A History of the Jetties at the Mouth of the Mississippi RiverJ. Wiley & Sons, 1881 - 383 páginas |
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A History of the Jetties at the Mouth of the Mississippi River Elmer Lawrence Corthell Visualização integral - 1880 |
A History of the Jetties at the Mouth of the Mississippi River Elmer Lawrence Corthell Visualização integral - 1880 |
A History of the Jetties at the Mouth of the Mississippi River Elmer Lawrence Corthell Visualização integral - 1880 |
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advance Barnard Board bottom canal Capt Chief of Engineers Coast Survey commerce Commission Comstock Congress construction cost crest cubic yards curve Danube deep channel deepening deposit depth and width depth of water discharge dredging dyke east jetty East Point estimate feet deep feet depth feet in depth feet in width feet wide fifty feet Fort Saint Philip Fort St foundation mattresses guide piles gulf Gulf of Mexico head Humphreys hundred and fifty hundred feet improvement inches increase jetties and auxiliary jetty channel jetty system land's end Major Howell miles Mississippi River mouth navigable obtained officer Orleans Pass à Loutre payment permanent Port Eads recommended scour sea end seaward Secretary Secretary of War secured sediment shoal slope South Pass Southwest Pass stone Sulina branch thirty feet thousand feet three hundred tion twenty feet twenty-six feet twenty-two feet velocity west jetty willows
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Página 329 - Eads and his associates, it being expressly understood that while said Eads shall be uutrainmeled in the exercise of his judgment and skill in the location, design, and construction of said jetties and auxiliary works, the intent of this act is not simply to secure the wide and deep channel first above named, but likewise to provide for the construction of thoroughly substantial and permanent works by which said channel may be maintained for all time after their completion.
Página 252 - Congress; and that the sum of $25,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to defray the cost of said survey.
Página 264 - Survey shall, as soon as practicable, cause a careful topographic and hydrographie survey to be made of said pass and bar, and shall submit the same to the Secretary of War, who shall furnish to said Eads the results of any such survey. And the sum of five thousand dollars is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated for said survey and examination SEC.
Página 368 - An act making appropriations for the repair, preservation, and completion of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes, approved June 20, 1872.
Página 66 - ... eccentricity of the river, its scouring and depositing action, its caving banks, the formation of the bars at its mouth, the effect of the waves and tides of the sea upon its currents and deposits...
Página 263 - ... from the date when a channel of said depth and width was first obtained; making a total aggregate of four million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars for the aforesaid payments, the respective depths and widths of channel being measured at average flood tide, as ascertained and determined by the Secretary of War. When a channel thirty feet in depth, and three hundred and fifty feet in width, shall have been obtained by the effect of said jetties and auxiliary works aforesaid, the remaining...
Página 19 - SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the senate and house of representatives of the state of Louisiana...
Página 106 - War, and whose duty it shall be to report the depth of water and width of channel secured and maintained from time to time in said channel, together with such other information as the Secretary of War may direct.
Página 261 - ... to construct such permanent and sufficient jetties and such auxiliary works as are necessary to create and permanently maintain, as hereinafter set forth, a wide and deep channel between the South Pass of the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico...
Página 264 - ... to commit any offense against the United States or to defraud the United States in any manner or for any purpose, and one or more of such parties do any act to effect the object of the conspiracy, all the parties to such conspiracy shall be liable to a penalty of not more than ten thousand dollars, or to imprisonment for not more than two years, or to both fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court.