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" Pass to secure and maintain a channel 26 feet in depth through the pass, and through the jetties at the mouth of the pass a channel " twenty-six feet in depth, not less than two hundred feet in width at the bottom, and having through it a central depth... "
Report of the Chief of Engineers U.S. Army - Page vi
by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers - 1879
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Annual Reports of the War Department, Part 2

United States. War Department - 1911 - 1172 pages
...at the mouth of the pass a channel “twenty. six feet. in depth, 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.” A contract. was made for the maintenance of such channel for a period of 20 years, and this contract...
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Official Opinions of the Attorneys General of the United States: Advising ...

United States. Department of Justice - 1902 - 768 pages
...the period of twenty years' maintenance of a channel 26 feet in depth and not less than 200 feet in width at the bottom, and having through it a central depth of 30 feet without regard to width: and since that date such additional work as has been required to maintain...
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Annual Reports of the War Department, Volume 1

United States. War Department - 1879 - 594 pages
...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...with the exception of twenty days, when a failure iu some part to maintain such a channel occurred. The failure was on the 14th, 15th, 16th, and 17th...
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General Orders

United States. War Department - 1879 - 908 pages
...associates of a eliannel through the jetties twenty-six feet in depth, 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. Nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to repeal or in any wise affect the provisions of...
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House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents: 13th ..., Volume 6

United States. Congress. House - 1880 - 582 pages
...mouth of South Pass, Mississippi Eiver, 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, ha« been accomplished from July 8 to October 8, 1879, with the exception of twenty days, when a failure...
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The Abridgment ... Containing the Annual Message of the President of the ...

United States. President - 1880 - 1080 pages
...and " a channel through the jetties, 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." The second series of the government's obligations, in compensation to Mr. James B. Eads, begun when...
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A History of the Jetties at the Mouth of the Mississippi River

Elmer Lawrence Corthell - 1880 - 478 pages
...associates of a channel through the jetties twentysix feet in depth, 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. Nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to repeal or in any wise affect the provisions of...
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Annual Report of the Secretary of War

United States. War Department - 1880 - 1088 pages
...of South Pass of the Mississippi River "twenty -six feet in depth, not lees than two hundred feet in width at the bottom, and having through it a central depth of thirl y feet without regard to width." WH HF.I-ER, ('ii¡>tuÍH Engineer*. UNITED STATES ENGINEER OFFICE,...
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House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents: 13th ..., Volume 4

United States. Congress. House - 1881 - 1162 pages
...the jetties at the mouth of South i'ass, Mississippi River, 26 feet in depth and not less than 200 feet iu width at the bottom, and having through it a central depth of 30 feet without regard to width. During the aforesaid interval of time there were 22 days when a failure...
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Annual Reports of the War Department, Part 2

United States. War Department - 1881 - 980 pages
...River, " twenty-six feet in depth, not less than two hundred iVi't iu width at the bottom, and halving through it a central depth of thirty feet without regard to width." Depths were reduced to the plane of " average Hood-tide," which is indicated by a readingot' 2.76 feet...
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