Hearing and Argument in the Matter of the Measurement and Apportionment of the Waters of the St. Mary and Milk Rivers and Their Tributaries in the United States and Canada: Under Article VI of the Treaty of January 11, 1909, Between the United States and Great Britain ; St. Paul, Minn., May 24 to 28, 1915U.S. Government Printing Office, 1915 - 306 էջ |
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Hearing and Argument in the Matter of the Measurement and Apportionment of ... International Joint Commission Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1915 |
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acre-feet acres Alberta Railway amount of water applied apportionment Article basin Battle Creek Bear Paw Mountains beneficial BIEN BURLEY Canadian Pacific Railway canal capacity CONNER Constitution construction courts cross the boundary cubic feet Cypress Hills ditch diversion draft drainage drainage basin DRAKE eastern crossing estimate fact feet per second flood Fork Frenchman Creek Frenchman River give GLENN GUNN international boundary International Joint Commission irrigable area irrigable land irrigation season learned friend Lodge Creek lower Milk River MACINNES Mary and Milk Mary Lake Mary River matter measurement ment MIGNAULT miles Milk River Valley Montana natural flow NEWELL officers PETERS POWELL present prior appropriation proposed purpose question Railway & Irrigation Reclamation Service record referred reservoir SANDS Saskatchewan side statement stations storage stream submitted suggested Survey TAWNEY tion tributaries understand United water rights water supply WYVELL
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Էջ 269 - The treaty power, as expressed in the Constitution, is in terms unlimited except by those restraints which are found in that instrument against the action of the government or of its departments, and those arising from the nature of the government itself and of that of the States. It would not be contended that it extends so far as to authorize what the Constitution forbids, or a change in the character of the government or in that of one of the States, or a cession of any portion of the territory...
Էջ 230 - The High Contracting Parties agree that the St. Mary and Milk Rivers and their tributaries (in the State of Montana and the Provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan) are to be treated as one stream for the purposes of irrigation and power, and the waters thereof shall be' apportioned equally between the two countries, but in making such equal apportionment more than half may be taken from one river and less than half from the other by either country so as to afford a more beneficial use to each.
Էջ 230 - ... the irrigation season, between the 1st of April and 31st of October, inclusive, annually, the United States is entitled to a prior appropriation of 500 cubic feet per second of the waters of the Milk River, or so much of such amount as constitutes threefourths of its natural flow...
Էջ 242 - Governments on the other as the case may be, subject to any treaty provisions now existing with respect thereto, the exclusive jurisdiction and control over the use and diversion, whether temporary or permanent, of all waters on its own side of the line which in their natural channels would flow across the boundary or into boundary waters...
Էջ 9 - The measurement and apportionment of the water to be used by each country shall from time to time be made jointly by the properly constituted reclamation officers of the United States and the properly constituted irrigation officers of His Majesty under the direction of the International Joint Commission.
Էջ 283 - When a deed is worded in clear and precise terms, when its meaning is evident and leads to no absurd conclusion, there can be no reason for refusing to admit the meaning which such deed naturally presents.
Էջ 56 - An Act appropriating the receipts from the sale and disposal of public lands in certain states and territories to the construction of irrigation works for the reclamation of arid lands...
Էջ 267 - The President shall have the power, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate...
Էջ 63 - Canada, whose duty it shall be to investigate and report upon the conditions and uses of the waters adjacent to the boundary lines between the United States and Canada, including all of the waters of the lakes and rivers whose natural outlet is by the River St. Lawrence to the Atlantic ocean...
Էջ 273 - It is also the king's prerogative to make treaties, leagues, and alliances with foreign states and princes. For it is by the law of nations essential to the goodness of a league, that it be made by the sovereign power; and then it is binding upon the whole community: and in England the sovereign power, quoad hoc, is vested in the person of the king. Whatever contracts therefore he engages in, no other power in the kingdom can legally delay, resist or annul.