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act approved June Amount appropriated amount available amount expended Appendix appropriated by act approved June 18 August 14 boats bridge canal channel Chief of Engineers completion of existing Connecticut River Corps of Engineers cost cubic yards Depth dike Direction and force distance dredging east base ending June 30 Enfield excavation existing project expended during fiscal expended in fiscal feet at mean feet per second fiscal year ending foot force of wind freshets G. K. WARREN Hartford zero Height of surface high-water improvement Island ity per second jetties lock Mean in vertical mean low-water Mean velocity miles Mississippi River Missouri River Money statement mouth navigation Observed veloc ity pier plane by integration plane by observed Point profitably expended proposed removed repairs required for completion riprap rock shoal stone surface of water survey Thompsonville thousand dollars velocity in vertical velocity of river vertical plane vessels water above Hartford width
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Page 169 - 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...
Page 186 - Engineers. two thousand dollars; four clerks of class four; two clerks of class three; three clerks of class two; three clerks of class one; one clerk, at one thousand dollars; one assistant messenger; and two laborers; in all, twenty-three thousand two hundred and forty dollars.
Page 355 - It will be observed that the standing on each subject is multiplied by the weight given that subject and the product placed in the third column, and the sum of these products, divided by the sum of the weights, gives the general average standing.
Page 185 - War a relinquishment of all claim to the deferred payment of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars provided by the hereinbefore recited act to be paid when a channel twentyfour feet in depth and not less than two hundred and fifty feet in width shall have been maintained...
Page 174 - ... forage in kind may be furnished to the officers of the Army by the Quartermaster's Department, only for horses owned and actually kept by such officers in the performance of their official military duties when on duty with troops in the field or at such military posts west of the Mississippi River...
Page 174 - Allowance of or commutation for fuel to commisi878°v8;>oup ei5o' sioned officers is hereby prohibited; but fuel may be furnished to the officers of the Army by the Quartermaster's Department, for the actual use of such officers only, at the rate of three dollars per cord for standard oak wood, or at an equivalent rate for other kinds of fuel, according to the regulations now in existence...
Page 43 - As a result of the survey it was ascertained that to so improve the harbor as to afford a safe anchorage for shipping in all storms, and have a 'suitable depth for the several steamers and other vessels that touch and lie there in all stages of the tide, would require the removal of certain shoals and the construction of a breakwater or breakwaters at the entrance to the harbor. The estimated cost was $347,000.
Page 10 - ... it should have, nor is it accompanied with a justly founded self-confidence on our own part. The neglect of suitable preparation cost France many millions of treasure, a portion of her territory, and a great humiliation. The same must inevitably happen, to the United States if it does not...
Page 181 - Where said works are done by contract, such contract shall be made after sufficient public advertisement for proposals, in such manner and form as the Secretary of War shall prescribe; and such contracts shall be made with the lowest responsible bidders, accompanied by such securities as the Secretary of War shall require, conditioned for the faithful prosecution and completion of the work according to such contract^ and for the prompt payment of all liabilities incurred in the prosecution thereof...
Page 207 - Under the appropriation of 1870, the catch-sand connecting the inner end of the stone pier with the eastern bank of the river having been destroyed by storms, was replaced by a permanent stone work, and some repairs were made where most necessary on the stone piers and on the wharf above. Under the appropriation of 1871, the catch-sand or wing connecting the inner end of the western pier with the western bank of the river having also been destroyed by storms, was replaced by a permanent stone work,...