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100 feet wide 12 feet act of June Amount estimated amount expended Annual Report Appendix appropriation approved June 13 April 28 August 11 balance available balance unexpended July Board of Engineers breakwater bridge canal Chief of Engineers commerce completion of existing compliance with requirements construction Corps of Engineers covered by uncompleted Creek cubic yards depth dredging ending June 30 estimated cost examination and survey existing project expended during fiscal expended in fiscal feet at mean feet deep Fifty-eighth Congress fiscal year ending harbor act harbor act approved head of navigation House Document jetty June 13 Lake maintenance of improvement maximum draft mean low water miles Mississippi River mouth obstructions original project piers Preliminary examination present project printed in House profitably expended required for completion requirements of sundry river and harbor second session Secretary of War September 19 shoals snags Submitted in compliance sundry civil act tons vessels width
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Página 705 - An Act making appropriations for the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors and for other purposes...
Página 710 - SEC. 5. That it shall be the duty of all persons owning, operating, and tending the drawbridges now built, or which may hereafter be built across the navigable rivers and other waters of the United States, to open, or cause to be opened, the draws of such bridges under such rules and regulations as in the opinion of the Secretary of War the public interests require to govern the opening of drawbridges for the passage of vessels and other water crafts, and such rules and regulations, when so made...
Página 514 - That a contractor contracts may be entered into by the Secretary of War for such materials and work as may be necessary for the completion of said project, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate eighty thousand dollars', exclusive of the amounts herein and heretofore appropriated...
Página 371 - Provided, that a contract or contracts may be entered into by the Secretary of War for such materials and work as may be necessary to prosecute such project, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate...
Página 17 - For purchase and repair of instruments, to be issued to Officers of the Corps of Engineers and to officers detailed and on duty as acting engineer officers for use on public works and surveys 5,000 Total 16,500 ENGINEER EQUIPMENT OF TROOPS AND CIVILIAN ASSISTANTS TO ENGINEER OFFICERS.
Página 17 - For incidental expenses of the depot, including fuel, lights, chemicals, stationery, hardware, 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 line of their military duties, such as carpenters, blacksmiths, draftsmen, printers, lithographers, photographers, engine drivers...
Página 367 - That a contract or contracts may be entered into by the Secretary of War for such materials and work as may be necessary to prosecute the approved and modified project, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate nine hundred and fifty thousand dollars, exclusive of the amounts herein and heretofore appropriated...
Página 442 - Burnside, Ky., 325 miles, for steamboats drawing not more than 3 feet, from four to six months of each year, and for boats of greater draft from two to three months. The fall is 223 feet, or about 8 inches per mile. From Nashville to Caney Fork River (Carthage, 116 miles) the river is navigable for steamboats of 2£ feet draft from six to eight months, and for those of greater draft four or five months. Steamboats of light draft can ascend to Burkesville, 236 miles above Nashville, for from five...
Página 145 - Engineers for 1886, page 756. By act of Congress of August 30, 1852, $1,500 was appropriated for and expended upon a survey to ascertain the extent of a break through the beach between the Shrewsbury River and the ocean, but no work of improvement was begun. First project: By act of Congress of July 11, 1870, a survey of the river was ordered.
Página 379 - That the work at this harbor shall be confined to the completion of the north "jetty in accordance with the design and specifications of the Aransas Pass Harbor Company, and in continuation of the work heretofore carried out on said jetty by said company, and to such additional work as may be necessary for strengthening such jetty, and for the removal of such part of the old Government jetty and any other hard material which may interfere with the formation of a channel by the natural action of the...