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... recommended to the President , by the academic board , for promotion in the Corps of Engi neers . SEA - COAST AND LAKE FRONTIER DEFENSES . The leading object of this Department , in its operations upon the works of defense , has been to ...
... recommended to the President , by the academic board , for promotion in the Corps of Engi neers . SEA - COAST AND LAKE FRONTIER DEFENSES . The leading object of this Department , in its operations upon the works of defense , has been to ...
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... recommended to enable this to be done . This survey should be made as soon as prac- ticable . No appropriation was made for fiscal year ending June 30 , 1873 . Appropriation asked for next fiscal year , $ 50,000 . Defenses of Dutch ...
... recommended to enable this to be done . This survey should be made as soon as prac- ticable . No appropriation was made for fiscal year ending June 30 , 1873 . Appropriation asked for next fiscal year , $ 50,000 . Defenses of Dutch ...
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... recommended that the small appro- priation of $ 13,000 , made June 10 , 1872 , for this locality , be transferred to the credit of Fort McHenry , which is distant but a few hundred yards , and belongs to the same line of defense . No ...
... recommended that the small appro- priation of $ 13,000 , made June 10 , 1872 , for this locality , be transferred to the credit of Fort McHenry , which is distant but a few hundred yards , and belongs to the same line of defense . No ...
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... recommended of $ 50,000 . Defenses of the mouth of the Columbia River , Oregon , in charge of Major Henry M. Robert , Corps of Engineers . - These defenses consist of Fort Stevens on the south side , and three detached batteries at Cape ...
... recommended of $ 50,000 . Defenses of the mouth of the Columbia River , Oregon , in charge of Major Henry M. Robert , Corps of Engineers . - These defenses consist of Fort Stevens on the south side , and three detached batteries at Cape ...
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... recommended in former years , will require- For pier - extension ............ For dredging and removing slabs . For building revetinent .. Total .. Amount available July 1 , 1871 .... Amount appropriated by act of June 10 , 1872 ...
... recommended in former years , will require- For pier - extension ............ For dredging and removing slabs . For building revetinent .. Total .. Amount available July 1 , 1871 .... Amount appropriated by act of June 10 , 1872 ...
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Page 442 - ... and located in a part of the bridge that can be safely and conveniently reached at that stage; and that said draw shall be opened promptly, upon reasonable signal, for the passage of boats...
Page 161 - Very respectfully, your obedient servant, AA HUMPHREYS, Brigadier General and Chief of Engineers.
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 443 - ... 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 currents at all stages, and the soundings, accurately showing the bed of the stream...
Page 443 - ... 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 are approved by the Secretary of War...
Page 547 - Occasionally bluffs and hills extend down to the river, and then the country opens out again, first on one side of the river and then on the other side.
Page 543 - GENERAL : In compliance with your instructions I have the honor to submit the following report of the...
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 263 - There is a light-house exhibiting a fixed white light of the third order, and a beacon on the outer end of the pier showing a fixed white light of the fourth order. The amount of revenue collected at this port during the fiscal year was $1,006,172.60.
Page 720 - Kiver, at the confluence of the two branches known as the Southern and Eastern. The advantages which the city enjoys as a sea-port are too well known to need more than a passing notice here. Her central position on the Atlantic sea-board; her mild climate, and consequent freedom from obstructions to navigation from ice, and her facilities for communication with a fertile and productive interior, give her natural advantages almost unsurpassed. The harbor proper, (or that portion of the river opposite...