| 1912 - 1204 páginas
...state. [3] By act of Congress approved September 28, 1850, the United States, "to enable the state * * * to construct the necessary levees and drains to reclaim the swamp and overflowed lands therein, * * » granted to said state, * * * the whole of those swamp and overflowed lands, made unfit thereby... | |
| 1911 - 1320 páginas
...the grant to the state by the act of Congress of the lands sought to be drained that the state might "construct the necessary levees and drains to reclaim the swamp and overflowed lands therein, and that the next General Assembly passed an act appointing a board of commissioners to devise plans... | |
| 1887 - 764 páginas
...Government of the United States. Under an act of Congress of 1850, designed to aid in the construction of the necessary levees and drains to reclaim the swamp and overflowed lands, Congress gave to the State the whole of such overflowed lands not then fit for cultivation. The Interior... | |
| 1888 - 1040 páginas
...clearer the reasons for the doubts entertained. The first section of the act of September 28, 1850, isas follows: "To enable the state of Arkansas to construct...therein, the whole of those swamp and overflowed lands therein, made unfit thereby for cultivation, which shall remain unsold at the passage of this act,... | |
| Oregon. Supreme Court, William Wallace Thayer, Joseph Gardner Wilson, Thomas Benton Odeneal, Julius Augustus Stratton, William Henry Holmes, Reuben S. Strahan, George Henry Burnett, Robert Graves Morrow, James W. Crawford, Frank A. Turner, Bellinger, Charles Byron - 1889 - 648 páginas
...clearer the reasons for the doubts entertained. The first section of the Act of September 28, I8oO, is as follows: "To enable the State of Arkansas to construct...therein, the whole of those swamp and overflowed lands therein, made unfit thereby for cultivation, which shall remain unsold at the passage of this act,... | |
| United States. Department of the Interior - 1889 - 704 páginas
...it. The grant of September 28, 1850, is not a grant of lands by legal subdivisions, but a grant of " the whole of those swamp and overflowed lands made...which shall remain unsold at the passage of this act." It is made the duty of the Secretary of the Interior to make out an accurate list and plat of all the... | |
| Illinois - 1889 - 716 páginas
...185(1. it is directed "that to enable the State tit Arkansas to construct the necessary levees and drams to reclaim the swamp and overflowed lands therein,...the whole of those swamp and overflowed lands made thereby unfit for cultivation which shall remain unsold at the passage of this set shall be, and the... | |
| Emerson W. Gould - 1889 - 792 páginas
...and also as a sanitary measure. Then followed the law of September 28, 1850, extending grant so as to enable " the State of Arkansas to construct the necessary levees and drains to reclaim the swamps and overflowed lands thereon, the fourth and last section of which enlarged the grant so as... | |
| 1890 - 906 páginas
...of September 28, 1850, as follows : " SEC. 1. That to enable the State of Arkansas to construct the levees and drains to reclaim the swamp and overflowed lands therein, the whole of these swamp ami overflowed lands made nuh't for cultivation which shall remain unsold at the passage... | |
| United States. Department of the Interior - 1890 - 756 páginas
...necessary levees and drains to reclaim such lauds. It is provided iu section 1, of the said act, — That to enable the State of Arkansas to construct the necessary levees and draina to reclaim the swamp and overflowed lands therein, the whole of those swamp and overflowed lande,... | |
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