Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs

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Page 162 - ... to conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and the wildlife therein and to provide for the enjoyment of the same in such manner and by such means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations.
Page 298 - No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were.
Page 57 - House Office Building, Hon. Walter Rogers (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Mr. ROGERS. The Subcommittee on Irrigation and Reclamation will come to order for further consideration of pending business, which is HR 9032 by the chairman of the full committee, Mr.
Page 582 - Thousands of tired nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity; and that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life.
Page 99 - Now, therefore, be it Resolved by the Common Council of the City of...
Page 3 - A Proposed Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore", dated July 1964, and bearing the number "LNPNE 1003 ID", which map is on file and available for public inspection in the Office of the Director of the National Park Service, Department of the Interior.
Page 11 - Act, is made the subject of a variance under or exception to such zoning ordinance, or is subjected to any use, which variance, exception, or use fails to conform to or is inconsistent with any applicable standard contained in...
Page 569 - We have made 25 of these treaties of arbitration, covering the greater part of the world, under the direction of the Senate of the United States and the House of Representatives of the United States...
Page 16 - The properties so exchanged shall be approximately equal in fair market value : Provided, That the Secretary may accept cash from or pay cash to the grantor in such an exchange in order to equalize the values of the properties exchanged.
Page 112 - Yosemite to California. They constitute a signature of time and eternity. Once lost, the loss would be irrevocable.

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