Michigan Engineers' Annual Containing the Proceedings of the Michigan Engineering Society, Volumes 13-151892 |
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... Curves , E W. Muenscher .. 82 Fundamental Principles of the Construction of Surveying Instruments , L. Beckman 94 Notes in a Rolling Mill , E. H. Mumford 101 The Arch : Its Action , Chas . E. Greene 108 The Disposal of Sewage on Land ...
... Curves , E W. Muenscher .. 82 Fundamental Principles of the Construction of Surveying Instruments , L. Beckman 94 Notes in a Rolling Mill , E. H. Mumford 101 The Arch : Its Action , Chas . E. Greene 108 The Disposal of Sewage on Land ...
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... curve to meet deck , which is a flat oval , thus giving the whole cross section nearly the form of a plate girder bridge . Just a small iron tower for the people to live in . It carries from 2,000 to 2,500 tons . The way they build at ...
... curve to meet deck , which is a flat oval , thus giving the whole cross section nearly the form of a plate girder bridge . Just a small iron tower for the people to live in . It carries from 2,000 to 2,500 tons . The way they build at ...
Page 43
... curve , technically so - called , the first buoy was dropped . The line was extended up and down the coast several miles , but within a convenient row to camp . These buoys in line were several minutes apart or from 500 to 1,000 feet ...
... curve , technically so - called , the first buoy was dropped . The line was extended up and down the coast several miles , but within a convenient row to camp . These buoys in line were several minutes apart or from 500 to 1,000 feet ...
Page 44
... curve was found . Then another line of buoys was strung out . In the same manner the three - fathom curve was found and marked with buoys . Care was taken all the while to place the buoys at equal distances apart on all the curves , or ...
... curve was found . Then another line of buoys was strung out . In the same manner the three - fathom curve was found and marked with buoys . Care was taken all the while to place the buoys at equal distances apart on all the curves , or ...
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... curves had not been drawn . Perhaps the men were careless in sounding and , if the sudden jump from seven feet , the depth of water on the clay flats , to thirty feet , aroused their attention , they probably concluded that the thirty ...
... curves had not been drawn . Perhaps the men were careless in sounding and , if the sudden jump from seven feet , the depth of water on the clay flats , to thirty feet , aroused their attention , they probably concluded that the thirty ...
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Page 14 - I was not ever thus, nor prayed that thou shouldst lead me on; I loved to choose and see my path; but now lead thou me on. I loved the garish day, and, spite of fears, pride ruled my will: remember not past years. So long thy power hath blest me, sure it still will lead me on, o'er moor and fen, o'er crag and torrent, till the night is gone, and with the morn those angel faces smile, which I have loved long since, and lost awhile.
Page 129 - Whether, as rules of property, it would now be safe to change these doctrines where they have been applied, as before remarked, is for the several States themselves to determine. If they choose to resign to the riparian proprietor rights which properly belong to them in their sovereign capacity, it is not for others to raise objections.
Page 86 - Miami river of the lake, then and in that case, with the assent of the Congress of the United States, the northern boundary of this State shall be established by, and extend to, a direct line running from the southern extremity of Lake Michigan to the most northerly cape of the Miami bay...
Page 130 - But grants of land, bounded on rivers, or upon margins of the same, or along the same, above tide water, carry the exclusive right and title of the grantee to the center of the stream, unless the terms of the grant clearly denote the intention to stop at the edge or margin of the river...
Page 121 - The State shall not be a party to or interested in any work of internal improvement, nor engaged in carrying on any such work, except in the expenditure of grants to the State of land or other property.
Page 235 - All the corners marked in the surveys returned by the surveyor-general shall bo established as the proper corners of sections, or subdivisions of sections, which they were intended to designate, and the corners of half and quarter sections, not marked on the surveys, shall be placed as nearly as possible equidistant from two corners which stand on the same line.
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Page 249 - Municipal and other corporations and individuals invested with the privilege of taking private property for public use, shall make just compensation for property taken, injured, or destroyed by the construction or enlargement of their works, highways, or improvements, which compensation shall be paid or secured before such taking, injury, or destruction.