Annual Reports of the War Department, Part 1U.S. Government Printing Office, 1880 |
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00 Amount estimated 00 See Appendix 12 feet act approved June act of June Amount appropriated amount available amount expended appropriated by act approved June 14 Baltimore bank breakwater bridge canal cents channel charge Chester River Chief of Engineers commenced completion of existing Congress construction contract Corps of Engineers cost Creek cubic yards Delaware Delaware Bay Delaware River dike dredging ending June 30 entrance excavation expended during fiscal expended in fiscal expended to June feet at mean feet deep feet wide Ferry fiscal year ending harbor act Hartford high-water improvement Island jetties July ledges locks mean low-water miles Mississippi River Missouri River Money statement mouth navigation obstructions outstanding liabilities piers Point port present project profitably expended proposed Railroad removed repairs required for completion riprap river and harbor rock sand shoal stone survey thousand dollars tide vessels Warwick Bar wharf width Willets Point wing-dams York
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Page 141 - River, Mississippi. — The present project for the improvement of this river was adopted in 1880...
Page 629 - SIR: In compliance with the request contained in your letter of the...
Page 385 - Bay, extending from Nayat Point to the city of Providence. Its length is about 7 miles, with a width varying from 1,000 feet to 2 miles, and a depth in the channel varying from 12 feet to 50 feet at mean low-water, with a mean rise of tide of 4.7 feet.
Page 271 - 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 270 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That the half of the following .sums named, respectively, is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and the other half out of the revenues of the District of Columbia...
Page 257 - Engineer llth Lighthouse District. On detached service. Aide-de-Camp on the personal staff of the General of the Army with the rank of Colonel. Member of Board to appraise the Fort Gratiot Military Reservation.
Page 110 - movable dams," and enables an open river to be had when the water is high enough. The dams above Taint Creek, including that one, which is No.
Page 340 - ... feet in length, leading from the inner end of the pier to the western bank of the river, serving a similar purpose to those on the eastern side. 3. A crib-work wharf ballasted with stone, about 300 feet in length, built on the eastern side of the river, about J of a mile above its mouth, for the security of vessels detained by tides and storms.
Page 345 - ... to a great extent by steam. It is estimated that 5,000 tons of coal are used there annually, which, with other heavy articles, are carried there by water, from Portsmouth. Large quantities of hay, fruit, and potatoes are also shipped from these river towns to Boston and other places further south.
Page 270 - Treasury to pay the actual expenses of operating, maintaining, and keeping said works in repair, which warrants or requisitions shall be paid by the Secretary of the Treasury out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated...