irrigation any excess of electric power which may be generated such as may not be used for the water supply herein provided and for the actual municipal purposes of the City and County of San Francisco, (which purposes shall not include sale to private persons nor to corporations) at such price as will...