Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from River Improvement Laws: In Other States and Countries
Under these circumstances it is evident that a study of the reclamation and protection laws of the Nether lands must be of great value to Californians who are interested in a similar undertaking, the reclamation of the delta lands of the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers, and their permanent protection from ?oods This study will be all the more fruitful because the Netherlands are like the Americans, jealous of their local self-government and little inclined to allow their rulers much power of interference with private rights and property. If their laws, no matter how beneficial and effective, had been imposed upon them by some despotic authority, their experience could be a guide to us in much less degree than is now possible.
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