Annual Reports of the War Department, Part 3U.S. Government Printing Office, 1916 |
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63d Cong Amount expended Amount in customary APPROPRIATIONS April balance unexpended bank Barge barrels Bend boat breakwater bridge bushels Cairo canal channel Chief of Engineers Coal commencement COMMERCIAL STATISTICS completed concrete construction cost cubic yards Date of approval Date of beginning Date of contract December depth dredging dumper expenditures feet b. m. flood Freight traffic gauge grade gravel hereby hired labor improvement inspected while passing July 25 June 13 June 25 June 30 Lake levee district levee line linear feet Lock and Dam long tons maintenance March material miles below Cairo Miscellaneous Mississippi River Commission Name of contractor nineteen hundred Operations and results Park pier plant pockets pounds Present project projects see H receipts Reserve revetment riprap river and harbor scow Season of navigation Sept short tons Steamers stone sundry civil surveys tion United United States attorney Vessel classification
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Page 3718 - For fuel, lights, oil, waste, packing, tools, matches, paints, brushes, brooms, lanterns, rope, nails, screws, lead, electric lights, heating apparatus, oil stoves for elevator car and upper and lower floors, repairs to engines, boilers, dynamos...
Page 3694 - That whenever a ribbon issued under the provisions of this act shall have been lost, destroyed, or rendered unfit for use without fault or neglect on the part of the person to whom it was issued, a new ribbon shall be issued to such person without charge therefor.
Page 3299 - ... take into consideration and mature such plan or plans and estimates as will correct, permanently locate, and deepen the channel and protect the banks of the Mississippi River, improve and give safety and ease to the navigation thereof, prevent destructive floods, promote and facilitate commerce, trade, and the postal service...
Page 3661 - That the expenditures on this account for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen shall not exceed $50,400 ; the Secretary of War shall each year, in the annual estimates, report to Congress the number of persons so employed, their duties, and the amount paid to each.
Page 3661 - War may deem necessary, may be employed only in the office of the Chief of Engineers, to carry into effect the various appropriations for rivers and harbors, fortifications, and...
Page 3771 - Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters," approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six.
Page 3718 - ... shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States...
Page 3689 - Army shall have been detailed as professor of military science and tactics, nor until such institution shall maintain under military instruction at least one hundred physically fit...
Page 3659 - ... of this Act. SEC. 3. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Amendment Act is hereby expressly reserved. Approved, April 28, 1916.
Page 3752 - The Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed to cause preliminary examinations and surveys to be made at the followingnamed localities, and a sufficient sum to pay the cost thereof may be allotted from the amount provided in this section : Androscoggin River, Mame, between Merrymeeting Bay and Lewiston and Auburn.