Annual Reports of the War Department, Part 4U.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 hundred Huron Improving harbor inches Island July June 30 Lake Huron Lake Michigan Lake Superior Latitude length light-house linear feet Lock longitude Mackinac Marys River ment mile mouth navigation Oswego Park piers piles Point Provided Proviso Railroad Company Railway Company repairs reservoir road roadway Seconds in meters 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 3090 - 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 3091 - 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 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 purposes...
Page 2753 - For fuel, lights, oil, waste, packing, tools, matches, paints, brushes, brooms, lanterns, rope, nails, screws, lead, electric lights, heating apparatus, oil stoves for elevator car and upper and lower floors, repairs to engines, boilers, dynamos...
Page 3113 - 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...
Page 3092 - That nothing in this act shall be so construed as to repeal or modify any of the provisions of law now existing in reference to the protection of the navigation of rivers, or to exempt this bridge from the operation of the same.
Page 3107 - ... approaches thereto, under and upon such terms and conditions as shall be prescribed by the Secretary of War, upon hearing the allegations and proofs of the parties in case they shall not agree.
Page 3097 - ... the location of any other bridge or bridges, and shall furnish such other information as may be required for a full and satisfactory understanding of the subject; And until the said plan and location of the bridge...
Page 2752 - ... and authority is hereby given to substitute other illuminating material for the same or less price, and to use so much of the sum hereby appropriated as may be necessary for that purpose.
Page 3090 - ... and the soundings, accurately showing the bed of the stream, the location of any other bridge or bridges, and shall furnish such other information as may be required for a full and satisfactory understanding of the subject; and until the said plan...
Page 3164 - That a contract or contracts may be entered into by the Secretary of the Navy for such materials and work as may be necessary to prosecute said project, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate five hundred and forty-nine thousand dollars, exclusive of the amounts herein and heretofore appropriated...