Annual Reports of the War Department, Part 1U.S. Government Printing Office, 1881 |
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00 Amount estimated 00 July 00 See Appendix 12 feet Abstract of proposals act approved March act of June act of March Amount appropriated amount available amount expended appropriated by act batteries bidder Board of Engineers breakwater bridge canal channel Chief of Engineers Christiana River commenced completion of existing construction contract Corps of Engineers Creek cubic yards defense Delaware Delaware River dike dredging ending June 30 entrance exclusive of outstanding existing project Amount expended during fiscal expended in fiscal expended to June feet at mean feet deep feet wide fiscal year ending harbor act Island jetty June 14 Lake Lieut mean low-water miles Mississippi River mouth navigation obstructions outstanding liabilities July piers Point port present project profitably expended removal repairs required for completion river and harbor rock shoal shore snags survey thousand dollars tion tons torpedo vessels wharf width Willets Point William Flannery York
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Page 63 - The funds with which the works for the improvement of rivers and harbors were prosecuted during the past year were derived from the appropriations of the act of August 2, 1882, together with such few balances as were on hand from previous appropriations.
Page 172 - This object was to be attained by closing the openings between the islands by means of dams and contracting the area of cross-section of the south channel, to secure a larger volume of flow in the north channel. It was estimated that the construction of these various dams up to the level of ordinary...
Page 371 - An act providing a permanent form of government for the District of Columbia...
Page 535 - An act making appropriations for the construction, repair, and preservation of certain works on rivers and harbors...
Page 370 - That no decoration, or other thing, the acceptance of which acceptance. is authori/ed by this act, and no decoration heretofore accepted, or which may hereafter be accepted, by consent of Congress, by any officer of the United States, from any foreign government, shall be publicly shown or exposed upon the person of the officer so receiving the same.
Page 15 - Corps of Engineers. — This work, commenced in 1842. is situated on the Niagara River, within the limits of the city of Buffalo, and consists of a square stone tower or keep, in ruins, surrounded by a square barbette battery. The keep was nearly destroyed by fire many years ago, and the entire work is, in its present condition, useless for offense or defense. By joint resolution of Congress, approved July 11, 1870, published in General Orders 93, July 22, 1870, permission was granted to the city...
Page 390 - Bay, Lake Huron. The Calumet River from South Chicago to the village of Pullman, on Lake Calumet. For a further survey of James River, for the purpose of ascertaining the practicability and cost of procuring a channel of twenty-five feet at full tide from Richmond to the mouth of the river Survey of Upper Machodoc Creek, a tributary of Potomac River.
Page 324 - IMPROVEMENT OF RIVERS AND HARBORS IN OREGON AND IN WASHINGTON TERRITORY — IMPROVEMENT OF LOWER CLEARWATER RIVER, IDAHO— CONSTRUCTION OF CASCADES CANAL, COLUMBIA RIVER. Officer in charge, Maj. GL Gillespie, Corps of Engineers, having under his immediate orders Capt.
Page 527 - Beach, which is a narrow strip of land that, extends 2J miles out from the mainland, in a northwesterly direction, nearly parallel to the shore of the town of Plymouth, and distant from it about 1 mile. It affords to the harbor its only shelter from easterly storms. In late years it has been washed away in some places, and much weakened in others, to an extent seriously threatening the ruin of the. harbor. For the protection and preservation of this beach various works have been built from time to...
Page 617 - I have the honor to transmit herewith the annual reports upon the river and harbor works in my charge for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1881./ Very respectfully, your obedient servant, JOHN NEWTON, Colonel of Uiiyineers, Bvt.