Report of the Chief of Engineers U.S. Army

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1908
 

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Сторінка 641 - Engineers, a board of five engineer officers, whose duties shall be fixed by the Chief of Engineers, and to whom shall be referred for consideration and recommendation, in addition to any other duties assigned, so far as in the opinion of the Chief of Engineers...
Сторінка 632 - Provided, That a contract or contracts may be entered into by the Secretary of the Navy for such materials and work as may be necessary to prosecute said project, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate five hundred and forty-nine thousand dollars, exclusive of the amounts herein and heretofore appropriated...
Сторінка 641 - An Act making appropriations for the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes...
Сторінка 100 - June 3, 1896, provided for securing a ship canal 400 feet wide and of a depth of 25 feet at mean low water from Sassafras Point, in Providence Harbor, through Providence River and Narragansett Bay by the most direct route practicable to the ocean by way of the "Western Passage," so called, at an estimated cost of $732,820.
Сторінка 27 - ... extra-duty pay to soldiers necessarily employed for periods not less than ten days as artificers on work in addition to and not strictly in the...
Сторінка 286 - The improvement has resulted in the formation of a navigable channel 5 feet deep at mean low water from the mouth of the river to the head of navigation.
Сторінка 643 - Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support and maintenance of the permanent international commission of the congresses of navigation and for the payment of the actual expenses of the properly accredited national delegates of the United States to the...
Сторінка 668 - Northern and Northwestern Lakes, including all necessary expenses for preparing, correcting, extending, printing, and issuing charts and bulletins, and of investigating lake levels with a view to their regulation, to be immediately available and to remain available until expended $150, 000.
Сторінка 665 - Bayfield, of the royal navy (English), and these were not in general use by the masters of American vessels. These charts were the results of rapid reconnaissances, and although they showed the coast lines with an accuracy which is remarkable, considering the rough methods of surveying employed, they were of little value as hydrographical charts of the American coast, because they showed the depths of water in comparatively few places, and but a small number of the many reefs and shoals which are...
Сторінка 645 - ... within two years after the passage of this Act, at a point not less than five hundred feet above the site of the present Long Bridge, a new and substantial bridge for highway travel, of iron or steel, resting upon masonry piers and provided with suitable approaches, and with a...

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