Author: United States. Interstate Commerce CommissionPublisher:
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Category : Interstate commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 1008
Book Description
Interstate Commerce Commission Reports
Author: United States. Interstate Commerce CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Interstate commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 1008
Book Description
United States Code
Author: United StatesAmerican Boundaries
Author: Bill HubbardPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226355934
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 469
Book Description
For anyone who has looked at a map of the United States and wondered how Texas and Oklahoma got their Panhandles, or flown over the American heartland and marveled at the vast grid spreading out in all directions below, American Boundaries will yield a welcome treasure trove of insight. The first book to chart the country’s growth using the boundary as a political and cultural focus, Bill Hubbard’s masterly narrative begins by explaining how the original thirteen colonies organized their borders and decided that unsettled lands should be held in trust for the common benefit of the people. Hubbard goes on to show—with the help of photographs, diagrams, and hundreds of maps—how the notion evolved that unsettled land should be divided into rectangles and sold to individual farmers, and how this rectangular survey spread outward from its origins in Ohio, with surveyors drawing straight lines across the face of the continent. Mapping how each state came to have its current shape, and how the nation itself formed within its present borders, American Boundaries will provide historians, geographers, and general readers alike with the fascinating story behind those fifty distinctive jigsaw-puzzle pieces that together form the United States.
Compilation of Maritime Laws, as Amended Through the First Session of the 109th Congress
Author: United StatesPublisher: U.S. Government Printing Office
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
Contains the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, the Maritime Security Act of 2003, the Shipping Act of 1984, and related acts, as amended through the first session of the 109th Congress.
First, Second, and Third Annual Reports of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories for the Years 1867, 1868, and 1869 Under the Department of the Interior
Author: Geological Survey of the Territories (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Colorado
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Surveys and Surveyors of the Public Domain, 1785-1975
Author: Lola CazierPublisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
"Cadastral surveys are performed to create, mark, and define, or to retrace the boundaries between abutting land owners, and, more particularly, between land of the Federal Government and private owners or local governments. As referred to here, cadastral surveys were performed only by the General Land Office during its existence and by the Bureau of Land Management. The Bureau of Land Management is the only agency that is currently authorized to determine the boundaries of the public lands of the United States. Proper understanding of the basis for performance of cadastral surveys includes an understanding of the history of the public land surveys. An understanding of that history requires some consideration of the people who performed these surveys and of the people whose land was affected by them. These chapters were written to be used as an aid in training cadastral surveyors in the application of surveying principles. The learner is expected to gain from the factual material on survey laws and their formation, as well as from a study of the people who performed the surveys. Many of the men who had an important role in the history of cadastral surveying are still living, but only those who have retired are included in the present document."--Foreword.
The Code of Federal Regulations of the United States of America Having General Applicability and Legal Effect in Force June 1, 1938
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Category : Administrative law
Languages : en
Pages : 1324
Book Description
The Code of federal regulations is the codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal register by the executive departments and agencies of the federal government.
A Machine to Move Ocean and Earth: The Making of the Port of Los Angeles and America
Author: James TejaniPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 1324093560
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
"[An] enthralling debut…a beguiling history of Southern California, early industrial development, and U.S. empire." —Publishers Weekly (starred review) A deeply researched narrative of the creation of the Port of Los Angeles, a central event in America’s territorial expansion and rise as a global economic power. The Port of Los Angeles is all around us. Objects we use on a daily basis pass through it: furniture, apparel, electronics, automobiles, and much more. The busiest container port in the Western hemisphere, it claims one-sixth of all US ocean shipping. Yet despite its centrality to our world, the port and the story of its making have been neglected in histories of the United States. In A Machine to Move Ocean and Earth, historian James Tejani corrects that significant omission, charting the port’s rise out of the mud and salt marsh of San Pedro estuary—and showing how the story of the port is the story of modern, globalized America itself. By the mid-nineteenth century, Americans had identified the West Coast as the republic’s destiny, a gateway to the riches of the Pacific. In a narrative spanning decades and stretching to Washington, DC, the Pacific Northwest, Civil War Richmond, Southwest deserts, and even overseas to Europe, Hawaii, and Asia, Tejani demonstrates how San Pedro came to be seen as all-important to the nation’s future. It was not virgin land, but dominated by powerful Mexican estates that would not be dislodged easily. Yet American scientists, including the great surveyor George Davidson, imperialist politicians such as Jefferson Davis and William Gwin, and hopeful land speculators, among them the future Union Army general Edward Ord, would wrest control of the estuary, and set the scene for the violence, inequality, and engineering marvels to come. San Pedro was no place for a harbor, Tejani reveals. The port was carved in defiance of nature, using new engineering techniques and massive mechanical dredgers. Business titans such as Collis Huntington and Edward H. Harriman brought their money and corporate influence to the task. But they were outmatched by government reformers, laying the foundations for the port, for the modern city of Los Angeles, and for our globalized world. Interweaving the natural history of San Pedro into this all-too-human history, Tejani vividly describes how a wild coast was made into the engine of American power. A story of imperial dreams and personal ambition, A Machine to Move Ocean and Earth is necessary reading for anyone who seeks to understand what the United States was, what it is now, and what it will be.
Federal Register
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Category : Delegated legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 2194
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