Report of the Chief of Engineers U.S. Army, Part 6U.S. Government Printing Office, 1898 Includes the Report of the Mississippi River Commission, 1881-19 . |
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appropriation approved arch avenue bank Bankhead barges boat BORING bridge brush dam cents channel Chief of Engineers conduit Congress construction Corps of Engineers cost Creek cubic yards Dalecarlia Reservoir Depth below low dike District of Columbia Dorado ending June 30 estimate excavation expense filter filtration fiscal year ending foot Gasconade Gasconade River gravel grounds hereby improvement instru July June 30 Labor length linear feet Location Log and brush low tide Lowest point material ment meter microscope miles Missouri River Monument Nebraska City Osage River park piers piles placed plant Plumas plumb line posts Potomac River pounds proposed Railroad ready built Record of plumb repairs reservoir roadway sand Secretary Secretary of War Sept Sioux City Soft rock South square standard low water steel stone street structure tion Total United Variation from zero Washington Aqueduct Washington Monument-Continued Yuba
Popular passages
Page 3804 - 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 3805 - ... thereto, upon payment of a reasonable compensation for such use; and in case the owner or owners of said bridge and...
Page 3831 - ... 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 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...
Page 3810 - ... be commenced within one year and completed within three years from the date of the passage of such act.
Page 3634 - ... be recommended by the Chief of Engineers and approved by the Secretary of War.
Page 3812 - ... 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...
Page 3820 - ... take and subscribe, before a District Judge, Clerk of a District Court, or United States Commissioner, an oath that they will faithfully and impartially discharge the duties of their appointment, which oath, duly certified, shall be returned with their award to and...
Page 3818 - 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.
Page 3850 - 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, л design and drawings of the bridge, and a map of the location, giving, for the space of one mile above and one mile below the proposed location, the topography of the banks of the river, the...
Page 3850 - ... and shall furnish such other information as may be required for a full and satisfactory understanding of the subject; and until tli с said plan and location of the bridge are approved by the Secretary of War the bridge shall not be built; and changée.