House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents: 13th Congress, 2d Session-49th Congress, 1st Session, Volume 2, Part 2 |
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Page 35 - making appropriations for the repair, preservation and completion of certain public works on rivers and harbors and for other purposes...
Page 439 - ... mile above and one mile below the proposed location, the topography of the banks of the river, the...
Page 157 - Very respectfully, your obedient servant, AA HUMPHREYS, Brigadier- General and Chief of Engineers. Hon. WW BELKNAP, Secretary of War.
Page 56 - Mexico, to be completed within twenty years; of the Mississippi River between the mouth of the Missouri and the mouth of the Ohio River...
Page 744 - GENERAL : I have the honor to transmit herewith my annual reports for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1877, upon the works of river-improvement under my charge.
Page 439 - 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 29 - ... with a statement showing the amount expended during the fiscal year, and the amount that can be profitably expended during the next fiscal year, is submitted herewith. For more detailed information in regard to the improvements, and for the results of the surveys and examinations ordered by Congress, and not found in...
Page 541 - GENERAL : In compliance with your instructions I have the honor to submit the following report of the...
Page 424 - Rouge, and Carrollton, on the Mississippi, between the mouth of the Missouri and the Gulf of Mexico; and at or in the vicinity of Fort...
Page 439 - ... and shall furnish such other information as may be required for a full and satisfactory understanding of the subject; And until...
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| Title | House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents: 13th Congress, 2d Session-49th Congress, 1st Session, Volume 2, Part 2 United States congressional serial set |
| Author | United States. Congress. House |
| Published | 1873 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 13 Dec 2006 |
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