Application of State Laws Within Boulder Canyon Project Federal Reservation: Hearing Before the Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation, United States Senate, Seventy-second Congress, First Session, on S. 2885, a Bill Providing for the Application of State Laws Within the Boulder Canyon Project Federal Reservation. June 14, 1932 ... |
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act ceding appropriation Arizona and Nevada ARY OF CONGRESS bill Boulder Canyon project Boulder City Boulder Dam act Canyon project act Canyon project Federal Chairman Clark County Colorado River Dam commissioner Committee on Irrigation CONGRESS LIBRARY CONGRESS THE LIBRARY consent construed cost county of Clark created December 21 employees enacted exempt expense Federal Government Federal instrumentality Governor Balzar GRESS THE LIBRARY hereby Hoover Dam interference Interior Department Irrigation and Reclamation June June 11 lands Las Vegas legislation letter LIBRARY OF CONGRES LIBRARY OF CONGRESS lieu of taxes matter ment Nevada and Arizona operation personal property project Federal reservation proposed purposes RAY LYMAN WILBUR Reno Chamber reservation area residents revenues right to tax River Dam fund school buildings Senator ASHURST Senator JOHNSON Senator ODDIE Senator PITTMAN session seventeenth clause Six Companies Inc sovereignty specifications statement statute TASKER TASKER L tion United States Senate Vegas vote Washington
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Page 6 - That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to perform any and all acts and to make such rules and regulations as may be necessary and proper for the purpose of carrying the provisions of this act into full force and effect.
Page 7 - That for the purpose of controlling floods, improving navigation, regulating the flow of the streams of the United States, providing for storage and for the delivery of the stored waters thereof, for the reclamation of public lands * * * and other beneficial uses, and for the generation of electric energy as a means of financially aiding and assisting such undertakings, the projects known as Parker Dam...
Page 19 - The terms of the cession, to the extent that they may lawfully be prescribed, determine the extent of the Federal jurisdiction.
Page 6 - River compact hereinafter mentioned, is hereby authorized to construct, operate, and maintain a dam and incidental works in the main stream of the Colorado River at Black Canyon or Boulder Canyon adequate to create a storage reservoir of a capacity of not less than...
Page 17 - The jurisdiction hereby ceded shall not vest until the United States shall have acquired the title to the said land or lands by purchase or grant, and so long as the said land or lands shall remain the property of the United States when acquired as aforesaid, and no longer, the same shall be and continue...
Page 7 - That no charge shall be made for water or for the use, storage, or delivery of water for irrigation or water for potable purposes in the imperial or Coachella Valleys...
Page 16 - That the consent of the state of Maine is hereby given, in accordance with the seventeenth clause, eighth section, of the first article of the constitution of the United States, to the acquisition by the United States, by purchase, condemnation, or otherwise, of any land in this state required for sites for custom houses, court houses, post offices, arsenals or other public buildings whatever, or for any other purposes of the government.
Page 35 - If during the period of amortization the Secretary of the Interior shall receive revenues in excess of the amount necessary to meet the periodical payments to the United States...
Page 6 - Valleys; also to construct and equip, operate, and maintain at or near said dam, or cause to be constructed, a complete plant and incidental structures suitable for the fullest economic development of electrical energy from the water discharged from said reservoir; and...
Page 3 - ... said court, which court shall have jurisdiction of the case : Provided, That the said commissioner shall grant bail in all cases bailable under the laws of the United States or of said State.