milldam

Following an evaluation of their milldam and modifications to it, Edmund Baker and Daniel Vose, proprietors of Stoughton's grant, refused to pay their share of the costs, contending that the legislature lacked the constitutional power "to interfere and take from them their estate." (164) The towns of Staughton, Sharon, and Canton sued to recover the statutory amount due.

The request, shaped into this broadside, will be posted on the Milldam bulletin board, dropped in Town Hall, and placed in the public library, for I fear cultural council members might not even read through my application.

Moffett, 1 Greene 247, 249-50 (Iowa 1848) (holding nuisance remedy available to enjoin milldam that caused floods of the plaintiff's property despite state law making it a felony to "injure a milldam").

This could be an excavated ditch or a connection caused by the rise in the water level of Lake Mutsina, induced by the construction of milldams on its outflow.

private parties--such as developers of milldams and railroads--so that

Thus, Boegel and Hine were able to grind grain year 'round, independent of a river's fickle temperament when flows were reduced to a trickle during droughts, or floodwaters washed away milldams and destroyed structures, as well as expensive equipment.

Let me say this again: I loved this book, as only one who pours over old pictures of milldams and waterwheels can love such a book.

mill owners to install fishways in their milldams. (64) For example,

beneficial uses by private enterprises: railroads, milldams, water power