Rivers and Harbors Appropriation Bill, Volumes 1-3U.S. Government Printing Office, 1915 |
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12 feet ACTING CHAIRMAN adopted Albemarle Canal Albemarle Sound amount appropriation barges bbls Beaufort Inlet Bluff Browns Island bush carried cents channel Chesapeake & Albemarle Chief of Engineers commerce through lock committee completed Congress construction Continuing improvement cost DEAKYNE depth Dismal Swamp Canal district officer dredge Engineer officer estimate Fayetteville feet b. m. freight galls Government harbor act harbors bill item was agreed JERVEY Kansas City Kind of boat locks and dams maintenance miles Miscellaneous building mate Miscellaneous food Mississippi River Missouri months mouth navigation necessary Neuse River Norfolk operation Orleans Pamlico Sound Piling Pittsburgh plant Quan railroad rates recommended repairs revetment river and harbor route Senator BURTON Senator NELSON Senator RANSDELL Senator SHIELDS Senator SIMMONS Senator SMITH Shoal Shreveport SMITH of Michigan STICKLE TAYLOR tity tonnage tons Total TOWNSEND traffic trestle waterway Wilmington WINSLOW
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Page 138 - An Act making appropriations for the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes...
Page 116 - Columbia River and tributaries above Celilo Falls to the mouth of Snake River...
Page 149 - Mexico, to be completed within twenty years; of the Mississippi River between the mouth of the Missouri and the mouth of the Ohio River...
Page 120 - That the Secretary of War may enter into a contract or contracts for such materials and work as may be necessary to complete the said project, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law...
Page 163 - That hereafter, in the printing and binding of documents or reports emanating from the Executive Departments, bureaus, and independent offices of the Government, the cost of which is now charged to the allotment for printing and binding for Congress, or to appropriations or allotments of appropriations other than those made to the Executive Departments, bureaus, or independent offices of the Government, the cost of illustrations, composition, stereotyping, and other work involved in the actual preparation...
Page 62 - ... appropriation is as specific as the nature of the case admits. The changeable character of the river renders it impracticable to give in advance the exact locality where works will be required. The original estimated cost of this improvement of the river between the mouth of the Ohio and the mouth of the Missouri River, as revised in 1883, is $16,397,500.
Page 96 - Parish of Lafourche, State of Louisiana, and the head of the bayou at its junction with the Mississippi River levee at the city of Donaldsonville, Parish of Ascension, State of Louisiana, is hereby declared to be a nonnavigable waterway of the United States within the meaning of the laws of the United States.
Page 16 - The CHAIRMAN. We, are very much obliged to you for the information you have given the committee.
Page 90 - ... total estimated cost of $400,000. The act further provides that no work shall be done by the United States on said project until the Secretary of War is satisfied that the portion of the work contemplated in this project to be done by the Florida East Coast Railway Co. will be promptly completed, nor until the Secretary of War is satisfied that suitable terminal facilities will be provided as contemplated by paragraph 8 of the report of the Board of Engineers for...
Page 14 - WASHINGTON, DC The committee met at 10 o'clock am, pursuant to adjournment. Present: Senators Dillingham (chairman), Gamble, Jones, Kenyon, Johnston, Fletcher, and Kern.