Annual Reports of the War Department, Part 1U.S. Government Printing Office, 1878 |
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... bank of the Thames River , with Battery Griswold on the east bank , forms the defense of the harbor of New London . Operations have been confined to the care and preservation of the work . The casemate arches of the west front have been ...
... bank of the Thames River , with Battery Griswold on the east bank , forms the defense of the harbor of New London . Operations have been confined to the care and preservation of the work . The casemate arches of the west front have been ...
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... BANKS AT FORT BROWN , TEXAS , FROM ENCROACHMENTS OF THE RIO GRANDE . Officer in charge , Capt . James F. Gregory ... bank in front of the administration building has begun to wear away , it is apprehended that this building and much ...
... BANKS AT FORT BROWN , TEXAS , FROM ENCROACHMENTS OF THE RIO GRANDE . Officer in charge , Capt . James F. Gregory ... bank in front of the administration building has begun to wear away , it is apprehended that this building and much ...
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... bank with brush mattresses loaded with stone , extending from above low- water out to the maximum depth . Amount appropriated by act approved June 18 , 1878 .. July 1 , 1878 , amount available ... Amount ( estimated ) required for ...
... bank with brush mattresses loaded with stone , extending from above low- water out to the maximum depth . Amount appropriated by act approved June 18 , 1878 .. July 1 , 1878 , amount available ... Amount ( estimated ) required for ...
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... bank protection necessary , in constructing which it is proposed to expend the appropriation now available . No survey of the locality has yet been made , and until this is done no estimate for the completion of the work can be given ...
... bank protection necessary , in constructing which it is proposed to expend the appropriation now available . No survey of the locality has yet been made , and until this is done no estimate for the completion of the work can be given ...
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... bank near Omaha , where the threatened and actual damage was the greatest . The summer's flood on the Missouri has made great changes , so that it is somewhat doubtful whether the plan originally proposed will be the most judicious for ...
... bank near Omaha , where the threatened and actual damage was the greatest . The summer's flood on the Missouri has made great changes , so that it is somewhat doubtful whether the plan originally proposed will be the most judicious for ...
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00 July act approved June Amount appropriated amount expended annual report appropriated by act approved June 18 August 14 bank boats bowlders bridge canal channel charge Chief of Engineers commenced completion of existing Connecticut River construction contract Corps of Engineers cost cubic yards depth dike 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 freshets G. K. WARREN Hartford zero 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 obstructions pier plane by observed Point port profitably expended proposed Rapids removal repairs required for completion riprap rock Saint season shoal slope snags stone survey Thompsonville thousand dollars tide velocity of river vertical plane vessels Warehouse Point water above Hartford width wing-dams
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Page 166 - 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 167 - ... 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 issiie between them shall be decided by the Secretary of War upon a hearing of the allegations and proofs of the parties; and equal privileges in the use of said bridge shall bo granted to all telegraph and telephone companies.
Page 167 - ... 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 are approved by the Secretary of War...
Page 167 - ... 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...
Page 167 - That nothing in this act shall be so construed as to repeal or modify any of the provisions of law now existing in reference to the protection of the navigation of rivers, or to exempt this bridge from the operation of the same.
Page 167 - ... shall be made and all such obstructions be removed at the expense of the owner or owners of said bridge.
Page 45 - Rock. — This rock lies in the main ship-channel, distant about 700 yards, in a direction southeast by south from Bug light (at " the Narrows"), and in the line of entrance buoy No. 1 and Bug light, and has always been a very dangerous obstruction to navigation. In...
Page 183 - One chief clerk, at 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 5 - I have the honor to present for your information the following report upon the duties and operations of the Engineer Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1878 : OFFICERS OF THE CORPS OF ENGINEERS.
Page 167 - ... length in the clear, and the piers of said bridge shall be parallel with, and the bridge itself at right angles to, the current of the river, and the spans shall not be lese than ten feet above extreme high-water mark, ae understood at the point of location, to the lowest part of the superstructure...