United States Military Reservations, National Cemeteries, and Military Parks: Title, Jurisdiction, Etc

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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 197 - 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 158 - States shall have acquired the title to the said lands by purchase, condemnation or otherwise ; and so long as the said lands shall remain the property of the United States when acquired as aforesaid, and no longer...
Page 491 - No land shall be purchased on account of the United States, except under a law authorizing such purchase.
Page 123 - 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...
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 473 - No public money shall be expended upon any site or land purchased by the United States for the purposes...
Page 488 - The result is a conviction that the states have no power, by taxation or otherwise, to retard, impede, burden, or in any manner control the operations of the constitutional laws enacted by Congress to carry into execution the powers vested in the general government.

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