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prive the public schools of large amounts of money which otherwise would be available for educating our children and (3) that the Congress was proposing to do some damage to our judical system by overturning decisions of the Supreme Court
The facts, actually, are these:
S. J. Res. 13, as the bill before the Senate is known, merely provides that the States shall have clear title to ownership'of lands beneath navigable waters within their boundaries and of the resources on or in those lands and that the federal government gives up any claim to such property. Not provision is made with respect to resources of the continental shelf, which lies beyond the historical three miles boundaries of the coastal states and the bill would have no effect on the Constitutional powers of the federal government to regulate commerce, provide for the common defense or to conduct international affairs in the navigable waters within state boundaries.
It is only in recent ye?r" that the federal government has claimed these off-shore property rights but the states had enjoyed them for many years and developed great wealth in seafood industries, sand and mineral extraction, filling-in to make new lands and building structures such as piers over the waters. Virginia, of course, has been a participant in this program and would have much to lose if the federal claims were sustained. That the pending bill is not something of selfish interest to only a few states is indicated by the fact that since 1938 officials of 47 states have appeared in support of similar
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