Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science, Volume 19W.Y. Morgan, 1905 |
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Page 69 - No person shall, within this State, manufacture for sale, offer for sale, or sell any drug or article of food which is adulterated within the meaning of this Act.
Page 49 - ... act. All such authorities, corporations, firms and individuals are hereby required to give notice to said board of their intentions in the premises, and to submit for its advice outlines of their proposed plans or schemes in relation to water supply and disposal of drainage...
Page 48 - Said board shall, from time to time, as it may deem expedient, cause examinations of the said waters to be made for the purpose of ascertaining whether the same are adapted for use as sources of domestic water-supplies or are in a condition likely to impair the interests of the public or persons lawfully using the same or imperil the public health.
Page 48 - Health shall have the general oversight and care of all inland waters, and shall be furnished with maps, plans and documents suitable for this purpose, and records of all its doings in relation thereto shall be kept. It may employ such engineers and clerks and other assistants as it may deem necessary: provided, that no contracts or other acts which involve the payment of money from the treasury of the Commonwealth shall be made or done without an appropriation expressly made therefor by the general...
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Page 115 - Baer, is partially due to the fresh water brought in and also to the number of shallow lagoons surrounding the basin, each being a sort of natural salt pan. At Novo Petrovsk a former bay of the main sea is now divided into a number of basins showing all degrees of saline concentration. One of these has deposited on its banks only a thin layer of salt, a second has the bottom covered with a thick crust of crystals, a third is a compact mass of salt, and a fourth has lost all the water and is a mass...
Page 116 - The concentration is seen on the greatest scale in the Karaboghay (Black Gulf) of the Caspian, whose nearly circular shallow basin is about 90 miles across, and almost entirely cut off by a long narrow spit of land communicating with it by a channel not over 150 yards broad and five feet deep. Through this passes a current with an average velocity of three miles an hour, accelerated by the western winds. This current is due to the indraught produced by excessive evaporation due to the heat and winds...
Page 48 - ... or are in a condition likely to impair the interests of the public or persons lawfully using the same, or imperil the public health. It shall recommend measures for prevention of the pollution of such waters, and for removal of substances and causes of every kind which may be liable to cause pollution thereof, in order to protect and develop the rights and property of the Commonwealth therein and to protect the public health. It shall have authority to conduct experiments to determine the best...