Report of the Chief of Engineers U.S. ArmyU.S. Government Printing Office, 1902 |
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amount appropriated approved authorized azimuth Back azimuth bridge built canal cement channel Chief of Engineers Clair Clair River completed construction Continuing improvement contract corner of section Corps of Engineers Creek cubic yards depth Detroit Detroit River dikes discharge dredging East Base ENGINEER OFFICE expended feet wide Fifty-sixth Congress foot gauge Geodetic hereby House Document Numbered Huron Improving harbor inches Island July June 30 Lake Huron Lake Michigan Lake Superior Latitude length lengths-Continued light-house linear feet Lock longitude Mackinac Madeline maintenance Marys River ment mile mouth navigation Oswego Park piers piles Point Provided Proviso Railroad Company Railway Company repairs reservoir rithms road roadway Secretary Secretary of War shore line side span station Straits of Mackinac street submitted in House survey Table of positions thereof thousand dollars tion triangulation United Washington Washington Aqueduct West Base wharves
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Page 3100 - Provided, That a contract or contracts may be entered into by the Secretary of War for such materials and work...
Page 3063 - That any bridge constructed under this act, and according to its limitations, shall be a lawful structure, and shall be recognized and known as a post-route, upon which, also, no higher charge shall be made for the transmission over the same of the mails, the troops, and the munitions of war of the United States than the rate per mile paid for the transportation over the railroads or public highways leading to said bridge...
Page 3086 - Sec. 3. That any bridge constructed under this Act, and according to its limitations, shall be a lawful structure, and shall be recognized and known as a post-route, upon which, also, no higher charge shall be made for the transmission over the same of the mails, the troop*, and the munitions of war of the United States, than the rate per mile paid for their transportation over the railroads or public highways leading to said bridge ; and the United States shall have the right of way for postal telegraph...
Page 3058 - ... approved June thirteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, entitled "An Act to provide ways and means to meet war expenditures, and for other purposes...
Page 3069 - ... payment of a reasonable compensation for such use; and in case the owner or owners of said bridge and the several railroad companies, or any one of them, desiring such use, shall fail to agree upon the sum, or sums to be paid, and upon rules and conditions to which each shall conform in using said bridge, all matters at issue between them shall be decided by the Secretary of War, opon a hearing of the allegations and! proofs of the parties.
Page 3042 - That any bridge authorized to be constructed under this act shall be built and located under and subject to such regulations for the security of navigation of said river as the Secretary of War shall prescribe; and, to secure that object, the said company or corporation shall submit to the Secretary of War, for his examination and approval, a design and drawings of the bridge, and a map of the location, giving, for the space of...
Page 3196 - Act shall be a lawful structure and shall be recognized and known as a post route, upon which no higher charge shall be made for the transmission over the same of the mails, the troops, and the munitions of war of the United States than the rate per mile paid for the transportation over any railroad, street railway, or public highway leading to said bridge...
Page 3087 - War ; and in case of any litigation arising from any obstruction or alleged obstruction to navigation created by the construction of any bridge under this Act.
Page 3095 - That the following sums of money be, and are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be immediately available, and to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War and the supervision of the Chief of Engineers...
Page 3094 - Where said works are done by contract, such contract shall be made after sufficient public advertisement for proposals, in such manner and form as the...