Title to Lands Beneath Tidal and Navigable Waters: Hearings Before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Seventy-ninth Congress, Second Session, on S. J. Res. 48 and H. J. Res. 225, Joint Resolutions to Quiet the Titles of the Respective States, and Others, to Lands Beneath Tidewaters and Lands Beneath Navigable Waters Within the Boundries of Such States and to Prevent Further Clouding of Such Titles, February 5, 6, and 7, 1946 ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946 - 315 páginas Considers (79) S.J. Res. 48, (79) H.J. Res. 225. |
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