Report of the Chief of Engineers U.S. ArmyU.S. Government Printing Office, 1895 |
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angles appropriation approved Aqueduct Assistant Engineer azimuths Bacon Island bank barges boat bridge brush dam Burnt Point camp channel Chief of Engineers City completed Congress construction Corps of Engineers cost Creek Crib cubic yards Detour dike dike construction District of Columbia Dodds Island ending June 30 estimate extended feet long fiscal year ending foot Fort St Gasconade Gasconade River gravel Harbor Hay Lake hereby hydraulic improvement inches July June 30 Labor Lake George linear feet located March Marys River masonry mattress miles mining Missouri River mouth navigation necessary Osage Osage River party pier piles placed plant Pointe aux Frênes railroad ravine repairs reservoir revetment rock Rocky Point Salters Hill Sault Sault Ste Secretary Secretary of War shore side soundings square stakes stations steamer stream street survey thousand dollars tion Total United Washington Washington Aqueduct Winter Point Yuba
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Page 4257 - Company," and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and shall be able to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, defend and be defended, in all courts of law and equity within the United States, and may make and have a common seal.
Page 4243 - ... now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure we are met on a great battlefield of that war we have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live...
Page 4251 - War, obstruct such navigation, he is hereby authorized to cause such change or alteration of said bridge to be made as will effectually obviate such obstruction ; and all such alterations shall be made and all such obstructions be removed at the expense of the owner or owners Litigation.
Page 4262 - ... be commenced within one year and completed within three years from the date of the passage of such act.
Page 4263 - That any bridge constructed under this Act and according to its limitations shall be a lawful structure, and shall be recognized and known as a post route, upon which also no higher charge shall be made for the transmission over the same of the mails, the troops, and the munitions of war of the United States, than the rate per mile paid for their transportation over the railroads or public highways leading to said bridge; and the United States shall have the right of way for postal telegraph purposes...
Page 4048 - That said commission, or a committee therefrom or officer of said corps assigned to duty under its orders, shall, whenever deemed necessary, visit said territory and all mines operating under the provisions of this act. A report of such examination shall be placed on file.
Page 4248 - War, for his examination and approval, a design and drawings of the bridge, and a map of the location, giving, for the space of one mile above and one mile below the proposed location...
Page 4251 - That nothing in this act shall be so construed as to repeal or modify any of the provisions of law now existing in reference to the protection of the navigation of rivers, or to exempt this bridge from the operation of the same.
Page 4248 - That the structure herein authorized shall be built and located under and subject to such regulations for the security of navigation of said river as the Secretary of War shall prescribe...
Page 4268 - Act; and said lamps shall burn not less than three thousand hours per annum; and authority is hereby given to substitute other illuminating material for the same or less price, and to use so much of the sum hereby appropriated as may be necessary for that purpose...