 That to enable the State of Arkansas to construct the necessary levees and drains, to reclaim the swamp and overflowed lands therein, the whole of those swamp and overflowed lands made unfit thereby for cultivation, which shall remain unsold at the passage...  Documents Accompanying the Journal - Page 97by Michigan. Legislature. Senate - 1851Full view - About this book
 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1858 - 764 pages
...excluded, etc., (sec. 2.) The purpose of the grant, as declared in the act, was to enable the State to construct the necessary levees and drains to reclaim the swamp and overflowed lands therein, (sec. 1.) And the second section of the act provided that the proceeds of the lands so granted to the... | |
 | Almanacs, American - 1850 - 414 pages
...enable the State of Arkansas and other States to reclaim the '•' swamp lands " within their limits. The whole of those swamp and overflowed lands, made unfit thereby for cultivation, unsold at the passage of this act, are granted to said State. The Secretary of the Interior shall make... | |
 | Ohio. General Assembly - 1851 - 906 pages
...States, to reclaim die ' Swamp lands ' within their limits," approved September 28, 1860, it is directed "that to •enable the State of Arkansas to construct...the whole of those swamp and overflowed lands made thereby unfit for cultivation, which shall remain unsold at the passage of this act, shall be and the... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1892 - 742 pages
...and remaining unsold on or after the 28th day of September, AD 1850, for the purpose of constructing the necessary levees and drains to reclaim the swamp and overflowed lands therein." The bill then avers that it was the duty of the Secretary of the Interior to make lists and plats of such... | |
 | 1853 - 468 pages
...States of the Union in whio&ithey might be situated, to enable the individual State* ""to construct tile necessary levees and drains to reclaim the swamp and overflowed lands therein." On the 21st November, 1850,. the Cora'r of the General Land Office, at Washington, addressed a letter... | |
 | Louisiana - 1854 - 210 pages
...128. None of the lands granted by Congress to the State of Louisiana for aiding it in constructing the necessary levees and drains, to reclaim the swamp and overflowed lands in this State, shall be diverted from the purposes for which they were granted. ART. 129. The Constitution... | |
 | California. Legislature. Assembly - 1855 - 956 pages
...the necessary levees and drains, to reclaim swamp and overflowed lands therein, the whole of these swamp and overflowed lands made unfit thereby for...remain unsold at the passage of this Act, shall be and the-samo are hereby granted to said State." The Act makes it the duty of the Secretary of the Interior,... | |
 | Almanacs, American - 1849 - 516 pages
...enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress astembled, 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 lands,... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1856 - 708 pages
...States to reclaim the 'swamp lands' within their limits," approved September 28, 1850, it is directed "That to enable the State of Arkansas to construct...the whole of those swamp and overflowed lands made thereby unfit for cultivation, which shall remain unsold at the passage of this act shall be and the... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1857 - 688 pages
...section of the act of Congress of 1849 declares, " that to aid the State of Louisiana in constructing the necessary levees and drains to reclaim 'the swamp and overflowed lands therein, the whole of the swamp and overflowed lands which are or may be found unfit for cultivating, shall be, and the same... | |
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