A person may lay out a new highway on his land where the old one has been so damaged bywaterways that horses with carriages cannot pass, with the consent of local officials.
Those who benefited from these waterways were taxed for the repairs in proportion to their use thereof.
The walls, ditches, gutters, sewers, and bridges on waterways and the coast were kept in repair by laborers hired by commissions appointed by the Chancellor.
I don't know of any divide as low as this between two waterways as great as those of the Fraser and the Columbia.
It is as the natural outlet for the trade of Winchester and Wessex, standing at the head of one of the finest waterwaysin Europe, that Southampton became the present thriving and important town.
In the administration, development, or construction of such waterways the requirements of agriculture and water-supply shall be protected in agreement with the States.
Each waterways administration shall consent to connection with other inland waterways at the expense of the latter.
In taking over the waterways the Commonwealth acquires the right of expropriation, control of rates, and the police power over waterways and navigation.
For the procurement of means for the maintenance and development of the German system of waterways the Commonwealth may by law call on the shipping interests for contributions also in other ways [than by tolls].
The total costs of a waterway, a river basin, or a system of waterways may be taken into consideration in determining navigation tolls in the field of inland water transportation.
The duties of the river improvement associations in relation to the development of natural waterways in the Rhine, Weser, and Elbe basins shall be assumed by the Commonwealth.
After they have been taken over, waterways serving as means of general public communication may be constructed or extended only by the Commonwealth or with its consent.
The same obligation exists for the construction of a connection between inland waterways and railroads.
The provisions of the preceding paragraph apply to the charges imposed for artificial waterways and for accommodations in connection therewith and in harbors.
Who will be benefited, when this virgin soil traversed by such magnificent waterways annually produces so many more pounds sterling per acre than is produced by other land?
Merely the associations and workers who actually make use of the new waterways for transport?
The transit of vessels, passengers, and goods on these waterways shall be effected in accordance with the general conditions prescribed for transit in Section I.
Germany shall draw up the necessary regulations to secure and guarantee such freedom of transit over such railways and waterways in her territory as normally give access to the free zone.
The seaports of the Allied and Associated Powers are entitled to all favors and to all reduced tariffs granted on German railways or navigable waterways for the benefit of German ports or of any port of another power.
The canal and highway were not often contiguous, and the railway was yet further removed, because it followed the waterways which the roads frequently avoided.
Many thousands of miles of such navigable waterways intersect it, some of them very little known or used.
Many hundreds of miles of the river are navigable in smaller craft, affording valuable waterwaysfor the inhabitants on its banks.
The endless waterwaysof the upper reaches of the Orinoco share often that silent, deserted character which we shall remark upon the Amazon tributaries, and which indeed, is common to tropical streams often.
Their boundaries are far from each other, separated by portions of Brazil and Argentina, but they are united by the great waterways of the Plate, as we have already seen.
Coming to the north-west of British Guiana, we have a number of channels (itabos) forming natural waterways through swamps, navigable for canoes and small vessels.
Across the lagoons we were soon out ofwaterways and amongst the mountains of Italy; scenery lovely, bewitching, enchanting.
This, better than anything else, should define its relative importance among the great waterways of France.
This is the Canal Lateral de la Loire, one of those inland waterways of France which add so much to the prosperity of the land.
It is only on the Loire between Angers and Nantes that there is any semblance of river traffic such as one sees on most of the other great waterways of Europe.
From earliest times waterways have provided the readiest means of getting about.
Good harbors and navigable waterways are notably absent along the west coast of South America and notably present in the Eastern Mediterranean.
The closely knit Greco-Roman Empire had been superseded in Europe by a sparsely inhabited, roadless wilderness, largely bereft of trade, using waterways as the easiest means of communication and transport.
Safe harbors and navigable waterways made trade and transport easy and cheap.
No sooner were the waterways open in the fur-trading days than freight was hurried from one part of the country to another by means of inland or York boats.
Hamlyn as medical adviser, and in two light canoes, provided with nine men each, the party went with extraordinary speed along the waterways which had already been the scenes of many a picturesque and even sanguinary spectacle.
She hoped to find some near-by pool, but in vain; all the shallow, near at hand waterways were dried out, and she traveled long before she found a deep pool.
The pair went crashing onward, making their way toward the distant waterways and marshes.
All are navigable, forming with their tributaries the natural waterways of France, which possesses a river navigation of about five thousand five hundred miles.
North of the St. Lawrence system almost the whole country is thickly studded with lakes, which, with their connecting streams, form a network of important waterways traversable by canoes and boats.
He was no more like his companions than the North that surrounded them with its silent waterways and hushed forests is like the tropical jungle.
This great network of lakes, rivers and portages was in turn connected by the waterways of the Ottawa and the St. Lawrence, with the great head and center of all the fur trade of the western world, the city of Montreal.
It is one of the most frequented waterways in the world, though the building of railways and canals has somewhat diminished the amount of freight borne on its tide.
Clearing waterways and constructing harbours might have been left to the respective States, if each stream and each lake had been located entirely within the confines of some State.
But small imagination was required to see how man with proper resources could dredge channels, remove obstacles, and construct dams which would render these waterways useful during the larger part of the year.
Artificial waterways were impossible from lack of water-supply on the high levels.
Waterways were as abundant in the western region during the War of 1812 as they were at any later time.
The French and British presented a program recognizing the right of nations to control international waterways and international railways, which was accepted by the commission.
In the absence of the waterways facilities, so common in the Canadian forests, a great many miles of railways had to be built for the transportation of the logs to the sawmills.
The Allies to have the right of free movement over all roads, railroads, and waterwaysin Austro-Hungarian territory.
On the same date important committees on reparation, ports, waterways and railways held their first formal meetings.
It was the big waterways that made the roads into all the wilderness; we certainly learned that up in the Far North, didn't we?
At first he struck across the waterways in a southerly direction and for awhile Jan and the others were able to keep him in sight.
He has travelled the whole way along the frozen rivers andwaterways only halting for the nights.
Along the waterways which threaded this great No Man's Land the coureurs-de-bois roamed with little heed to law or license, glad to escape from the paternal strictness that irked youth on the lower St. Lawrence.
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