Michigan Engineers' Annual Containing the Proceedings of the Michigan Engineering Society, Volumes 13-151892 |
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Page 37
... ground . MR . AMES : The Hermitage on the corner of Canal and Bridge streets is trimmed with the red sandstone , Lake Superior stone , and the Michigan Trust Company building is the one mentioned last evening , one block from here ...
... ground . MR . AMES : The Hermitage on the corner of Canal and Bridge streets is trimmed with the red sandstone , Lake Superior stone , and the Michigan Trust Company building is the one mentioned last evening , one block from here ...
Page 38
... ground in masses as large as a horse can draw , and when they are broken open each one is different . I do not think that any one kind would be so desirable . It is the mixture that makes the beauty . If we went up to the quarries in ...
... ground in masses as large as a horse can draw , and when they are broken open each one is different . I do not think that any one kind would be so desirable . It is the mixture that makes the beauty . If we went up to the quarries in ...
Page 45
... be seen with the naked eye a long way from shore . The whitewashed figures , on a back- ground of fir trees , were conspicuous objects . LOCATION OF BUOYS . These buoys are instrumentally located by HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYING . 45.
... be seen with the naked eye a long way from shore . The whitewashed figures , on a back- ground of fir trees , were conspicuous objects . LOCATION OF BUOYS . These buoys are instrumentally located by HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYING . 45.
Page 49
... ground and , as the water was very clear , we could see the bottom plainly , and our lost buoys lying there prone on the ripple - marked sand ! They were suffered to remain there . The writer was then ordered to make some buoys to suit ...
... ground and , as the water was very clear , we could see the bottom plainly , and our lost buoys lying there prone on the ripple - marked sand ! They were suffered to remain there . The writer was then ordered to make some buoys to suit ...
Page 51
... ground . Anticipating the final adoption of this line , the writer had buoyed it out , so that within one hour after he received his orders to make the change , the dredges were swinging their cranes in the new channel line . It was at ...
... ground . Anticipating the final adoption of this line , the writer had buoyed it out , so that within one hour after he received his orders to make the change , the dredges were swinging their cranes in the new channel line . It was at ...
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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.
Page 191 - CO., who have had nearly fifty years' experience in the patent business. Communications strictly confidential. A Ilanilbnnk of Information concerning 1'ntents and bow to obtain them sent free. Also a catalogue of mechanical and scientific books sent free. Patents taken through Munn & Co. receive special notice in the Scientific American, and thus are brought widely before the public without cost to the inventor.
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.