Tennessee Valley Authority: Hearings Before the Committee on Military Affairs, House of Representatives, Seventy-sixth Congress, Third Session, on H.R. 7424, H.R. 5068, H.R. 3822, H.R. 2741, H.R. 4640, and H.R. 4094, Bills to Amend the Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933. January 23, 24, 25, 26, 31, February 1, 2, 7, 14, and 20, 1940

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Page 521 - All property shall be taxed according to its value ; that value to be ascertained in such manner as the legislature shall direct, so that the same shall be equal and uniform throughout the State. No one species of property from which a tax may be collected, shall be taxed higher than any other species of property of equal value.
Page 1 - To improve the navigability and to provide for the flood control of the Tennessee River ; to provide for reforestation and the proper use of marginal lands in the Tennessee Valley; to provide for the agricultural and industrial development of said valley ; to provide for the national defense by the creation of a corporation for the operation of Government properties at and near Muscle Shoals in the State of Alabama, and for other purposes.
Page 222 - It is hereby declared to be the policy of this Act that, in order, as soon as practicable, to make the power projects self-supporting and self-liquidating, the surplus power shall be sold at rates which, in the opinion of the board, when applied to the normal capacity of the Authority's power facilities, will produce gross revenues in excess of the cost of production of said power...
Page 521 - The Legislature shall have no power to suspend any general law for the benefit of any particular individual, nor to pass any law for the benefit of individuals, inconsistent with the general law of the land...
Page 327 - County, do hereby certify that the attached is a true and correct copy of the original Record on file, all of which appears from the records and files in my office.
Page 1 - In ascertaining the gross proceeds from the sale of such power upon which a percentage is paid to the States of Alabama and Tennessee, the board shall not take into consideration the proceeds of any power sold...

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