Proceedings of the Common Council, Statutes, Reports, Etc. in the Matter of the Buffalo River and Cazenovia Creek Flood Abatement |
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Abbott Road above-described piece Adopted approved approximately true meridian authorized Bailey Avenue Board of Aldermen Buffalo Creek Indian Buffalo Creek Railroad Buffalo River filed Bureau of Engineering Cazenovia Creek Cazenovia Street center line channel is permanently channel of Buffalo Charter City Clerk City Line City of Buffalo Commissioner of Public Committee on Wharves Common Council construction and bank Corporation Counsel County Clerk's office County of Erie courses herein mentioned Creek Indian Reservation easement right easterly eminent domain Erie County fee simple Hamburg Street hereby directed Honorable Body improvement of Buffalo January 27 Lake Erie land lying line of Lot lying in Lot mentioned being approximately navigable northwesterly proceedings proposed improved channel Railroad Company resolution Respectfully submitted right of thirty River and Cazenovia Section Seneca Street South Buffalo Flood South Park southerly line taken thence true meridian courses westerly line Wharves and Harbors
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Page 312 - Provided, 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...
Page 11 - The court shall have power at any time to amend any defect or informality in any of the special proceedings authorized by this act, as may be necessary ; or to cause new parties to be added, and to direct such further notices to be given to any party in interest as it deems proper...
Page 312 - 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 339 - An Act to amend Chapter one hundred and five of the Laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled "An Act to revise the Charter of the City of Buffalo...
Page 184 - This riparian right is property, and is valuable, and, though it must be enjoyed in due subjection to the rights of the public, it cannot be arbitrarily or capriciously destroyed or impaired. It is a right of which, when once vested, the owner can only be deprived in accordance with established law, and, if necessary that it be taken for the public good, upon due compensation.
Page 167 - That the creation of any obstruction not affirmatively authorized by Congress, to the navigable capacity of any of the waters of the United States...
Page 14 - That the said company is, and at the times hereinafter mentioned was, a corporation organized pursuant to an act of the legislature of the state of New York, entitled 'An act to authorize the formation of corporations for manufacturing, mining, mechanical, or chemical purposes...
Page 184 - The constitutional validity of a law is to be tested, not by what has been done under it, but by what may, by its authority, be done.
Page 11 - ... no appraisal had been made ; and at any stage of such new proceedings, the court may authorize the corporation, if in possession, to continue in possession, and if not in possession to take possession and use such real estate during the pendency and until the final conclusion of such new proceedings, and may stay all actions or proceedings against...
Page 339 - ... as amended by chapter two hundred and twenty-eight of the laws of nineteen hundred and one, is hereby amended to read as follows: 5.