Water-power Bill: Hearing Before the Committee on Public Lands, United States Senate, Sixty-third Congress, Third Session, on H.R. 16673, an Act to Provide for the Development of Water Power and the Use of Public Lands in Relation Thereto, and for Other PurposesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1915 - 932 стор. |
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Сторінка 527 - Upon the acquisition. of a Territory by the United States, whether by cession from one of the States, or by treaty with a foreign country, or by discovery and settlement, the same title and dominion passed to the United States, for the benefit of the whole people, and in trust for the several States to be ultimately created out of the Territory.
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