Annual Report of the Board of Harbor Commissioners to the General Assembly at Its January Session, Випуски 16 – 30Pawtucket Linotyping Company, 1892 |
Інші видання - Показати все
Загальні терміни та фрази
00 August 00 June 12 feet depth 25 feet accompanying plans amount expended AMOUNTS APPROPRIATED Annual Report August 18 balance unexpended Block Island Board breakwater channel Chief of Engineers city of Providence commenced commerce arriving COMMERCIAL STATISTICS Company complete the existing contract Corps of Engineers cubic yards dredging drive piles easterly ending June 30 entrance existing project expended during fiscal feet at mean feet deep feet wide feet width fiscal year ending Fox Point Goat Island harbor act Harbor Commissioners harbor line harbor of refuge improvement inner harbor jetty June 30 latitude south longitude east mean low water MONEY STATEMENT Narragansett Bay navigation nearest fortification Number obstruction Operations contemplated past fiscal Pawtucket Pleasure boats point marked Point street bridge Providence River railroad removed required to complete Rhode Island river and harbor rock Sakonnet Sakonnet River Secretary of War Seekonk river shore street survey Tons Total vessels westerly wharf wharves Wickford
Популярні уривки
Сторінка 13 - ... any refuse matter of any kind or description whatever other than that flowing from streets and sewers and passing therefrom in a liquid state, into any navigable water of the United States...
Сторінка 12 - States, outside established harbor lines, or where no harbor lines have been established, except on plans recommended by the Chief of Engineers and authorized by the Secretary of War; and it shall not be lawful to excavate or nil, 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...
Сторінка 17 - And they constitute navigable waters of the United States within the meaning of the acts of Congress, in contradistinction from the navigable waters of the States, when they form in their ordinary condition by themselves, or by uniting with other waters, a continued highway over which commerce is or may be carried on with other States or foreign countries in the customary modes in which such commerce is conducted by water.
Сторінка 16 - That whenever the Secretary of War shall have good reason to believe that any railroad or other bridge now constructed, or which may hereafter be constructed, over any of the navigable waterways of the United States is an unreasonable obstruction to the free navigation of such waters...
Сторінка 16 - War, and within the time prescribed by him willfully fail or refuse to remove the same or to comply with the lawful order of the Secretary of War in the premises, such persons, corporation, or association shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor...
Сторінка 11 - Provided, That such structures may be built under authority of the legislature of a State across rivers and other waterways the navigable portions of which lie wholly within the limits of a single State, provided the location and plans thereof are submitted to and approved by the Chief of Engineers and by the Secretary of War...
Сторінка 18 - That the creation of any obstruction, not affirmatively authorized by law, to the navigable capacity of any waters, in respect of which the United States has jurisdiction, is hereby prohibited.
Сторінка 16 - Act the person so arrested shall be brought forthwith before a commissioner, judge or court of the United States for examination of the offenses alleged against him . and such commissioner, judge, or court shall proceed in respect thereto as authorized by law In case of crimes against the United States.
Сторінка 16 - Secretary, first giving the parties reasonable opportunity to be heard, to give notice to the persons or corporations owning or controlling such bridge so to alter the same as to render navigation through or under it reasonably free, easy, and unobstructed...
Сторінка 16 - Engineers that are required to be made, and shall prescribe in each case a reasonable time in which to make them. If at the end of such time the alteration has not been made, the Secretary of War shall forthwith notify the United States district attorney for the district in which such bridge is situated, to the end that the criminal proceedings hereinafter mentioned may be taken.