Report of the Chief of Engineers U.S. Army, Part 3U.S. Government Printing Office, 1905 Includes the Report of the Mississippi River Commission, 1881-19 . |
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act approved March act of June amount expended April Assistant Engineer August August 18 balance unexpended July breakwater canal Cedar Point cents per cubic Chief of Engineers civil act commenced COMMERCIAL STATISTICS Company completed concrete construction Corps of Engineers cost County crib cubic yards depth Detroit River dredge Duwamish River east ending June 30 estimated excavation Executive Mansion expended during fiscal feet B. M. fiscal year ending Foreign deciduous shrub Foreign deciduous tree freight gravel Island jetty June 13 June 30 linear feet maintenance of improvement material Maumee Maumee River Money statement Name of contractor Native deciduous tree navigation Office Ohio operations outstanding liabilities Park pier piles placed plant ports profitably expended Quantity removed repairs requirements of sundry Reservation riprap river and harbor rock scow September shoals stone street sundry civil act survey timber tonnage tons Total United vessels Washington waterway Willamette River Yuba River
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Page 2951 - That a contract or contracts may be entered into by the Secretary of War for such materials and work as may be necessary to complete the said lock and dam, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate nine hundred and fifty thousand dollars, exclusive of the amount herein appropriated.
Page 2887 - ... shall have a right of action, and shall be, and are hereby, authorized to bring suit in the name of the United States in the circuit court of the United States in the district in which said contract was to be performed and executed, irrespective of the amount in controversy in such suit, and not elsewhere, for his or their use and benefit, against said contractor and his sureties, and to prosecute the same to final judgment and execution...
Page 2858 - 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 2952 - Provided, That a contract or contracts may be entered into by the Secretary of War for such materials and work...
Page 2886 - That hereafter any person or persons entering into a formal contract with the United States for the construction of any public building, or the prosecution and completion of any public work, or for repairs upon any public building or public work...
Page 2949 - vorieo». contracts may be entered into by the Secretary of War for such materials and work as may be necessary to complete said project, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not...
Page 2849 - ... thereto, upon payment of a reasonable compensation for such use; and in case the owner or owners of said bridge and the several railroad companies, or any...
Page 2862 - An Act temporarily to provide revenue for the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes.
Page 2887 - That in all suits instituted under the provisions of this act such personal notice of the pendency of such suits, informing them of their right to intervene as the court may order, shall be given to all known creditors, and in addition thereto notice of...
Page 2899 - That all material purchased under the foregoing provisions of this Act shall be of American manufacture, except in cases when, in the .•judgment of the Secretary of War, it is to the manifest interest of the United States to make purchases in limited quantities abroad, which material shall be admitted free of duty.