Annual Report of the Secretary of WarU.S. Government Printing Office, 1889 |
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100 feet wide 12 feet 1891 Submitted act of August adopted amount available Amount amount covered Amount estimated amount expended Appendix appropriated by act approved August 11 available Amount appropriated balance available Bayou breakwater bridge canal Chief of Engineers commenced completion of existing compliance with requirements construction Corps of Engineers covered by existing Creek cubic yards dike dredging ending June 30 entrance estimated cost exclusive of liabilities existing contracts expended during fiscal expended in fiscal expended to June expenditure feet at low feet at mean feet deep feet depth fiscal year ending harbor acts Island jetty Lake liabilities outstanding July low-water mean low water miles mouth navigation obstructions officer in charge original project outstanding liabilities July Point present project profitably expended proposed repairs required for completion requirements of sections river and harbor rock Secretary Secretary of War shoals Submitted in compliance vessels width worthy of improvement
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Page 15 - That where it is made manifest to the Secretary of War that the establishment of harbor lines is essential to the preservation and protection of harbors he may, and is hereby, authorized to cause such lines to be established, beyond which no piers, wharves, bulkheads, or other works shall be extended or deposits made, except under such regulations as may be prescribed from time to time by him...
Page 430 - ... at all stages, and the soundings, accurately showing the bed of the stream, 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...
Page 414 - 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 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...
Page 430 - ... security of navigation of said river as the Secretary of War shall prescribe; and, to secure that object, the said company or corporation shall submit to the Secretary of War, for his examination and approval, a design and drawings of the bridge, and a map of the location, giving, for the space of one mile above and one mile below...
Page 417 - ... one of them, desiring such use, shall fail to agree upon the sum, or sums to be paid, and upon rules and conditions to which each shall conform in using said bridge, all matters at issue between them shall be decided by the Secretary of War, opon a hearing of the allegations and! proofs of the parties.
Page 444 - That all railroad companies desiring the use of said bridge shall have and be entitled to equal rights and privileges relative to the passage of railway-trains over the same, and over the approaches 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 440 - ... thereto, upon payment of a reasonable compensation for such use; and in case the owner or owners of said bridge ам<1 the several railroad companies, or any one of them, desiring such use, shall fail to agree upon the sum or sums to be paid, and upon rules and conditions to which each shall conform in using said bridge...
Page 447 - For fuel, lights, oil, waste, packing, tools, matches, paints, brushes, brooms, lanterns, rope, nails, screws, lead, electric lights, heating apparatus, oil stoves for elevator car and upper and lower floors, repairs to engines, boilers, dynamos, elevator, and repairs of all kinds connected with the monument and machinery, and purchase of all necessary articles for keeping the monument, machinery, elevator, and electriclight plant in good order, three thousand dollars.
Page 94 - Between Bordentown and Trenton, a distance of about 5 miles, a narrow and circuitous channel existed, which carried from 3 to 6 feet at mean low water; at Kinkora Bar, about 9 miles below Trenton, a...
Page 602 - Harbor has deep water inside, and the object of the improvement is to make it a harbor of refuge for vessels plying between ports north and south of Cape Cod, estimated to be 30,000 annually.