Title to Submerged Lands Beneath Tidal and Navigable Waters: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Eightieth Congress, Second Session, on S. 1988 and Similar House Bills, to Confirm and Establish the Titles of the States to Lands and Resources in and Beneath Navigable Waters Within State Boundaries and to Provide for the Use and Control of Said Lands and Resources : May 4 and 5, 1948U.S. Government Printing Office, 1948 - 335 էջ Considers legislation to confirm the title of states to lands and resources in and beneath navigable waters within state boundaries. Also considers dispute between the state of California and the Federal Government over the proper title to lands off the coast of California. |
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Էջ 158 - Leases shall be for a period of twenty years, with the preferential right in the lessee to renew the same for successive periods of ten years upon such reasonable terms and conditions as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, unless otherwise provided by law at the time of the expiration of such periods.
Էջ 330 - That the said State of California is admitted into the Union upon the express condition that the people of said State, through their legislature or otherwise, shall never interfere with the primary disposal of the public lands within its limits, and shall pass no law and do no act whereby the title of the United States to, and right to dispose of, the same shall be impaired or questioned...
Էջ 130 - ... and within its protective belt, will most naturally be appropriated for its use. But whatever any nation does in the open sea, which detracts from its common usefulness to nations, or which another nation may charge detracts from it, is a question for consideration among nations as such, and not their separate governmental units.
Էջ 210 - From all the wealth of material supplied, however, we cannot say that the thirteen original colonies separately acquired ownership to the three-mile belt or the soil under it, even if they did acquire elements of the sovereignty of the English Crown by their revolution against it.
Էջ 175 - He. was Assistant Attorney General of the United States in charge of the Criminal Divison during the Presidency of John F. Kennedy. He will testify on the implementation of the 1966 report.
Էջ 151 - Except where the grant under which the land is held indicates a different intent, the owner of the upland, when it borders on tidewater, takes to ordinary high-water mark; when it borders upon a navigable lake or stream, where there is no tide, the owner takes to the edge of the lake or stream...
Էջ 215 - is the owner in fee simple of, or possessed of paramount rights in and powers over, the lands, minerals and other things of value underlying the Pacific Ocean, lying seaward of the ordinary low water mark on the coast of California and outside of the inland waters of the State, extending seaward three nautical miles and bounded on the north and south, respectively, by the northern and southern boundaries of the State of California.
Էջ 128 - Now that the question is here, we decide for the reasons we have stated that 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 Fourth.
Էջ 212 - As previously stated, this Court has followed and reasserted the basic doctrine of the Pollard case many times. And in doing so it has used language strong enough to indicate that the Court then believed that states not only owned tidelands and soil under navigable inland waters, but also owned soils under all navigable waters within their territorial jurisdiction, whether inland or not.