Report of the Chief of Engineers U.S. Army, Part 2U.S. Government Printing Office, 1891 - Engineering Includes the Report of the Mississippi River Commission, 1881-19 . |
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100 feet wide act approved September act of September Amount appropriated amount expended appropriated by act approved September 19 Assistant Engineer August 11 balance unexpended Baltimore Brig CASEY cents per cubic channel Chief of Engineers Christiana River commerce COMMERCIAL STATISTICS completion of existing contract Corps of Engineers Craighill Creek cubic yards December Delaware Bay Delaware River deposited depth dike dredging Dredging Company ending June 30 ENGINEER OFFICE existing project expended during fiscal feet at mean feet deep fiscal year ending harbor act honor to submit Inlet jetty July June 30 League Island low-water Lumber Lynn Haven material mean low water miles Money statement mouth navigation Norfolk obedient servant obstructions Petty Island Philadelphia preliminary examination REDFIELD PROCTOR removed respectfully river and harbor Secretary of War shoal shore Smith Island snags steamers Submitted in compliance survey tidal tons Total UNITED STATES ENGINEER vessels wharf width Wilmington Windmill Island worthy of improvement
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Page 1032 - Provided, That contracts may be entered into by the Secretary of War for such materials and work as may be necessary to complete the present project of improvement, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate one million and fifty thousand dollars, exclusive of the amount herein and heretofore appropriated 75, 000.
Page 1132 - ... to be prosecuted in accordance with the laws relating to suits for the condemnation of property of the States wherein the proceedings may be instituted...
Page 1414 - ... done by hired labor and the purchase of materials in open market.
Page 1076 - An act to provide for certain of the most urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, and for other purposes.
Page 1132 - States, in any court having jurisdiction of such proceedings, for the acquirement by condemnation of any land, rijjht of way, or material needed to enable him to maintain, operate, or prosecute works for the improvement of rivers and harbors...
Page 1201 - Charles City is an artificial rectangular tidal basin of about 10 acres area, excavated in the shore of the Chesapeake Bay about 12 miles north of the promontory of the peninsula formed by the State of Delaware and the eastern shores of Maryland and Virginia. It is in Northampton County, Va., and forms the shore terminus of the New York, Philadelphia, and Norfolk Railroad, from which transfers of freight and passengers are made to and from Norfolk, Va. The average rise of the tide is 2.6 feet.
Page 1490 - That the Secretary of War is hereby directed, at his discretion, to cause examinations or surveys, or both, to be made, and the cost of improvement to be estimated at the following localities, to -wit: In the States of — ARKANSAS.
Page 1207 - SIR: in compliance with your instructions, I have the honor to submit the following report of the...
Page 1132 - ... the Secretary of War may, In his discretion, cause proceedings to be instituted in the name of the United States...
Page 1061 - ... deposited and spread on League Island and to the extent of the cost of such deposit and spreading the said appropriations are hereby made available : Provided further, That the title to any additional lands acquired for this purpose shall be vested in the United States without charge to the latter.