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Page 18 - European species which infests many different plants, and it is spread throughout our country from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico.
Page 81 - When local improvements may be deemed to result in special benefits, a further classification may be made and special assessments imposed accordingly; but even in such case there is no requirement of the Federal Constitution that for every payment there must be an equal benefit.
Page 82 - As soon as any district shall have been organized under this act, and a board of directors shall have been appointed and qualified, such board of directors shall have the power and authority to levy upon the property...
Page 34 - He who makes two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before is a benefactor of the race.
Page 87 - He who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before is the benefactor of mankind ; but he who obscurely worked to find the laws of such growth is the intellectual superior as well as the greater benefactor of the two.
Page 80 - In such case every owner could put forth the same objection to the payment of his share of the preliminary expenses as does the appellant here, and for the same reason. The improvement not having been made, there seems to be no reason in equity why all the lands in the district should not proportionately pay the expenses which were necessarily incurred in determining the question whether the improvement should be made, it being borne in mind that those expenses were not incurred in making an improvement...
Page 61 - and the Chief of Engineers is directed to make a report upon any other projects, river or harbor, the further improvement of which under present conditions is undesirable, or in which modifications of the plans or projects should be made.
Page 84 - Second. To authorize preliminary examination and survey in the pending river and harbor bill of the following streams with a view to devising plans for flood protection and determining the extent to which the United States should cooperate with the States and other interests in carrying out...
Page 81 - A tax is an enforced contribution for the payment of public expenses. It is laid by some rule of apportionment according to which the persons or property taxed share the public burden, and whether taxation operates upon all within the State, or upon those of a given class or locality, its essential nature is the same.
Page 16 - ... 131 considerable number of preventable deaths." Since there are well established methods of prevention, the Congress established a section on malaria with Dr. Oscar Bowling of the Louisiana State Board of Health as president and Dr. WH Deaderick of Little Rock, Ark., as secretary. It was resolved further "That the several states be requested to appoint malarial commissions and that the commission of the Southern Medical Association and other duly authorized malarial commissions be invited to...