Long Sault Rapids, St. Lawrence River: An Enquiry Into the Constitutional and Other Aspects of the Project to Develop Power Therefrom |
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anchor ice approval Ashburton authorized Barnhart island Bill boats bridge Brockville Canadian Government Canadian side CHAIRMAN GIBBONS Chief of Engineers CLARKE of Arkansas Committee Congress consent construction Cornwall canal corporation court Croil island dam or dams Dominion of Canada erected Farran Point feet frazil frazil ice gentlemen going granted hear hereby horse-power ice jams International Boundary line International Waterways International Waterways Commission LAFLEUR lands Lawrence county Lawrence Power Company Lawrence river lease Legislature LITTLEFIELD lock or locks Long Sault Development Long Sault island Long Sault rapids MALBY Massena matter MCCARTHY ment miles Montreal Morrisburg navigable waters operation plans power-house present privileges proposed dams proposition purpose question RICKEY Saint Lawrence river Sault Development Company Sault lock scheme Secretary Secretary of War SENATOR BURTON SENATOR CLARKE Sheek island shore South channel South Sault channel thereof tion United water-power York
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Page 56 - The lands of the State, now owned or hereafter acquired, constituting the forest preserve as now fixed by law, shall be forever kept as wild forest lands. They shall not be leased, sold or exchanged, or be taken by any corporation, public or private, nor shall the timber thereon be sold, removed or destroyed.
Page 65 - Granting to any private corporation, association or individual any exclusive privilege, immunity or franchise whatever.
Page 60 - It is a title held in trust for the people of the State that they may enjoy the navigation of the waters, carry on commerce over them, and have liberty of fishing therein freed from the obstruction or interference of private parties.
Page 238 - Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof shall be punished in any court of competent jurisdiction by a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars, and every month such...
Page 66 - No private or local bill, which may be passed by the Legislature, shall embrace more than one subject, and that shall be expressed in the title.
Page 62 - Michigan avenue, in fractional sections ten and fifteen, township and range as aforesaid, is hereby confirmed; and all the right and title of the state of Illinois in and to the submerged lands constituting the bed of Lake Michigan...
Page 233 - That such structures may be built under authority of the Legislature of a State across rivers and other waterways, the navigable portions of which lie wholly within the limits of a single State, provided the location and plans, thereof are submitted to and approved by the Chief of Engineers and by the Secretary of War...
Page 137 - Any stock corporation, domestic or foreign, now existing or hereafter organized, except monied corporations, may purchase, acquire, hold and dispose of the stocks, bonds and other evidences of indebtedness of any corporation, domestic or foreign, and issue in exchange therefor its stock, bonds or other obligations...
Page 26 - St. Lawrence on both sides of the Long Sault Islands and of Barnhart Island, the channels in the river Detroit on both sides of the island Bois Blanc, and between that Island and both the American and Canadian shores, and all the several channels and passages between the various islands lying near the junction of the river St. Clair with the lake of that name, shall be equally free and open to the ships, vessels, and boats of both parties.
Page 135 - ... together with all and singular the tenements, hereditaments, and appurtenances, thereunto belonging or in any wise appertaining, and the reversion and reversions, remainder and remainders, rents, issues, and profits thereof; and also all the estate, right, title, interest. dower and right of dower, property, possession, claim, and demand whatsoever, as well in law as in equity, of the said parties of the first part, of, in, and to the same, and every part and parcel thereof, with the appurtenances.