Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on the JudiciaryU.S. Government Printing Office, 1948 |
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3-mile belt 3-mile limit acres applied Attorney bays bill boundaries California California decision Chairman claim CLARK coast coastal committee Congress Constitution Continental Shelf decree Department E. H. Moore fact Federal Government fee simple filed Florida going Governor JESTER Governor WARREN granted harbor HARDEY HINKLEY HOWSER inland waters interest Interior Judge HUDSON June 23 jurisdiction Justice Lakes lands beneath leases legislation Long Beach Louisiana marginal sea matter ment miles minerals Miss GRACE national defense navigable waters ocean oil and gas opinion owner ownership Pacific Ocean paramount rights petroleum Pollard public lands question RAGO recognized record referred Representative GOSSETT resolution respect revenue River rule San Pedro Bay Secretary KRUG Senator DONNELL Senator MCCARRAN Senator MOORE soil sovereign sovereignty statement submerged lands Supreme Court territory Texas tide tidelands tidewaters tion Union United States Supreme WOODWARD
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Page 358 - The said States hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other, for their common defense, the security of their liberties, and their mutual and general welfare, binding themselves to assist each other, against all force offered to, or attacks made upon them, or any of them, on account of religion, sovereignty trade or any other pretence whatever.
Page 646 - Having concern for the urgency of conserving and prudently utilizing its natural resources, the Government of the United States regards the natural resources of the subsoil and sea bed of the continental shelf beneath the high seas but contiguous to the coasts of the United States as appertaining to the United States, subject to its jurisdiction and control.
Page 489 - When the Revolution took place, the people of each State became themselves sovereign ; and in that character hold the absolute right to all their navigable waters, and the soils under them for their own common use, subject only to the rights since surrendered by the Constitution.
Page 415 - California is not the owner of the three-mile marginal belt along its coast, and that the Federal Government rather than the state has paramount rights in and power over that belt, an incident to which is full dominion over the resources of the soil under that water area, including oil.
Page 594 - ... said Republic of Texas, shall retain all the public funds, debts, taxes, and dues of every kind, which may belong to, or be due...
Page 342 - Provided, That the convention hereinafter provided for, when formed, shall ratify the boundaries aforesaid; otherwise they shall be and remain as now prescribed by the ordinance for the government of the territory north-west of the river Ohio...
Page 505 - When Alabama was admitted into the Union, on an equal footing with the original states, she succeeded to all the rights of sovereignty, jurisdiction and eminent domain, which Georgia possessed at the date of the cession, except so far as this right was diminished by the public lands remaining in the possession and under the control of the United States, for the temporary purposes provided for in the deed of cession, and the legislative acts connected...
Page 235 - The United States of America is now, and has been at all times pertinent hereto, possessed of paramount rights in, and full dominion and power over, the lands, minerals and other things...
Page 346 - The last hopes of mankind, therefore, rest with us ; and if it should be proclaimed that our example had become an argument against the experiment, the knell of popular liberty would be sounded throughout the earth.
Page 432 - ... (2) all lands permanently or periodically covered by tidal waters up to but not above the line of mean high tide and seaward to a line three geographical miles distant from the coast line of each such State and to the boundary line of each such State where in any case such boundary as it existed at the time such State became a member of the Union, or as heretofore...