Report of the Chief of Engineers U.S. ArmyU.S. Government Printing Office, 1876 |
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... operations in the Engineer Department , during the fiscal year ending June 30 , 1876 : OFFICERS OF THE CORPS OF ENGINEERS . The number of officers holding commissions in the Corps of Engineers , United States Army , at the end of the ...
... operations in the Engineer Department , during the fiscal year ending June 30 , 1876 : OFFICERS OF THE CORPS OF ENGINEERS . The number of officers holding commissions in the Corps of Engineers , United States Army , at the end of the ...
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... operations having been carried on during the past fiscal year , except for the necessary care and preservation of the property . No appropriation was made for the fiscal year ending June 30 , 1877 . No appropriation asked for next ...
... operations having been carried on during the past fiscal year , except for the necessary care and preservation of the property . No appropriation was made for the fiscal year ending June 30 , 1877 . No appropriation asked for next ...
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... operations of the past fiscal year were carried on only during the first four months , the funds being then nearly exhausted . The sally- port extension and the second passage to the new extension of the main work were built in concrete ...
... operations of the past fiscal year were carried on only during the first four months , the funds being then nearly exhausted . The sally- port extension and the second passage to the new extension of the main work were built in concrete ...
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... Operations were closed in September last , and not since resumed for w ant of funds . No appropriation was made for the fiscal year ending June 30 , 1877 . Appropriation asked for next fiscal year to continue the battery $ 36,000 ...
... Operations were closed in September last , and not since resumed for w ant of funds . No appropriation was made for the fiscal year ending June 30 , 1877 . Appropriation asked for next fiscal year to continue the battery $ 36,000 ...
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... Operations were confined to the five months ending December 1 , 1875 , and resulted in the completion of the present proposed modifications of the barbette battery of the enciente ; in the essential completion of the masonry of the east ...
... Operations were confined to the five months ending December 1 , 1875 , and resulted in the completion of the present proposed modifications of the barbette battery of the enciente ; in the essential completion of the masonry of the east ...
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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 427 - 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 532 - 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 498 - 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...