Custodians of the Coast: History of the United States Army Engineers at GalvestonGalveston District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 1977 - 318 стор. |
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1st sess 1st session 2d sess 2d session 66th Congress Act of June Act of March April Aransas Pass ARCE August batteries board of engineers Brazos River Brownsville Buffalo Bayou building canal Capt Chief of Engineers civil coastal Company completed construction Corps of Engineers Corpus Christi dams depth district engineer Document extended federal feet Flood Control gabions Galveston Bay Galveston Daily Galveston District Galveston Engineer Office Galveston Harbor Galveston Island H.R. Doc Harbors Act Houston Ship Channel Hurricane Ibid improvement Intracoastal Waterway jetty July Lavaca levees located Louisiana Mansfield Mexico miles military Morgan navigation Neches River October operations Orleans outer bar Pass Cavallo Point Port Arthur Port Isabel Port of Houston railroad Report Rivers and Harbors Sabine Lake Sabine Pass Sabine River Sabine-Neches seawall September south jetty Stat storm survey Texas City Texas Coast tion turning basin vessels West
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Сторінка 53 - Provided, That contracts may be entered into by the Secretary of War for such materials and work as may be necessary to complete...
Сторінка 212 - ... the Federal Government should improve or participate in the improvement of navigable waters or their tributaries, including watersheds thereof, for flood control purposes if the benefits to whomsoever they may accrue are in excess of the estimated costs, and if the lives and social security of people are otherwise adversely affected.
Сторінка 212 - States, constitute a menace to national welfare; that it is the sense of Congress that flood control on navigable waters or their tributaries is a proper activity of the Federal Government in cooperation with States, their political subdivisions, and localities thereof; that investigations and improvements of rivers and other waterways, including watersheds thereof, for flood-control purposes are in the interest of the general welfare...
Сторінка 52 - ... deep harbor, to be of ample depth, width, and capacity to accommodate the largest oceangoing vessels and the commercial and naval necessities of the country...
Сторінка 228 - Such survey, to be made under the direction of the Chief of Engineers, shall include the securing of data on the behavior and frequency of hurricanes, and the determination of methods of forecasting their paths and improving warning services, and of possible means of preventing loss of human lives and damages to property, with due consideration of the economics of proposed breakwaters, seawalls, dikes, dams, and other structures, warning services, or other measures which might be required. SEC. 3....
Сторінка 61 - The boundary line between the two countries, west of the Mississippi, shall begin on the Gulf of Mexico, at the mouth of the river Sabine, in the sea...
Сторінка 53 - That contracte may be entered into by the Secretary of War for such materials and work as may be necessary to carry out the plan contained in the report of the Chief of Engineers for eighteen hundred and eightysix for the improvement of that harbor, to be paid for as appropriations may from, time to time be made by law. Proposals...
Сторінка 66 - War; and it shall not be lawful to excavate or fill or in any manner to alter or modify the course, location, condition, or capacity of any port, roadstead, haven, harbor, canal, lake, harbor of refuge, or inclosure within the limits of any breakwater, or of the channel of any navigable water of the United States, unless the work has been recommended by the Chief of Engineers and authorized by the Secretary of War prior to beginning the same...
Сторінка 17 - For like military purposes, for expresses, and for reconnoissances, it is believed, the dromedary would supply a want now seriously felt in our service; and for transportation with troops rapidly moving across the country, the camel, it is believed, would remove an obstacle which now serves greatly to diminish the value and efficiency of our troops on the western frontier. For these considerations it is respectfully submitted that the necessary provision be made for the introduction of a sufficient...
Сторінка 1 - The appearance of Galveston from the Harbour is singularly dreary. It is a low flat sandy Island about 30 miles in length & ranging in breadth from i to 2.