Report of the Chief of Engineers U.S. Army, Part 1U.S. Government Printing Office, 1879 Includes the Report of the Mississippi River Commission, 1881-19 . |
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00 Amount estimated act approved March act of Congress Amount appropriated amount available amount expended appropriated by act bank Board of Engineers bowlders breakwater bridge canal channel Chief of Engineers commenced completion of existing Congress approved construction contract Corps of Engineers cost Creek cubic yards Delaware Delaware River depth dike distance dredging ending June 30 ENGINEER OFFICE excavation existing project expended during fiscal expended in fiscal fall feet at mean feet deep feet wide fiscal year ending foot Fort Delaware gravel harbor act high-water improvement Island jetties June 18 ledge length Mayport mean low-water miles Mississippi River Missouri River Money statement mouth mouth of Wilson navigation North Carolina North Landing River obstructions outstanding liabilities pier port profitably expended proposed removed repairs required for completion riprap river and harbor sand Shoal shore stone survey thousand dollars tide Total vessels wharf width Willets Point wing-dams
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Page vi - Eads and his associates, of a channel through the jetties at the mouth of South Pass, Mississippi Hiver, twenty-six feet in depth, and not less than two hundred feet in width at the bottom, and having through it a central depth of thirty feet, without regard to width...
Page 228 - ... one mile above and one mile below the proposed location, the topography of the banks of the river, the shore-lines at high and low water, the direction and strength of the current at all stages, and the soundings, accurately showing the bed of the stream...
Page 220 - ... than fifty feet above extreme high-water mark, as understood at the point of location, to the bottom chord of the bridge, nor shall the spans of said bridge be less than...
Page 221 - 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 across said bridge.
Page 220 - 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 220 - ... the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Page 223 - ... 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 212 - June nineteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, to ascertain the depth of water and width of channel secured and maintained from time to time by James B. Eads at South Pass of the Mississippi River, and to enable the Secretary of War, to report to Congress during the maintenance of the work, six thousand dollars.
Page 222 - AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR SUNDRY CIVIL EXPENSES OF THE GOVERNMENT FOR THE FISCAL TEAR ENDING JUNE THIRTIETH, EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND EIGHTY, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.
Page 228 - War, for his examination and approval, a design and drawing of the bridge, and a map of the location, giving for the space of one mile above and one mile below the proposed location...