United States Military Reservations, National Cemeteries, and Military Parks

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1910 - 510 pages
 

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Page 390 - That the people inhabiting said proposed states do agree and declare that they forever disclaim all right and title to the unappropriated public lands • lying within the boundaries thereof, and to all lands lying within said limits owned or held by any Indian or Indian tribes; and that until the title thereto shall have been extinguished by the United States, the same shall be and remain subject to the disposition of the United States...
Page 488 - All subjects over which the sovereign power of a state extends, are objects of taxation; but those over which it does not extend, are, upon the soundest principles, exempt from taxation.
Page 136 - States in and over such lands so far that civil process in all cases, and such criminal process as may issue under the authority of the State...
Page 453 - ... Kings Canyon National Park" : saving however to the State of California the right to serve civil or criminal process within the limits of the aforesaid park in suits or prosecutions for or on account of rights acquired, obligations incurred, or crimes committed in said State outside of said park : and saving further to the said State the right to tax persons and corporations, their franchises and property on the lands included in said park...
Page 202 - ... lands shall remain the property of the United States when acquired as aforesaid, and no longer, the same shall be and continue exempt and exonerated from all state, county and municipal taxation, assessment or other charges which may be levied or imposed under the authority of this state.
Page 218 - ... to the line of said road, material, earth, stone, and timber necessary for the construction of said railroad; also, ground adjacent to such right of way for station buildings, depots, machine shops, side tracks, turn-outs, and water stations, not to exceed in amount twenty acres for each station, to the extent of one station for each ten miles of its road.
Page 488 - The sovereignty of a State extends to everything which exists by its own authority or is introduced by its permission ; but does it extend to those means which are employed by Congress to carry into execution powers conferred on that body by the people of the United States?
Page 449 - ... so long as the same shall remain the property of the United States, and be used for the purposes aforesaid, and no longer.
Page 488 - State taxes the operations of the government of the United States, it acts upon institutions created, not by their own constituents, but by people over whom they claim no control. It acts upon the measures of a government created by others as well as themselves, for the benefit of others in common with themselves. The difference is that which always exists, and always must exist, between the action of the whole on a part, and the action of a part on the whole — between the laws of a government...
Page 473 - No public money shall be expended upon any site or land purchased by the United States for the purposes...

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