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... estimated in money , but are in reality a portion of labor's annual product . They are so many pounds of sugar and soap , so many barrels of molasses and bourbon , so many watches and wagons . The raw material for all these things comes ...
... estimated in money , but are in reality a portion of labor's annual product . They are so many pounds of sugar and soap , so many barrels of molasses and bourbon , so many watches and wagons . The raw material for all these things comes ...
Page 154
... estimated and then the costs are assessed against the property of the district . Under some acts only real estate bears the assessment , in other instances only land , and in other cases personal property is included . Objections may be ...
... estimated and then the costs are assessed against the property of the district . Under some acts only real estate bears the assessment , in other instances only land , and in other cases personal property is included . Objections may be ...
Page 156
... . This liability has never been calculated and it is doubtful if it can be with any exactness , and estimates at present are not No. 5 Opinions expressed by writers herein are not necessarily 156 NOVEMBER , 1926 The Tax Digest.
... . This liability has never been calculated and it is doubtful if it can be with any exactness , and estimates at present are not No. 5 Opinions expressed by writers herein are not necessarily 156 NOVEMBER , 1926 The Tax Digest.
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... Estimate $ 278,000 290,000 $ 568,000 $ 241,000 586,000. burden of a bond issue , should be not only , can we afford this improvement ? but also , can we afford this improvement , and safe- ly assume to carry this obligation , even if ...
... Estimate $ 278,000 290,000 $ 568,000 $ 241,000 586,000. burden of a bond issue , should be not only , can we afford this improvement ? but also , can we afford this improvement , and safe- ly assume to carry this obligation , even if ...
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Original Estimate $ 278,000 290,000 $ 568,000 $ 241,000 586,000 $ 827,000 ENGINEERS AND ARCHITECTS OPPOSE PROPOSED ... estimates on the Colorado River aqueduct project before issuing such a document as this . We now find that it will re ...
Original Estimate $ 278,000 290,000 $ 568,000 $ 241,000 586,000 $ 827,000 ENGINEERS AND ARCHITECTS OPPOSE PROPOSED ... estimates on the Colorado River aqueduct project before issuing such a document as this . We now find that it will re ...
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Page 6 - No public forest reservation shall be established, except to improve and protect the forest within the reservation, or for the purpose of securing favorable conditions of water flows, and to furnish a continuous supply of timber for the use and necessities of citizens of the United States...
Page 32 - 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 of this act, shall be and the same are hereby granted to said state.
Page 66 - BROWN (J. Croumbie), LL.D. Reboisement in France; or, Records of the Replanting of the Alps, the Cevennes, and the Pyrenees with Trees, Herbage, and Bush. Demy 8vo. Cloth, price I2s.
Page 137 - All patents granted, or preemption or homesteads allowed, shall be subject to any vested and accrued water rights, or rights to ditches and reservoirs used in connection with such water rights, as may have been acquired under or recognized by this section.
Page 137 - That whenever by priority of possession rights to the use of water for mining, agricultural, manufacturing, or other purposes have vested and accrued and the same are recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and the decisions of courts, the possessors and owners of such vested rights shall be maintained and protected in the same...
Page 4 - But the value of property results from the use to which it is put, and varies with the profitableness of that use, present and prospective, actual and anticipated. There is no pecuniary value outside of that which results from such use.
Page 91 - Tables and Results of the Precipitation, in Rain and Snow, in the United States, and at some stations in adjacent parts of North America, and in Central and South America.
Page 33 - That penstocks or other similar facilities adapted to possible future use in the development of hydroelectric power shall be installed in any dam herein authorized when approved by the Secretary of War upon the recommendation of the Chief of Engineers and of the Federal Power Commission.
Page 54 - Plaisia, which disappeared during the entire time that the mountain remained cleared of its forests (from the end of the eighteenth century to the middle of the nineteenth), and reappeared 30 years ago, when the work of reforesting the slope had been finished.