Emergency Legislation Passed Prior To December 1917 Dealing With The Control And Taking Of Private Property For The Public Use Benefit Or Welfare Presidential Proclamations And Executive Orders Thereunder To And Including January 31 1918 PDF Download

Excerpt from Emergency Legislation Passed Prior to December, 1917, Dealing With the Control and Taking of Private Property for the Public Use, Benefit, or Welfare: Presidential Proclamations and Executive Orders Thereunder, to and Including January 31, 1918; To Which Is Added a Reprint of Analagous Legislation Since 1775 Herein have been collected, by the direction of the Attorney Gen eral, those provisions of the so-called war legislation which deal with the taking and the control of private property for public use, benefit, or welfare. There have been excluded from this collection the statutory provisions dealing with the organization and government of our military and naval establishments, defining and punishing crimes incident to an effective providing for the common defense, and authorizing and providing for war-time financing. Some statutes not strictly emergency have been also included, since they are intimately connected with certain phases of the con duct of the war. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.