Report of the Chief of Engineers U.S. ArmyU.S. Government Printing Office, 1876 |
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Page 140 - ... 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...
Page 425 - M. PHILIP AMADAS, AND M. ARTHUR BARLOWE, WHO DISCOVERED PART OF THE COUNTREY NOW CALLED VIRGINIA ANNO 1584. WRITTEN BY ONE OF THE SAID CAPTAINES, AND SENT TO SIR WALTER RALEGH, KNIGHT, AT WHOSE CHARGE AND DIRECTION, THE SAID VOYAGE WAS SET FORTH...
Page 154 - That if any bridge built under this act shall be constructed as a drawbridge, the same shall be constructed as a pivot drawbridge with a draw over the main channel of the river at an accessible and navigable point, and with spans of not less than one hundred and sixty feet in length in the clear on each side of the central or pivot pier of the draw...
Page 202 - making appropriations for the repair, preservation and completion of certain public works on rivers and harbors and for other purposes...
Page 538 - Maryland in 1838, upon the subject of a canal to connect the Chesapeake and Ohio canal with the city of Baltimore...
Page 206 - An act making appropriations for the repair, preservation, and completion of certain public works heretofore commenced under the authority of law...
Page 504 - Pawtucket; thence the deepening by blasting of the channel through the ledge to Pawtucket Bridge to the same depth, and 40 feet wide. A plat of the river showing the lines of the proposed channel was published...
Page 139 - That all railway companies desiring to use said bridge shall have and be entitled to equal rights and privileges in the passage of the same, and in the use of the machinery and fixtures thereof...
Page 154 - ... than fifty feet above extreme high-water mark, as understood at the point of location, to the...
Page 155 - 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...