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Page 107
... fact remains that land is only to a small extent owned by the rich . These prefer more rapid means of money making , means which wealth can control . Land is chiefly owned by the farmer and the ordinary citizen who invests in a home or ...
... fact remains that land is only to a small extent owned by the rich . These prefer more rapid means of money making , means which wealth can control . Land is chiefly owned by the farmer and the ordinary citizen who invests in a home or ...
Page 114
... fact with no discernible abstract or concrete ' rights ' or property of any description . If a foot was not at once set upon me as a squalling nuisance , it was either the natural affection of those about me , which I certainly had done ...
... fact with no discernible abstract or concrete ' rights ' or property of any description . If a foot was not at once set upon me as a squalling nuisance , it was either the natural affection of those about me , which I certainly had done ...
Page 122
... fact these colonies do not have single tax , their reve- nues being derived chiefly by taxes other than on land and including the income tax , which is diametrically opposite in principle . They have , however , for purely local reasons ...
... fact these colonies do not have single tax , their reve- nues being derived chiefly by taxes other than on land and including the income tax , which is diametrically opposite in principle . They have , however , for purely local reasons ...
Page 126
... fact that the civic assessor has increased the land assessment from $ 144,974,525 in 1913 to $ 150,629,410 in 1914 , an advance of $ 5,654,885 . It is difficult to speculate as to the facts which justify this increase . Rents have ...
... fact that the civic assessor has increased the land assessment from $ 144,974,525 in 1913 to $ 150,629,410 in 1914 , an advance of $ 5,654,885 . It is difficult to speculate as to the facts which justify this increase . Rents have ...
Page 135
... fact , the law provides means by which aggrieved taxpayers may protest against any seem- ing injustice . The failure of many taxpayers to take advantage of this right is no doubt due in part to their lack of knowledge of the law . Yet ...
... fact , the law provides means by which aggrieved taxpayers may protest against any seem- ing injustice . The failure of many taxpayers to take advantage of this right is no doubt due in part to their lack of knowledge of the law . Yet ...
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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.