Report of the Chief of Engineers U.S. Army, Part 3U.S. Government Printing Office, 1908 Includes the Report of the Mississippi River Commission, 1881-19 . |
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act of June allotment amount expended appropriation April August August 18 balance unexpended bank barges Bend boat boiler bridge Cairo canal caving channel mattress Chief of Engineers Columbia COMMERCIAL STATISTICS Company completed Congress assem construction contract contractor Corps of Engineers cost cubic yards Dalecarlia Reservoir Date December December 31 dikes dredging ending June 30 Executive Mansion expended during fiscal fiscal year ending foot gauge graded harbor act hereby Inventory of public Island July July 13 June 13 June 30 Lake levee district linear feet mahogany maintenance of improvement miles Mississippi River Commission Money statement navigation nineteen hundred Number operations outstanding liabilities painted paving placed plant Plates Point pounds profitably expended Railroad repairs reservation revetment riprap river and harbor rock scow season square yards station steamer stone street sundry civil act survey thousand dollars tion tons Total United vessels Washington Washington Aqueduct
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Page 2616 - That all material purchased under the foregoing provisions of this act shall be of American manufacture, except in cases when, in the judgment of the Secretary of War, it is to the manifest interest of the United States to make purchases in limited quantities abroad, which material shall be admitted free of duty.
Page 2632 - States, any claim upon or against the Government of the United States, or any department or officer thereof, knowing such claim to be false, fictitious, or fraudulent; or whoever, for the purpose of obtaining or aiding to obtain the payment or approval of...
Page 2621 - That whenever any arrest is made under the provisions of this act, the person so arrested shall be brought forthwith before a commissioner, judge, or court of the United States for examination of the offenses alleged against him ; and such commissioner, judge, or court shall proceed in respect thereto as authorized by law In case of crimes against the United States.
Page 2623 - The 1928 act authorized $5,000,000 which has been exhausted and the 1936 act authorized $15,000,000 to replenish these funds "to be allocated by the Secretary of War on the recommendation of the Chief of Engineers in rescue work or in the repair and maintenance of any flood-control work on any tributaries of the Mississippi River threatened or destroyed by flood heretofore or hereafter occurring.
Page 2632 - ... having charge, possession, custody, or control of any money or other public property used or to be used in the military or naval service...
Page 2626 - An act to increase the limit of cost of certain public buildings ; to authorize the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of certain public buildings ; to authorize the erection and completion of public buildings ; to authorize the purchase of sites for public buildings, and for other purposes.
Page 2616 - To enable the board to make all needful and proper purchases, experiments and tests to ascertain, with a view to their utilization by the Government, the most effective guns, small arms, cartridges, projectiles, fuses, explosives, torpedoes, armor plates, and other implements and engines of war...
Page 2634 - ... physician as to the cause and nature of the injury and probable duration of the incapacity, or the nonproduction of the certificate shall be satisfactorily accounted for. If the Secretary of Commerce and Labor shall find from the report and affidavit or other evidence produced by the claimant or his or her legal representatives, or from such additional investigation as the Secretary of Commerce and Labor...
Page 2633 - Act, and which results in death or a probable incapacity for work, it shall be the duty of the official superior of such employee to at once report such accident and the injury resulting therefrom to the head of his Bureau...
Page 2632 - August first, nineteen hundred and eight, any person employed by the United States as an artisan or laborer in any of its manufacturing establishments, arsenals, or navy yards, or in the construction of river and harbor or fortification work or in hazardous employment on construction work in the reclamation of arid lands or the management and control of the same, or in hazardous employment under the Isthmian Canal Commission...